Seven of twenty-two Planetary Qualifiers ended with a Lake Country leader holding the trophy. The format's second-biggest Lake Country PQ weekend on record — and the matchup matrix underneath it tells a different story. {{distinct_pq_winning_archetypes}} archetypes lifted a trophy this weekend. Every top-six deck has a working counter at publishable sample. Two facts, in the same dataset, doing different jobs.

The Trophy Stack

{{deck:Lando (LAW) Lake}} won {{lando_pq_wins_this_week}} of {{total_pqs_this_week}}: Alcalá de Henares, Meridian, Lima, Pretoria. {{player:tarkin84}} and {{player:Curti43}} went undefeated through swiss at Alcalá de Henares and Meridian. The deck's weekly win rate climbed to {{lando_lake_wr_this_week}}% (+{{lando_lake_wr_wow_delta_pp}}pp WoW), and it took the format's marquee matchup {{lando_vs_boba_wins}}W-{{lando_vs_boba_draws}}D-{{lando_vs_boba_losses}}L against {{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}} across {{lando_vs_boba_n}} games — a {{lando_vs_boba_wr}}% line that accounts for most of why Lando outscored Boba on hardware.

The win-rate jump comes with a caveat the data doesn't hide: last week's {{lando_lake_n_last_week}}-match base was an RQ slate, this week's {{lando_lake_n_this_week}} is PQs and Store Showdowns. Different events, different volume, same conclusion — Lando did what mattered with the chances it got. {{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}} stayed the field's most-played deck and added {{boba_pq_wins_this_week}} more trophies. By trophy share alone, the format reads closed.

The Matchup Matrix

{{deck:Yularen Red 30}} went {{yularen_vs_boba_wins}}W-{{yularen_vs_boba_draws}}D-{{yularen_vs_boba_losses}}L against the most-played deck in the format over {{yularen_vs_boba_n}} games. That edge turned into {{yularen_red30_pq_wins_this_week}} PQ trophies: Mantova, Indianapolis, Muntinlupa. Yularen doesn't beat the field. It beats the field's #1.

The counters cascade. {{deck:Dedra Colossus}} holds {{deck:Lando (LAW) Lake}} in check; {{deck:Lando (LAW) Lake}} returns the favor on {{deck:Vader (JTL) Yellow 30}}. No top-six deck sits clean against every other top-six deck.

Trophy share says the meta closed. The matchup matrix says it didn't. Both are real. Neither tells the full story alone — which is why the field shows {{distinct_pq_winning_archetypes}} different archetypes hoisting a PQ trophy on the same weekend the marquee leaders also won seven.

Power Rankings

Cumulative {{current_era_label}}-era data — the long view, not the weekly shake. Watch the column inversions: high share doesn't predict high conversion, and {{deck:Lando (LAW) Lake}}'s climb to rank {{lando_law_lake_rank}} on {{lando_law_lake_elo}} ELO is reading the matchup matrix faster than the meta share is.

Leaderboard

Week {{era_week_number}} of {{current_era_label}}, and the names at the top still rotate. {{distinct_pq_winning_archetypes}} different archetypes lifting a PQ trophy means {{distinct_pq_winning_archetypes}} different pilots ran the table somewhere this weekend.

This Week's Results

{{deck:Lando (LAW) Lake}} took Alcalá de Henares, Meridian, Lima, Pretoria. {{deck:Yularen Red 30}} took Mantova, Indianapolis, Muntinlupa. {{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}} took Madolenihmw, La Garde, Ellicott City. Outside the Lake Country / Yularen cluster the long tail runs wider than the top concentration suggests: {{deck:Maul (LOF) Force Blue}} in Carrollton, {{deck:Aurra DV}} in Durham, {{deck:Piett Red 30}} in Florence, {{deck:Sebulba Yellow 30}} in Moncton, {{deck:Third Sister Yellow 30}} in Quezon City. Fifteen trophy locations, seven more pilots within reach of the next one.

Matchup Clinic

No deck in the top six is unanswered. {{deck:Lando (LAW) Lake}} punishes {{deck:Vader (JTL) Yellow 30}}. {{deck:Dedra Colossus}} holds Lando. {{deck:Yularen Red 30}} holds {{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}}. The question is which counter shows up at your table.

Matchup Spotlight

{{deck:Yularen Red 30}}'s radar shows positive lines on the format's two most-played decks — {{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}} and {{deck:Vader (JTL) Yellow 30}} — with the bad matchups concentrated on the control half ({{deck:Talzin Force Yellow}}, {{deck:Dedra Colossus}}). {{yularen_red30_pq_wins_this_week}} PQ trophies on the back of that profile this week — proof that a deck doesn't have to dodge the field; it just has to be in the right half of it.

Decklist Spotlight

{{player:Mario Castillo}}'s PQ-winning {{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}} build out of Madolenihmw anchors the spotlight — the closest thing to a "what's working right now" reading you can pull straight from a top-cut bracket.

Card Spotlight

Read the bucket labels first — they tell you why each card is here this week, not last. Surge, new arrival, high impact, matchup specialist. Each bucket points at a different lever in the meta.

Top Competitive Content

Two threads dominate the feed: Prague Regional post-mortems, and the first wave of {{current_era_label}}-successor spoiler coverage as Ashes of the Empire preview season opens. The current tier-1 deck tech rounds out the picks.