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Companions appear in more than 60% of the Challenges of each format

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All Saturday Challenge events had at least 19 decks with a Companion in the TOP 32

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Reddit user Phelps-san pointed out that all Saturday Challenge events had at least 19 decks with a Companion in the TOP 32. This means that more than 60% of the Top decks had a Companion.

These challenges events can be seen below:

- Challenge Standardlink outside website

- Challenge Pioneerlink outside website

- Challenge Modernlink outside website

- Challenge Legacylink outside website

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Companions are still looking pretty good... [MTGO Result Compilation] from r/magicTCG

Lurrus of the Dream-Den is Ikoria's most played Companion card, but other Companions like Yorion, Gyruda and Jegantha have also seen play in a variety of formats, and Keruga is making his way into Standard on Fires' decks in general.

One player made the table below, with the amount of each Companion by format:

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It's scary how Lurrus of the Dream-Den has been gaining ground in Legacy and Vintage. In Modern it also came in first place with a Grixis DS:

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What do you think of all these changes in formats?