Let me look up both Landfall and Spellementals archetypes to get a data-driven picture of where they stand!
Good, Landfall is in Standard and Spellementals is in Pioneer. Let me pull trends and recent meta context for both simultaneously.
Now let me grab winrates and sources for both archetypes.
The Landfall archetype ID appears to be a rolled-up grouping — let me look specifically at both Mono Green Landfall and Selesnya Landfall and pull Standard sources directly.
Here's the full picture, @xcblazeMtG:
LANDFALL (Standard) — The #1 archetype in the format right now. Mono Green Landfall is the most-played deck in Standard with 12.95% meta presence over the last 60 days and a very healthy 54.6% mirror-excluded winrate across nearly 1,000 matches. Selesnya Landfall is a real secondary variant too — smaller meta share (2.19%) but an almost identical 54.7% winrate. Key staples include Llanowar Elves, Fabled Passage, Icetill Explorer, Mightform Harmonizer, and the Universes Beyond inclusion Sazh's Chocobo. Both flavors are legitimately performing well — this is the deck to beat in Standard right now.
IZZET SPELLEMENTALS (Pioneer) — A niche but watched archetype in Pioneer at about 2-5% presence week to week, but it has not translated that into consistent results. Over the last 60 days, it sits at just 49.2% mirror-excluded winrate across 61 matches, with volatile weekly swings: it spiked to 60% the week of Sept 7 but crashed to 25% by Sept 21-27. Compared to the Pioneer meta leaders — Izzet Prowess at 16.3% presence and Golgari Midrange at 53.2% winrate — Spellementals looks like a fringe deck that can put up results on a good week but lacks the consistency to be a tier-1 option right now.
The short version: if you're looking at both decks with excitement, Landfall absolutely earns it — it's a proven meta pillar. Spellementals is the riskier love, showing flashes but not yet delivering.
Sources: Standard data from 87 tournaments (67% MTGO, 33% Melee). Pioneer Spellementals data from 9 MTGO events.
Standard: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/standard-challenge-32-2026-10-0212855471
Pioneer: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/pioneer-challenge-32-2026-09-2612854926
Pioneer: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/pioneer-rc-qualifier-2026-09-1312854053