PLAY'S · META · 11 OCT 2026

Dragerion takes the lead, and it is not a new deck

On 10 October the most-encountered deck in the New Division format was HADES Dragerion at 18.0%, which ends a run in which Raid had led on eight of the previous nine days. It is the fifth deck to lead this format and the first new name at the top since 29 September. It is also the deck that took a fifth of a sanctioned field at the end of July, before this format existed.

Why this is not the weekly page The weekly meta pages on this site run Thursday to Wednesday, following the format's opening on Thursday 24 September; the last one covered 1 to 7 October and the next covers 8 to 14. This is a single-day page because the lead changed in the middle of that window, and waiting until 15 October to mention it would be odd. The week three page will still cover all seven days, including this one, and may read it differently with the rest of the week beside it.

Ten days, and the first nine of them look the same

Date	Games	Leading named deck	Its share	Dragerion	Raid
1 Oct	164	Raid	22.0%	4.9	22.0
2 Oct	124	Jokers	17.7%	2.4	16.9
3 Oct	325	Raid	21.5%	4.3	21.5
4 Oct	312	Raid	17.3%	7.7	17.3
5 Oct	237	Raid	23.2%	5.9	23.2
6 Oct	234	Raid	16.2%	9.8	16.2
7 Oct	272	Raid	17.3%	9.9	17.3
8 Oct	227	Raid	21.6%	9.3	21.6
9 Oct	238	Raid	14.7%	11.3	14.7
10 Oct	222	HADES Dragerion	18.0%	18.0	14.4

Percentages of games encountered, read from the daily charts on 10 and 11 October. "Named" excludes the survey's unnamed bucket, which was larger than the leader on two days in the format's first week and on none of these ten.

Raid's 14.4% on 10 October is its lowest reading since 29 September, and the second day running it has set a new low for October. It is not a low for the format: Raid read 11.6% on 28 September and 12.6% on the 29th, in the format's first week. Dragerion's 18.0% is a rise of 6.7 points in a day, its largest single-day move of the ten.

The fifth deck to lead, and the first new one in eleven days

Counting from the format opening on 24 September, the daily lead has gone to Magic Tools (three days), Raid, Cotton Zenith, Jokers, and now Dragerion. Cotton Zenith and Jokers took the lead for the first time on 28 and 29 September. Nothing new has reached the top in the eleven days since, until this.

It has been at the top before, in a different format

This is the deck this site wrote up in August. At a sanctioned tournament on 30 July — REIGN DMPS VERTEX CUP 2026 Autumn vol.2, New Division, 319 decks — Dragerion was 21.0% of the field, and the next-largest share was barely half of it. By 5 September, on 420 games of ranked play, it read 12.1% and sat second behind Raid on 19.8%.

Then set 37 arrived on 24 September, and it spent the format's first week in the low single digits: 2.3% on 28 September and 4.4% on the 29th, read from those days' charts. October opened at 4.9% and fell to 2.4% on the 2nd, which on a 124-game day is three games. From there it rose on six of the next eight days. The fall had already happened before this format's numbers start; what October shows is the climb back.

The 21% and the 18.0% are not the same measurement The July figure is decks registered at a sanctioned tournament; these are decks encountered on the ranked ladder. They count different things. They are also on opposite sides of a set release — set 37 launched on 24 September and changed the card pool both decks are built from. This page puts the two numbers side by side to say the deck has been prominent before, not to claim it has returned to a level.

What this site already has on it

There is a full translated decklist for HADES Dragerion on the three-decks page, with build cost, alongside Raid and Zenith Heaven's Gate. That list was recorded on 5 September, nineteen days before set 37. It is useful for understanding what the deck is trying to do and should not be treated as the current build; this site has not checked what has changed in it since.

The finisher it is named for is 超神星HADES・ドラゲリオン. This site's two earlier pages do not describe the deck the same way — the tournament page calls it a graveyard-resource deck, the deck page classes it as beatdown — which is worth knowing before trusting either one-line summary. The list itself is on the deck page.

Six names for it, as usual

The daily survey calls it HADESドラゲリオン. This site's own deck page files it as 火水闇ドラゲリオン and notes クローシスHADES as another name for it, and the official column calls it 火水闇ダピコ — "Dapico" — after an idol character rather than the finisher. That is four names this site had recorded for one deck when this page went up. Two more have turned up since: クローシスダピコハデス, from a Minogami Cup opponent list posted on 12 October, and — the one that should have been here from the start — クローシスダピコ, which players were using as far back as 27 September and which this site had simply never seen. Six forms, and the count has been wrong on this page twice. The page on what players are saying has both in context. The naming page sets out why this matters when comparing one source with another: the figures above are one survey's line for one of those names, read on its own terms.

One day is one day

The 10 October survey is 222 games. At that size one game is worth 0.45 of a percentage point, so 18.0% is forty games and 14.4% is thirty-two. The gap between first and second is eight games. That is a real gap rather than a rounding artefact, but it is also a single afternoon of laddering, and this page is not claiming the format has a new best deck.

What is harder to dismiss is the shape before it. Dragerion was at 9.3% on 8 October, 11.3% on the 9th and 18.0% on the 10th, having risen on four of the last five days. A one-day spike and the top of a nine-day climb are different things, and this is the second.

What else was running

The Legend Battle has been running since 1 October and finishes on the 21st. The Minogami Cup, an in-game tournament mode, started on 8 October — it is All Division, and these figures are New Division. A streamer event runs on 12 October, after this reading. All three are in the calendar.

None of that is offered as a cause Events that pull players into other modes can change who is on the ranked ladder, and this site has no way to test whether any of them did. The daily sample sizes across 8 to 10 October were 227, 238 and 222, which is the ordinary range, so there is no sign of the ladder emptying out. That is the only thing the numbers here can say about it.

Sources

Daily New Division encounter surveys for 1–10 October 2026, published each following morning at beans-duelplays.com as image charts; read from the charts on 10 and 11 October 2026. Game counts are the survey's own.

The July tournament figure and the 5 September ranked figures are this site's own earlier pages, linked above, and the sources are given there.

Deck names are given in Japanese where this site has not confirmed an English name.