Archetype pages are updated after each Tier List is made. If a page isn’t up-to-date, it means there was nothing worth mentioning in the last report, either because there was no data about the archetype or it did poorly.
Ranked Performance
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Lockdown lost a ton of momentum towards the end of the last season, and it doesn’t seem to have recovered from that yet. At a 58.5% Win Rate, the deck is definitely good enough to climb, but it still feels a notch below the top contenders. Plus, U.S. Agent remains an unsolved problem.
Conquest Performance
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Lockdown can’t seem to get out of the hole U.S. Agent dug for it during the second half of last season. It keeps posting good enough results, but they’re far from what you could have expected with the deck a few weeks ago. This week, Lockdown clocked in at a 55% Win Rate in Conquest, yet another weak result after the Ranked mode gave it some hope.
How to Play
As an archetype, Lockdown attempts to win a lane through restricting the ability to play on it with Storm, or a similar ability. Then, the deck will use its remaining arsenal of tools to go all in on another location, or spread points to force the opponent to beat you on the remaining two. Oftentimes, it will often pack some cards to reach the previously locked location, just in case the opponent managed to win it early.
At its core, the archetype isn’t trying to enter a points contest with its opponent. Instead, it wants to control the space available to both players and attack where the opponent won’t be able to reciprocate. With that in mind, a game with Lockdown can be a race for priority to land certain abilities as safely as possible.
One crucial thing to consider with Lockdown is the need to know the most popular decks in the meta because you will have to anticipate their strategy to be able to block their ideal play patterns.
Archetype Evolution Over Time
- Lockdown is still a strong deck, but the environment is still gunning for it with U.S. Agent appearing in several decks. This has severely limited Lockdown’s ability to build around one of its best cards, Doctor Doom 2099.
This section was reset at the start of 2025 with the Dark Avengers season.
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