
Strategy
Our timeless Magic: The Gathering strategy articles will increase your understanding of the game and get the upper hand of your opponents. We cover everything from deck building, game plans, mindset, mulligans, and more.


Truths and Myths About Deck Selection

The Five Questions to Ask to Accurately Evaluate Decks

5 Traps to Avoid When Building a Sideboard

The Top 5 Mistakes Solid Players Make and How to Fix Them

Keep or Mulligan #2: Level up Your Game

The Top 20 Tech Cards for Explorer That You Should Consider Playing

The Top 5 Lessons I Learned as a Pro That Completely Changed My Game

The Best Plays in the History of MTG
As previously announced, we will be publishing articles by Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa originally posted on Substack for everybody to enjoy as a taste of what’s to come on the MTG Arena Zone Premium section! One of the biggest…

The Top 10 Tech Cards You Should Consider Playing in Your Standard Deck to Beat Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
Hello everyone! Tell me if you’ve heard this one. Here you are playing Standard, when suddenly, your opponent slams two copies of on turn 3. You look at your hand, look at the board, and shake your fist at the…

Keep or Mulligan #1
As previously announced, we will be publishing articles by Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa originally posted on Substack for everybody to enjoy as a taste of what’s to come on the MTG Arena Zone Premium section! Hey everyone! Today we’re…

Normalizing Luck
As previously announced, we will be publishing articles by Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa originally posted on Substack for everybody to enjoy as a taste of what’s to come on the MTG Arena Zone Premium section! At the end of…

My Number One Tip For Each Of Arena’s Formats

Roles of Engagement

Top 5 Alchemy Cards That Need a Nerf, 5 Cards That Need a Buff, and How I Would Change Them

The 3 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Win Rate Instantly

Three Biggest Leaks in Your Limited Game
Hopefully everyone is doing well! I figured since Midnight Hunt has been out for awhile that now would be a good time to start breaking down key limited mistakes that I still see a lot of players struggling with. Avoiding…

How to Test for Events by Yourself

Lessons from Standard 2022: What You Should Do in New Innistrad Standard

Limited Lessons from DND: Forgotten Realms Draft
Hey Everyone! It seems like interest in DND: Forgotten Realms draft has been on the decline with the release of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt being only a month away and sweet formats like Ikoria, Kaladesh Remastered, and Amonkhet Remastered temporarily coming…

The Most Common Weaknesses in Magic and How to Fix Them

The Best Cards and How to Effectively Construct Decks in Standard 2022

The Three Steps to Attack Metagames and Break Formats

The Expert’s Guide to Mulliganing in Constructed

My Top 5 Tips to Develop a Strong Mental Game

Five Helpful Habits To Improve At Magic You May Not Be Doing
Hello everyone! I haven’t done some general content in awhile and who better to do it for than all our valuable Premium supporters! I know a lot of my content is based around the deck of the day for the…

Required Reading: The Best Magic Advice You’ll Ever Get – How To Think In Game Plans
Hello everyone! Believe it or not, I’ve crossed 100 articles on MTG Arena Zone! Woo! I can’t thank everyone enough for reading my content which allows me to do this every day. With that, I want to give back the…

How to Win a Mythic Invitational Qualifier and Improve as a Player
Hello again! This time I will write about a concept I never have before: Gameplay Theory! I was lucky enough to qualify for the Zendikar Rising Championship via the Zendikar Rising Qualifier Weekend. My plan is to explain to you…

Required Reading: The Secrets To Pros’ Success
Welcome back everyone! After some deliberation and my penchant to be an educator, I decided that I wanted to try out a series called “Required Reading”. I hope the name of it doesn’t bring anyone flashbacks to the summer before…

Essentials for Every Magic Player: Heuristics and the Importance of Building Good Habits
Hi everyone! I’m Drifter and I’m back with another strategy article; this one is all about becoming your best self as a magic player through the formation of good heuristics and the prevention/breakage of bad ones. Don’t worry, you’ve formed…

Required Reading: The Deckbuilder’s Doctrine Part 2 – Aggro Decks
Welcome back everyone! It’s been quite a while since I did a Required Reading, but with both Standard and Historic settling down a little bit, it’s time to go back to the fundamentals. Before continuing, please make sure that you…

Required Reading: How Professionals Test for Events
Hello again everyone! I’ve been asked a lot of questions about how Chris and I go about testing when a tournament is coming up. Furthermore, many people have been extremely surprised that Chris’s testing team was literally just me, a…

Required Reading: The Deckbuilder’s Doctrine Part 1
Hello everyone! I’ve been playing Magic for a reasonably long time (9 years now), and something that always surprised me was how little content there was for how to properly construct decks. There can be small tidbits here and there:…

A Guide to Hypergeometric Calculators in Magic – Dramatically and Easily Improve your Game
Welcome, everyone! I’m Drifter, back with a how-to guide on an edge that many pro players already use to up their game. The main use of a hypergeometric calculator in Magic is for calculating probabilities. Probability is crucial in determining…