Lurrus Burn Historic Deck Guide: Your Opponent’s Will Be Seeing Red
Hello everyone! Today I’m writing about a deck that’s near and dear to my heart as it’s the first Historic deck I ever played! Albeit, this was back when Companions...
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Historic Jund Midrange: Jund Em Out!
Hello everyone! Today I was presented with a really interesting deck that can breathe some fresh air into your climb to Mythic, the ever so loved, Jund Midrange! With the...
Izzet Locust God Combo: Historic’s Splinter Twin Variant
Hello everyone! If you’re a Magic boomer like me, you probably have some strong opinions on Splinter Twin. Easily one of the most contentious decks ever, the idea behind Splinter...
Historic Abzan Constrictor: The Best Type of Counter Spells
Hello everyone! Today I’m coming at you with a super sweet deck that won the Maryellen Goldstein Treatment yesterday, Abzan Snake! When Winding Constrictor came into Historic, I thought that...
Standard Bo1 Orzhov Clerics: The Power of Standard’s Newest Tribal Deck
Hello everyone! I’ve been on a Best of One binge and nobody can stop me. I generally wasn’t much of a Best of One player, however I’ve been quickly learning...
Historic Golgari Pogliterator: Never Lose Against Red Decks Again
Welcome back! Today I have a special one for you: The best way to farm aggressive decks on the ladder! This might not be the deck to play at your...
Selesnya Adventures Bo1 Standard Deck Guide: Go on a Brand New Adventure
Hello everyone! I’m going to do something a little different and go over a deck that I’ve been doing well with on Best of One ladder, something my lovely Best...
Neoform Combo Historic Deck Guide: The Terror of Historic Ladder
Do you enjoy playing powerful decks? Do you like crushing any non-interactive deck? Do you want to be the villain of Arena ladder? Well then I have the deck for...
Mono White Aggro Standard Deck Guide
So, are we just going to ignore how many good White cards have been printed? I mean, prior to Zendikar Rising, White was a total joke. Now it is a...
Rakdos Sacrifice Historic Deck Guide: The Cat’s Out of the Bag, Rakdos is Tier 1
Hello everyone! For those who know me well, I am an absolute fanatic for the sacrifice strategies. Just the beautiful mix of aggro, grind, and synergy makes the deck feel...
Selesnya Yorion Standard Deck Guide: The Creature Deck Crusher
Hello everyone! Historic is still the format that is the most relevant with the MCQW coming in January, however, the next set of SCG tournaments are all Standard, and I’ve...
Golgari Monsters Historic Deck Guide: You Don’t Need to Be Gruul to Smash
Hello everyone! I’ll admit it, I have a problem. My problem is that I can’t stop playing Collected Company decks in Historic and I don’t want the cure. Initially piloted...
Bant Company Historic Deck Guide: Your Opponents Will Hate These Bears
Hello everyone! Ever since I wrote about GW Company, I’ve been playing it near exclusively in Historic for grinding ranked to strong success. I love cool Collected Company midrange decks...
Jeskai Midrange Standard Deck Guide
Does anyone remember a time when Yorion, Sky Nomad decks weren’t just variations of Doom Foretold decks? It’s clear why they are. As soon as you pass the turn Doom...
Mono Blue Tempo Historic Deck Guide: Beat the Best on a Budget
Hello everyone! I’ve heard a lot of people are struggling to get into Historic, especially if they haven’t been playing Arena for very long, but fear not! You don’t need...
Paradox Combo Historic Deck Guide: The First Tier 1 Combo Deck in Historic
Welcome back everyone! Today I’m going over a deck that exploded in popularity just over the weekend and has been putting up extremely promising results, Paradox Engine Combo. First created...
Brewing in a Top Hat: Historic Infinite Saheeli Combo
Welcome back to Brewing in a Top Hat! Today, I am playing a Superfriends-Control deck that uses an infinite token loop to close out games. With the absence of Felidar Guardian...
Top 100 Selesnya Company Historic Deck Guide: Playing Fair Never Felt So Unfair
There’s two rules you always must follow if you are on Magic Twitter. Rule 1, always post a deck list. Doesn’t matter the context, you post a deck list. GP...
Selesnya Scute Swarm Retreat Standard Deck Guide
Scute Swarm is a card that fascinates me because I hear so many players on the casual side of the meta claim that it is extremely overpowered and singlehandedly caused...
Mardu Yorion: Standard’s Definitive Creature Deck Killer
Hello everyone! Today I’m here with a deck scientifically designed to slap creature decks back to the stone age, and of course because it’s me, it has to be a...
Boros Cycling Bo1 Standard Deck Guide: The Easiest Way to Get Into Standard
Hello everyone! By nature, I’m a spike and all about being competitive, tuning lists, playing against the best and so on. With that, a lot of my content has been...
Sultai Flash Historic Deck Guide: The Art of Always Saying No
Hello everyone! When it was in Standard, Flash was simultaneously one of my favorite and most hated strategies depending on which side of the matchup I was on. Although it...
Dimir Yorion Updated Standard Deck Guide – Welcome to Standard’s Newest Tier 1 Deck – December 2020
Hello everyone! I’ve been having a great time in this Standard format so far since it’s been evolving at a rapid rate. Since the popularity of 8 Shark, I’ve been...
Mono Black Control Standard Deck Guide
Hello, planeswalkers from across the globe! Control strategies have been viable in Standard recently in many forms. Big mana tap out lists, flashy Rogues decks, and even some reactive Azorius...
Rakdos Arcanist Historic Deck Guide
Arena only supports two competitive constructed formats: Standard and Historic. I love both of these formats immensely, but sometimes, I just want something different. I feel like a lot of...
Brewing in a Top Hat: Orzhov Cleric Combo in Standard and Historic
Welcome back to Brewing In A Top Hat, I have schemed up two very fun decks for you all to grind some wins with in Standard and Historic. They are aggressive,...
Mono Black Aggro Historic Deck Guide
They’re lean, they’re mean, and they’re gonna punch you in the spleen. If you’re looking to play an aggro deck but don’t want your opponent to have too much fun,...
Sultai God-Pharaoh’s Gift Historic Deck Guide
Now I know what you’re thinking. You want to play a cool new Historic deck, but you can’t give up on Historic’s most broken card. I got you covered. Today,...
Mono Red Aggro Historic Deck Guide – Kaladesh Remastered
The dominance of Gruul Aggro and the existence of Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath have kept Mono Red Aggro from being popular in Historic recently, but the addition of Kaladesh...
Orzhov 8-Dancer: The New Tier 1 Monster in Historic
Guess who’s back! Well yeah, I am, but we’re talking about Historic Auras! The Mono White version was originally popularized by Ginky due to the addition of Kor Spiritdancer in Jumpstart....