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Welcome to MTG Arena Zone’s guide section. This set of articles aims to help players from complete beginners with all that they need to start playing Magic: The Gathering, to experts on how to improve their gameplay. You will also find the latest premium deck guides that show you how to sideboard against common matchups!


The Draft Lab Podcast Episode 49: Alchemy Horizons Baldur’s Gate First Impressions with Ekil
Welcome back to episode 49 of the Draft Lab Podcast where Josh and Chris FINALLY drag Ekil on the show to talk about their first impressions for the Alchemy Horizons limited format. Pull up a seat and listen in as…

Standard Selesnya Blink Deck Guide: Value Is Stronger Than Ever!

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Draft Guide
Hey everyone! We’re a few days into some crazy adventures into Baldur’s Gate and I’m here to drop some knowledge on you so you can crush the competition. This is my zoomed out, big ideas look at the format and…

Historic Naya Winota Deck Guide: Smash or Pass

Historic #1 Mythic Hardened Scales Enchantress Deck Guide: One of Historic’s Most Explosive Decks

Standard Mono Red Goblins Deck Guide: The Unexpected Meta Killer
Hello everyone! Today I get the pleasure of updating one of my favorite Bo1 deck guides from quite awhile ago: Mono Red Goblins! When I first saw this deck all those months ago, I was flabbergasted that it saw a…

Standard Mono White Aggro Deck Guide: Complete Bo1, Bo3, and Budget Lists

The Draft Lab Podcast Episode 48: Alchemy Horizons Baldur’s Gate Predictions
Welcome back to episode 76 of the Draft Lab Podcast where Josh and Tajoordan talk about their hypotheses for the Alchemy Horizons limited format. They range from mild to scorching hot if you’re looking to live dangerously. We start out…

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Removal Guide
Limited formats are defined by removal. Its quantity and quality determines which strategies are valid. In some sets, large quantities of unconditional removal will make large creatures without any abilities practically unplayable. In others, availability of cheaply costed removal spells…

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Limited Instants, Flash and Tricks Guide
Hey everyone! We’ve already went over all the individual cards, archetypes, and mechanics of Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate so now I’m going to provide you with a handy dandy Instants guide. Keep this one bookmarked and whenever you have a…

10 New Historic Decks With Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate
For one of the final supplementary products before Dominaria United and Standard rotation on September 9, 2022, Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate by far the largest addition to the digital-only formats Arena has ever seen. Between this and the copious card…

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate – Card Spoilers, Release Date, Set Details, and More

MTG Arena Codes: Free Packs, Cosmetics, XP, and More
Below is the full list of all the currently available, non-unique promotional MTG Arena codes you can redeem for free booster packs, cosmetics, Mastery XP, individual cards, and more. New codes are added from time to time, so be sure…

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Sealed Guide
Get out your machetes, because we’re in uncharted territory now! After the Wise Wizards of the Waterfront dipped our toes into the harsh, unforgiving waters of Streets of New Capenna + Alchemy (it sucked), we are ready to get our…

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Limited Archetypes and Mechanics Guide
Hey everyone! We’ve already went over all the individual cards of Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate so now we’re going to discuss all of the mechanics and archetypes. Knowing these will help you to have a game plan going into a…

Standard Grixis Control Deck Guide: The Best Deck for a Hinata Metagame

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Limited Set Card Review: Artifacts, Lands, and Multicolored

Historic #2 Mythic Esper Greasefang Aggro Deck Guide: The Best of Aggro and Combo

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Limited Set Card Review: Green

Standard Naya Legends Deck Guide: Roll Your Opponent With Explosive Starts!

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Limited Set Card Review: Red

Standard 2023 Rakdos Anvil Deck Guide – Rotation Proof Decks

Standard 2023 Gruul Werewolves Deck Guide – Rotation Proof Decks
Hello everyone! Today we’re going to be doing something a bit different for a deck tech! With a full Standard rotation coming soon on September 1, 2022 (MTG Arena release date) with Dominaria United, understanding what’s going to be viable…

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Limited Set Card Review: Black

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Limited Set Card Review: Blue

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate Limited Set Card Review: White

The Draft Lab Podcast Episode 47: Alchemy Horizons Baldur’s Gate Mechanics
Welcome back to episode 76 of the Draft Lab Podcast where Josh and Tajoordan talk about the mechanics in the upcoming Arena exclusive set. We recorded before the full spoiler dropped so we also talk about a few of the…

Standard Metagame Snapshot and Tier List Update – June 29, 2022

Alchemy #1 Mythic Naya Ignus Lifegain Combo Deck Guide

Explorer Rakdos Sacrifice Deck Guide: Two Versions That Got Me to #12 Mythic
Hello everyone! Today I’ll be going over two Rakdos Sacrifice decklist variants for Explorer. The fundamental difference between today’s two decks is whether or not they have ; while both decks share a lot of cards, artifact synergies, or the…

Explorer Mono Red Aggro Deck Guide: Red Gets Them Dead

Standard Velomachus Reanimator Deck Guide: Easy One Turn Kills

Double Team Mechanic
Reminder Text When a creature with double team attacks, if it’s not a token, conjure a duplicate of the original into your hand, and then both cards lose double team. Description Double Team is a digital-only, Magic: the Gathering Arena…

Boon Mechanic
Reminder Text A new-to-MTG Arena mechanic, not exclusive to the Alchemy Horizons: Baldur’s Gate set, boon is a way to represent delayed triggers, similar to an emblem, but once they trigger, they disappear. Description Boon is a digital-only, Magic: the Gathering Arena exclusive…

Specialize Mechanic
Reminder Text Pay mana and discard a color/land type of your choice to change your card to that new card with its effects (the change depends on which color you discarded). Description Specialize is a digital-only, Magic: the Gathering Arena…

Standard Azorius Aggro Deck Guide: Two Spells Are Better Than One
Introduction Hello planeswalkers, I am The MTG Hero. Standard has become a delightful landscape of midrange decks. Mono White and Runes have fallen to tier 2 and the only aggro deck left standing in top tier is Boros Aggro. This…

My 4 Favorite Best of One Standard Decks That Are Extremely Underrated – And the Secret Deck I’ve Been Crushing Bo1 Explorer With

The Draft Lab Podcast Episode 46: What Makes a Good Draft Format
Welcome back to episode 46 of the Draft Lab Podcast where Josh and Chris talk their way through what they think makes a draft format good or bad. Let’s be honest you don’t want to hear about SNC anymore and…

MTG Standard Rotation Guide
What is Standard Rotation? With the advent of MTG Arena, Standard is the most accessible and widely played constructed format in Magic: The Gathering. Four Magic sets are released (one approximately every three months) and added to Standard each year, and subsequently…