Hi! I am Vertyx, and I would like to welcome you to my Mythic Decks of the Week article for the first week of December 2023! I will go over the most interesting decks that made it to Mythic on MTG Arena at the end of November and start of December! Let’s take a look at all the decks that people reached Mythic with!
First deck to take a look at is Historic Mono-Black Control by PsyHye! The only Historic deck in the article so lets go straight into it.
This deck plays a lot of cheap interaction/disruption so it can manage the opponent and their battlefield from the first turn, and then it slams one of its 2 “threats” that let them close out the game. The interaction includes a bunch of removal like Sheoldred's Edict or Innocent Blood so you have ways to remove almost anything and it also include discard spells like Thoughtseize or Inquisition of Kozilek so you can still restrict the opponent from the start even when they don’t play many creatures.
Then we get to the permanents that either include stronger disruptive elements like Liliana of the Veil, or they include the threats that help you win the game which is either Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (one of the strongest black creatures in the recent years) or Karn, the Great Creator that can get you the best answer in a complicated boardstates or a finisher like Wurmcoil Engine.
And when you become hungry for cards, you got Sign in Blood or even Castle Locthwain so you can draw your bombs that can get you out of unpleasant situations.
Changing formats, lets take a look at Standard Simic Cookies by BlizzaaahMTG!
Standard has gotten some strong artifact support in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan which made it possible for this deck to exist! As you probably already guessed its whole gameplan is centered around artifacts, which can then be separated into 2 smaller groups (enablers and payoffs). Lets start of with the payoffs which includes less cards.
These cards are the reason that you are playing the artifacts in the first place, and they include Teething Wurmlet (which is able to get a +1/+1 counter almost every single turn) Zoetic Glyph (which is a 5/4 for 3 mana with a strong death trigger since you will almost always have an artifact to enchant) and Tough Cookie that lets you use your free mana for animating artifacts.
Now that we covered the reasons this deck exists, lets take a look at the cards that enable this gameplan and some incidental synergies that come with them! Most of the enablers are either cheap artifacts like Gingerbrute or Surge Engine or cards that create artifacts with their abilities like Spyglass Siren or Sentinel of the Nameless City where both of them create map tokens that also work well on their own in a deck full of cheap/small creatures.
And the remaining cards that slot well into the archetype are Disruption Protocol which acts as a counterspell in a lot of situations and Subterranean Schooner that same as map tokens, also works well in a deck full of cheap creatures.
And the last deck to cover is Standard Rakdos Midrange by Mike Cubillas!
Rakdos was once the top deck of the format, but those days are long over and for that reason i chose to cover this one so you get a look into the current state of the archetype! The creature package still includes a lot of the same cards which are for example Bloodtithe Harvester, Graveyard Trespasser or Sheoldred, the Apocalypse.
The noncreature part is when it starts to get different. Interaction is basically the same since it still includes cards like Cut Down, Go for the throat or Gix's Command. The unique cards are in the planeswalker slot with 3 copies of Ob Nixilis, the Adversary and in the artifact slot with 4 copies of Urabrask's Forge where they might provide completely different abilities, but they both share the idea of making the whole deck faster.
Hi! I am Vertyx, I am 18 years old and I am from the Czech Republic. Most people know me due to my results on MTGO. I have countless Challenge Top 8s and a handful of wins with a wide variety of decks. I manage data from Magic: The Gathering events on MTG Arena Zone and MTG Meta.
