On The Edge – Midweek Magic Event Guide and Decklists – December 2021
This week’s Midweek Magic is On the Edge, where 3 of the 6 Standard legal sets are removed to challenge our deck building ability and creativity! Players can enter the event for free, win some free Rare Individual Card Rewards (ICRs) and a random cosmetic item on the third win. Below is everything you need to know about the event as well as the list of decks you can use for this event.
Event Details
Welcome to Midweek Magic! Each week, try out a different way to play MTG Arena!
Bring a 60-card deck using only cards from the three most recent Standard sets: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, and Innistrad: Crimson Vow.
The event has been postponed due to issues with matchmaking – it should be back live after maintenance. Click here for details.
- Duration: December 1, 2021 @ 12:00 PM PST to December 3, 2021 @ 8:00 AM PST*
- Format: On the Edge
- Entry Fee: Free
- Ends After: You can play as much as you like for the duration of the event.
- Match Structure: Best-of-one matches (BO1)
Event Rewards
Please note, starting with Innistrad: Crimson Vow, the Midweek Magic promotion given out by your local game store has now phased out, and now replaced with an additional reward on the third win.
| Wins | Reward |
|---|---|
| 1 Win | Rare Individual Card Reward (ICR) |
| 2 Wins | Rare Individual Card Reward (ICR) |
| 3 Wins | One Random Cosmetic Item |
On the Edge Decklists (December 2021)
Check out all 12 of our On the Edge decks, find what you like, and grab those wins you need! You can find the complete list at the end.
Creatures (24)
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
60 Cards
$27.92
If you’re trying to clear this event without clearing your wildcards, you can use my favorite Artisan deck, Monoblack Sacrifice. It has plenty of cheap plays, card draw, and interaction to give you a chance against any list!
Creatures (34)
Instants (2)
Enchantments (1)
60 Cards
$117.72
Monowhite is always going to be a great option for these events, but for this one in particular, we lose very little for the normal Standard deck!
Creatures (18)
Instants (20)
60 Cards
$133.38
If you want to play something spicier, Monoblue Tempo has this cool game plan that can seriously mess up any deck in the event.
Planeswalkers (3)
Creatures (26)
60 Cards
$173.78
Generally I like playing Monoblack Midrange, but Zombies is looking too good to ignore with all the new payoffs from Crimson Vow.
Creatures (23)
60 Cards
$253.62
Generally Monored gets outpaced by its White and Green counterparts, but this iteration of it is looking very powerful so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s one of the best decks of the event.
Creatures (32)
Enchantments (4)
60 Cards
$225.56
Although Monogreen loses a good amount of goodies, it still has a really powerful curve and just shows how many good green cards there are in Standard right now!
Planeswalkers (2)
Creatures (30)
Instants (4)
Lands (24)
60 Cards
$168.04
Crimson Vow is all about Vampires so we had to bring them here! With all the payoffs being in the most recent sets, Vampires should be a great choice for this event.
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (25)
60 Cards
$436.84
If you’re looking for an atypical Control deck, Orzhov has plenty of interaction and grindy win conditions between the planeswalkers and Faithbound Judge.
Creatures (19)
Lands (24)
60 Cards
$92.4
Likely my favorite deck on the list, Golgari can let you play as a cool ramp deck or let you cheat in huge threats way ahead of curve!
Creatures (31)
Instants (4)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (22)
60 Cards
$92.16
Selesnya Lifegain has all it’s support pieces in the most recent sets so you get to play this cool synergistic deck here easily!
Creatures (22)
Enchantments (4)
60 Cards
$83.42
Although the curve is a bit concentrated for my liking, you get to play with a bunch of cool Spirit cards and tempo the opponent out!
Creatures (10)
Instants (22)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (26)
60 Cards
$181.34
For those who just want to roll everyone in the event, Izzet Control only loses the MDFCs so you can pretty easily just play one of the best decks in Standard.
I made 1 rakdos vamps and 1 mono red goblins.
Can you please post the list of the goblins deck?
Mono white magecraft is also acceptable 😉
Selesnya magecraft worked for me
I think that at least one badget list, even if underperforming, should be added for any events. This would be of utmost help for users that are at the beginnig of the game or that do not have many wildcards to spend.
agreed, +1
I picked the OTE MONORED AGGRO deck for this event because it required the fewest wildcards to create. I enjoyed playing it so much that I’ve started using it in the Standard Ranked queue. Today I made it to Gold, which (for me) is a new high. I’ve got a week to go; I may make it up one more level. Thanks.
Glad to hear it! Hope it keeps serving you well!
It’s Nov 30 at 3pm Pacific and Midweek Magic hasn’t shown up yet. I’m not crazy, right? At least not about THAT. 😉 I’m realizing that Wedding Crashers it’s showing up either. But with that I saw a post on MTGA Status that there’s a known issue with a fix coming.
It still didn’t appear for me as well, so if you’re crazy about that I guess we’re in the same boat 😉
its up now, but they did not extend the time period/ends same time 🙁
Thanks for the heads up! I guess they can’t extend the time because it would interfere with FNM. I’m trying DoggertQBones’s zombie deck but with some rare/mythics replaced by cards I own.
Reject ain’t legal in this format and you have it in your mono blue tempo deck
Yep my mistake. Decklist has been updated!
I just used your Boros burn standard deck list as a starting point for a “on the edge” variation. Surprised to go 3 – 0 with it, although I missed Showdown of the skalds. 🙂 great deck in standard ladder. Great deck in this event.
Devouring Tendrils in the mono green deck is not legal in the event on the edge because it’s strixheaven 😉
My mistake! Really thought it was an AFR card! Fixed!