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Standard is the most accessible and widely played constructed format in Magic: The Gathering. Four sets rotate once a year on September, making it a dynamic format that evolves constantly as new sets are released. You can find all our Standard content here, from strategy, decks, guides and tier lists.
Introduction Selesnya Auras was a deck always on the precipice of being a real contender after the release of Theros: Beyond Death, but it was just missing something. I loved playing the deck but it never felt as powerful as…
Hello! This is Oliver Tiu writing my first article for MTG Arena Zone. Over the past few weeks, I have won a MagicFest Online event and qualified for the Mythic Invitational with the help of what I have been calling…
Hello there! This is my first article for MTG Arena Zone so let me introduce myself: I’m Brewer’s Kitchen: long time Magic player and jank enthusiast. When the world got hit by the pandemic, I decided to make use of…
Who am I? My name is Mark Gabriele, and I am an SCG Tour Grinder and avid Arena player. My absolute favorite decks in Standard are all flavors of Mono-Colored aggro decks, and I recently ground all the way through…
When Ikoria’s spoiler season ended, one of the first things I looked for was for any tools to improve the Mardu Knights decks that had a strong run during Throne of Eldraine. While there were no new knights (boooo!), there…
Hi there! I’m Delmo, writing for MTG Arena Zone for the first time. You can follow me on Twitter and my stream on Twitch! As you may be aware, I’ve been forcing Gruul Kaheera Fires to be a tier deck…
Who am I? My name is Mark Gabriele, and I am an SCG Tour Grinder and avid Arena player. My absolute favorite decks in Standard are all flavors of Mono-Colored aggro decks, and I’ve recently been having a ton of…
Introduction Hello guys, welcome to my second article for MTG Arena Zone. This past weekend, I took part in the MagicFest Online Season 2 Weekly Championship. After finishing day 1 with a 7-1 record, I had high hopes of doing…
Who am I? My name is Mark Gabriele, and I am an SCG Tour Grinder and avid Arena player. My absolute favorite decks in Standard are all flavors of Mono-Colored aggro decks, and I recently took Emma Handy’s Boros Cycling…
Who am I? My name is Mark Gabriele, and I am an SCG Tour Grinder and avid Arena player. My absolute favorite deck in Standard is all flavors of Mono-Colored aggro decks, and I recently took Aaron Barich’s Mono Black…
Originally, I wanted to write about Temur Reclamation more than a month ago, after we played it at the Mythic Qualifier. However, in these unusual times, priorities shift really quickly and was pushed out of the metagame soon afterwards. Now…
At this point, who can honestly say they didn’t see adapting and remaining great for yet another Standard meta coming? The combination of powerful control tools and cheating on mana to have the best midgame turns in the format, with…
Temur decks (red, green and blue) have been quite popular lately, from Reclamation to Flash and quite often somewhere in between. This color combination has a great range of ramp spells and Instant speed spells that makes deck building quite…
Selesnya Adventures is a deck that takes advantage of Edgewall Innkeeper’s powerful card drawing ability, small Adventure creatures and token generators to go wide and swarm your enemy. The deck has been in and out of the Standard metagame, also…
Four-Color Walkers is essentially an Esper Control deck that splashes Red for Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God. As the name suggests, it focuses on using Planeswalkers as threats (with the help of Interplanar Beacon) to snowball rather than using Doom Foretold. Bolun…
Bant Ramp is arguably the best deck in best-of-three Standard at present, which is an practically an amalgamation of Azorius Control and Simic Ramp, extracting the most powerful cards from them. Magic Pro League (MPL) member Ondrej Strasky took down…
The Adventure mechanic is possibly the most flavor rich mechanic that Wizards has ever come up with; personally, it always reminds me of the tale of Don Quixote, the delusional Spanish knight dreamed up by Miguel Cervantes. Don Quixote was…
Welcome back to Brewin’ Shoes, the column where I try my best to convince you my crazy nonsense builds will work for more people than just myself. This week, I bring you a deck I’m quite confident will work for…
Abzan Auras is a white, black and green deck that uses the powerful enchantment payoff cards introduced in Theros Beyond Death to overwhelm your opponents with card advantage! In this deck guide, we will go through how to pilot the…
Spiralling out of Control and Straight to Victory! Temur is the hottest combo on the block; a deck that’s been in and out of the meta ever since Wilderness first broke onto the scene in Ravnica Allegiance. In Eldraine, the…
Fighting Cats with Bigger and Faster Cats… Introduction With Theros: Beyond Death’s release, devotion decks in many forms have been running amok. As we saw in the original Theros block, the Gods and direct payoffs like Gary are big enough…
I’m back, and with the new set release we have a ton of new cards to play with. Today’s deck – Rakdos Discard Control – features one of the more anticipated cards in THB: Kroxa, Titan of Death’s Hunger. I…
Hey everyone. Today we’re playing a deck that combines two relatively popular archetypes: Izzet Draw-2 and Dimir Discard. We’re playing Grixis ! Grixis Deck Overview Dimir discard is a control deck that relies on running the opponent totally out of…
Hey everyone. Today’s deck focuses on everyone’s favorite alternate win condition: Mill! We’re going to be playing a mostly-Dimir control deck with just a splash of green that seeks to mill out the opponent with Ashiok. I hope you enjoy…
Hi everyone! Today’s deck guide is for a Tier 1 deck after my own heart. We’re going to be going over how to play Izzet in Best of 1. Enjoy! Overview Izzet flash is a Tier 1 deck that is…
So you’ve just claimed your free Prime deck, Liliana’s Legion. If you are wondering what this is, it is one of the free in-game loot you get for signing up to Prime – read more about how you can claim…
Introduction One of the strongest color combinations at the moment for new players is black and red, the Rakdos guild that focuses on the sacrifice synergy. This type of deck is also commonly known as Aristocrats, named after an older…
Hello and welcome! I’m Drifter, back with another deck guide for my deer readers. The last couple of times I was going over either my own brew or my take on a more fringe deck (links at the end!) but…
Introduction As a lead up to the Festival of the Fae Standard Artisan event starting this Sunday, I wanted to share with you a budget Izzet Control / Tempo deck that only consists of commons and uncommons that you can…
Introduction Hello and welcome! I’m back again, with another guide to a sweet brew I’ve been tuning. You can find my last deck guide here, which was for Grixis Fires (I’m entangled in quite the love affair with Fires lately…).…
Introduction Hi folks! Today I’m going to be showing you a sweet deck I’ve been tuning, and have a very solid win rate with across fifty or so games by this point. I would highly recommend this deck for ranking…
Hi all, this is my long awaited deck guide on Simic . Sorry it took me so long to get out but I wanted to be thorough and give this awesome deck the justice it deserves. For reference for any…
Introduction In Magic: The Gathering, the term dredge refers to the act of putting cards in to your own graveyard, derived from the name of the mechanic (which is not in MTG Arena yet). In Throne of Eldraine, one of…
Hey all, I’m Raphael, though I go by my IGN pokeking. I’m a competitive grinder from the DMV who used to play a lot of IQ’s and PPTQ’s. I’ve been one round away from the Pro Tour, though I’ve never…
