Timeless Tier List

The Meta Energy Aggro Deck: Boros Energy, but with Black! Mardu sacrifices some speed and consistency for Thoughtseize/other hand disruption. Many builds eschew Phlage and Blood Moon due to stricter mana requirements, which allows for a Lurrus companion. Mardu is better against fast combos and weaker against damaging aggro decks.

An Interactive Combo Value Deck: Efficient card draw, tutors, and interaction enable the casting of namesake Show and Tell to cheat a game-ending permanent into play, usually Omniscience. Omnitell then utilizes free spells large and small to sift through an entire library and lock opponents out of the game with Hullbreaker Horror.

A Flexible True Midrange Deck: The top flexible deck on MTGA just gained Barrowgoyf and Wary Zone Guard as high-value threats, which come down early thanks to the mana acceleration of Chrome Mox, Dark Ritual, and Deathrite Shaman. Recurring Strip Mine gives Golgari the ability to efficiently attack mana on top of classic interaction in the form of removal and hand disruption, while incidental lifegain punishes aggro decks..

An Hyper-Efficient 1-drop Aggro Deck: Only slightly slower than the fastest deck on MTG Arena, Boros Energy boasts better mana and a stronger late game powered by a resource that’s nearly impossible to interact with. With Energy cards from MH3 (and only MH3), re-played Amped Raptors can’t miss a second spell for more damage and more card draw.

An Aggressive Disruptive Tempo Deck: Wrenn and Six amplified Jund’s ability to generate value at a lower mana value, making an 8th card in companion worth the tradeoff. Jund Lurrus runs all of the best cheap threats on MTGA, with Strip Mines to bring the opponent down to your mana level. This is a great deck for staying low to the ground late into the game without ever running out of things to do.

A Suicidal Ritual Combo Deck: Shadow of Mortality has been Death’s Shadow’s shadow since it caps out at 7 power, but it gets a big boost from allowing Sacrifice to produce 15 mana all at once. 8 Necros make it easy to bring your life total down to 1, while also refilling the hand for a big March to recover. This will eventually yield a Goblin Charbelcher for a lethal one-shot in a landless library.

An All-in “Landless” Combo Deck: Orzhov Belcher makes the most use of a second set of Dark Rituals in the form of Sacrifice to cast and activate Goblin Charbelcher for 7 mana faster than any other deck on Arena. Sacrifice let’s an evoked Elemental generate 5-6 mana for a T1 kill in a deck without lands. Sorin+Saint Elendra and Necropotence/Dominance create a powerful plan B.

A Landless All-In Combo Deck: Sometimes the best way to navigate around combo hate is to simply run a second combo. In a deck with zero real lands, rituals power out the traditional lethal Goblin Charbelcher activation for infinite damage or Balustrade Spy to mill your own library in one shot. Compared to other landless decks, the dual combos create resilience against hate pieces and  more consistent opening hands.

A Flexible True Midrange Deck: Compared to it’s Golgari brethren, Jund sacrifices consistency and lifegain for power and Value. Wrenn and Six recurs/recovers from Strip Mine for one less mana and one more color, and Minsc & Boo remains impossible to race. The mana can be punishing for life and consistency in a 3-color deck with 4 colorless lands, but the tradeoff for power is often worth it.