Timeless Tier List

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.

A Counter-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.

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 with hands and threats, while incidental lifegain punishes 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.

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.

A Disruptive Stompy Metamoon Deck: The Timeless meta finally has enough creatures for Fury to be as strong as its scam cousins Grief and Solitude! Magus of the Moon both counters and complements Strip Mines, buying enough time for Ragavan, Pyrogoyf, Fable of the Mirror Breaker and The One Ring to create overwhelming value for a mono-red deck. Stompy starts strong and finishes with powerful burn.

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 Midrange Cheat Deck: Supplement the traditional Scam Elementals package of Grief/Reanimate with Sorin, Imperious Blood Lord to put 7-mana Alchemy Vampire Saint Elenda straight onto the battlefield. Dark Ritual allows this extra cheat on the first turn of the game. If that isn’t enough the deck also has a strong midrange core to back it up.

A Consistent Token Blink Deck: Cast creatures fairly and rely on their inherent value to go wider than any other deck on Arena. Cottontail Caretaker is the glue that overpowers Solitude, Ocelot Pride, and freshly printed Exalted Sunborn even more than usual. Ephemerate and Phelia are still great with Solitude, but Warp angels add another layer of value threats to an already consistent powerhouse.

An All-In Cheaty Combo Deck: (Step 1)Choose giant creature. (Step 2)Cheat it into play. (Step 3)Repeat Steps 1 and 2. Atraxa, Saint Elendra, Troll of Khazad-dûm, and Grief are cast, reanimated, Show-and-Telled, or Sorined into play. Consistent by virtue of its sheer number of cheaty effects, Slot Machine doesn’t settle for just one ginormous threat, and instead replaces interaction with more spins!

A Cardflow Midrange Deck: Protect classic threats that generate value over time like Psychic Frog, Tamiyo, and Oko with Arena’s most powerful disruption. Treasure Cruise turns that efficient interaction and card selection into a fresh hand until the value comes online. This is an uncharacteristically fair deck for Timeless, with no way to cheat permanents into play, attack mana, cast free spells, or one-shot-kill.

An Aggressive Kindred Stompy Deck: More aggressive than it’s mono-green counterpart, Gruul Eldrazi uses mana denial and Thought-Knot Seer to top its curve, rather than start it. Instead, the cheaper eldrazi lords turn Eldrazi Linebreaker into a ridiculous powerhouse, turning even a lowly 0/1 spawn into a lethal threat. Glaring Fleshraker and Lightning Bolt push the final points of damage through.

A Consistent ToolBox Ramp Deck: Now that both Eldrazi Temple and Ancient Tomb are on Arena, 4-mana colorless spells are trivial to cast on Turn 2. Arena-only KoBG operates as another 4 copies of Arboreal Grazer to enable consistent Flares of Cultivation, with Sowing Mycospawn/Strip Mine creating intense mana denial. Karn shuts off opposing mana rocks and rounds out the strategy with an artifact toolbox.

A Flexible Hard Control Deck: CONTROL IS NOT DEAD, it just takes some Alchemy cards. Every card with the Alchemy-only Chorus mechanic gets stronger when any one is cast, resulting in one of the only Timeless decks that always wants the game to last longer. Cheap blue value creatures turn Flare of Denial into a passable Force of Will to complement classic non-Chorus control pieces.