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.

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 sideboard until Approach of the Second Sun wins the game that turn.

A Energy variant: Mardu Energy is a variant of energy that hopes to use Chthonian Nightmare and Orcish Bowmasters to outvalue the Boros versions. The black also gives access to hand hate in an attempt to help the traditional poor Show and tell match up.

A True Tempo Cardflow Control Deck: Put down growing threats in the early turns, then spend then protect them while they generate value and end the game alone. Compared to midrange decks, Dimir Tempo is more consistent but needs to play its cards in order. 16 growing creatures are complemented by a full suite of removal spells, counterspells, and specific answers to Timeless Combos.

A Defensive Maximum Control Deck: Lock down the game with counterspells, protection, and removal until Phlage can escape the graveyard and win alone. Wrath of the Skies is the new sweeper of choice, answering any permanents and maximizing the value of a timely Mana Drain. Compared to other Control Decks, Jeskai offers stronger lifegain, better mana, and safe One Rings.

A 4-Color Flexible Cardflow Deck: Get around the card cost of evoking elementals by drawing a card when they’re cast, instead of stopping them from dying. Up the Beanstalk draws entirely too many cards off of spells that don’t cost any mana, while cheap interaction clears the way for powerful planeswalkers and Omnath to play fairer win conditions than other Scam builds

A Consistent Disruptive Cheat Deck: Use efficient black disruption and reanimation to both deploy and manage opposing threats ahead of schedule. Compared to more colorful Scam builds, Mono-Black substitutes reanimation for blink effects to gain more consistent removal and resiliency in the form of The One Ring and Sheoldred, The Apocalypse.

A Draw/Go Hard Control Deck: Dimir Control locks down the game with the strongest counterspells and removal on Arena, answering every conceivable deployable threat and never passing the turn with less than two mana available. A companion Lurrus and four Orcish Bowmasters with flash serve as the deck’s only win conditions.

A Graveyard Combo Deck: Get an Omniscience into play, then win the game when none of your spells cost any mana! Shifting Woodland provides a more consistent gameplan than other Omniscience decks and an array of card types to enable delirium, with some resilience to discard and counterspells. The cost is a fresh weakness to graveyard hate.

A Classic Consistent (Undisruptable?) Burn Deck: Cast spells that deal damage, draw cards, and prevent lifegain, to deal 20 damage as quickly as possible. While some decks are faster than Rakdos Burn, none are more difficult to stop. All 12 available Arena spells that deal three damage for one mana are present, with either more burn or Death’s Shadow variants to finish the list.

A Landless Full Combo Deck: Belcher is a straightforward combo deck, with cards that are lands only on the back and tutors to cast and activate Belcher as quickly as possible. Goblin Charbelcher “Reveals cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card” and then deals damage equal to the number of cards revealed. In a landless library, that’s 45+damage to the dome!

A Consistent Ramp Landbox Deck: With a full 30 lands, 8 ways to put them into play, and 16 ways to search them up, Titan Field finds the right land at the right time until Field of the Dead generates a lethal number of zombies. Pulling value out of lands is difficult for decks to interact with even in Timeless, and Primeval Titan and other Natural Order targets round out the threats.

The Fastest Aggro Deck: In Arena’s most powerful format, Domain Zoo is the best deck for getting an opponent dead fast. Zoo uses fetchlands to assemble all 5 basic land types to enhance removal, power up creatures, and cast cheap spells in any color. Quick creatures allow powerful burn spells and key disruption to take out most other decks before they get close to stabilizing.

A Controlling Midrange Cheat Deck: Play value-generating threats early, then use evoke elemental and Brainstorm to get rid of any cheap answers that don’t fit the current matchup. Reanimation and Disruption are both more versatile compared to other Scam decks, with more answers for rogue cards and a stronger ability to dig for missing answers and cards

A Cardflow Tempo Dredge Deck: Utilize the graveyard to the extreme by filling up your graveyard with recursive creatures. Satoru and Psychic Frog keep cards flowing while Bloodghast and namesake Cthonian Nightmare make sure there’s always a creature in play to cast Flare of Malice or Denial. Bowmasters is the only interaction that costs mana to cast, sometimes.

A Midrange Kindred Cheat Deck: Supplement the traditional Scam Elementals package of Grief/Solitude/Ephemerate/Reanimate with Sorin, Imperious Blood Lord to put 7-mana Alchemy Vampire Saint Elendra straight onto the battlefield. Dark Ritual allows this extra cheat on the first turn of the game, and the extra vampiric lifegain reduces the risk of Necropotence.

An Interactive Flexible Value Deck: An interactive fair deck featuring the best removal, card draw, and threats available. Blue allows for counterspells and more strict card advantage than other threats, at the cost of consistent damage sources. Cantrips and cheap removal fill the graveyard to allow Uro to escape.