One of the most successful format introduced by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering Arena so far, Historic allows Arena players to make use of cards that are no longer legal in Standard after rotation. In a sense, it's Magic Arena's very own eternal format.
While Historic was subject to recent controversy during the implementation of Alchemy and the announcement that cards printed or rebalanced for Alchemy would also affect Historic, very few of the top meta decks have seen Alchemy cards enter their sixty. In other words, Alchemy's presence in the format is close to negligible. With that out of the way, let's take a closer look at what 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the best decks in this burgeoning online eternal format offer.
10 ꦅ 5C Niv-Mizzet
If you ever have trouble deciding on what colors to play, 5C (five color) Niv-Mizzet provides an answer by allowing you to play all of them. The strategy of this deck revolves entirely around its namesake card: Niv-Mizzet Reborn. Each time you 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:resolve this Dragon, you'll be able to fill your hand with a variety of the best dual color cards in the format, including Lightning Helix, Maelstrom Pulse, Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Expressive Iteration, and more.
Besides a slew of removal spells and some hand disruption, this🍎 deck also relies oꦜn the creature Territorial Kavu to keep you alive for long enough to resolve your Niv-Mizzet. Anyone who enjoys control-based strategies as well as drawing tons of cards will enjoy this shell.
9 Rakdos Arcanist ꧂
Rakdos (red/black) Arcanist is one of the oldest decks in the Historic format at this point. No matter how the meta🅺 changes, it has always been able to adapt and stay on top. This is mostl♔y thanks to the devastating effect of cheap one mana hand disruption and removal spells including Thoughtseize, Inquisition of Kozilek, and Unholy Heat.
By combining these cards with the namesake creature Dreadhorde Arcanist, pilots are able to rip apart an opponent's hand before they ever get the chance to play a card. The deck then ends the game by swinging in with Seasoned Pyromancer tokens or an escaped Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger. Chandra, Torch of Defiance also shines here in more than a handful of matchups.
8 Jeskai/Azoriu🌞s Control
Along with 5C Niv-Mizzet, Jeskai (red/white/blue) and Azorius (white/blue) Control are the other prominent control decks in the format. We have grouped th🗹em together here because their game plan remains the same no matter which build you prefer: remove threats, then bury opponents in card advantage🌃 by resolving planeswalkers and, if necessary, Shark Typhoon.
These builds don't so much win the game as they do force their opponents to lose. They are traditional control builds in that they are focused on beating the opponent's game plan first, then winning the game with whatever tools are left. It's still up for debate whether streamlined manabase Azorius builds or Jeskai builds with access to cards like Lightning Helix and Anger of the Gods are better.
7 🍰 Monored Aggro
As per usual, the epitomous Monored Aggro strategy has made a name for itself here. The abilꩵity to play red cards that were previously banned during their time in Standard, most notably Rampaging Ferocidon and Ramunap Ruins, just barely pushes Monored into the best decks in the format.
This deck's strategy is similar to its iterations in other formats. However, this specific build relies a bit more on creatures and combat damage than others. Despite this, it does still have a surprising amount of resilience to board wipes. Once you've managed to reduce your opponent to about 5 life, the deck relies on hasty topdecks, the manland Den of the Bugbear, and Tor🌠bran, Thane of Redfell triggers to finish the job.
6 🐟 Selesnya Enchantress ꧅
For players who enjoy combo shells and enchantments, and absolutely despise Monored Aggro, it's impossible to do better than Selesnya (white/green) Enchantress. This deck features enough life gain in the mainboard to make any Monored Aggro player think twice.
That aside, the deck functions by resolving enchantment creatures including Jukai Naturalist, Weaver of Harmony, and Sythis, Harvest's Hand and backing them up with even more enchantments that combo with these creature's abilities. Nearly every card in this deck's sixty benefits from casting any other card, so combo players will have a lot of fun here.
5 Golgar🦹i/Jund Food♌
Another combo deck for Historic is Golgari (green/black) Food. Like Rakdos Arcanist, this is an older deck that has seen many iterations and continues to stay at the top of the meta. 💞However, Golgari / Jund Food has always been a difficult deck to properl♛y pilot.
The trick is here is to use food tokens alongside cards like Ravenous Squirrel, Cauldron Familiar, Trail of Crumbs, and Witch's Oven to eventually defeat your opponent with small life loss damage. In other words, this is a deck that often kills with a thousand cuts. In Magic, that means you'll also be making a thousand decisions. Good luck getting them all correct.
4 🍸 Azorius Affinity
While Affinity is a far cry from its hayday in Modern, the good news is Azorius Affinity has come along in Histo✱ric to replace it. This build looks to flood the deck with artifacts while protecting them wi♔th the apt removal spell Metallic Rebuke. Then, it goes to war by attacking with a giant Nettlecyst.
Cards like Esper Sentinel, Ingenious Smith, Karn, Scion of Urza and Thought Monitor all provide reliable card draw in case your opponent manages to wipe your artifacts out. Perhaps the nicest thing about Azorius Affinity in Historic is that there aren't any sideboard cards like Shattering Spree available that would completely ruin your day.
3 🌱 Azorius Auras
Azorius Auras is for players who like tempo-based builds, card draw, and going all-in. The gameplan here is to put auras that draw cards including Curious Obsession, Arcane Flight, and Staggering Insight onto creatures that benefit from them like Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice; Sram, Senior Edificer, and, of course, Kor Spiritdancer.
The result is an incredibly large single creature that draws multiple cards every time it attacks, keeps you alive with lifelink, and is impossible to answer thanks to tempo spells like Spell Pierce and the recently printed Slip Out The Back. It should be mentioned that this is one of the best decks in the format for climbing the ladder to mythic in best of one matches, as your opponent won't have time to put enchantment removal from their sideboard into their main deck.
2 🐎 🔜 Izzet Phoenix
Judging by its 30% metagame representation at the New Capenna Championship, Izzet (red/blue) Phoenix might just be the best deck in Historic. However, the deck's recent over representation is leading to more and more players filling their sideboards with graveyard hate that shuts it down. Nonetheless, this is a reliable and fun Historic deck for thinking players.
The deck wins by putting as many copies of its namesake card, Arclight Phoenix, as you can into the graveyard as soon as possible. It achieves this thanks to cheap draw effects such as Faithless Looting, Consider, and Expressive Iteration. Then, the deck unleashes flying hasty Phoenices from the grave to finish off the opponent. If your phoenixes 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:die to removal, it's no problem. Due to the high number of draw spells in this list, you can just bring them back again on the following turn.
1 Selesn💦ya Humans ♎
It's the difference of Izzet Phoenix often needing an incredibly good and meta-aware pilot that makes Selesnya Humans the current top dog of Historic. This is an aggressive deck that utilizes the popular instant Collected Company to flood the board with hard-to-answer Humans that combo off of one another.
And unlike Izzet Phoenix, it isn't as easy as packing some graveyard hate to deal this deck a killing blow. When it's on the play, the speed with which Selesnya Humans brings the pain often rivals a build like Monored Aggro. Better yet, the deck features a ton of resilience to board wipes thanks to cards like Thalia's Lieutenant, Ranger-Captain of Eos, Esper Sentinel, and, of course, Collected Company.