The Historic Arena Open is finally here! I've been excitedly playing and streaming the format to prepare, and Historic has continued to develop since last week.

Where We're At Now

Since last week, decks that beat Muxus, Goblin Grandee rose up to challenge the deck's place as the most popular in the format. Temur Reclamation and Temur/Field of Ruin, which blends two 30-land strategies together seamlessly, became the deck to beat after putting up impressive results on a couple MTG Melee tournaments last weekend and took over the ladder shortly after. The biggest reason for this is that it has an excellent Goblins matchup, and beats up on many of the decks that target Goblins as most cards good against one strategy aren't good in the other. 

Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Temur Reclamation by Kasey Jarvis

'Temur Reclamation' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!

Created By: Kasey Jarvis

Event:

Rank:

Historic

Market Price: $420.65

Cards

Sulfur Falls

Color Identity:R,U

Market Price: $4.65

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Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

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Expansion // Explosion

Color Identity:R,U

Market Price: $2.35

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Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $18.85
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When Uro enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Uro enters the battlefield or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
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Breeding Pool
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $23.13
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({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Thassa's Intervention
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.19
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Choose one —
• Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice {X}.
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Raugrin Triome
Color Identity:R,U,W
Market Price: $9.73
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({T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}.)
Raugrin Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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Hinterland Harbor
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $7.60
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Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
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Scavenging Ooze
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.48
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{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
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Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.43
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({T}: Add {U}.)
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Mountain
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.43
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({T}: Add {R}.)
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Forest
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $3.99
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({T}: Add {G}.)
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Rootbound Crag
Color Identity:G,R
Market Price: $3.91
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Rootbound Crag enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.
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Temple of Abandon
Color Identity:G,R
Market Price: $0.93
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Temple of Abandon enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Abandon enters the battlefield, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.
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Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.64
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Explore
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.16
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You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.
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Blast Zone
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Blast Zone enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it.
{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on Blast Zone.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Blast Zone: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Blast Zone.
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Shark Typhoon
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $8.09
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.
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Ketria Triome
Color Identity:G,R,U
Market Price: $10.52
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({T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.)
Ketria Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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Zagoth Triome
Color Identity:B,G,U
Market Price: $14.90
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({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.)
Zagoth Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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Field of the Dead
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Field of the Dead enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
Whenever Field of the Dead or another land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
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Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $5.24
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At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta.
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Aether Gust
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.70
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Choose target spell or permanent that's red or green. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
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Temple of Mystery
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $1.00
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Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
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Stomping Ground
Color Identity:G,R
Market Price: $9.44
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({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Fabled Passage
Market Price: $9.56
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{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
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Steam Vents
Color Identity:R,U
Market Price: $11.92
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({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Castle Vantress
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.99
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Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.
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Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $13.16
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Negate
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.12
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Counter target noncreature spell.
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Flame Sweep
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.20
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Flame Sweep deals 2 damage to each creature except for creatures you control with flying.
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Temple of Epiphany
Color Identity:R,U
Market Price: $1.00
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Temple of Epiphany enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Epiphany enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
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Growth Spiral
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $0.41
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Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
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Mystical Dispute
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.29
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This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
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Magmaquake
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.27
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Magmaquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each planeswalker.
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Wilderness Reclamation
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $2.64
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At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control.
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Magmaquake has quickly become the most defining removal spell in the format as a combination larger and smaller Storm's Wrath. The instant-speed nature of the spell means that even if a Muxus, Goblin Grandee resolves and flips the best combination of Goblins available, a Magmaquake for five will kill all their creatures at the beginning of combat, leaving very little room for Goblins to actually win the game.



The Temur/Field lists present problems for any deck trying to play a long game against them, as the back-up plan to Wilderness Reclamation/Expansion // Explosion is now to keep making their land drops. Magmaquake also cleans up planeswalkers very effectively, meaning it's impossible to rely on a lock of Teferi, Time Raveler and Narset, Parter of Veils.



If you're a Wilderness Reclamation deck, you're well suited to play this metagame already, and it's probably a decent choice both day one and two of the tournament. If you do play it on Sunday, I would slant the deck toward winning the mirror, as it feels like many strong players will also be playing that strategy and every little bit will count.



That said, unlike in Standard, Temur Reclamation isn't so dramatically stronger than everything else players are doing that there's no counterplay. It is strong, and potentially the best deck, but it is not untouchable, and I have a few alternatives:



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-White Auras by Ginky
'Mono-White Auras' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Ginky
Event: 
Rank: 
Standard
Market Price: $59.22
Cards
Stonecoil Serpent
Market Price: $1.88
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Reach, trample, protection from multicolored
Stonecoil Serpent enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
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Castle Ardenvale
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.47
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Castle Ardenvale enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
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Soul-Guide Lantern
Market Price: $1.07
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When Soul-Guide Lantern enters the battlefield, exile target card from a graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Draw a card.
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Sentinel's Eyes
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.17
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Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.
Escape—{W}, Exile two other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
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Solid Footing
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.02
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Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
As long as enchanted creature has vigilance, it assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
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Selfless Savior
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.65
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Sacrifice Selfless Savior: Another target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
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Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $10.86
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Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has converted mana cost 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} any time you could cast a sorcery.)
Lifelink
During each of your turns, you may cast one permanent spell with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard.
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Light of Hope
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.15
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Choose one —
• You gain 4 life.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
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Hushbringer
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.99
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Flying, lifelink
Creatures entering the battlefield or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.
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Glaring Aegis
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.04
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Enchant creature
When Glaring Aegis enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.
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All That Glitters
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.33
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Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control.
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Angelic Gift
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.02
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Enchant creature
When Angelic Gift enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted creature has flying.
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Baffling End
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.11
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When Baffling End enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls with converted mana cost 3 or less.
When Baffling End leaves the battlefield, target opponent creates a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.
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Adanto Vanguard
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.13
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As long as Adanto Vanguard is attacking, it gets +2/+0.
Pay 4 life: Adanto Vanguard gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
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Alseid of Life's Bounty
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.61
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Lifelink
{1}, Sacrifice Alseid of Life's Bounty: Target creature or enchantment you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
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Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.69
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Gingerbrute
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Haste
{1}: Gingerbrute can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Gingerbrute: You gain 3 life.
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Kor Spiritdancer
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.07
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Kor Spiritdancer gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it.
Whenever you cast an Aura spell, you may draw a card.
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Containment Priest
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.38
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Flash
If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
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Karametra's Blessing
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.05
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Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If it's an enchanted creature or enchantment creature, it also gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
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Yes, I am recommending a mono-white aggro deck. No, I'm not memeing, #branding, or joking. This is actually a real consideration in this metagame.



This decklist is a very new entrant to the format, and has only existed for a couple of days since its creator, Jonny Guttman, tweeted about it on Sunday and got the attention of a few big names.






The premise of the deck is fairly straightforward: we're playing the Historic-legal version of Bogles from Modern. We might not have hexproof creatures, but there are enough Selfless Savior, Alseid of Life's Blessing and Karametra's Blessing-type effects that it can do a reasonable impression of invalidating their spot removal. Against a deck like Temur Reclamation, turn one Selfless Savior, turn two Kor Spiritdancer is effectively unanswerable in current builds, and Kor Spiritdancer will very quickly grow too large for anything that Reclamation is doing. Against one massive, frequently flying threat, their only option is to race. And while Temur Rec effectively wins games very quickly, it doesn't actually win the game that fast.



As I'm writing this, I would consider this to be a strong level one strategy of the format for Saturday, but it's very possible that by the time the tournament comes around this is the new level zero that everyone is on.



What makes me a bit hesitant with this deck is you need a strong stomach for mulliganing aggressively, as many sample hands that contain a good mix of lands and spells are completely non-functional. You also need to be comfortable moving all in on a single plan and, if answered, there isn't much of a back-up plan. Lurrus of the Dream-Den can rebuild, but it's so slow that it's rarely effective.



I'm also less sure I would play this deck on day two in a best-of-three format. I'm definitely sure that players will be aware of this strategy for day two and be prepared to sideboard against it where they won't on best-of-one.



If the Aura gimmick isn't your thing, either, I think that the concept of an aggressive deck that sidesteps Magmaquake is generally a strong idea at the moment.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Azorius Fliers by Nick Prince
'Azorius Fliers' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Nick Prince
Event: 
Rank: 
Standard
Market Price: $146.43
Cards
Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.69
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Rattlechains
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.95
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Flash
Flying
When Rattlechains enters the battlefield, target Spirit gains hexproof until end of turn.
You may cast Spirit spells as though they had flash.
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Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $13.16
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/199387_200w.jpg
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Hallowed Fountain
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $7.92
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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Glacial Fortress
Color Identity:U,W
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Glacial Fortress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.
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Aether Gust
Color Identity:U
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Choose target spell or permanent that's red or green. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
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Baffling End
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When Baffling End enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls with converted mana cost 3 or less.
When Baffling End leaves the battlefield, target opponent creates a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.
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Tale's End
Color Identity:U
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Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.
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Empyrean Eagle
Color Identity:U,W
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Flying
Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
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Island
Color Identity:U
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({T}: Add {U}.)
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Fabled Passage
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{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
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Spectral Sailor
Color Identity:U
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Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
{3}{U}: Draw a card.
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Lofty Denial
Color Identity:U
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. If you control a creature with flying, counter that spell unless its controller pays {4} instead.
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Watcher of the Spheres
Color Identity:U,W
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Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever another creature with flying enters the battlefield under your control, Watcher of the Spheres gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Favorable Winds
Color Identity:U
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Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
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Mystical Dispute
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.29
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This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
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Siren Stormtamer
Color Identity:U
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Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Siren Stormtamer: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.
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Shacklegeist
Color Identity:U
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Flying
Shacklegeist can block only creatures with flying.
Tap two untapped Spirits you control: Tap target creature you don't control.
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Hushbringer
Color Identity:W
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Flying, lifelink
Creatures entering the battlefield or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.
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I encountered a deck like this playing a Field of the Dead strategy and quickly lost to the combination of fliers and just a small amount of disruption. Where other people are trying Mono-Blue with Curious Obsession, my sense is that it's better to have the option to pressure Goblins and Temur Reclamation first, then counter just a key spell or two rather than trying to control the first eight spells they play.



Surprisingly effective is Watcher of the Spheres. The cost reduction effect to other flying creatures means that a turn-two Watcher of the Spheres is often followed up by a turn three where the deck plays four or five mana worth of spells while the Watcher of the Spheres itself adds up damage fast.



For example, consider the following curve:












Turn 1: Spectral Sailor

Turn 2: Watcher of the Spheres (Attack opponent to 19)

Turn 3: Empyrean Eagle, Shacklegeist (Attack opponent to 12, threaten to attack for 10 next turn)



One shock land means that this curve is suddenly turn-four lethal. Even if they aren't actually dead (though a Favorable Winds or second Empyrean Eagle would kill them), it may well represent lethal against many opponents, and no Magmaquake is going to be able to save a Temur Reclamation opponent. They either need to get an Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath or a big Shark off Shark Typhoon to block for them. For that reason, both Brazen Borrower and Tale's End seem effective for best-of-one, to counter both the Shark trigger and a card like Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath or Muxus, Goblin Grandee.



As a final note, don't forget that Siren Stormtamer counters Expansion // Explosion.



This is the sort of strategy that I could see being effective on day two as well, though I haven't had time to figure out a complete sideboard. 



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Burn by Nick Prince
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Skewer the Critics
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.45
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Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Skewer the Critics deals 3 damage to any target.
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Ghitu Lavarunner
Color Identity:R
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As long as there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, Ghitu Lavarunner gets +1/+0 and has haste.
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Experimental Frenzy
Color Identity:R
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You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
You can't play lands or cast spells from your hand.
{3}{R}: Destroy Experimental Frenzy.
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Mountain
Color Identity:R
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({T}: Add {R}.)
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Lightning Strike
Color Identity:R
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Lightning Strike deals 3 damage to any target.
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Shock
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Shock deals 2 damage to any target.
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Wizard's Lightning
Color Identity:R
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This spell costs {2} less to cast if you control a Wizard.
Wizard's Lightning deals 3 damage to any target.
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Light Up the Stage
Color Identity:R
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Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
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Runaway Steam-Kin
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Whenever you cast a red spell, if Runaway Steam-Kin has fewer than three +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on Runaway Steam-Kin.
Remove three +1/+1 counters from Runaway Steam-Kin: Add {R}{R}{R}.
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Castle Embereth
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Castle Embereth enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
{1}{R}{R}, {T}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
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Fanatical Firebrand
Color Identity:R
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Haste
{T}, Sacrifice Fanatical Firebrand: It deals 1 damage to any target.
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Viashino Pyromancer
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When Viashino Pyromancer enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.
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Finally: Burn. And no, I don't mean Mono-Red Aggro. I don't want Anax, Hardened in the Forge, I don't want Embercleave, I don't want Torbran, Thane of Red Fell. The version of Mono-Red that (kinda) works in Standard shouldn't be anywhere near Historic. Wilderness Reclamation is too consistent, Goblins is too fast, and the slower decks are likely all playing Aether Gust. Magmaquake is miserable to try and build a wide enough board against, and the Satyr tokens off an Anax, Hardened in the Forge are too slow to be meaningful. 



Historic Burn wants to sidestep everything on the ground and get the opponent dead as quickly as possible. While Goblins has the capability to be a bit faster, Burn is going to consistently kill the opponent on turn four. 






Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath represents a significant hurdle to how effective the deck can be, but in best-of-one the idea of catching people by surprise sounds very enticing. Other than Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, there isn't any lifegain out there to compete with. People have 18 to 20 life for the most part, and there's no post-board or open decklist games to inform an opponent that they're going to be playing against 12+ points of non-combat damage each game.



Finally, if aggro isn't your thing, I have a version of my pet deck that I've spent way too much time on: Sultai Field.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Bo1 Sultai Golos by Nick Prince
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Blast Zone
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Blast Zone enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it.
{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on Blast Zone.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Blast Zone: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Blast Zone.
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Thriving Grove
Color Identity:G
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Thriving Grove enters the battlefield tapped.
As Thriving Grove enters the battlefield, choose a color other than green.
{T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.
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Breeding Pool
Color Identity:G,U
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({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Forest
Color Identity:G
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({T}: Add {G}.)
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Overgrown Tomb
Color Identity:B,G
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({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
As Overgrown Tomb enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Hinterland Harbor
Color Identity:G,U
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Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
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Elvish Rejuvenator
Color Identity:G
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When Elvish Rejuvenator enters the battlefield, look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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Indatha Triome
Color Identity:B,G,W
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({T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.)
Indatha Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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Swamp
Color Identity:B
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({T}: Add {B}.)
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Drowned Catacomb
Color Identity:B,U
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Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
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Explore
Color Identity:G
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You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.
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Hydroid Krasis
Color Identity:G,U
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When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time.
Flying, trample
Hydroid Krasis enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
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Languish
Color Identity:B
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All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.
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Field of Ruin
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.
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Field of the Dead
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Field of the Dead enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
Whenever Field of the Dead or another land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
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Cultivate
Color Identity:G
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Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
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Watery Grave
Color Identity:B,U
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({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
Color Identity:G,U
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When Uro enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Uro enters the battlefield or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
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Shark Typhoon
Color Identity:U
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.
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Woodland Cemetery
Color Identity:B,G
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Woodland Cemetery enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
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Massacre Wurm
Color Identity:B
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When Massacre Wurm enters the battlefield, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.
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Island
Color Identity:U
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({T}: Add {U}.)
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Fabled Passage
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{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
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Zagoth Triome
Color Identity:B,G,U
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({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.)
Zagoth Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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Plains
Color Identity:W
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
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When Golos, Tireless Pilgrim enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
{2}{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn without paying their mana costs.
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Mountain
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({T}: Add {R}.)
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Growth Spiral
Color Identity:G,U
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Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
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Disdainful Stroke
Color Identity:U
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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
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What I like about this version of Sultai is how well positioned against Goblins, other Field decks and most of the aggro decks this version is.






Massacre Wurm is an absolute all-star against other Field of the Dead decks, better than any other top end available in the Field of the Dead mirror. Against Bant Golos, I would estimate the matchup is as close to unloseable as you can get, because when both players actually play the game, Massacre Wurm reads, "You Win the Game." Against Goblins it wraths their board and makes Skirk Prospector incredibly awkward as they Shock themselves on every sacrifice, then it attacks and blocks well.






Even against control decks, Field of the Dead represents inevitability. Assuming three of the four Field of the Dead aren't hiding at the bottom of the deck or something, each land drop will eventually run them out of wrath effects and win the game. In best-of-one, the number of dead cards isn't ideal as Languish and Massacre Wurm aren't doing almost anything. On the other hand, Hydroid Krasis and Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath play very well against countermagic.



Where this deck is weakest is against Reclamation. What isn't clear is how much Reclamation will actually be played. It feels that the metagame I've played against on the best-of-one ladder is particularly hostile to Reclamation, and I only played against it in maybe 10% of my games. On the other hand, Goblins and various white aggressive decks were still incredibly prevalent, easily as much as half the games I played. Whether or not this is true by this weekend is hard to predict, as there isn't much data or information on the format available. On the other hand, many influential players are talking about Reclamation/Field as the deck to beat, the only deck to play, and it's mostly already owned by players because it's been a major player in Standard for months. 



There's a good chance I play this, but only because I can't pass up opportunities to play Field of the Dead when I'm given the chance.



If you choose to play in the event this weekend, good luck, play tight, and most of all have fun. Historic is still developing, and I'm sure we haven't reached the final version of the format.