Archetypes

+1/+1 Counters

Distribute permanent stat buffs across your army. · 2,822 cards

Aggro

Overwhelm the board with aggressive, low-cost threats. · 654 cards

Aristocrats

Sacrifice resources to generate powerful death triggers. · 2,452 cards

Artifacts

An artifacts deck is built around artifacts: cards like Sol Ring that stay on the table and keep working, and that give you extra mana and extra cards by working together. A handful of keywords turn up on artifacts again and again. Equip means you pay a cost to attach an Equipment such as Swiftfoot Boots to one of your creatures. If that creature dies, the Equipment does not go to your Graveyard with it. It stays on the battlefield, and you can pay the cost again to attach it to another creature. Crew means you tap your own creatures with enough total Power between them to turn a Vehicle such as Smuggler's Copter into a creature until the end of the turn. A Treasure is a token you can sacrifice (put into your Graveyard on purpose) for one mana of any colour. A token is a game piece that a card makes, not a card from your deck, and Pitiless Plunderer is one card that makes Treasures. Affinity makes a spell like Frogmite cheaper for each artifact you control. Unearth brings a card like Combat Courier back from your Graveyard for one turn, and then it is exiled. Modular creatures like Arcbound Ravager enter with +1/+1 counters and pass them to another artifact creature when they die. · 505 cards

Aura/Enchantress

Stack magical auras to build value engines. · 1,099 cards

Big Mana

Produce massive mana pools for game-ending X-spells. · 1,417 cards

Blink/Flicker

Exile and return permanents to loop effects. · 782 cards

Bounce

Return permanents to hands to reset tempo and replay effects. · 681 cards

Burn

Force inevitable direct damage to the entire table. · 1,516 cards

Cascade/Free Cast

Cast free spells directly from the top of your library. · 418 cards

Chaos

Induce heavy variance to shatter structured strategies. · 450 cards

Clones

Copy the best threats on the board to scale dynamically. · 767 cards

Combo

Assemble specific card pairings that end the game on the spot. · 55 cards

Control

Dictate game pace by neutralizing threats. · 1,458 cards

Dungeon/Initiative

Venture into dungeons for incremental value. · 66 cards

Energy

Use a persistent secondary resource loop. · 142 cards

Enrage

Damage your own creatures to trigger powerful payoffs. · 93 cards

Equipment

Forge powerful weaponry to suit up your creatures. · 705 cards

Extra Combats

Force multiple combat phases in a single turn. · 45 cards

Extra Turns

Chain time spells to restrict opponents from interacting. · 53 cards

Graveyard/Self-Mill

Utilize the graveyard as an accessible secondary hand. · 1,969 cards

Group Hug

Symmetrically accelerate resources to manipulate politics. · 86 cards

Group Slug

Punish everyone at once with symmetric pain effects. · 1,120 cards

Hatebears

Deploy small creatures that tax and restrict opponents. · 78 cards

Infect/Toxic

Pursue alternative lethality via poison counters. · 167 cards

Landfall

Weaponize land drops to trigger abilities. · 756 cards

Legends Matter

Legendary and historic permanents as the engine: cast triggers, cost breaks and payoffs for going all-in on legends. · 77 cards

Lifegain

Convert incidental lifegain into cards, tokens, and wins. · 2,250 cards

Madness/Discard

Turn discarding cards into a resource rather than a loss. · 1,455 cards

Midrange

Pivot flexibly between aggression and control as the table demands. · 370 cards

Mill

Empty opposing libraries as a win condition. · 278 cards

Morph

Deploy face-down creatures and profit from the reveal. · 301 cards

Pillowfort

Construct defensive tax layers preventing combat aggression. · 532 cards

Pingers

Chip damage one point at a time with repeatable triggers. · 698 cards

Politics

Force opponents to attack each other. · 489 cards

Reanimator

Cheat massive threats out of the graveyard. · 1,229 cards

Sacrifice

Feed permanents to sacrifice outlets for incremental value. · 944 cards

Spellslinger

Chain non-permanent instants and sorceries. · 673 cards

Stax

Deny resources to lock down mana and actions. · 1,691 cards

Superfriends

Deploy an army of Planeswalkers for abilities. · 108 cards

Theft

Appropriate opponents' permanents and strategies. · 375 cards

Tokens

Overwhelm the board with an army of tokens. · 3,723 cards

Toolbox

Tutor density plus singleton silver bullets: find the exact answer for the table instead of drawing it. Built around unrestricted and broad tutors. · 203 cards

Treasures

Rely on artifact tokens to fuel compounding engines. · 348 cards

Typal/Kindred

Reward filling your deck with one creature type. · 1,172 cards

Vehicles

Crew artifact vehicles into evasive, resilient attackers. · 247 cards

Voltron

Stack enhancements onto a single champion. · 1,270 cards

Wheels

Refill every hand repeatedly and profit from the churn. · 70 cards