This MTG Arena War of the Spark Chronicles event continues on to its third week this Friday, with the popular Singleton format. Find the best MTG Arena Singleton decks in its current rendition right here!

Event Information

Duration: June 7 2019 to June 14 2019

Format: Singleton

Cost: Free

Rewards: Gold and Card Styles for cumulative wins (up to 15) throughout the event duration

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What is Singleton?

Singleton, as the name suggests, is a casual format in MTG Arena where players build and play against a deck of at least 60 cards with no more than a single copy of one card (except Basic Lands).

[c]Persistent Petitioners[/c] and [c]Rat Colony[/c] override this rule also. Feel free to use as much of them in your deck.

As announced yesterday, the new London mulligan rule will be tested in this particular event to make sure everything is working correctly technically and players get to familiarize themselves with the new rule. More information can be found here.

Guide to Building Your Singleton Deck

MTG Arena Singleton decks by nature, will lack consistency of a competitive Standard deck as you cannot have four copies of one card. However, it will still be important to pick your general strategy when building your Singleton deck. Consider the following:

Firstly, review your card collection and see the number of playable cards you have in each color (as well as Lands).

Generally, a Singleton deck consists of your most powerful cards available in your chosen color – the more colors you want to play, the more Rares and Mythic Rares you will require to build a decent deck. The best decks therefore tend to be midrange to control consisting of higher mana cost spells. There may not be enough cards available yet to build a decent Mono Red Aggro deck, for example.

Think about how many Wildcards you have and willing to spend to make a good deck for this event. One to two colored decks will be the easiest to build, while three or more colors will be more for players with a more complete collection.

You can definitely build more synergistic or aggro decks which may be more fun to play. You may need to spend less Wildcards this way as the deck will consist of more commons and uncommons, but also the deck strength and consistency may suffer.

One approach to build your own competitive Singleton deck is using a top Standard deck as the building block for the structure of your deck. For example, an Esper Hero deck may have 11 creatures, 11 Planeswalkers, 4 hand disruption spells, 8 removal spells, and 26 lands. Now replace multiples of a card with something that has a similar function. A few examples for you:

This approach is not really possible for decks that are built around a card, such as Nexus of Fate and Wilderness Reclamation, so you can choose a different synergy. Gates is a good starting point.

Our Top MTG Arena Singleton Decklists

Get ready, this will be long! Personally I love Singleton more than Pauper, so I have more experience and success with this format under my belt. Here are seven (saving the best for the last) decks for you to get started with before the event begins, but the fun is also with building your own deck so make sure you try other color combinations throughout the week.

My favorite decks are the three color decks, which offer a more consistently powerful gameplay. Let’s start with single colored decks and branch out from there, as it highlights what cards in each color are worth using.

Singleton Mono Green Stompy

This deck is your typical Green deck, and it does a good job at pumping out large creatures. Your opponent will have a hard time keeping up. The deck is not one dimensional though, as it has some card draw engines to feed you with more creatures.

Singleton Mono White Weenies

The signature mono white deck, which is half way between aggro and midrange. It has some closers like Dawn of Hope if the game goes longer, and White has an abundance of enchantments that exile your opponent’s permanents. You can even use more if required, like [c]Baffling End[/c] and [c]Seal Away[/c].

Singleton Gruul Beatdown

Red Green decks are strong in the Standard meta right now, and I expect it will be the same in the Singleton format also. This deck has many creatures ahead of the curve.

Singleton Merfolk Ascendency

Incase you didn’t notice, I really like Green decks. This fun deck is a little different though, as it has the standard Merfolk tribe package, but tries to make up for its weakness with +1/+1 counter synergies – if you can win with [c]Simic Ascendency[/c] the victory is even sweeter.

Singleton Grixis Control

This is my favorite deck so far, packed with powerful cards made even better by War of the Spark. It can deal with most things quite well. If you can survive the early turns you are sure to win.

Singleton Sultai Midrange

Another personal favorite, this Sultai Singleton deck had the best win rate out of all of them and rewarded me with maximum wins in many events. I love this deck because it can accomodate numerous ways to bring back key cards from your graveyard back to your hand, like Command the Dreadhorde and Find // Finality.

5 Color Niv-Mizzet

This final deck really shows what Singleton can do – a mish-mash of good cards and Planeswalkers. This was already a popular deck but with the introduction of the new [c]Niv-Mizzet Reborn[/c] and more powerful Planeswalkers, you can build a five color deck in many different ways. This version is based on the recent Arena Boys deck, which has less Planeswalkers but more controlling spells.

Wrapping Up

Singleton is definitely the most enjoyable format for me, as I can play with a variety of powerful cards and the games are less predictable. There’s a reason why Commander and Highlander is so popular in paper Magic!

I would like to make a final note that we are working on our deck section of the website which is coming soon and we will have more of the Pauper and Singleton decks listed as well, complete with their guide. Keep your eyes peeled, and enjoy!