Howdy! Welcome to Daily Arena. I’m Joe, and today I’ll be briefly talking about the more competitive deck I’ve been playing recently. I’ll start with the deck list, and some gameplay videos, followed by some thoughts about my experience with the deck.

Leading up to the release of M19, I was mostly playing R/B Aggro variants, but around the time of the release, I started getting tromped by a resurgence of U/B Midrange. U/B Midrange was the first competitive deck I played on Arena, and I decided to give it another go, with decent results.

Here is the deck list:



U/B Midrange

And here are some game play videos:

vs. Mono-Blue Mill



vs. W/B Knights



vs. Mono-Black Energy



vs. R/B Aggro



The videos above are all from Competitive Play games. Here is a video showing some Competitive Constructed games using this deck:

Competitive Constructed



This deck felt exactly like I thought it would when playing against it from the R/B Aggro PoV. The deck played well against most match-ups I saw in Game 1, and there was a straightforward sideboard plan for almost all of the matches…more removal and creatures of my own against aggressive creature decks, more counterspells and aggression against control decks. Since this is more of a midrange build than I control one, Approach of the Second Sun was a win condition that I wasn’t equipped to beat consistently. I had some answers for it, but not the density required to always (or even often) have one when I needed it.

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Peace.

Joseph Eddy is a Father, Husband, Son, Brother, Software Developer, and Gamer. Magic is his favorite hobby, and he’s looking forward to seeing you all on Arena. He streams Magic Arena on a weekly basis (or more), but currently is unable to keep to a set schedule.