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.

When M19 first released, I switched away from R/B Aggro to U/B Midrange, and had a lot of success. Recently I switched back to a R/B Midrange build for the Competitive Constructed queues, and thought I’d share that build here.

Here is the deck list:



R/B Midrange

And here are some game play videos:

vs. W/B Knights



vs. Grixis Control



vs. Mono-Green Stompy



vs. Bant Turbofog



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

Competitive Constructed



Complete with losses due to bad mulligans and gameplay mistakes!

This build of the deck is a bit less aggressive than versions I’ve played earlier….swapping out some copies of lower-CMC creatures for a few more removal spells and a few more cards at the top of the curve. I still haven’t decided whether I want Karn in this deck, even if only in the sideboard. I’m thinking not, and actually thinking I might cut Heart of Kiran down to two copies and bring some Rekindling Phoenix back into the main deck. Also, given the current state of the MTGA metagame, I think that some more anti-Turbofog sideboard cards might be in order. I’m thinking especially a couple copies of Insult // Injury in the sideboard to help push damage through to try to take them out before thy get to infinite turns.

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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.