Historic BO1 deck guides and writeups
All decklists containing writeups or guides from users and content creators
Infinite Mana / Draw / Damage
Historic BO1
18 Apr by godae
CONCEPT Once you get the 3 combo pieces to stick and your opponent does not have an instant speed answer to any of the cards then you win the game 100%. Either they concede from how long you're taking or you dig until you find Terror of the Peaks (while gaining mana the entire time) and do infinite ...
Azorius Warriors aka Hammertime
Historic BO1
17 Apr by FailureGuaranteedShdorsh
Good evening folks, Shdorsh here again. Today I decided to do a guild that I usually dread to play: Azorius. The only thing about this Azorius is that it doesn't follow the typical Azorius gameplay at all. No really. No annoying control, no annoying living card-by-card, 10 minutes of 500 IQ big...
Gruul Head's You're Dead
Historic BO1
16 Apr by FailureGuaranteedShdorsh
Gruul "Heads, you're dead!" Good evening folks, Shdorsh here again with an exceedingly janky deck. This time, I went extra far outside my comfort zone. So in order to deny the following accusations: All of Shdorsh's decks are ultra-cheap Shdorsh hates big creatures with a passion What flavor of dea...
Command the Angel Horde (Mythic ladder )
Historic BO1
09 Apr by MoenPDC
This is a fun deck that plays very well against mono red burn, goblins, white wheenie/life gain or anything that trys to flood you with monsters. Essentially hold them off with your smaller creatures/Oath then clear the board and drop a teferi or some fat angels. Nothing feels better then clearing E...
Banefire Shaper
Historic BO1
31 Mar by FailureGuaranteedShdorsh
Hey folks, Shdorsh here again. Do you want to play some hot trash? Do you lament the playability of my Thassa's Oracle deck? Well buckle up, buckaroo, because this one here is going to be extremely trashy. What's the winning condition this time? World Shaper Banefire Mystic Sanctuary Time...
Ephemerate Stormcaller
Historic BO1
28 Mar by Rinwada
Esper Stormcaller and Ephemerate deck. Think arcanist without arcanist. The plan is simple. Rip apart their hand with 8 thoughtseizes, reload with our card advantage party of (pretty much every other card), repeat. Stormcaller can duplicate any instant/sorcery in the deck, getting you double f...
Historic Conjuring storm
Historic BO1
24 Mar by blblbl
The main win-con of the deck are stormwing entity, invade the city and experimental overload most of the time you want to play shockland tapped T1, fortell dual strike T2 then try to play somewhat control until T5 when you cast dual strike + Collected conjuring Sorceries + Instants Collected C...
Army of Justice
Historic BO1
18 Mar by PopcornBunni
Let's break the game client with Angels! The game plan is simple, get out lots of copies of Anointed Procession and lots more with Mythos of Illuna which exponentially copy each other, have a Divine Visitation out, and then use any of our token makers to make 2^12 angels. So how do we get there? We ...
Counting Death
Historic BO1
16 Mar by FailureGuaranteedShdorsh
Hey folks, it's me, Shdorsh and I am back... with a new deck! Today I thought: Let's continue with our delving into the ways of deathtouch abuse... then I ended up making a deck that does anything with counters. Let's check this deck out: The main idea A Rakdos deck with a strong creature base (19),...
Procession of Processions
Historic BO1
22 Feb by Zapp
This is a submission for Day[9]'s "What the Deck" Here is some praise I have actually* recieved! "Copying Anointed Procession gets exponentially better as you do it more, as long as your copies are tokens!" - Me"Flying horsies!" - Some Young Kid"What is this garbage?" - Random Deck Reviewer &n...
"L"
Historic BO1
18 Feb by Namolas
1, lands) I put the lands that I had. You can use any two-color untapped lands (preferably 4-5 multi-colored forests). You can use tapped lands at your own risk: Indatha Triome, temples (scry-lands).2, mulligan) In an open hand, it is desirable to have tempo cards (like Explore, Kethis, the Hidden H...
The Bad Touch
Historic BO1
18 Feb by FailureGuaranteedShdorsh
Good evening folks, Shdorsh here again with a cheap-ish deck for you to enjoy! Not having a lot of cards and want to play a decent deck so you can acquire cards and finish your dailies faster? Good! According to me (not a pro), this deck is insane, given the right circumstances! Only 32 commons, 15 ...
Thassa the Insufferable
Historic BO1
14 Feb by FailureGuaranteedShdorsh
Hey mate, just started playing MTGA? Problem getting the cards rolling, but still want to win with whatever you can grasp? No worries, mate, just grab yourself 5 rares, 3 uncommon and a whole load of commons and play the stupidest deck ever: The main idea You mulligan until you reach Treasure Hunt a...
I'm Gonna Storm (500 Years)
Historic BO1
11 Feb by Zapp
🎵 But I would take five-hundred years, and I would take five-hundred more, just to be the storm that went a thousand years on end for the Rosethorn 🎵 This deck is centered around Thousand Year Storm. It's a submission for Day[9]'s "What the Deck" There is an infinite mana + infinite spellcast...
Crusade of the Clones
Historic BO1
08 Feb by RobinHood3000
Let the Mirror Mage show you the power of creature duplication! This deck centers around a potent 3-card combo: Cathars' Crusade, Mystic Reflection, and creatures that generate multiple tokens when they enter the battlefield. AbsurdHeroine used this idea to great effect with a white devotion Reveren...
Popkarn
Historic BO1
07 Feb by Patty
Just starting to tune this list for Bo1. I haven't played with the old Karn in a while and Chandra/Anointed Procession has been fun recently so why not! Our defensive tools are Deafning Clarion and Doomskar, which can come up in numbers if needed. Filtering is in the form of Pirate's Pillage and Thr...
Pop Quiz (Sphinx Tribal)
Historic BO1
06 Feb by Patty
My pet deck that I continue to try and make work :D This deck has evolved with each new set release, the past 2 versions win rate was roughly 52% with both versions having 120-150games played. This one is looking on the same trend at 40games played so far. Lets face it, its a meme deck that you want...
Nexus of Birbs
Historic BO1
04 Feb by RobinHood3000
If you can't get Nexus of Fate in the store, homegrown is fine -- now with birbs! This deck aims to play Double Vision, duplicate it with Mythos of Illuna, use those and Primal Amulet to copy Alrund's Epiphany for bird tokens and extra turns, and target Epiphany with Unsubstantiate/Narset's Reversal...
Grixis Aggro
Historic BO1
04 Feb by Patty
Okay last edit to the list. We are currently 31-12 for the ladder, with a very fun match against a gruul player in the top 300 earlier. I'm unsure about the serpents and enchantment destruction in the sideboard as at least 2 thoghtseize might be correct, its hard to thoughtseize though with so many ...
Reaping Griffins
Historic BO1
02 Feb by FailureGuaranteedShdorsh
Good evening, folks, Shdorsh here. Tonight, I show something that's been a work in progress for a long time, not necessarily good though: A combo deck that was in the making, then changed due to Kaldheim coming out, then done but sucked and had at least 3 do-overs just to be kinda okay-ish. I h...