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When you’re new to MTG Arena, it’s intimidating to create your own deck. There are dozens of factors that make the best MTG decks work, including removal spells, mana ramping, and card synergy. As a beginner, sometimes it’s better to play a pre-constructed deck and learn why it works, rather than shuffle 60 cards and hope it somehow succeeds. Fortunately, MTG Arena offers several starter decks that are both simple and surprisingly powerful. Here are the best pre-built decks in MTG Arena.
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Grave Matters (green/black)
Grave Matters is an excellent deck that primarily uses the mill mechanic. Grind puts the top card of your library into the graveyard, increasing the power of several creatures in this deck. Grave Matters thrives on buffing the Old Stickfingers card, which gains power equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard. Even so, you should be careful about over-milling your library. If you must draw at the beginning of your upkeep, but you have no cards in your library to draw, you lose the game.
- x3 undead butler
- Lone Taxidermist x1
- x1 Old Rutstein
- x2 eaten alive
- Doomed Maverick x2
- x1 creeping
- Hell’s Grasp x2
- x2 Shadowhowler
- x3 Grave Lighter
- x1 Bloodsworn Squire
- x2 Deathcap Sprout
- x2 Dropped Stinger
- x1 old stick fingers
- x1 Crophage Caller Harvest
- x1 Shigeki, Visionary Jukai
- x1 consuming drop
- x1 Tenacious Loser
- x1 Glade of the Deathcap
- x4 Jungle Hollow
- Forest x8
- Swamp x8
- x2 Morbid Opportunist
- x1 Creeping Infestation
- Urborg Recovery x1
- x2 tears to pieces
- Haunted Quagmire x4
- x2 Cult Recruit
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On the hunt (green/red)
On the Hunt is a relatively simple deck that focuses on creating wolves and improving their stats. This deck incorporates day/night mechanics that turn human werewolves into their werewolf forms. While On the Hunt allows you to pressure your opponent early in the game, it also gets progressively more powerful over time. With cards like Halana and Alena, Partners, and Packsong Pup, you can put +1/+1 counters on your creatures, turning them into a force of nature as the game progresses.
- x4 Craggy Highlands
- x1 Bladefang Highwayman
- Lunar Frenzy x2
- x3 Moonrager’s Slash
- x1 Reckless Stormseeker
- x2 Liberator of Outland
- x3 Snarling Wolf
- x1 Arlinn, Hope of the Pack
- x3 Kessig Naturalist
- x1 Tofly, Dire Overlord
- Unnatural Moonrise x2
- x1 Rockslide Valley
- x3 Hungry Ridgewolf
- x1 Howling Moon
- x1 Howling Backpack Piper
- Singing Cub x2
- x3 Flower Weaver
- Wolf Strike x2
- x3 Son of the Pack
- x1 Halana and Alena, Partners
- Runner’s Ring x2
- x9 mountain
- forest x9
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Keep the peace (monkey-white)
In the Keep the Peace deck, holding is the name of the game. This deck focuses on gaining life and triggering multiple effects at once. Cards like Charmed Stray grant life when they deal damage, which triggers the Hallowed Priest’s ability, giving it a +1/+1 counter each time you gain life. This deck is great for learning the game and allows you to stay afloat while getting familiar with the mechanics of the deck.
- Inspiring Commander x2
- x2 Warleader Leonin
- Holy Priest x4
- x25 plains
- Angelic Reward x1
- x3 pacifism
- x1 Face the Assault
- x4 Haunted Stray
- x3 passionate speaker
- x2 Inquisitor of the Wastes
- Fencing Ace x2
- x2 Angel of Vitality
- x1 Angel Serra
- x1 Spirit Guardian
- Tactical advantage x4
- x1 Bond of Discipline
- x1 gored ceratops
- x1 Angelic Guardian
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