After we finished with our Limited pool, I still had a solid half-hour to game a few games in Arena, so I brought out the deck I’ve been using to grind my dailies, courtesy of Saffron Olive from MTG Goldfish. He was able to craft a reasonably strong mono-red burn deck that used only common and uncommon cards available in the current standard. This means that I can run it while saving my valuable rare and mythic wildcards for decks I would want to try out in the current metagame.
And because it’s a mono-red deck, it’s very easy to quickly jam a ton of games with it on the Arena ladder.
It’s good to know that no matter how many times Standard rotates, what cards are in the format, or what the most popular decks tend to be, there will always be mono red, and it will always be one of the most accessible decks in the format (which is why they changed the face of Magic from Jace to Chandra).
And honestly, when grinding out dailies in Arena, a deck like this is probably one of the better ones a player can run. It is far easier to accumulate the number of wins one needs to cap their weekly experience when they can play 5 or so games in the span of 20-25 minutes. Just through the sheer volume of matches alone, they will accumulate wins rapidly.
It also helps that the deck is fast enough that many opponents will be caught completely off guard by its rapid-fire pace. It’s impressive how quickly life totals melt in the face of attack after attack. And if you can pull off the dream of a Turn 1 Kumano Faces Kakkazan into a Turn 2 Phoenix Chick, you’re already most of the way to an easy win.
If you’re looking to get back into Arena like I was, I can wholeheartedly recommend building this to start.
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