Upgrade Guide for All 15 Arena Starter Decks (2026)

Last updated on January 27, 2026

Start Your Engines | Illustration by Darek Zabrocki

Starter decks are excellent if you’re new to MTG, or if you don’t have a big collection. MTG Arena provides players with dozens of starter decks, one for each of the five colors, as well as options for 2-color pairs.

Today I go through each of these decks and show you how you can switch some cards to build a stronger and more cohesive deck. Keep in mind that this will require you to have the corresponding card in your MTGA collection or to have wildcards available to craft them, so there may be some extra work involved.

Overview of Decks

Private Eye | Illustration by Vincent Christiaens

• Aerial Domination : As the name implies, this deck is all about flying creatures gaining the upper hand in the air while flash offers extra trickery.
• Arcane Aerialists : This is your typical fliers deck, with plenty of cheap fliers and incentives like Empyrean Eagle.
• Cat Attack : Cat Attack is a mix of a cat typal deck and a +1/+1 counter deck. Either way, you want to attack with several buffed creatures.
• Cold-Blooded Killers : Black removal is king, so here you have more than a few ways to get rid of your opponent’s creatures.
• Goblins Everywhere! : The name of the game is goblins with this red deck, and you should swarm the board with small aggressive creatures and their synergies.
• Graveyard Gifts : A midrange deck with self-mill effects as well as cards with the threshold mechanic and reanimation.
• Keep the Peace : A typical white weenie deck that cares about creatures on the battlefield, with a little lifegain subtheme.
• Large and in Charge : Green specializes in producing lots of mana (known as “ramping” and mana dorks in Magic slang) and having the biggest battlecruiser on the battlefield.
• Learn from the Land : This ramp deck is based on landfall. Play lands and cast big creatures for the win.
• Might of the Legion : This is a go-wide deck with Boros. The token makers and finishers like Heroic Reinforcements and Goblin Surprise are aggressive and effective.
• Morbid Machinations : This deck revolves around the morbid mechanic, so you have incentives to cast spells after a creature dies.
• Path of Power : It’s all about power here. Creatures with power 4 or greater rule the battlefield, and you have incentives to for controlling large creatures.
• Reckless Raid : The name of the game is the raid mechanic, so it’s a deck that wants to be on offense to trigger it as much as possible.
• Vampiric Hunger : This deck is all about lifegain payoffs, with cards like Ajani's Pridemate that get bigger and cards like Phyrexian Arena that allow you to spend life and draw more cards.
• Wondrous Wizardry : This is a spellslinger deck. It thrives on casting cheap instants and sorceries while leading the attack with cards like Balmor, Battlemage Captain.

A Note on Mana Fixing in Dual-Colored Decks

There’s a huge difference between a mono-colored deck and a dual-colored deck, and that’s the need for mana fixing. Let's say you play your green and white deck and you draw a mix of white cards in hand and only get green mana, you're stuck not playing. To improve the mana consistency of a dual-colored deck, it’s imperative to play two-colored lands.

For example, in green-white you can play the likes of Temple Garden, Selesnya Guildgate, or Kyoshi Village to give you either of two colors with one land.

Ideally, you’ll play 24 lands: 14-16 dual lands of the chosen colors, and the rest basic lands, so when you read about how to improve the dual-colored decks, remember that switching some of your basics for dual lands is almost always a good idea.

With that out of the way, let’s take a look at the Arena starter decks with suggestions for improving them for Standard. In case you need to craft some of these cards with wildcards, I note a card's rarity like this:

• Mythic = M
• Rare = R
• Uncommon = U
• Common = C

#15. Keep The Peace

Angelic Guardian | Illustration by Sara Winters

This mono-white deck leans on white’s love of small creatures and lifegain to make an aggressive build that buffers its life total to keep it ahead against other aggressive decks. The most important aspect of piloting this deck effectively is focusing on how well the hand you keep curves out or plays spells each turn.

Strengths and Weaknesses

This deck can go in one of two routes: One is when you add many lifegain payoffs and have a lifegain deck, and the other possibility is to have a go-wide deck. With a few alterations, we’re adding go-wide payoffs in On the Job and The Wandering Rescuer, and strengthening the lifegain with Brightblade Stoat and Angel of Vitality.

What to Change

Out:

• 4 Charmed Stray
• 4 Tactical Advantage
• 1 Confront the Assault
• 1 Bond of Discipline
• 1 Goring Ceratops
• 1 Spiritual Guardian
• 1 Angelic Guardian
• 1 Moorland Inquisitor
• 1 Angelic Reward

In:

• 2 Sheltered by Ghosts U
• 4 Novice Inspector C
• 2 Brightblade Stoat U
• 2 Angel of Vitality U
• 2 Resolute Reinforcements U
• 2 On the Job C
• 1 The Wandering Rescuer M

Total wildcards needed: 1 Mythic Rare, 0 Rare, 8 Uncommon, 6 Common.

#14. Aerial Domination

Windreader Sphinx | Illustration by Min Yum

Aggressive decks utilizing a bunch of cheap fliers are often quite powerful since flying lets you ignore opposing blockers. Mono-blue decks lean on tempo strategies that focus on gaining a temporary advantage, often by bouncing opposing creatures since blue doesn’t remove permanents as well as other colors. A big part of playing this deck well involves knowing when to use your bounce spells to answer a threat and when to hold them.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The basic idea of the deck is to block on the ground while attacking in the air with flying creatures, and getting benefits from playing said fliers like Winged Words and Warden of Evos Isle.

To improve this deck while keeping the same idea, we’re going to up the card quality, taking out bad cards like Glint and Sworn Guardian, as well as expensive but ineffective cards like Overflowing Insight and Frilled Sea Serpent. Let’s also lower the mana curve with cards like Spyglass Siren and Shore Up, and improve our removal and counterspell suite with Sugar Coat and Phantom Interference.

What to Change

Out:

• 1 Overflowing Insight
• 2 Glint
• 2 Winged Words
• 3 Waterknot
• 2 Wall of Runes
• 2 Sworn Guardian
• 2 Octoprophet
• 1 Frilled Sea Serpent

In:

• 3 Spyglass Siren C
• 2 Shore Up C
• 2 Plumecreed Escort U
• 3 Sugar Coat U
• 2 Phantom Interference C
• 3 Clinquant Skymage U

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythic Rare, 0 Rare, 8 Uncommons, 7 Commons.

#13. Goblins Everywhere!

Goblin Gathering | Illustration by Svetlin Velinov

Mono-red is all about going fast, and red mages have utilized goblins as a means to that end for almost as long as we’ve played Magic. Rather like the white deck, piloting this goblins list is a matter of sequencing and understanding which cards to cast first to deal the most damage.

Strengths and Weaknesses

This deck needs goblins and goblins synergies. It already makes a lot of goblins but the only payoff is Goblin Trashmaster. We can lower this deck’s curve by cutting the expensive spells and adding more aggressive cards and finishers. Dropkick Bomber is one of our best goblin payoffs that’s legal in Standard. Gnawing Crescendo can be a finisher, while Lightning Strike is a flexible burn spell.

What to Change

Out:

• 2 Inescapable Blaze
• 2 Raid Bombardment
• 2 Storm Strike
• 2 Siege Dragon
• 1 Volcanic Dragon
• 1 Immortal Phoenix
• 2 Molten Ravager
• 4 Nest Robber

In:

• 4 Dropkick Bomber R
• 2 Krenko, Mob Boss R
• 3 Reckless Lackey C
• 3 Lightning Strike C
• 2 Volley Veteran U
• 2 Gnawing Crescendo C

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythic Rare, 6 Rare, 2 Uncommon, 8 Common.

#12. Cold-Blooded Killers

Skeleton Archer | Illustration by Randy Vargas

Black excels at creature interaction, and this deck goes all-in on that with a bunch of removal alongside cheap creatures that win the game once you’ve killed everything your opponents have cast. Despite this abundant interaction, a key feature of this deck is knowing which threats deserve the Murder and which can simply be fought in combat with your creatures.

Strengths and Weaknesses

This deck has a mix of vampires and creatures that get better when your opponents lose life, or when you kill their creatures. To strengthen this deck, it’s interesting to up the vampire count and the benefits of running vampires, like Queen's Bay Paladin. Infernal Grasp is one of the best black removal spells, so we’ll go with that. Sinister Monolith works with the drain life theme and gets us some cards too. 

What to Change:

Out:

• 2 Sanitarium Skeleton
• 2 Typhoid Rats
• 1 Malakir Cullblade
• 1 Compound Fracture
• 1 Bad Deal
• 3 Unlikely Aid
• 2 Sengir Vampire
• 1 Eternal Thirst
• 2 Skeleton Archer

In:

• 2 Sinister Monolith U
• 4 Vampire Nighthawk U
• 3 Infernal Grasp U
• 2 Patchwork Banner U
• 2 Preacher of the Schism R
• 2 Queen's Bay Paladin R

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythic Rare, 4 Rare, 11 Uncommon, 0 Common.

#11. Large and In Charge

Epic Proportions | Illustration by Jesper Ejsing

Mono-green is always about going bigger than your opponents between mana acceleration that allows you to play more expensive spells and creatures that are naturally the largest in the game. This overwhelming strength often leads to powerful, explosive draws. Ways to power out your big creatures are important.

Strengths and Weaknesses

This is a green stompy deck through and through, with ways to generate mana and big creatures to crush the opposition. The changes proposed here are to improve the card quality, taking out a Forest since this deck doesn’t need 25 lands, and bad cards like Wildwood Patrol to add strong uncommons and rares that make this game plan much more consistent. Opening with Woodland Mystic and Raucous Audience presents a strong curve, and cards like Pelakka Wurm or Gnarlback Rhino can win the game if you get them down ahead of schedule.

What to Change

Out:

• 3 Jungle Delver
• 2 Stony Strength
• 1 Epic Proportions
• 2 Rampaging Brontodon
• 1 World Shaper
• 1 Prized Unicorn
• 2 Sentinel Spider
• 2 Wildwood Patrol
• 1 Forest

In:

• 4 Summon: Fenrir U
• 2 Raucous Audience C
• 2 Snakeskin Veil C
• 2 Ornery Tumblewagg R
• 1 Pelakka Wurm U
• 2 Gnarlback Rhino U
• 2 Hivespine Wolverine U

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythic Rare, 2 Rare, 9 Uncommon, 4 Common.

#10. Graveyard Gifts

Dreadwing Scavenger | Illustration by Xavier Ribeiro

Graveyard Gifts is a Dimir deck that wants to self-mill and use its graveyard as a resource. Mechanics like threshold help us here, with cards like Kiora, the Rising Tide and Dreadwing Scavenger, and we have ways to mill ourselves. This deck has plenty of bad cards, so replacing them should be top priority and help this deck be a little more effective.

Strengths and Weaknesses

This deck has some good cards and intentions, but it feels like a good Limited deck with too many different strategies, weak removal spells like Bake into a Pie, and mid creatures like Crow of Dark Tidings and Gleaming Barrier. We also have a problem with Zombify and Rise of the Dark Realms, as this deck lacks interesting reanimation, and a 9-mana sorcery doesn’t make the cut these days. To improve the deck, we’ll cut the chaff and add more powerful self-mill payoffs like Cruel Somnophage and Huskburster Swarm.

What to Change

Out:

• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms M
• 2 Bake into a Pie C
• 2 Stab C
• 2 Crow of Dark Tidings C
• 2 Gleaming Barrier C
• 3 Zombify U

In:

• 2 Kiora, the Rising Tide R
• 4 Cruel Somnophage R
• 2 Shoot the Sheriff U
• 2 Huskburster Swarm U
• 2 Overlord of the Balemurk M

Total wildcards needed: 2 Mythic rare, 6 Rares, 4 Uncommons, 0 Commons

#9. Morbid Machinations

Wardens of the Cycle | Illustration by Caroline Gariba

Morbid Machinations is a green-black deck built around sacrificing creatures and the morbid mechanic. Your typical black sacrifice deck if you will. You’ll have powerful cards like Desecration Demon that make them lose creatures, and you have your own sacrifice engines and outlets, which can benefit cards like Midnight Reaper.

Strengths and Weaknesses

I see where this deck wants to go, but it’s a bit confusing. It’s a synergy deck that usually folds to drawing the wrong cards at the wrong time. To improve it, I want to add more brute force. Cards like Liliana, Dreadhorde General, Desecration Demon, and Spinner of Souls improve the card quality overall, as well as Goldvein Hydra, a card that’s pretty good in every moment and that you can sacrifice for profit. We’re also improving the removal with Go for the Throat. To make room, cards like Gnarlid Colony and Wary Thespian have to go.

What to Change

Out:

• 2 Cackling Prowler
• 2 Eager Trufflesnout
• 2 Needletooth Pack
• 2 Eaten Alive
• 2 Wary Thespian
• 2 Tragic Banshee

In:

• 1 Desecration Demon R
• 1 Midnight Reaper R
• 1 Spinner of Souls R
• 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General M
• 2 Fell U
• 3 Goldvein Hydra M
• 3 Vengeful Bloodwitch U

Total wildcards needed: 4 Mythic Rare, 3 Rare, 5 Uncommon, 0 Common.

#8. Reckless Raid

Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate | Illustration by Ekaterina Burnak

This deck focuses on the raid mechanic, as shown by cards like Perforating Artist. You also want to attack with hasty creatures or beatdown cards like Vampire Interloper. We have a curve of interesting aggressive creatures, but this deck flounders with its mix aggro and aristocrats, and cards are more mana-intensive than they're worth.

Strengths and Weaknesses

This deck’s strength is a good curve of aggro creatures, and we have plenty of good raid payoffs. To improve the deck, we’re adding more cheap interaction, so we can keep attacking, thus improving the deck’s raid aspects. A card like Burst Lightning does double duty, killing blockers and sometimes our opponent, so we want to max out on that. Cards like Infestation Sage and Fake Your Own Death are better in decks that capitalize on the sacrifice aspect, so we’re taking them out.

• 2 Battlesong Berserker U
• 2 Strongbox Raider U
• 2 Fake Your Own Death C
• 2 Hero's Downfall U
• 2 Vampire Gourmand U
• 3 Infestation Sage C

In:

• 2 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate R
• 2 Fanatical Firebrand C
• 3 Untimely Malfunction U
• 2 Withering Torment U
• 2 Burst Lightning C
• 2 Searslicer Goblin R

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythic Rares, 4 Rares, 5 Uncommons, 4 Commons.

#7. Arcane Aerialists

Giada, Font of Hope | Illustration by Eric Deschamps

Flying-matters deck is one of the most straightforward ways you can build an Azorius deck. Arcane Aerialists has a mixed theme of flying-matters and angel-matters, but in the end, these are all flying creatures. Here, you want to cast as many fliers as possible and keep poking at your opponents until they’re gone.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The best part about this deck is that almost all creatures fly and contribute to the same game plan. The proposed changes aim to improve the flying-matters theme with cards like Air Nomad Legacy and Empyrean Eagle, while adding powerful angels and good disruption like Plumecreed Escort. Unfortunately for cards like Aegis Turtle and Serra Angel, they're from an era long ago, so we can say goodbye.

What to Change

Out:

• 2 Stasis Snare U
• 2 Serra Angel U
• 2 Fog Bank U
• 2 Dazzling Angel C
• 2 Aegis Turtle C
• 2 Faebloom Trick U
• 1 Youthful Valkyrie U

In:

• 2 Healer's Hawk C
• 2 Giada, Font of Hope R
• 1 Empyrean Eagle  U
• 3 Plumecreed Escort U
• 1 Resplendent Angel M
• 2 Air Nomad Legacy  U
• 2 Witness Protection U

Total wildcards needed: 1 Mythic Rare, 2 Rares, 8 Uncommons, 2 Commons.

#6. Might of the Legion

Resolute Reinforcements | Illustration by Billy Christian

Boros is usually the best color pair for a go-wide deck, so you need to cast as many 1- and 2-mana creatures as you can before finishing the game with Heroic Reinforcements. Cards like Resolute Reinforcements are key in a deck like this, supplying two bodies with just one card.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The deck’s already very focused on attacking, so let’s improve the card quality a bit. Convoking a card like Knight-Errant of Eos is excellent when you have many small creatures, and you also get card advantage this way. I want good 2-drops and cheap removal like Burst Lightning while upping the Heroic Reinforcements count. Krenko, Mob Boss is a good card, but this deck lacks goblins. I’m not as high on cards like Axgard Cavalry or Dauntless Veteran that require synergies to work, so these are coming out.

What to Change

Out:

• 2 Dauntless Veteran U
• 2 Axgard Cavalry C
• 1 Krenko, Mob Boss R
• 2 Goblin Surprise U
• 1 Crusader of Odric U
• 2 Serra Angel U
• 2 Release the Dogs U
• 2 Goldvein Pick C

In:

• 2 Warden of the Inner Sky R
• 2 Resolute Reinforcements U
• 1 Valorous Stance U
• 2 Burst Lightning C
• 1 Heroic Reinforcements U
• 2 Fanatical Firebrand C
• 2 Arabella, Abandoned Doll U
• 1 Sun Warriors U
• 1 Aurelia, the Law Above R

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythics, 3 Rares, 7 Uncommons, 4 Commons.

#5. Cat Attack

Regal Caracal | Illustration by Filip Burburan

Cat Attack is a very focused cat-typal deck that starts the curve earlier with Savannah Lions and Leonin Vanguard, ending the curve on Regal Caracal. There’s a small +1/+1 counters theme mixed with lifegain in some cards. We already have good rares that push the deck in this typal/go-wide direction, so let’s expand this route.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The deck is already in a good direction, as most of its cards are already cats or cards that buff creatures, like Anthem of Champions. We’ll want more Arahbo, the First Fang and Regal Caracal for sure, as well as cheaper cats. We're adding some strict upgrades, and dropping Good-Fortune Unicorn; it has its value, but it’s sadly not a cat.

What to Change

Out:

• 2 Felling Blow U
• 3 Good-Fortune Unicorn U
• 2 Dawnwing Marshal U
• 2 Helpful Hunter C
• 1 Felidar Savior C
• 2 Wary Thespian C

In:

• 1 Undergrowth Leopard C
• 2 Prideful Parent C
• 2 Hard-Hitting Question U
• 2 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar U
• 2 Arahbo, the First Fang R
• 2 Regal Caracal R
• 1 Felidar Retreat R

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythic Rares, 5 Rares, 4 Uncommons, 3 Commons.

#4. Path of Power

Halana and Alena, Partners | Illustration by Jason Rainville

Path of Power is, simply put, brute power in the form of huge creatures. You want to have 4-power creatures on the battlefield as soon as possible, and having Llanowar Elves on turn 1 into a 4-power 3-drop helps immensely.

Strengths and Weaknesses

This deck is already very solid with good ramp pieces like Llanowar Elves and Ruby, Daring Tracker, as well as good top-end cards like Halana and Alena, Partners. To improve this deck, let’s take out cards that make more sense in Limited like Axgard Cavalry and Giant Cindermaw and add better rares and better ways to take advantage of 4-power creatures, like Nessian Hornbeetle and Cactusfolk Sureshot.

What to Change

Out:

• 2 Courageous Goblin
• 1 Bulk Up
• 2 Felling Blow
• 2 Axgard Cavalry
• 2 Giant Cindermaw
• 2 Skyraker Giant
• 2 Mild-Mannered Librarian
• 2 Eager Trufflesnout

In:

• 1 Halana and Alena, Partners R
• 1 Ashroot Animist R
• 2 Ruby, Daring Tracker U
• 1 Nessian Hornbeetle U
• 1 Garruk's Uprising U
• 1 Llanowar Elves C
• 3 Tiger-Dillo U
• 3 Outcaster Trailblazer R
• 2 Cactusfolk Sureshot U

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythic Rare, 5 Rare, 9 Uncommon, 1 Common. 

#3. Wondrous Wizardry

Archmage of Runes | Illustration by Kai Carpenter

Wondrous Wizardry is an Izzet spells-matter deck that has a bunch of wizards for no reason other than to make Arcane Epiphany cost less. It’s divided between casting cheap spells and having a late game with Niv-Mizzet, Visionary and Ovika, Enigma Goliath. Fixing this is easier than you think: Just cut the expensive cards.

Strengths and Weaknesses

This deck just need a little more streamlining. It doesn’t need fancy, expensive cards, although they are good in a vacuum. It needs more creatures that work well with spells so you get damage in early with Guttersnipe and have a card like Giant Koi as an option to finish the late game, where it attacks unblocked because of waterbending. I also want to max out on cards like Tolarian Terror and Mischievous Mystic. 

What to Change

Out:

• 2 Enigma Drake U
• 2 Heartfire Immolator U
• 1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath R
• 2 Arcane Epiphany U
• 1 Fiery Annihilation U

In:

• 1 Chart a Course U
• 1 Tolarian Terror C
• 1 Giant Koi C
• 2 Guttersnipe U
• 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain U
• 2 Mischievous Mystic U

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythic Rares, 0 Rares, 6 Uncommons, 2 Commons.

#2. Vampiric Hunger

Vampire Nighthawk | Illustration by Jason Chan

Lifegain matters decks are usually simple to build, and they have a place in competitive environments, often thriving against aggro and burn decks. This is what we have here: a typical Ajani's Pridemate deck.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Ajani's Pridemate is a card that grows whenever you gain life. You have ways to consistently gain life every turn like Healer's Hawk, as well as cards like Phyrexian Arena that convert excess life into card draw. I want to max out on this engine by adding more Essence Channelers and Amalia Benavides Aguirre, both are very good lifegain matters cards that see play in multiple Magic formats. Cards like Moment of Triumph and Tribute to Hunger aren’t how this deck wants to gain life, so I’m replacing them for better removal and lifegain payoffs.

What to Change

Out:

• 1 Plains
• 2 Moment of Triumph
• 2 Cat Collector
• 2 Twinblade Paladin
• 2 Sanguine Syphoner
• 2 Vampire Nighthawk
• 2 Dazzling Angel
• 2 Tribute to Hunger

In:

• 1 Phyrexian Arena R
• 1 Healer's Hawk C
• 1 Inspiring Overseer C
• 2 Momentum Breaker U
• 2 Case of the Uneaten Feast R
• 3 Essence Channeler R
• 3 Leonin Vanguard U
• 2 Amalia Benavides Aguirre R

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythic Rare, 8 Rare, 5 Uncommon, 2 Common.

#1. Learn from the Land

Primeval Bounty | Illustration by Christine Choi

Ramp decks like Learn from the Land thrive on generating mana and casting big spells. You already have a few ways to take advantage of that like Loot, Exuberant Explorer, so let’s make this deck more consistent by improving the ramp and payoffs.

Strengths and Weaknesses

This deck only needs streamlining. It has a landfall theme that’s hard to use without cards like Cultivate or fetch lands. One more Llanowar Elves to complete the full four, less Druid of the Cowl. I also add a great early game card in Summon: Fenrir and Insidious Fungus as helpful interaction, as well as expensive cards like Bonny Pall, Clearcutter, and strong early game rares like Spinner of Souls.

What to Change

Out:

• 1 Felling Blow U
• 2 Apothecary Stomper C
• 1 Rampaging Baloths R
• 2 Elfsworn Giant C
• 4 Druid of the Cowl C
• 2 Mild-Mannered Librarian U
• 2 Magnigoth Sentry C

In:

• 1 Prime Speaker Zegana R
• 3 Mossborn Hydra R
• 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer R
• 1 Llanowar Elves C
• 2 Bonny Pall, Clearcutter R
• 2 Insidious Fungus U
• 2 Summon: Fenrir U
• 2 Spinner of Souls R

Total wildcards needed: 0 Mythic Rares, 9 Rares, 4 Uncommons, 1 Common.

How to Change the Format of Your Starter Deck on Arena

Here are six quick steps to change the format of a deck in Arena, including those preconstructed starter decks, just itching to get upgraded.

#1. Go to the Decks section

#2. Expand the Starter Decks Section

#3. Clone a Starter Deck

#4. Back to My Decks and Edit the Clone

#5. Go to Deck Details

#6. Select Your Format

Scroll to the Arena format you want your deck to be, hit the back arrow, and all the cards that do not fit the format are marked in red. You'll have to change them for cards that are legal in the format you've selected, or else Arena will show you an “Invalid Deck” error.

Don't forget to check your sideboard too!

Wrap Up

Bonny Pall, Clearcutter | Illustration by Bryan Sola

And here we have it folks, all the Arena starter decks with upgrade suggestions, ranging from mono-colored decks to all the 2-color pairs.

I suggest you take them out for a spin, especially if you’re new to the game, to learn what each deck is trying to do and then add better cards as you acquire them or craft them. You can play the unmodified version of any of the dual-color decks in the Starter Deck Duel event, where you'll find a more level playing field than if you take these to the Ranked queue.

If you have a good rare or mythic that would fit the deck and improve it, then by all means add it. Always remember that every 2-color deck can be improved by adding more dual lands of their colors instead of the basic lands.

What’s your take on these starter decks? Have you upgraded one and stuck with it? Let me know in the comments section, or over on our Draftsim Discord. Stay safe, and keep brewing new decks guys!