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Best Combo decks in Standard

Assemble specific cards for an instant win or overwhelming advantage.

Combo decks build toward a two- or three-card interaction that wins the game on the spot or generates an insurmountable advantage, often ignoring the board entirely.

They reward precise knowledge of your own deck and the ability to protect the combo through disruption.

Magic's flagship rotating format, where only the newest sets shape an ever-evolving metagame.

Staple cards

  • Bloom Tender
  • Inspiring Call
  • Guttersnipe
  • Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • Banner of Kinship
  • Valley Floodcaller
  • Coruscation Mage
  • Elvish Archdruid
  • Fumigate
  • Archmage of Runes
  • Ethereal Armor
  • Firebrand Archer
  • Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • Evendo, Waking Haven
  • Forensic Gadgeteer
  • Brass's Bounty
  • Thousand-Year Storm
  • Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift