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Best Midrange decks in Standard

A balanced mix of efficient threats and answers for the mid-game.

Midrange decks play the most powerful individually-strong cards and adapt: they go bigger than aggro and faster than control, winning the attrition battle with value creatures.

The skill is role assessment — knowing when to be the beatdown and when to play defense based on the matchup.

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

Staple cards

  • Solemn Simulacrum
  • Roaming Throne
  • Reclamation Sage
  • Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • Guttersnipe
  • Burnished Hart
  • Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • Enduring Vitality
  • Terror of the Peaks
  • Mentor of the Meek
  • Scrawling Crawler
  • Icetill Explorer
  • Springbloom Druid
  • Valley Floodcaller
  • Enduring Innocence
  • Mossborn Hydra
  • Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • Delney, Streetwise Lookout