Dimir Control, Red Deck Wins, Grixis Control, Blue Mill, Boros Legion, and many more are some of the meta decks that have come and gone, with some still being used (just with different cards) that rank on the leader boards for MTG Arena. But what about decks that can help you complete daily rewards quickly?
As a whole, the best decks in Magic The Gathering Arena are mono-colored decks. 71% of quests required players to cast spells of a particular color to earn rewards. Decks that consist of only creatures, lands, or removal spells can assist in completing daily quests at a faster rate.
Completing the daily quests to get the rewards on MTG arena can sometimes be a little difficult to achieve, especially when some quests ask you to cast 30 or 40 of a particular card.
Let’s dive into the seemingly simple decks that would allow you to complete these quests quickly.
MTG Arena best decks overview
MTG Arena can have almost as many decks as paper magic the gathering.
You can play many different formats such as Standard, Historic, Brawl, Constructed, and Limited. Not to mention that Standard rotates, so a deck that is good now may not be available when the new sets come in.
Hence, to cover all the best decks for all these formats would be fruitless. So what I did is focus on the best decks that can get your daily rewards quickly so you can move swiftly through the Set mastery and Battle pass if you have purchased it.
These decks will focus on getting you your experience, gold, and rewards.
Magic The Gathering Arena quests and daily rewards
Let’s quickly take a look at what the daily quests and rewards are, so we can understand why I recommend some of the decks below.
Depending on the quest, you will consistently achieve 500 experience points, and then 500 or 750 gold on completion, with there being 28 daily quests in total and you being able to complete no more than 3 per day.
For the most part, the daily quests ask you to cast various color spells, which can be any combination of the colors of MTG:
- Red
- White
- Black
- Blue
- Green
It can also ask you to play mana (lands), kill your opponent’s creatures, cast creature spells, and attack with creatures.
Due to the nature of these daily quests, we have come up with decks that correspond to helping you rack up these goals fast.
Best MTG Arena Decks
Mono Colored Magic The Gathering Arena Decks
20 out of the 28 daily quests ask you to cast spells particular to a specific color.
This means that having a mono deck at your disposal will help you cast these spells quickly.
For example, a daily quest will ask you to “cast 30 white or blue spells” or to “cast 20 red or green spells“.
This can be done if you have a multi-colored deck that is the same color as the prerequisite for the quest. However, MTG arena does not combine the two, so you will either have to cast the total amount of spells for the one color or the total amount for the other. This means you may take a while to fulfill the challenge.
Mono color decks, on the other hand, can get this done quickly. If a daily quest asks you to “cast 20 green or blue spells,” then there is nothing stopping you from pulling out a mono-blue or mono-green deck accomplishing this in one game.
Creature Magic The Gathering Arena Decks
One of the daily quests asks you to “attack with 45 creatures” or “cast 40 creatures,” and this is a lot of creatures if you know anything about MTG.
You might see four or five creatures in a standard game depending on the decks being used for the current meta, and some decks don’t even have creatures. This means you should consider having a creature deck just for daily quests. Furthermore, you may want to consider a mono-color creature deck.
If you get a daily quest asking you to attack with 45 creatures and cast specific color spells, you can get a “two for one” if you have a mono-colored creature deck. You may have to build a creature deck for all the colors, but you should have enough cards to do so if you have been playing a while.
Remember that a typical deck will consist of 60 cards, with approximately 24 being lands and then the rest spells. If you have the remaining number of spell cards being all creatures and one specific color, every card you play will be a creature card while simultaneously being one specific color.
The last thing to consider is that if you are just in it for the daily rewards, then winning is not a priority, so nothing is stopping you from putting a lot of cheap creatures into your deck to get them out fast, or cards that make you go searching for creature cards.
Spell Magic The Gathering Arena Decks (removal decks)
Another daily quest asks you to kill 15 or 25 of your opponent’s creatures, and this one can be pretty tough.
Killing creatures isn’t always easy if you attack with your creatures because your opponent might not block, or his creatures might have high toughness.
Hence, for daily quests of this sort, your best bet is to have a removal deck with cards that can target creatures and remove them from the game.
A typical scenario would be to have a mono-red burn deck with spells like shock, lightning bolt, chain lightning, pyroclasm, and the likes. Obviously, these might change and be different depending on the current cards in Standard, but you get the point.
By having such removal spells, you will quickly be able to get rid of your opponent’s creatures without you having to attack and hoping that your opponent will block.
Just make sure that you have removal spells that a large enough to deal with bigger creatures.
Mana Magic The Gathering Arena Decks
You may be asked to complete a daily quest that asks you to put out a certain amount of land (mana).
This will either be 25 lands or 40. This deck may be a bit tricky to build because you can’t just make a deck with mana. You should try and opt to build a mono-green mana deck for this daily because typically, it is the best at fetching and placing mana on the board.
Green in MTG is synonymous with having cards that fetch and can place lands on the board with cards like Cultivate, Courser of Kruphix, Summer Bloom, and more. These cards can be creature cards, instants, and even sorceries. Green has them all.
You must remember that an MTG game will typically have between 6 and 10 turns, and you might not be able to play mana on them all, so having abilities and spells that help you search and place mana on the board can quickly help you complete the daily quest.
Conclusion
Although we did not go over the meta decks for the current state of MTG arena because it is ever-changing due to sets getting rotated in and out, we decided to give sets that will be applicable to MTG arena always because you can use them for the daily quests, helping you get your rewards, exp, and gold so you can move through the set and mastery passes.
Due to the specific requests of the dailys’, we opted to give you decks that coincide with you completing them relatively quickly. This meant you should look at building mono-colored decks first off because 71% of the daily quests ask you to cast a specific color spell.
Then it would help if you opted to create decks such as creature decks, spell removal decks, and mana decks that allow you to place land on the board quickly.
The last thing to consider is that even these decks should be mono-colored if possible because you do get up to three daily quests at once, and by doing this, you could “kill two birds with one stone,” as they like to say.