Will it Climb? A Look at GB Fighting in Standard

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Will it Climb? A Look at GB Fighting in Standard

Publish Date: March 14, 2023

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One of the many appeals of Magic: The Gathering Arena is the concept of climbing the ranked ladder. Players love to see their rank increase, but sometimes the grind can be an absolute slog. To climb, players often times have to play hundreds of games to reach their goal. Whether it be to hit Mythic or just to reach Gold, people want to get their in a reasonable amount of time.

That’s where our new series comes in. Welcome to “Will it Climb?” – a new weekly article aimed at helping players find a deck that will climb through the MTGA ranked ladder. These decks will often times be in the scope of best-of-one matches, so there won’t typically be a sideboard mentioned here.

The inaugural deck list will be an off-meta list that has been around for a bit, just not in Standard. Green-Black Fighting is a list that has made some noise in Explorer as it possesses pretty explosive turn 4 plays. In this list, we are going to try and see if we can recreate that success in Standard with GB Fighting.

4x Archfiend of the Dross

2x Anoint with Affliction

2x Vraska, Betrayal’s Sting

4x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

The goal of this list is to cheat out expensive cards with a combination of