Deck primers
Premodern deck primers.
Source-backed guides to Premodern archetypes: the reference 75, core decisions, matchup posture, and sideboard plans in one place.
- Combo / graveyardhFEB: two combo engines, one graveyardHermit Full English Breakfast, built around Survival of the Fittest, Hermit Druid, and Volrath's Shapeshifter.
- Combo-control / mono-blueStiflenought: make the 12/12 countMono-blue Stiflenought, built around Phyrexian Dreadnought, Stifle, Vision Charm, and free permission.
- Combo-control / blue-whiteReplenish primer: rebuild the battlefieldA source-backed guide to post–Parallax Tide blue-white Replenish, built around Attunement, Opalescence, Parallax Wave, and Decree of Silence.
- Engine / green-whiteEnchantress primer: build an engine, then make combat irrelevantA source-backed guide to green-white Enchantress built around Argothian Enchantress, Enchantress's Presence, Serra's Sanctum, and a layered defensive enchantment package.
- Aggro / redRakdos Sligh primer: assign every point of damage a jobA source-backed guide to the red-centric Sligh configuration currently labeled Rakdos Sligh by a metagame tracker, built around one-mana pressure, burn, and Sulfuric Vortex.
- Tribal aggro / red-greenGruul Goblins primer: make the first connection countA source-backed guide to green-red Goblins built around Goblin Lackey, Matron, Warchief, Ringleader, and land denial.
- Control / blue-whiteLandstill primer: turn one spell into a three-card problemA source-backed guide to Azorius Landstill built around Standstill, manlands, permission, sweepers, and Decree of Justice.
- Midrange / mono-blackMono-Black Midrange primer: strip the hand, own the boardA source-backed guide to mono-black midrange built around discard, Dark Ritual, resilient creatures, and utility lands.
- Midrange / land denialNaya Terrageddon primer: leave a threat after the lands are goneA source-backed guide to Naya Terrageddon built around Mox Diamond, Weathered Wayfarer, Terravore, Armageddon, and utility lands.
- Prison / land denialOath Ponza primer: tax the spell, destroy the land, find the threatA source-backed guide to Oath Ponza built around Oath of Druids, Sphere of Resistance, land destruction, manlands, and Terravore.
- Storm combo / blue-blackIggy Pop primer: build a turn, not a pile of spellsA source-backed guide to blue-black Iggy Pop Storm built around mana artifacts, rituals, Intuition, Ill-Gotten Gains, and Brain Freeze.
- Control / blue-blackPsychatog primer: defend the graveyard, then make one attack countA source-backed guide to blue-black Psychatog control built around efficient selection, permission, discard, graveyard resources, and one large combat finish.
- Creature engine / greenElves primer: turn creatures into mana, cards, and the right toolA source-backed guide to a green Survival Elves toolbox built around Priest of Titania, Quirion Ranger, Wirewood Symbiote, Gaea's Cradle, and Survival of the Fittest.
- Prison / mono-blueStasis primer: one untapped land must do all the workA source-backed guide to a mono-blue Stasis configuration built around Forsaken City, Gush, free permission, and Black Vise.