Decks

Boros Burn's persistence in Modern is one of the format's quieter achievements. The archetype has survived a decade of card-pool expansion and metagame shifts by doing exactly one thing well: reducing a 20-life game to roughly seven turns. This Top 8 list from a late-April Magic Online Challenge shows the deck with its current parts. Eidolon of the Great Revel does the unfair lifework against control. Skewer the Critics earns its slot when the curve cooperates, which it usually does. Boros Charm closes out the game faster than it has any right to.

Atraxa, Praetors' Voice has been the most-played Commander since 2016. The reason isn't her body, though four power and trample is no joke for four mana. The reason is the second-to-last line of her text box. Every turn, proliferate: every loyalty counter ticks up, every poison counter ticks toward lethal, every +1/+1 widens the gap between her board and the table's. The build below leans into the long game, with heavy interaction, every premium tutor, and a manabase that prizes color stability over speed. The goal is not to win on turn five. It is to make turn ten look unsurvivable.