3 Decks to Try Out on Historic Horizons Release Weekend

Jumpstart: Historic Horizons released earlier this week and players finally have a chance to brew decks with exciting new cards. As the Jumpstart packet lists were released, some Magic players knew exactly what type of deck they wanted to craft from the get-go. For others, it can be overwhelming sometimes to try and craft a new deck, especially in format like Historic that has a massive card pool. Here are just a few deck lists players can craft up and run in Historic ranked ladders for the Historic Horizons release weekend.

Historic Affinity

One of the biggest bad guys in Modern is slowly creeping into Historic. Affinity is a deck with a long and storied history of being one of the most dominant decks against metas that is unprepared for it. Whenever people forget about Affinty, that’s when it comes out of the woodwork and roll through the opposition. Historic doesn’t have access to Cranial Plating and Arcbound Ravager, but there are still plenty of solid threats left to utilize in an evolving Historic environment.

Thought Monitor is one of the big adds for Affinity, as the deck can struggle after unloading their hand onto the battlefield. Not only do players get a 2/2 flier, but they refuel their hand with action as well. On the other hand, Nettlecyst tries to do its best Cranial Playing impression to serve as the powerful game-ending threat. Lastly, Steel Overseer is the glue that keeps all of this deck together. Continually pumping up all the creatures on the friendly side of the board is a must-answer threat that will win games on its own.

GW Enchantress

One of the oldest decks in Magic is back and ready to make it’s Historic debut. Enchantress as a deck has been around for quite some time in one way or another. Thanks to a few of the Historic Anthology releases, enchantment-themed decks were slowly getting tools to find a place in the competitive ladder. However, the deck was always missing just that card to really push it over the edge. With the release of Jumpstart: Historic Horizons, Enchantress received the last few key pieces for the deck to become not only viable, but incredibly powerful.

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The biggest two additions to the deck were Sythis, Harvet’s Hand and Sanctum weaver. These two two-drops add much-needed consistency to the previous iterations to the deck. Sanctum Weaver provides massive amounts of mana to allow for quick game-ending turns. Sythis allows players to have access to a draw engine on turn two instead of waiting an additional turn to slam down Enchantress’s Presence. Acenstral Mask and Angelic Gift are the main win conditions in the deck, but Destiny Spinner can create massive trampling lands that can close out a game fast as well.

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