The Mythgard meta-game has a variety of decks that are competitive; I enlisted the help of a few champion level players on their insight on the meta and with play testing to form a proper diagram of how decks are positioned at the moment.
Tier 1:
RO Midrange
RO Midrange is a powerful and well rounded deck that can adapt to most situations. The deck aims to gain control of the board early with Shadavar Beast and efficient plays, then uses that tempo to get chip damage in eventually finishing off the game with rush minions and Ignitions. In most matchups you want to try your best to position yourself as the aggressor so your opponent is forced to block or trade into your minions, and you are free to use your rushers on their face. Due to RO’s incredible flexibility it ends up having a favorable matchup versus most decks, but it can sometimes struggle against the fastest aggro decks or closing the game through Wonder Drug.
Traditionally RO ran Stairway to Hades and To Heaven and Back along with Panic Raider for a late game value engine, but with the nerf to Panic Raider that plan became a lot more risky. The list featured here opts for a Green splash instead to gain access to Fated Firebird and Pseudonomicon, along with wake the bones for some added utility. – NKL
Aztec Control
Aztec Control or better known as YO control is value deck that controls the board with mythic bombs and artifacts. The Trinity of this deck is the Misanthropia, Armageddon Angel, and Wonder Drug; the former are the two most efficient board clears in Mythgard and Drug is the best life gain card in the game. Having those in your back pocket allows you to regain tempo after playing your artifacts. This deck wins the battle of attrition by opting to use Mend; Impel isn’t needed as much in this control variant as big sturdy minions are able to lock down lanes and stay on board easily. Supporting stall tools like Meso Libre, Zolea, and Scourge of Serpents will also help getting you to the late game to play your threats.
Even with all the tools to slow the game down Aztec Control can still be tempoed down by decks. Still, the deck is positioned well in that the longer the game goes the more likely it is to win, and it goes long most of the time. – Oneiric
YG Control
No, YG didn’t die with the multiple nerfs thrown at it, but it did have to adapt. YG can’t just rely on its one turn kill to win the game any more, now it is forced to actually interact with the board. The YG of today plays more like a traditional Yellow control deck that just happens to play Boneyard Abomination + Volition x2. You stall out the game with Yellow’s anti-aggro tools, then proceed drop bombs until one of them sticks, potentially allowing you to Volition it for massive burst. The buffed Scourge of Serpents helps a ton for this and every Yellow control deck to swing the board against aggro, sometimes winning the game by itself.
YG Control performs well against most aggro decks, all but the greediest midrange decks, and with the Abom combo in your back pocket it should be favored against other control decks if you make it to the late game. – NKL
Tier 2:
RO Aggro
RO aggro is a sophisticated face deck, it abuses the journey path with a collection of thirteen rush minions. Even with getting a steady amount of card tempo from journey it stills uses powerful tools, like Peri, Shopworn Bull, and Insurance Broker to make sure you’re never out of gas. Magmataur in the mid game clears up blockers to continue allowing your minions to hit face, even then if you don’t draw a Magmataur, Conviction will help allowing that damage in. Eventually you’ll get to a point where Temptation or Red Carnival can finish the opponent.
The deck can have a hard time against cards like Shadhavar Beast and Master of Shadows clogging three lanes. Beimini Falls and Wonder Drug are looming threats as well with how much they heal your opponent through the course of a game. Overall the state of RO aggro is good if you are patient enough to learn the deck. – Oneiric
Additional Tech@ https://minmaxer.wixsite.com/mindfreak/post/deck-tech-ro-aggro
Peach Control
OP Control is a very grindy deck that runs an abundance of low cost cards, which can lead to a ton a decision points in any given turn. In a lot of ways it plays similarly to RO Midrange with its great board control, but unlike RO it lacks the rush damage to finish games quickly. However, what purple does offer is a much safer aggro matchup with Peach of Life and Sword Saint, along with some neat tools like Rogue Idolon, Master of Shadows, Reincarnation, and Terragon.
OP Control has a good matchup against most aggro and midrange decks, but can struggle against YO and YG. Before last patch RB Rush was a little too fast for OP to utilize peach, but with the nerfs to RB, along with the additions of Shadavar Beast and Master of Shadows, OP Control is a force to be reckoned with once again. – NKL
GP Necromantic
GP Necromantic is the most defensive and flexible of all the necro variants. It doesn’t have the high roll potential of some of the other necro decks, but makes up for it more utility with tools like Racer in Shadow and Sword Saint. Having that utility along with Necromantic makes GP Necromantic a nightmare for any aggressive deck, though every deck should be prepared for it in some capacity. If you don’t hit a necro curve the deck just plays like a midrange deck that aims to burn to 7 or 8 to start dropping bombs.
Though aggro decks are less prevalent now after the recent update, GP did get the new gift of Master of Shadows which can steal games against midrange by itself. GP Necromantic is favored against aggro, goes even against midrange, but can struggle closing the game against control decks if it lets the game go too late. – NKL
RG Control
RG Control is one of the weirder decks to play and pilot. It plays the best draw spells in the game in Ichor Feast and Raid the Tombs to have some of the better hand tempo in the game for a Turn of Seasons deck. It’s optimized with having cheap cards, like Strigoi Pup and Ignition to play in combination with those cards. The deck plays for board heavily with defensive spells and rush minions early, so you can get into the late game to gas them out with big Dreni/Green minions. There is also the Ringmaster Seven Ring Ritual combo looming if you can burn up to it to end games against YG and YO control decks. RG has a problem with Necromantic decks with only a few options against it as well as Master of Shadows and opposing Seven Ring Rituals. It’s important to continually fight for board and pressure the opponent so those cards don’t blow you out. – Oneiric
Angel Loop
An enchantment based control deck, Angel Loop looks to fill the board with useful enchantments to push into the late game and then cycle their creatures using Root of the World for advantage. The early game of Angel Loop provides the more varied aspects but due to the Beimeni Falls it has become a strong late game contender after it stabilizes versus aggro or midrange decks. It can go about even with the RO Aggros and Midranges as well as even with YO. It still struggles versus extremely fast decks or anything that provides a lot of overrun as the snakes do most of the blocking and against YG control, as their ability to burst from hand and apply pressure seems to be a bit more elevated than loop. It may see less play on ladder due to the 3 color combination and the ease of misplays, it’s a deck that takes practice to pilot consistently. – Ejecty
Additional Tech@ https://minmaxer.wixsite.com/mindfreak/post/deck-tech-angel-loop
RG Necromantic
RG Necromantic is the most unique variant of Necro yet. Using the solid shell of the necro package with Strigoi/Red’s pressure tools RG Necro comes out with a tempo abomination. The clear tempo combo is Hopeless Necromantic on 3 into Wings of Abbadon on 4, sac the Necro and attack face or trade with a minion with Immortal Wings. It helps that Necro defaults to Smite already so pressure is abundant from the start with their power. The deck still plays fattys at the end of the game like other Necro decks. Even with strong tempo options, RG Necro struggles with any deck that plays boneyard hate like any other necro. Still, RG Necro should beat abundantly greedy decks and has a good matchup against Aztec/YO. – Oneiric
Rainbow Rush
Ahhh the big bad of the previous metagame. Even with the nerfs to the deck I still like it’s position in the metagame. The decks gameplay is relatively simple hit face and put rush minions onto enchantments for stronger minions/more damage. New tools like Magmataur are needed to replace slots Fire Eater left behind and a spicy option in Mani, Queen of Tides. The deck still has a bad matchup against GP Necro, but still decks that use minions as blockers should be abused by Demolition Speedway. – Oneiric
Tier 3:
YR Control
Yellow Red control takes the traditional Yellow control package and augments it with powerful Red removal, rush minions, and draw power. Ollama ring is the core for this deck by improving minion trades, especially with Trapezist and Meso Libre, while also buffing the big finishers such as Seven Ring Ritual and Chimera. Magmataur, Misanthropia, and Gigantomachia are some of the most powerful board wipes in the game and help reset tempo and open the way for your buffed attackers. Most control decks need time to really ramp up before applying pressure to the opponent, but a good hand with YR can start really building tempo by turn 4 thanks to ollama ring. Most aggressive decks are easily dealt with due to the life gain and board wipes, while trapezists and ringmaster allow the deck to rush down and finish other control decks. Overall the deck provides a ton of mid game pressure with one of the strongest combo finishers using 7RR + Ringmaster + Ollama rings, but falls short in terms of very late game value compared to other control decks. – largenuggets
Frenzy Aggro
Frenzy aggro is fast pressure deck that abuses twinfire into enchantments to take off huge points of damage early and often. Serendipity Ifreet and Raziel can provide free draws with rainbow passive, while also just being big minions to pressure. Frenzy Aggro can be vulnerable to board clears and cheap removal like Ignition or Trapezist so you must put twinfires into Cairnhenge if you read your opponent may have those cards early. Mostly Frenzy is a good deck that has clear weakness and clear strengths. Crazy openers and Freki Sidecar lethals are a norm for this deck you just gotta find them. – Oneiric
Rainbow Valkyries
Valks have been steady in the metagame for a long time. This version opts to use Rainbow’s End and Impel to move around our big overstated minions. Mono-Blue dips us into Bridgeway troll so we can have even more free move actions to abuse our best enchantments on board. Valks are still pretty vulnerable to stabilization from Misanthropia and Armageddon Angel which are prominent in the best decks right now. The deck falls short to the other aggro decks in that must use to Freki Sidecar to pressure after board clears, but the archetype is solid enough in the early game that the downside isn’t too bad. – Oneiric
GB Necromantic
Necro decks utilize the Disk of Circadia discard effect and the Hopeless Necromantic demise effect to cheat out big creatures much earlier than usual. Blue is a pretty common choice for necro decks, featuring many oversized fatties and some powerful tempo cards such as Magnus and Bragi. Blackened Jotun and Volcanic Risi are both uncommon cards with very powerful bodies and effects. Freki Sidecar gives those fatties rush, even if they are summoned from necro, enabling explosive, high-tempo plays. Junkyard Valhalla is a controversial card because it is very slow, but having a backup necro is very powerful and it can be devastating for the opponent when played at the right time. BG Necro has the advantage of being pretty cheap to build and easier to pilot than most other necro decks. Unfortunately, Blue is less powerful right now than usual for a few reasons including not having an answer for Master of Shadows. Not having enough hard removal and poor aoe above 2 damage really hurts their ability to compete with top decks. Furthermore, experienced players often build their decks with necro in mind, and have strategies to minimize or fully counter the necro effect. Overall BG necro is an easy to build and learn necro deck which makes up for lack of tools with raw power and heavy tempo tools. – largenuggets
Wildcard:
These aren’t decks we missed out on the tier list or decks that are necessarily competitive. Just fun/conceptual decks that we like.
Blood Root
Mono Yellow Ramp
BG Ramp
Big Deck Control
Recap
- Tier 1 – RO Midrange, Aztec Control, YG Control
- Tier 2 – RO Aggro, Peach Control, GP Necromantic, RG Control, Angel Loop, RG Necromantic, Rainbow Rush
- Tier 3 – YR Control, Frenzy Aggro, Rainbow Valkyries, GB Necromantic
- Wildcard – Blood Root, Mono Yellow Ramp, BG Ramp, Big Deck Control
Closing Thoughts
Man this project was fun, but honestly hard at times. It took away most of my free time these past few days, even then Mythgard is a game that’s worth quality content. I know I missed a good chunk of decks that could be/is good in the meta, but time is a constraint and I wanted to get this out before Winter Wonderbrawl on the December 15th. We’ll work on things like formatting and stuff to make these tier list better. Please give any suggestions on what you may want to see, whether it’s formatting wise or decks that should make the tier list in the comment section.
SHOUT OUTS!
Big ups to NKL, largenuggets, erobert, and Ejecty for the help with various testing, writing and meta talk. I couldn’t have done this project without them.
steadyCuration 