Top Standard Decks - April 2025

Tarkir: Dragonstorm, anyone? I'm pretty sure the pre-release and preview brews are going around online, and people already have good ideas which cards will eventually make the MTG Standard meta cut. But just right before that, we shall see how the format has stabilized further under the domination of Esper, multi-Dimir, and new Azorius brews. One thing is for certain though, many of the newer adjustments (additions) of the regular entries are set to get even more varied very, very soon.

Standard Tournament Meta - Top 8 Decks

Mono-Red and Esper aggressively push back to the top of the ranks compared to last month, with the former doubling at 17.53% of the meta, and the latter executing the consistent switcheroo with 4C Overlords/Beanstalk (at 14.29% of the meta). We've been seeing Sunspine Lynx being used occasionally since Bloomburrow's release, but this is the first time we see it on a top-ranking Mono-Red deck for this particular period. As for other decks, the double Azorius with the exact builds as last month kept their places at 7th and 8th, while Golgari finally fell off entirely. The replacement? Why another Gruul Aggro, of course!

Standard MTG Arena: Best of Three - Top 8 Decks

Esper continues the back-and-forth switcheroo with 4C Overlords/Beanstalk for Bo3, although for this particular list, Esper rises to the very top at 10.17% of the meta. Golgari drops to 5th, although usage-wise, the percentages are actually higher than last month. We also have a Jeskai entry, combining the best of both worlds from Oculus and Delirium decks, though at the moment, the adoption rate is still quite low at 2.33% of the meta. Double Dimir disappeared, and in fact, Dimir is nowhere to be seen currently in Bo3, along with Mono-White Control. Well, we got the "slasher" Mono Black Midrange back in there, at least.

Standard MTG Arena: Best of One - Top 8 Decks

The return of multi-Mono-Black! Thankfully we don't have clone slasher entries, but it would have been nice to have something similar to the previous Skeletons x Crimes back-to-back duo before. I'm a bit sad that the Mono Red Goblin variant didn't manage to hold on until next month, dropping completely out of the list as April kicked in, but ah well. Once again, we see Dimir getting kicked out, with the Azorius control entry being completely replaced by the Omniscience Combo variant.