Magic Deck Stats (2025)

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What is the best ratio for a magic deck? ›

Conventional wisdom is to have 40% of a deck being mana (16/40 in Limited, 24/60 in Constructed, 40/100 in Highlander), but curve, mana sinks, and game plan may shift it up to 50% or down to 30%.

In a forty card deck, that means at least 16 land cards. If your important cards are five drops, and you want to play them on turn five, you need five lands in your first eleven cards – or 45% land. That means you need slightly over 18 lands in your deck.

Key Takeaway: - Sticking to the minimum deck size of 60 cards in Magic the Gathering (MTG) provides increased consistency and better chances of drawing key cards, minimizing issues like mana flood or mana screw.

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MTG is a game of variance, and not even the pro players win more than 65-70% of their games. The best decks in the metagame usually have a 55-60% win rate overall.

Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH) or Commander players generally agree that you want somewhere between 32 and 42 lands in your deck. As a rule of thumb, it's safe to start at 36 lands and then adjust up or down based on your personal preferences and the curve of your deck.

The general way you lay out a mana curve is from left to right with a pile for each converted mana cost, with the lowest converted mana cost cards in the leftmost pile, the highest on the right, and a pile for each other mana cost in between in ascending order.

A sweet spot for most Commander decks is to run at least 20-30 creatures with an average being 25. That means about a fifth to a quarter of your deck should be creatures to defend your battlefield.

As a good rule of thumb, most decks chase a fairly even mana curve, covering the full range of card costs, but with a concentration of three- or four-cost cards. You'll want to play a card every turn, and this distribution helps prevent a glut of high- or low-cost cards coming to you at an inopportune time.

What is the most powerful Magic card? ›

The Grail: The Black Lotus

Arguably the strongest -- and certainly the most famous -- Power Nine card is the Black Lotus. Illustrated by Christopher Rush, it gives the player three free mana, making it arguably the most powerful card in the game.

Deck Construction: This is about as technical as I'll get for this article. Your deck needs to consist of at least 60 cards. You can have no more than 4 of a given card aside from basic lands.

Red/Green Aggro

Many color combinations in Magic happen to work well together consistently, and the most aggressive of those combinations is Red/Green.

Generally, a "tier" is a rough idea of a deck's competitive chances. A deck like Delver is tier 1 because you can usually expect to do well with it, regardless of what you face. It's strong and consistent.

6:6:49's a series of ratios that can help you build an optimal deck for the current format. It refers to 6 copies of what we'll call "Option A", 6 copies of "Option B", and a total deck size of 49 cards.

What's the Right Draft Deck Ratio? Generally, 17 lands and 23 nonlands is the suggested land-spell ratio. Of course, more aggressive decks can run 16 lands, and slower decks may wish to go to 18 lands. Extreme edge cases may warrant going outside of these boundaries, but that is quite rare.

In general, MtG card art has a 3x4 landscape ratio. This is very important for you to think about when you proceed to placing your creature(s) in a scene.

How Many of Each Card Should be in an MTG Deck? The maximum number of copies you can have of a unique card in a Constructed deck is four. Basic lands don't count for this and can be as abundant as you desire, but unique lands like Breeding Pool also have a 4-copy limit.