Best Magic Arena Blue Cards (Top 50) (2023)

FAQs

How do you get the best cards in MTG Arena? ›

Quests. Quests are the easiest way to get ahead on MTG Arena. Quests range between rewarding 750 or 500 gold, depending on the difficulty, and every day you also get daily win bonuses, up to 15 game wins, that reward another 750 gold worth of value, plus some random cards that can be anything from commons to mythics.

It probably won't surprise you to learn that Endymion, the Mighty Master of Magic has the most words in its effect text of any card in the game. Endymion's Pendulum effect alone has the most words of any Pendulum monster in the game.

Blue decks are not necessarily overpowered but the counter magic theme can be boring to some players.

Blue is defined by knowledge and intellectualism, and it has the signature ability to draw and manipulate cards. This is among the most powerful things you can do in competitive Magic and has made blue historically the strongest color (which becomes more apparent in formats where cards from the 1990's are legal).

One of the fastest ways to collect the newest cards on MTG Arena is by playing Limited—that is, jumping to a Draft or Sealed event and opening new packs.

Wildcards can be obtained in booster packs, and are available in all rarities: common, uncommon, rare, and mythic rare. As you acquire commons and uncommons of which you already own 4 copies, you earn progress to fill your Vault. Once you fill your Vault, you also get wildcards - 3 uncommon, 2 rare, and 1 mythic.

You can play as many cards as you want in a Magic deck. So why don't people generally play more than the minimum? After all, playing more gives you access to additional different cards and can even prevent decking if the game comes down to that. It's all about card quality.

Seafarer's Quay and thousands of other underpowered cards are among the hardest cards to play because they're simply not competitively powered and worth inclusion in one's deck. I'd like to focus on cards that people actually play that player's are likely to find challenging rather than cards that have never seen play.

What is the rarest Magic card in the world? ›

1. Black Lotus. Black Lotus has long held a reputation as the most valuable Magic: The Gathering card ever made, dating from MTG's very first set, Limited Edition Alpha, released in 1993.

Blue and black tend to combine to make up the most value-iest of combos. In most formats, this pair is a control deck, with solid black removal and blue card-drawing overpowering traditional decks through card advantage. A nice, big bomb or even just a few blue flyers can finish the job once the dust has settled.

Blue and black archetypes are known for their strength in MTG competitive play, but these are the best of the best. Building a Magic: The Gathering deck is just as much a part of the game as shuffling up and playing games.

Through Magic's history, white is the worst, with green just edging it out. Blue is the best by a mile, then black and red (not sure about the order). All of this is true. (But Black's been better than Red, no question.)

Blue has the ability to counter spells, which entirely prevents their effects (see the stack). This can be seen as the prevention of chaotic action; Blue uses its logic to deny others the ability to express ideas that aren't helpful (in Blue's opinion).

Blue has unconditional counterspells, denying the opponent the ability to play the game. Blue has card draw, granting access to more answers. Blue can bounce creatures or tap them down, preventing combat and making the opponent waste mana. Blue can take extra turns, giving them more actions compared to their opponent.

A note about MTG Flying

Flying cards are most common in white and blue, although black has many good flying creatures as well. Decks in any of these three colors can easily include flying cards. Many artifacts also give flying to creatures as well.

Red is the color most traditionally associated with aggressive strategies in Magic; it has small powerful creatures and access to direct damage. In fact, red is so good at aggro it doesn't even need to be paired with another color.

Is it worth buying packs in Mtga? ›

Technically yes, Pack bundles are worth buying in the sense that you get a little bit more than what you pay for. Packs are worth 200 gems each at about $1 for 200 gems, meaning 50 packs equals $50 worth of stuff. But then you also get 5 Golden packs, so technically you get more than you pay for.

You'll also be able to grab MTG Arena codes from pre-release packs. You'll find a long code on a card inside the pack that will net you a few more packs from the set the pre-release is for.

Starting with Zendikar Rising booster packs, 1 in every 7.4 booster packs contain a mythic rare instead of a rare card. Before this set, about 1 in every 8 booster packs contain a mythic rare.

No, only one chip can be active at one time, so you can't play both Wildcard and Triple Captain in one gameweek.

A single wild card game was first instituted in 2012; this became a best-of-three playoff wild card series in 2020 as a one-off, and became permanent (albeit with less teams playing than in the 2020 series) for the 2022 season.

Mythic cards are powerful but very rare. Every pack has a small chance of giving a mythic except those packs where every card is a guaranteed (because there's no free slots for the mythic). While the odds are not known, experience suggests that the average is about 1 mythic per 750 to 1000 packs opened.

There is about a 1 out of 8 chance per booster pack to get a mythic rare instead of a rare. The reason is when printing, usually 15 out of 121 cards on a sheet are mythic rare instead of rare, giving us the 1/8 approximation.

Uncommons in this slot can upgrade to rares at approximately 1:3. Rares in this slot can upgrade to mythics at a rate of approximately 1:5. Each Mythic Booster always has a Mythic Rare in the Rare slot, unless it's replaced with a Rare Wildcard.

Each player has a maximum hand size, which is normally seven cards. A player may have any number of cards in their hand, but as part of their cleanup step, the player must discard excess cards down to the maximum hand size.

Is it better to go first in MTG? ›

The advantages of going first are often quite large, resulting in a much higher than 50/50 chance to win the game, if all other factors are equal. Being on the play offers a substantial tempo advantage that's typically well worth skipping your first draw step.

Playing four copies of a card is your maximum—and naturally, that means these are the cards you are most likely to draw in a game. These tend to be cards that are some of the most important and integral to your strategy.

Affinity/Raffinity/Ravager Affinity. Debatably the most powerful aggro deck that has ever existed, Affinity is an Artifact-based aggro deck using mainly cards from the Mirrodin block. It uses creatures with the Modular ability as well as creatures that can be played cheaply or for free due to the Affinity ability.

Your deck must be at least 60 cards. Up to fifteen cards may be included in your sideboard, if you use one. Include no more than four copies of any individual card in your main deck and sideboard combined (except basic lands). There's no maximum deck size, as long as you can shuffle your deck in your hands unassisted.

The Alpha version of Black Lotus is the rarest and most sought-after, with an estimated 1100 ever printed, followed by the Beta version, with 3300 ever printed.

First off, Alpha and Beta copies of Black Lotus are worth quite a bit more than Unlimited copies. It isn't just the look, either—it's scarcity. We have pretty good intel stating that there were only ever 1,008 copies of every Alpha rare even printed, and only 3,025 copies of each Beta rare.

Gift of Orzhova — Johannes Voss

Gift of Orzhova is no doubt the most beautiful card in Magic: The Gathering and was created by Johannes Voss.

Black Lotus is easily the most iconic and powerful Magic: The Gathering card of all time.

Blue and black tend to combine to make up the most value-iest of combos. In most formats, this pair is a control deck, with solid black removal and blue card-drawing overpowering traditional decks through card advantage. A nice, big bomb or even just a few blue flyers can finish the job once the dust has settled.

1. Black Lotus. Black Lotus has long held a reputation as the most valuable Magic: The Gathering card ever made, dating from MTG's very first set, Limited Edition Alpha, released in 1993.

How many black lotuses are in existence? ›

Black Lotus and the rest of the Power Nine were only printed for the early Alpha, Beta and Unlimited sets right at the very beginning of Magic: The Gathering's inception. All in all, it is estimated that only about 1,100 Black Lotus cards were ever printed.

You can play as many cards as you want in a Magic deck. So why don't people generally play more than the minimum? After all, playing more gives you access to additional different cards and can even prevent decking if the game comes down to that. It's all about card quality.

The Winged Dragon Of Ra

Considered to be the most powerful of all of the Egyptian God cards, The Winged Dragon Of Ra being summoned makes for some epic moments in the anime.

1. Sorrow's Path. You know it, you love it, there's no card quite like it: Sorrow's Path is, quite simply, the worst Magic card in existence.