Historic: 5 Decks with Edge of Eternities

The latest Magic: The Gathering set, Edge of Eternities (EOE), has been out for nearly a week, so now is the perfect time to explore new lists and strategies. In this article, we'll show you five lists with cards from this set that have a lot of potential for Historic.

Eldrazi Ramp

Eldrazi Temple came to Arena through the special arts in Stellar Sights, the alternative arts special set included in EOE. This powerful land might finally make a solid Eldrazi deck come to life in this format, like the popular Eldrazi Ramp in Modern.

Historic already had Ugin's Labyrinth and Utopia Sprawl, two critical cards in this strategy, as well as several interesting Eldrazi and the most popular ones, like Thought-Knot Seer and Sowing Mycospawn.

This deck will also be able to support Karn, the Great Creator very easily and use mana acceleration to support all this card offers, that is, the powerful tools in the sideboard.

Affinity

This deck will certainly start seeing more play in Historic soon, all thanks to a few cards that should make it a lot better. The first one is Counterspell, which was unbanned right before EOE came out. It fits this type of deck really well, as it does in any format without Force of Negation. In fact, it will be one of the main blue control tools around.

The new additions are Pinnacle Emissary and Tezzeret, Cruel Captain, which both fit this format really well. Emissary is absurd in Affinity, as you can cast it on turn 1 with Warp, has a lot of synergy with low-cost artifacts, and is also quite impactful in the late game. Tezzeret may seem weird in this deck because of its cost, but when you use it well, it will create a few interesting possibilities for you. Furthermore, all the synergy it has with artifact creatures only makes it even better for this list.

Paradox Reservoir Combo

Representing the purest of combos, we have Paradox Reservoir Combo. It can play control, but its main goal is actually playing a powerful combo that can win the game on the spot.

In this list, Tezzeret, Cruel Captain is one of the stars alongside Karn, the Great Creator, and support cards like Counterspell and Stock Up. This strategy centers around Aetherflux Reservoir and Paradox Engine, actually.

The secret behind the combo is putting Engine and Reservoir on the table. With Engine, you will be able to get a lot from mana rocks like Coldsteel Heart and Mind Stone and start playing your spells one after the other while you make virtually infinite mana. In this process, you'll get the life points you need to deal lethal damage with Reservoir.

This list also uses Oracle of the Alpha, which can cast powerful cards from your graveyard (like Black Lotus, for instance). As we can play the Power Nine in this format, this combo can lean on some insane strategies to win and tutor most of these cards with Tezzeret.

It also has A-The One Ring, which is incredibly powerful against several decks. You can also untap it with the power of Engine and draw your entire deck in some situations.

To accelerate even more mana, this list uses the powerful interaction between Consign to Memory and Lotus Field, which lets you accelerate mana without paying the additional cost of playing this land.

As Karn lets you access your sideboard, you'll have extra copies of several cards, so the combo is more solid.

Sultai Delve

Cosmogoyf is the new Lhurgoyf from EOE. It could be the piece we needed for a very cool Midrange based on the already popular Dimir Midrange. The idea would be to take advantage of the splash to green to use this new card. Psychic Frog is one of the best cards to use with Cosmogoyf, as it feeds both creatures.

What sets this list apart from the others is that it doesn't care about the graveyard. So, if your opponent thinks it is just a regular Midrange and uses graveyard hate, they'll just be wasting resources. You can also build this list to support Abhorrent Oculus, which is incredibly strong, but I believe this version could be more efficient, as it doesn't rely as much in the graveyard.

Izzet Prowess

Now, it's time to discuss what will probably be one of the best archetypes in the format. It has also already performed really well in early testing: Izzet Prowess.

The Modern version of this list works really well because of cards like Dragon's Rage Channeler, Unholy Heat, and Mishra's Bauble, which all complement each other nicely and offer several resources to this deck. In Historic, we don't have this type of interaction, at least not in the mana curve this deck would like to have. However, with Cryogen Relic, I believe we can create a Historic version of this deck that will be quite similar to the Modern counterpart.

All the value Channeler can offer you, alongside the power of Cori-Steel Cutter and the recursion of Dreadhorde Arcanist, will make this one of the best aggro archetypes in the format. And, with Cryogen, this list can now get more out of Unholy Heat, and more easily too. It will also have a tool that can change combat while creating value.

EOE still has a lot to show us, and many other cards in this set might still see play. For instance, Seam Rip, which is basically an enchantment Portable Hole, and other interesting pieces, but I believe the main cards and strategies we'll see in the upcoming weeks will be similar to what we showed you above.

If you're looking for something new to test, I highly recommend one of these five lists.

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