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Timeless: 10 Decks to play the format in 2025

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In this article, we present ten decks to adventure in Magic Arena's Timeless format!

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With a new year approaching and countless possibilities with the upcoming Magic expansions, some players are looking for a safe environment to invest in cards without having to deal with the aggressive rotation that formats like Standard or even Modern went through in 2024 - and it exists in Magic Arena.

Timeless is the platform's eternal format, where all cards ever released in Magic Arena are legal without any changes and with a small list of three restricted cards - Channel, Demonic Tutor and Tibalt's Trickery. Although it also underwent abrupt changes with Modern Horizons 3, Timeless has remained stable since then and direct insertions of Special Guests add a bit more diversity in some cases, but they don't go so far as to change the entire Metagame.

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In this article, we present ten Timeless decks to play in 2025, from the most competitive ones like Mardu Energy and Omnitell, to options for those who already have a collection in other formats, like Boros Burn.

Ten Timeless Decks to Play in 2025

Mardu Energy

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Mardu Energy is currently the best Timeless deck, and the fact that it is the most competitive archetype in a format that has Necropotence and other cards banned even in Legacy only proves how high the power creep caused by the Modern Horizons expansions is.

What makes it so effective is how the Energy mechanic and the synergies created by the MH3 cards provide one of the most efficient Aggro decks in Magic history - one that can go under greedier combos or archetypes through speed while having enough resilience to play evenly against Midranges, and can even outvalue some lists with the interaction between Guide of Souls, Ocelot Pride and Ajani, Nacatl Pariah.

We can't forget what Timeless offers to the archetype: Lurrus of the Dream-Den is not only the most powerful Companion but also the most powerful creature in Magic: The Gathering, and with all of its key pieces costing so little and the guarantee of Lurrus' recursion through Chthonian Nightmare, Mardu Energy cements itself as one of the best Aggro decks of all time.

OmniTell

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OmniTell refers to the combo where you use Show and Tell to put Omniscience into play and then make plays that will win you the game. In Legacy, it is widely known for using Emrakul, the Aeons’ Torn, but in Timeless it follows a Combo-Control structure where it seeks to hold the game with cheap spells while looking for the combo pieces.

Once Omniscience is in play, the deck digs for Mastermind’s Acquisition to find Approach of the Second Sun in the Sideboard for a quick win, and if that plan doesn’t work, it is always possible to go for the Atraxa, Grand Unifier route to win games on beatdown, being another primary target of Show and Tell to win interactive and/or attrition matchups.

Esper Tempo

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Esper Tempo is the classic “Delver” archetype without Delver of Secrets. Sometimes, it is also common to find it in Dimir Magic Symbol UMagic Symbol B variants, but some metagame circumstances have motivated the splash to Magic Symbol W for more efficient removal with Swords to Plowshares and more specific answers against some matchups, such as Deafening Silence.

This is the most traditional version of Turbo Xerox, with low-cost cantrips, removals and disruption, equally cheap threats, but which generate a lot of value simply by being in play, and Timeless still allows Psychic Frog archetypes to take advantage of Treasure Cruise as a source of card advantage.

This is one of the most skill-intensive decks in Timeless, and the one that dictates most of the format's interactive play. It tries to police a little bit of everything and often relies on good decisions to be played optimally.

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Jet Storm

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Despite its name, Jet Storm is not a deck that uses Storm spells to win games. Instead, it loops between cards to drain the opponent's life.

Its combo involves having a Jet Medallion in play and using Chthonian Nightmare with Greedy Freebooter, Priest of Gix and/or Shambling Ghast to sacrifice a creature, generate a Treasure token, return another to the battlefield and play Chthonian Nightmare again, paying Magic Symbol B to repeat each step. With the combo established, Marionette Apprentice will be its win condition by dealing damage to the opponent whenever a creature dies, granting the “Storm”.

Between Necropotence and Diabolic Intent, in addition to the recursive potential of Chthonian Nightmare, Jet Storm is a very resilient combo and capable of winning games very early and/or establishing attrition routes while putting together its pieces.

Mono Blue Belcher

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Goblin Charbelcher is a card that has improved a lot in Magic with the release of double-faced cards, having a consistent mana base without losing the hit-kill potential of the artifact, and Mono Blue Belcher is a variant of this combo that has gained space in Modern and also in Timeless.

It involves casting and activating Goblin Charbelcher to reveal cards until you find a land. Since they are all other cards on its front face, Belcher will reveal your entire deck and deal that amount of damage to your opponent, guaranteeing the “combo-kill”.

As a backup plan, it has the interaction between Show and Tell (which can also put Goblin Charbelcher into play early) and Omniscience to seek Approach of the Second Sun with Fae of Wishes and win the game with the famous “Omnitell”.

What makes Mono Blue Belcher so effective is his mix of speed and cheap disruption: Commandeer provides protection and/or can even ruin opposing combos, while it has enough creatures to cast Flare of Denial for free.

Boros Burn

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Despite not being very competitive, Boros Burn is an excellent entry point for those who already have most of its cards and/or the necessary mana base to play it in Timeless, and not unlike its Explorer or Historic versions, its plan involves reducing the opponent's life from 20 to 0 in the least number of turns possible.

Recent expansions have added Boros Charm as another means of speeding up the clock, while Timeless grants access to Lightning Bolt, a historic Burn staple, as well as Dragon's Rage Channeler as an additional threat.

Boros Obosh

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One advantage of the Boros shell is that it can migrate to the two-color variants of Energy decks, and while the Ajani, Nacatl Pariah package is ostensibly known in the format, another version of the archetype relies a bit more on attrition and the advantage of casting creatures with Evoke and their interaction with Ephemerate.

Fury is one of the best “Anti-Aggro” cards that has ever existed in Magic and a 3/3 body with Double Strike does a good job of ensuring pressure, while Fable of the Mirror-Breaker reuses the ETB of these creatures every turn if transformed, enhancing it against interactive games while focusing on combos with the Sideboard.

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Jund Delirium

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Still in the “fair decks”, Jund Delirium mixes the famous mechanic which gained a lot of support recently with Nethergoyf and Fear of Missing Out to create a low-curve, clock-efficient Midrange, taking advantage of Lurrus of the Dream-Den to guarantee more reach throughout the game.

This list, like Boros Obosh, seems very focused on interactive games and may lose traction against combos, but it still manages to establish good results and make the most of one of the most famous themes of Magic in recent years.

Esper Evoke

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Esper Evoke tries to use the same interaction as Boros Obosh with Ephemerate and complements it with Reanimate to reuse Grief and Solitude, in addition to having an alternative plan with Atraxa, Grand Unifier to win games early.

In essence, it is to Timeless what Reanimator became in Legacy: a fair deck with efficient trades and a potential combo win that takes advantage of Diviner of Fates - a Magic Arena exclusive card - and its interaction with Psychic Frog to find the right cards, such as discarding Unearth to find Reanimate for Atraxa, Grand Unifier.

Necropotence

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Despite not being as popular as it once was, Necropotence and its archetypes based on playing it early with Dark Ritual and finding the pieces to cast Sheoldred, the Apocalypse and The One Ring are still a viable archetype in Timeless and a favorite among Midrange fans in their most classic iteration.

Despite its “shell” of fair cards, it has some pretty absurd lines with Necropotence and also with the famous interaction between Grief and Reanimate to ruin the opponent's plans, but it has trouble keeping up with the opponent's game if it doesn't come with a fast enough clock, which is usually only found in Sheoldred.

Conclusion

That's all for today!

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