Release Date: 04/01/2022
Challenger Decks consist of 75 cards—a 60-card main deck and a 15-card sideboard—fine-tuned to execute the powerful strategies that each deck specializes in. Ready to play right out of the box so you can get into a game quickly, the decks also include tokens and reference cards to assist in a match.
We designed these decks to be fun but competitive at the local level with cards legal in the Standard format. These latest Challenger Decks will be available worldwide in English, with German, French, and Japanese languages available in their respective regions.
View the complete decklists below, and then get ready to throw down the gauntlet for some Standard showdowns with friends when the Challenger Decks are released on April 1, 2022!
For tabletop formats: This deck will still be legal for tournament play in tabletop Magic: The Gathering formats, but only as is. Specifically, the 60-card deck and 15-card sideboard will be legal as long as no changes are made to it.
For digital formats: Both Magic: The Gathering Arena and Magic Online will be handling these bans in the same way they normally handle Standard bans. Since the challenger decks are not offered as a product on either platform, there will not be an exception to Standard legality to allow that precise list of cards in Standard play.
Creature (30)
2 Reidane, God of the Worthy4 Monk of the Open Hand4 Usher of the Fallen4 Codespell Cleric4 Clarion Spirit4 Luminarch Aspirant1 Intrepid Adversary2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben2 Skyclave Apparition3 Elite Spellbinder
Instant (4)
2 Kabira Takedown2 Fateful Absence
Enchantment (3)
3 Paladin Class
Land (23)
3 Faceless Haven20 Snow-Covered Plains
60 Cards
Sideboard (15)
2 Loyal Warhound 3 Cathar Commando 2 Portable Hole 2 Maul of the Skyclaves 2 Selfless Samurai 2 Sungold Sentinel 2 Imperial Recovery Unit
3 Graveyard Trespasser2 Iymrith, Desert Doom1 Hullbreaker Horror
Sorcery (6)
3 Crippling Fear3 Blood on the Snow
Instant (22)
2 Jwari Disruption1 March of Wretched Sorrow3 Power Word Kill2 Baleful Mastery3 Saw It Coming2 Thirst for Discovery2 Parasitic Grasp2 Hero’s Downfall4 Memory Deluge1 Infernal Grasp
Land (26)
2 Field of Ruin4 Ice Tunnel2 Hall of Storm Giants2 Evolving Wilds4 Shipwreck Marsh7 Snow-Covered Swamp5 Snow-Covered Island
60 Cards
Sideboard (15)
1 Saw It Coming 2 Mischievous Catgeist 2 Duress 2 Siphon Insight 2 Negate 2 Ray of Enfeeblement 2 Bloodvial Purveyor 2 Bloodchief’s Thirst
3 Ulvenwald Oddity2 Tovolar’s Huntmaster2 Twinshot Sniper2 Halana and Alena, Partners1 Goldspan Dragon4 Jaspera Sentinel4 Magda, Brazen Outlaw4 Briarbridge Tracker
Sorcery (2)
1 Light Up the Night1 Thundering Rebuke
Instant (8)
4 Abrade4 Snakeskin Veil
Enchantment (4)
4 Ranger Class
Land (24)
4 Rockfall Vale10 Forest2 Lair of the Hydra8 Mountain
60 Cards
Sideboard (15)
2 Twinshot Sniper 3 Thundering Rebuke 2 Tovolar, Dire Overlord 3 Burning Hands 2 Kappa Tech-Wrecker 2 Lantern of the Lost 1 Froghemoth
4 Voldaren Bloodcaster1 Henrika Domnathi4 Voldaren Epicure4 Bloodtithe Harvester2 Sokenzan Smelter2 Vampire Socialite2 Florian, Voldaren Scion2 Dominating Vampire4 Immersturm Predator
Instant (7)
2 Infernal Grasp4 Voltage Surge1 Village Rites
Artifact (4)
2 Mukotai Soulripper2 Oni-Cult Anvil
Land (24)
2 Blightstep Pathway3 Voldaren Estate2 Den of the Bugbear4 Bloodfell Caves7 Swamp6 Mountain
60 Cards
Sideboard (15)
1 Infernal Grasp 3 Duress 3 Falkenrath Forebear 4 Abrade 2 Callous Bloodmage 2 Anje, Maid of Dishonor