u/sendel85

If you fight the Reanimator Plan, that cheap cardflow and strip mine fetching is hardly beatable for combo.

Architect kills the format slowly

As of the last 50 games in #500 - #100 in my experience seem to be a

Lot

UB Reanimate

UB Hydroponics

Less

Red Stompy

White Stompy

Sneak and Show

Jeskai Control

Nearly none

Black Scam

Mardu Energy

Boros Energy

Turbo Depth

BG Strip

Eldrazi

I'm the only experiencing this ? The meta seems quite stall.

Sideboard slots should be in all cases Faerie Macabre ?

I have no experience in Bo1, can any one provide insight ?

As always I think to many cards are missing. Urza's Saga, Grim Monolith, Lotus Petal, Murktide, Karakas, Tron

The current meta has some cool decks — Energy, Show and Tell, Necro/Reanimator, Mono Red, Dimir shells, tempo/control piles, etc. There is definitely power in the format. But for an “eternal” Arena format, it still feels like it is missing some of the big archetypes that make formats like Modern and Legacy feel truly deep.

I would love to see more support for combo and big mana decks in Timeless.

Not just one-card “I win” stuff, but real archetypes like Tron-style ramp, artifact-based engines, lands decks, graveyard engines, big mana control, and weird combo decks that reward deckbuilding. Stuff where you can build around mana, artifacts, lands, or engines instead of mostly just playing the most efficient threats and interaction.

Timeless should be the place on Arena where powerful strategies are allowed to exist. Aggro, tempo, midrange, control, reanimator, Show and Tell — all of that is fine. But the format would feel much more alive if it also had real Tron, Artifacts, Lands, and other big engine decks.

I don’t want Timeless to become less powerful. I want it to become wider.

Give us more ways to go over the top. Give us more strange build-around decks. Give us more reasons to brew. That’s what would make Timeless feel like a real eternal format, not just another ladder meta with stronger cards.

I really wish Arena had a proper Timeless Event (or League)

Timeless is honestly one of the most fun formats on the client, but sometimes it feels like the only real option is just grinding ranked. Ranked is fine, but it doesn’t give the same feeling as playing a real run or tournament where each match matters a bit more.

A Timeless League would make the format feel much more alive. People could test decks properly, tune sideboards, and actually get rewarded for learning the matchups. Right now the format has so many cool cards and wild strategies, but it feels like it’s missing that extra structure.

I don’t think Timeless needs much — just a regular place to play best-of-three with some stakes. If Arena wants Timeless to be that real eternal format, it should have an Event or League like the other formats.

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