One of the best (and most challenging) things one can do in content creation is to produce content and then back it up with results. You create content about a deck, while going on to produce and validate those claims.

Well chalk one up for the good guys!

I'm here today to tell you about the current best deck in Historic, as brought to my attention late last week by my stream moderator Michael Grabusky (R3ach4Th3Sky). I recorded this video a few hours before playing it in the Insight Esports $5,000 Historic Open, where I'd go on a 7-1 run through the swiss before falling to Mono Red Aggro in Top 8 and taking 8th place overall.

Not bad a bad day of work for a 100+ person cash tournament!

Time Stamps:

00:03:23 - Match 1

00:14:47 - Match 2

00:45:41 - Match 3

01:04:04 - Match 4

01:21:29 - Match 5

Creative Koma | Historic | Jim Davis, 8th Place Insight Esports $5,000 Historic Open

• Creatures (2)
• 2 Koma, Cosmos Serpent

• Instants (17)
• 1 Mystical Dispute
• 4 Brainstorm
• 4 Magma Opus
• 4 Memory Lapse
• 4 Prismari Command

• Sorceries (11)
• 2 Expressive Iteration
• 2 Mizzix's Mastery
• 3 Anger of the Gods
• 4 Indomitable Creativity

• Enchantments (4)
• 4 Shark Typhoon

• Lands (26)
• 2 Island
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Raugrin Triome
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 2 Stomping Ground
• 4 Dwarven Mine
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 4 Ketria Triome
• 4 Steam Vents

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Aether Gust
• 3 Commence the Endgame
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 1 Blink of an Eye
• 1 Perilous Voyage
• 1 Anger of the Gods
• 3 Mystical Dispute
• 2 Scorching Dragonfire
• 2 Lava Coil

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Just because Time Warp is banned doesn't mean that Brainstorm and friends have gone away!

This is the essentially the same shell that got Time Warp banned, but it has just replaced Velomachus Lorehold with a different and more self-contained boom boom in Koma, Cosmos Serpent. I never had the pleasure of opening one myself, but having played against Koma, Cosmos Serpent in Kaldheim Draft it's not hard to see how brutal the card is to beat on any turn of the game, let alone turn four.

But the beauty of this deck is that is cut from the always powerful Combo-Control cloth. While it can produce a turn four Koma, or cast Magma Opus on turn three, it can also go deep into the game while interacting on almost all fronts. There's nothing crazy about just hardcasting Koma or Magma Opus in this deck after a long and interactive midgame.

Combo-Control has always been one of the most successful archetypes in Magic and this deck is no different. With good matchups against both Jeskai Control and Izzet Phoenix, this has to be considered one of the decks to beat right now in Historic!