After two years, Magic: The Gathering Arena’s speedrunning world record has been smashed by three seconds. More importantly, the MTG community has been shaken to its very core by the discovery that MTG Arena speedrunning even exists, let alone that it’s just got a new record.

MTG Arena speedrunning is against the in-game test bot, Sparky. The goal is to win by any means necessary as quickly as possible, leading many to come up with various combos or decks full of burn spells to win. This time, though, all the new record holder needed was a couple of dragons and two mana.

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Brewer’s Kitchen outlined their plan to take the world record in a video posted to the MTGGoldfish YouTube channel. At first, they tried the most obvious route of playing a mono-red Aggro deck full of spells and creatures designed to deal big damage quickly. However, it was too easily foiled by the bot, who randomly picks one of five decks to go up against you with.

The next promising attempt was a 54-second win by using Channel to cast an Ulamog, Ceaseless Hunger for ten life on turn two. This required two combat steps to win though, putting it 20 seconds behind the then-current champion.

The winning deck, surprisingly, ditched the combos and went back to good ol’ fashioned smashing with creatures. In a red/green Dragon deck, Brewer’s Kitchen played a Minion of the Mighty on turn one, before juicing it up with a Scale Up on turn to make it a 6/4. This then triggers Minion’s pack tactics ability when it attacks, allowing them to drop a Terror of Mount Velus for free and deal a total of 22 damage in one turn. All in all, this victory took 31.95 seconds, beating the previous record by almost three seconds.

Minion of the Mighty and Terror of Mount Velus

While that is the deck that cinched the victory, it isn’t the one Brewer’s Kitchen believes good be the fastest. The video spends a lot of time trying to make a combo consisting of Treasure Hunt and Thassa’s Oracle work, by dumping most of your deck into your hand before playing Thassa’s Oracle for the win (as long as your devotion to blue is higher than the number of cards in your deck). Unfortunately, there was far too much random chance in making the deck work: you need to draw the perfect hand, Thassa’s Oracle needs to be at the very bottom of your deck to ensure your devotion was higher, and you need no interaction from Sparky or else you can kiss that world record goodbye.

Thassa's Oracle and Treasure Hunt

At the end of the video, Brewer’s Kitchen challenged viewers to see if they can make the Thassa’s Oracle deck work quicker than their red/green Dragons. Considering how many people are likely to take up this challenge, there is a very high chance we might be seeing both the start of a boom in MTG Arena speedrunning almost two years after it was last active, while also seeing it be ‘solved’ to near-perfection at the same time with a one-in-a-million unbeatable Thassa’s Oracle play.

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