So Arena introduced an achievement system recently. A lot of the achievements are the sort of thing that will just happen sooner or later, but there’s an “Advanced Achievements” category and one of the things in it is “Win 10 Historic Ranked matches with a deck containing no Rare or Mythic Rare cards.”
What do we think about this one? Given enough patience, anyone can catch enough lucky breaks eventually, but are there any known decks that could accomplish this goal in a relatively short timeframe? My first thought was to build a cheapo burn deck, and my second thought was to play Zombie Hunt. But we’re talking about ranked Historic, and I don’t know if either of those ideas can even approach a 50% win rate there.
Edit: if you’re going the burn route, here’s a 0-rare burn deck that was featured on MTGGoldfish a couple of years ago.
PSA, there appears to be a bug with this achievement; don’t attempt it until it’s fixed.
I gave the Zombie Hunt path a try and it was a disaster. Not even remotely competitive. Then I tried the burn deck and, with much difficulty, won two matches. But the card still says 0/10.
I eventually got this achievement. I’m still not 100% sure what the problem was but I think it might be that even though the wording of the achievement says “matches”, which to me specifically means Bo3, you can acually only get it while playing Bo1 games.
I have completed this achievement now, so I guess it’s fixed with today’s update. I’ll post my decklist on my other comment.