Few classic Magic: The Gathering archetypes captured the reckless aggression of early black decks quite like Suicide Black. The philosophy was straightforward: use your own life total and resources aggressively to deploy cheap, powerful threats, disrupt the opponent, and win before the drawbacks became relevant.

The deck “Solar Flare” was a popular Magic: the Gathering archetype in the game’s past, particularly during the Innistrad block. It was at first recognized during the first Ravnica Standard days, wherein a new control deck at that time was formulated from the cards of the block set.