Standard - Devarti's Sultai Midrange - SCG 1st bo3

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Midrange
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  • Deck contains 25 invalid cards for this format: Wildgrowth Walker (XLN), Carnage Tyrant (XLN), Merfolk Branchwalker (XLN), Drowned Catacomb (XLN), Seekers' Squire (XLN), Vraska's Contempt (XLN), Jadelight Ranger (RIX), Ravenous Chupacabra (RIX), Memorial to Folly (DOM), Woodland Cemetery (DOM), Cast Down (DOM), Llanowar Elves (DOM), Vivien Reid (M19), Overgrown Tomb (GRN), Watery Grave (GRN), Find // Finality (GRN), Midnight Reaper (GRN), Hydroid Krasis (RNA), Breeding Pool (RNA), Crushing Canopy (XLN), Vraska's Contempt (XLN), Tendershoot Dryad (RIX), The Eldest Reborn (DOM), Disdainful Stroke (GRN), Cry of the Carnarium (RNA)
Main 60 cards (22 distinct)
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (7)
$0.25€0.100.02
$0.60€0.450.02
$0.34€0.450.57
Planeswalker (3)
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Creature (26)
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$0.39€0.320.03
$0.57€0.420.02
$1.20€1.620.06
$3.81€4.530.14
Land (24)
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$1.65€1.160.02
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$12.08€10.340.15
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$0.15€0.100.03
$0.15€0.020.03
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Side 15 cards (8 distinct)
$5.78€4.510.03
$0.60€0.450.02
$0.24€0.100.03
$0.20€0.050.03
$0.15€0.010.05
$0.40€0.310.03
$0.20€0.220.03
$0.19€0.060.04

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Description

26 year old Richmond, KY native Anthony Devarti won the first huge Magic tournament of 2019 with Sultai Midrange.

 

690+ players entered the Star City Games Indianapolis Open, and the question on everybody's minds was "what's good?".  Ravnica Allegiance just became standard legal, and the new cards had players freaking out about Red with twelve lightning bolt effects and Nexus of Fate's new sidekick in crime, Wilderness Reclamation.  These decks represented two extremes - speedy aggression and uninteractive combo - and MtG players and spectators wanted to know if anything could beat both strategies.

 

In classic bo3 tournament Magic tradition, midrange was up to the task.  The finals featured a Bant midrange brew vs Sultai midrange, which was the most popular deck on day two of competition.

This build is really Golgari all over again, adding an even stronger top-end in Hydroid Krasis.  As explore dorks build up your mana, the Krasis becomes more and more devastating the longer the game goes.  Blue also adds counterspells to the sideboard, and some versions run a Hostage Taker over Chupas.  Between Negate and Duress, the sideboard has some of the best players off the bench of all time.  The deck has what it needs to pick apart any strategy.

How do you battle this deck?  Thought Erasure can take Krasis from the hand before it resolves, Unmoored Ego can exile them all, and Ixalan's Binding can lock down Krasis one while locking out future jelly-hydra-beasts.  Hostage Taker stealing Krasis is a great play if you can untap with your Taker, and Angrath is a punishing card against the giant monster.  But as always, Golgari is resiliant, and you will need to end the game.  Drakes and Esper seem well positioned to do the job, and I would watch out for those decks in the future.  Frilled Mystic and Angel of Grace looked awesome in the second place deck, there may be something to that tag team as well.

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jag2kk
Wtf is a "Jellyfish Hydra Beast"?
MuffinPastryPie
"sultai" kappa
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Last Updated: 29 Jan 2019
Created: 28 Jan 2019
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