Standard - Second Best Deck

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Jank
TCGPlayer $231
Cardmarket €167
Cardhoarder 6 Tix
  • Deck contains 42 invalid cards for this format: Settle the Wreckage (XLN), Ixalan's Binding (XLN), Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (XLN), Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (XLN), Glacial Fortress (XLN), Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (XLN), Lightning Strike (XLN), Star of Extinction (XLN), Sunbird's Invocation (XLN), Azor, the Lawbringer (RIX), Rekindling Phoenix (RIX), The Immortal Sun (RIX), Zacama, Primal Calamity (RIX), Secrets of the Golden City (RIX), Mastermind's Acquisition (RIX), Clifftop Retreat (DOM), Sulfur Falls (DOM), Firesong and Sunspeaker (DOM), Gaea's Blessing (DOM), Rupture Spire (M19), Detection Tower (M19), Lightning Strike (M19), Niv-Mizzet, Parun (GRN), Truefire Captain (GRN), Deafening Clarion (GRN), Sacred Foundry (GRN), Steam Vents (GRN), Gateway Plaza (RNA), Conqueror's Galleon // Conqueror's Foothold (XLN), Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (XLN), Vance's Blasting Cannons // Spitfire Bastion (XLN), Revel in Riches (XLN), Path of Discovery (RIX), The Mirari Conjecture (DOM), Omniscience (M19), Reliquary Tower (M19), Thousand-Year Storm (GRN), Assassin's Trophy (GRN), Unmoored Ego (GRN), Smothering Tithe (RNA), Wilderness Reclamation (RNA), Ethereal Absolution (RNA)
Main 60 cards (35 distinct)
Creature (7)
$2.44€2.170.02
$1.70€0.680.02
$0.20€0.090.03
$0.99€0.640.02
$0.50€0.280.50
$1.99€1.030.02
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (30)
$0.40€0.250.02
$1.15€0.840.02
$2.81€1.330.02
$0.25€0.100.03
$2.60€2.270.02
$10.38€6.810.02
$15.78€11.160.03
$0.75€0.430.02
$3.16€2.130.02
$0.20€0.160.04
$0.22€0.130.03
$0.30€0.100.03
$0.25€0.120.03
$0.20€0.100.03
$1.05€0.950.02
Land (23)
$0.50€0.050.03
$0.15€0.020.05
$0.42€0.150.04
$0.15€0.040.05
$0.24€0.110.03
$0.97€0.070.04
$0.20€0.020.04
$0.25€0.080.03
$1.00€0.740.02
$1.10€1.160.02
$1.14€0.740.02
$2.11€1.250.02
$12.96€11.940.96
$18.72€14.920.76
Side 15 cards (14 distinct)
$0.40€0.280.02
$0.50€0.250.02
$4.02€1.950.02
$0.50€0.410.02
$0.30€0.140.02
$10.84€7.560.24
$1.01€0.690.03
$0.75€0.440.02
$10.38€6.810.02
$2.99€2.030.13
$1.15€0.880.03
$14.70€8.090.02
$25.29€20.150.02
$2.11€1.120.03
Maybeboard 1 cards (1 distinct)
$0.34€0.15

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Description

This is the engine that makes this deck go:

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On paper we've 5 colors, but we're overwhelming Red, White, and Blue, with just the tiniest splash of Green (For
Zacama, Primal Calamity and Gaea's Blessingimage) and Black (Exclusively for Mastermind's Acquisitionimage and sideboard shenanigans). Our blue is exclusively draw (I used to have just the smallest touch of counterspells, but those were cut to make room for the 2 extra copies of Sunbird's Invocationimage to qualify for the challenge).

So how do we get 5 colors? A lame deck that wins would put in Chromatic Lanternimage, but we're a cool deck that loses so we run Rupture Spireimage and Gateway Plazaimage instead.

We're light on creatures, but that's okay. The couple of creatures who are in there are thicc, and exist for defense mainly. The sideboard is full of fun janky garbage to get with Mastermind's Acquisitionimage, feel free to subsititute your favorite janky garbage cards in there (Although personally I think it doesn't get much better than Thousand-Year Stormimage copying Unmoored Egoimage )

 

Game plan:

1) Protect yourself! Put up your Rekindling Phoeniximagees and flip your Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazcaimagees. Remove threats with your removal!

2) Power up and flip your Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspringimages. Lightning Strikeimage, Optimage, and Gaea's Blessingimage cost just 1 with an amulet out, and the latter two draw to replace themselves on top of that.

3) Draw toward your Sunbird's Invocationimages using your Optimages, Secrets of the Golden Cityimages, and Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruinimages.

4) Play Sunbird's Invocationimage and start dropping bombs out of your deck for free.

5) Has something gone wrong? Maybe an opponent cast an inconvenient Cleansing Novaimage and killed all our toys? Well we run two Gaea's Blessingimages, things going into the graveyard is a mere inconvenience.

 

Cool things this deck does:

1) When casting Star of Extinctionimage with one or more Sunbird's Invocationimages out, cool things can happen. Maybe you pull a Firesong and Sunspeakerimage and gain several hundred life. Maybe you pull a Truefire Captainimage and kill your opponent on the spot. Who knows?

2) Speaking of Firesong and Sunspeakerimage, the synergy with Deafening Clarionimage is insane. Not only do you heal from the boardclear, but it triggers Firesong's triggered ability and gives that lifelink as well. Getting Firesong and Sunspeakerimage to stick is the main way we beat RDW (assuming we live to turn 6 anyway).

3) Spells cast for free from Sunbird's Invocationimage still contribute charges to Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspringimage. Unfortunately copied spells from Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspringimage and Thousand-Year Stormimage don't trigger Sunbird's Invocationimage additional times.

4) Niv-Mizzet, Parunimage loves copied Secrets of the Golden Cityimages even more than he loves Optimages.

 

Misc Notes:

1) We run Gaea's Blessingimage, so any mill deck we face is a free win.

2) We run The Immortal Sunimage. People excited for War of the Spark coming soon? Well Planeswalker Time is CANCELED.

3) A big downside of Mastermind's Acquisitionimage is that you only get one card out of your sideboard. Just one, even though it's full of fun stuff! For best results, always copy it with Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspringimage, and assuming you haven't put your own favorite cards in the sideboard, always pull your other Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspringimages from the sideboard first so you can start grabbing cards 5 at a time on subsequent casts like a boss.

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Vokasak
Last Updated: 21 Apr 2019
Created: 21 Apr 2019
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