The deck "A Hare Above the Rest", formerly known as "Lucky Foot", has undergone a shift in identity but maintains its core gameplay philosophy: building a dominating battlefield and outlasting opponents with clever plays and strategic adaptability. Whether you are playing against fast-paced aggro decks, defensive walls, or big finishers like Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, the deck has tools for nearly every challenge. In this guide, we will break down how this deck works, the strategies that drive it, and how to handle specific problems that may arise during your games.

Introduction: Building a Field to Win!

"A Hare Above the Rest" is a highly versatile Mythic Ranked Standard B01 deck that focuses on creating a massive, overwhelming battlefield to secure victory. At its core, the deck follows a simple but effective strategy: Build a field, win. This means flooding the battlefield with creatures and tokens, controlling the flow of the game with powerful synergies, and eventually overwhelming your opponent.

The deck’s flexibility comes from its ability to respond to a wide range of threats. Whether it's board wipes, defensive walls, or faster aggro decks, "A Hare Above the Rest" has answers that allow it to maintain momentum and recover after setbacks.

Deck Identity: Why "A Hare Above the Rest"?
The new name, "A Hare Above the Rest", plays on the theme of speed, agility, and being ahead of the competition. Much like a clever hare, this deck thrives on using swift moves and quick thinking to create advantage, often putting opponents in a tough spot before they can fully stabilize. In a game full of powerful spells and creatures, the hare is always a step ahead.

Core Strategy: Constructing Your Winning Field

Build a Field
At its heart, the strategy of "A Hare Above the Rest" is to develop a formidable battlefield as quickly as possible. The deck relies on generating a critical mass of creatures, including tokens, and using synergies with enchantments or abilities to keep the pressure on.

Key Components for Field Building:

Token Creatures: Much of your early-game strength will come from creating tokens. Whether through spells or abilities, generating creature tokens is one of your primary ways of developing a board. These tokens can swarm the opponent, forcing them to deal with a rapidly growing threat.
Synergies with Enchantments and Spells: Cards that either give buffs to your creatures or trigger powerful effects based on your board state are essential. "Raise the Past" (or similar effects) is one such tool that can bring back creatures and enchantments from your graveyard to continue the pressure after a board wipe.
Early-Game Aggression: You’ll want to leverage low-cost creatures early on to establish board presence quickly. These creatures can help you gain tempo while you set up your larger plays.
Once you’ve established a wide board, your next step is to push for a win. "A Hare Above the Rest" may not always be the fastest deck on the battlefield, but it makes up for it with powerful synergies and a relentless march towards victory once it gains momentum.

Handling Common Challenges and Threats
As effective as this deck can be, there are certain situations and threats that could derail your strategy. These threats can include removal-heavy decks, walls that prevent you from attacking, or even fast aggro strategies that outpace your development. Let’s look at how to deal with each of these challenges.

Dealing with Board Destruction

One of the most frustrating aspects of playing a creature-based deck is when your opponent clears your board. Whether it’s a board wipe or an opponent’s well-timed removal spells, losing your creatures can feel like a massive setback. Fortunately, "A Hare Above the Rest" has answers.

Raise the Past: This is your primary recovery tool. When your board is wiped or your key creatures are dealt with, Raise the Past allows you to bring back important creatures or enchantments from your graveyard. This lets you immediately rebuild your forces, flood the battlefield with tokens, or return key synergies that can help you recover.

Through these recovery and buffing mechanisms, "A Hare Above the Rest" can rebuild itself quickly, allowing you to outlast your opponent's board wipes and reestablish dominance on the battlefield.

Dealing with Defensive Walls: Clearing the Way with Delney!
There’s a scenario many players face where they build a board, only to be thwarted by an opponent's wall of blockers. These creatures, often high-toughness or evasive, can prevent you from attacking successfully, stalling the game and leaving you vulnerable to counterattacks.

Delney: The answer to a defensive wall is removing the blockers or neutralizing them altogether. Delney is a key card that allows you to either deal with tough blockers directly or break through defensive positions with an unblockable threat. By dealing with key blockers, you can create openings for your creatures to attack, turning a stall situation into a winning position.

Evasive Creatures or Buffs: If you can’t remove the wall, you might also want to consider using evasion (flying, unblockable, etc.) or buffs to power through it. Adding +1/+1 counters, giving creatures trample, or granting flying can help bypass even the toughest defenses.
With Delney and other forms of disruption, "A Hare Above the Rest" can often handle even the most resilient defensive strategies, keeping the game flowing in your favor.

Dealing with Aggro: Stabilizing with Hinterland Sanctifier
Aggressive decks that rush you down can be a huge challenge, especially if you can’t keep up with their tempo. These decks can flood the battlefield quickly with creatures, forcing you to react faster than you can develop your own strategy.

Hinterland Sanctifier: This card is your key to survival against aggro. It allows you to heal up while stabilizing your board. By gaining life and resetting your position, you can hold off aggressive decks long enough to begin your own game plan. In combination with Raise the Past, you can return powerful creatures to the battlefield while simultaneously healing yourself, making it hard for aggro decks to close out the game.
Stalling with Tokens: Another key tool is stalling with token creatures. As you generate creature tokens, you can use them to block the incoming waves of aggression. While your opponent might quickly flood the battlefield, your tokens can prevent key damage while buying time for your bigger threats to develop.
If you play your cards carefully, you can stabilize against even the fastest, most aggressive decks, turning the game around once you’ve managed to recover with Hinterland Sanctifier or similar recovery tools.