Standard - V1.2 Abzan Journey to Eternity

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Midrange Jank

This deck is based around my favorite card: Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternityimage cool I (thought I would) be updating this regularly to make it as optimal as possible and pertinent to the meta. I tested it during the streamer event for RNA and went 16-4. Seems decent. The syngergy is based on having sac outlets and creatures that have benefits from entering the battlefield and dying, making it easy to flip and abuse Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternityimage. Cards like Priest of Forgotten Godsimage and Final Paymentimage allowing us to flip it at instant speed is incredibly flexible and harder to answer than you think (until you run into that player who's starting hand has 3 shocks, of course -_-)

 

V 1.2 Plague Mareimage was bad. The deck was having a rough time against mono red and control. Added the explore package (Jadelight Rangerimage, Merfolk Branchwalkerimage and Wildgrowth Walkerimage) to help outsize other midrange decks and have a chance against aggro by having 8 lifegain cards. This added lifegain also makes midnight reaper a more sustainable carddraw outlet. With the added explore creatures and Llanowar Elvesimage, Priest of Forgotten Godsimage got better and I was able to lower the land count to 22. I added 2 vraska because she is able to deal with a host of important enchantments in the format and the newly popular Hydroid Krasisimage. She is also a great sac outlet to enable Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternityimage. I'm heavily considering cutting Orzhov Enforcerimage for Pitiless Pontiffimage as a better deathtouch threat, sac outlet, and something to survive sweepers, but am unsure about it's competition with Priest of Forgotten Godsimage in having creatures to sacrifice. Further testing with the 2 may cause some big changes. Plaguecrafterimage was also added as another recursive threat, sac outlet, and a way to deal with opposing planewalkers in control decks since our creatures can be more synergistic than actually powerful, making it hard to kill planeswalkers in combat.

V1.1 Had some trouble with seeing too many decks from the old meta, so the record wasn't quite as fantastic as it was during the streamer event. Kaya's Wrathimage was added for testing and was phenomenal in almost every matchup. Great at flipping your Journey, protecting Vraska, and dealing with token decks, especially since we usually recover better from board wipes using our Journey's :p Added Plague Mareimage was well to see if it was worth it for all the token decks and to kill Llanowar Elvesimage/branchwalkers to make Priest's edict effects hit better targets. Bumped up our copies of Midnight Reaperimage to see if it helped avoid flooding and made our control matchups better. Considering what the build of the deck would look like with llanowar elves. Will test in the next Version.

 

V 1.0 Did some testing during the streamer event. Realized that Orzhov Enforcerimage is waaaaay better for us than Tithe Takerimage. Knight of Autumnimage is an MVP and instant 4-of.

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Eugi_The_Midrange_Mage
Literally just found the page that displays comments. Thanks so much @brandonloeser! I super appreciate it. And yeah, the vicious offerings might as well be a strict upgrade over final payment, so nice catch there! Would totally recommend it (I finally say days before rotation XD)
BrandonLoeser
Thanks for the sweet list! Ton of fun on arena! Would you ever consider cutting 1 enforcer and 1 chup/midnight reaper for two vicious offerings? I know you were running final payment for a while, but offerings would be easier to fire off on turn two to kill a Llanowar Elves or a runaway steamkin in matchups where you can’t afford to pay the 5 life. Also easier on mana than payment, but still fills the same role of a two mana instant speed sac outlet that may or may not generate some value.
Last Updated: 23 Apr 2019
Created: 16 Jan 2019
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Mainboard - 60 cards (19 distinct)

Creature (33)
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$1.73€1.820.03
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Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (3)
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$1.60€1.420.02
$0.57€0.160.03
Planeswalker (2)
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