Sultai is back on the menu in Standard. After Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath was banned from the format, Sultai went from the top deck to barely existing. That has all changed though, with the addition of Kaldheim. There are even two different competitive variants!
Today I'm going to talk about what makes the deck tick, and why it has been able to ascend to the top of the format.
I'm going to start by talking about the version with Emergent Ultimatum.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Sultai Ultimatum by Joffrey PETIT
'Sultai Ultimatum' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Joffrey PETIT
Event:
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Standard
Market Price: $421.05
Elder Gargaroth
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $13.45
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Vigilance, reach, trample Whenever Elder Gargaroth attacks or blocks, choose one — • Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. • You gain 3 life. • Draw a card.
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Path to the World Tree
Color Identity:B,G,R,U,W
Market Price: $0.08
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When Path to the World Tree enters the battlefield, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
{2}{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, Sacrifice Path to the World Tree: You gain 2 life and draw two cards. Target opponent loses 2 life. Path to the World Tree deals 2 damage to up to one target creature. You create a 2/2 green Bear creature token.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/path-to-the-world-tree
Shark Typhoon
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $12.47
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/shark-typhoon
Omen of the Sea
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.10
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Flash
When Omen of the Sea enters the battlefield, scry 2, then draw a card.
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Indatha Triome
Color Identity:B,G,W
Market Price: $5.95
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({T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.)
Indatha Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/indatha-triome
Zagoth Triome
Color Identity:B,G,U
Market Price: $11.01
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({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.)
Zagoth Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/zagoth-triome
Yorion, Sky Nomad
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $2.57
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Companion — Your starting deck contains at least twenty cards more than the minimum deck size. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} any time you could cast a sorcery.)
Flying
When Yorion enters the battlefield, exile any number of other nonland permanents you own and control. Return those cards to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/yorion-sky-nomad
Clearwater Pathway
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $4.60
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{T}: Add {U}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/clearwater-pathway
Alrund's Epiphany
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $6.00
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Create two 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Alrund's Epiphany.
Foretell {4}{U}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/alrunds-epiphany
Binding the Old Gods
Color Identity:B,G
Market Price: $0.32
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
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Negate
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.12
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Counter target noncreature spell.
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Crippling Fear
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.19
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Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.
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Valki, God of Lies
Color Identity:B,R
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When Valki enters the battlefield, each opponent reveals their hand. For each opponent, exile a creature card they revealed this way until Valki leaves the battlefield.
{X}: Choose a creature card exiled with Valki with converted mana cost X. Valki becomes a copy of that card.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/valki-god-of-lies
Barkchannel Pathway
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $3.14
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{T}: Add {G}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/barkchannel-pathway
Disdainful Stroke
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.10
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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
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Mystical Dispute
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.72
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This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/mystical-dispute
Acolyte of Affliction
Color Identity:B,G
Market Price: $0.09
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When Acolyte of Affliction enters the battlefield, mill two cards, then you may return a permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
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Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $3.67
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+1: Create a 2/3 blue and black Nightmare creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library." −3: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand, then that player exiles a card from their hand. −7: You may cast up to three spells from among face-up cards your opponents own from exile without paying their mana costs.
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Darkbore Pathway
Color Identity:B,G
Market Price: $4.75
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{T}: Add {B}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/darkbore-pathway
Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.21
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Cling to Dust
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.61
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Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card.
Escape—{3}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/cling-to-dust
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $36.79
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Trample, haste If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead. If an opponent would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, they put half that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead, rounded down.
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Koma, Cosmos Serpent
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $13.49
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This spell can't be countered. At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 3/3 blue Serpent creature token named Koma's Coil. Sacrifice another Serpent: Choose one — • Tap target permanent. Its activated abilities can't be activated this turn. • Koma, Cosmos Serpent gains indestructible until end of turn.
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Esika, God of the Tree
Color Identity:B,G,R,U,W
Market Price: $11.24
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Vigilance
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Other legendary creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Add one mana of any color."Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/esika-god-of-the-tree
The World Tree
Color Identity:B,G,R,U,W
Market Price: $3.26
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The World Tree enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice The World Tree: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/the-world-tree
Fabled Passage
Market Price: $7.77
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{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/fabled-passage
Elspeth's Nightmare
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.11
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target creature an opponent controls with power 2 or less. II — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card. III — Exile target opponent's graveyard.
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Extinction Event
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $1.63
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Choose odd or even. Exile each creature with converted mana cost of the chosen value. (Zero is even.)
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Ketria Triome
Color Identity:G,R,U
Market Price: $9.39
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({T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.)
Ketria Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/ketria-triome
Forest
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.11
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Eliminate
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.27
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Destroy target creature or planeswalker with converted mana cost 3 or less.
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Llanowar Visionary
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.25
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When Llanowar Visionary enters the battlefield, draw a card.
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Polukranos, Unchained
Color Identity:B,G
Market Price: $2.19
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Polukranos enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it. It escapes with twelve +1/+1 counters on it instead.
If damage would be dealt to Polukranos while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it.
{1}{B}{G}: Polukranos fights another target creature.
Escape—{4}{B}{G}, Exile six other cards from your graveyard.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/polukranos-unchained
Emergent Ultimatum
Color Identity:B,G,U
Market Price: $0.46
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Search your library for up to three monocolored cards with different names and exile them. An opponent chooses one of those cards. Shuffle that card into your library. You may cast the other cards without paying their mana costs. Exile Emergent Ultimatum.
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Swamp
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.15
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({T}: Add {B}.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/swamp
Heartless Act
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $2.12
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Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.
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Whichever Sultai list you do end up playing, it should incorporate Yorion, Sky Nomad. This companion is too good and too powerful to not play. There are additional copies in the maindeck as well, since flickering permanents is going to be a priority.
The deck plays a variety of removal spells to help shore up its defenses against early aggression. Without those early removal spells you would be very vulnerable to an early creature assault. Whenever your opponent leaves you an opening, put a permanent into play like Llanowar Visionary or Path to the World Tree. Cards with enters-the-battlefield effects will help you get ahead on resources as the game progresses, and they have utility at most stages of the game. Anything that sits on the battlefield and can be blinked later with a Yorion, Sky Nomad is valuable.
As we progress into the midgame and later stages of the game, our cards look a lot more threatening. This deck plays three copies of The World Tree, which means that we can gain access to whatever colors we would like. This means having the ability to cast Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor, or activating Path to the World Tree. Seven mana is kind of the sweet spot for this deck, as we can also cast Emergent Ultimatum.
The deck is built to have lots of strong options to grab with Ultimatum. Unfortunately, the more multicolored cards you add, the fewer targets you have for Ultimatum. The key to building a successful Emergent Ultimatum deck is managing which monocolored cards to play. Alrund's Epiphany is usually a must-grab, as your opponent is rarely going to want to give you another turn.
This deck wins the game by having more resources than the opponent, as most control decks do. The Ultimatum itself isn't game winning, but getting to cast two cards out of your deck is normally worth the seven-mana investment.
I would, however, make a few changes to this list in order to really prioritize making Emergent Ultimatum as good as it can be.
If you like the idea of making Emergent Ultimatum a focal point in your deck, I think the deck wants a couple more monocolored cards it can grab. Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider is great, and Alrund's Epiphany is an automatic inclusion, but what other options are there? Even a card like Sea Gate Restoration, that replaces a land, is quite relevant with Emergent Ultimatum. This is the type of low-cost addition that definitely makes a difference. The same can be said of Bala Ged Recovery.
This is my take:
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Sultai Ultimatum by Seth Manfield
'Sultai Ultimatum' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Seth Manfield
Event:
Rank:
Standard
Market Price: $405.39
Negate
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.12
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Counter target noncreature spell.
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Ketria Triome
Color Identity:G,R,U
Market Price: $9.39
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/212697_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.)
Ketria Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/ketria-triome
Forest
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.11
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({T}: Add {G}.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/forest
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $36.79
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Trample, haste If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead. If an opponent would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, they put half that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead, rounded down.
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Mystical Dispute
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.72
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This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/mystical-dispute
Extinction Event
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $1.63
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Choose odd or even. Exile each creature with converted mana cost of the chosen value. (Zero is even.)
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Sea Gate Restoration
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $7.38
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Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
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Shadows' Verdict
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.12
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Exile all creatures and all planeswalkers with converted mana cost 3 or less from the battlefield and all creature and planeswalker cards with converted mana cost 3 or less from all graveyards.
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The World Tree
Color Identity:B,G,R,U,W
Market Price: $3.26
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The World Tree enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice The World Tree: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/the-world-tree
Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.21
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Omen of the Sea
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.10
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Flash
When Omen of the Sea enters the battlefield, scry 2, then draw a card.
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Kiora Bests the Sea God
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $3.77
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token with hexproof. II — Tap all nonland permanents target opponent controls. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step. III — Gain control of target permanent an opponent controls. Untap it.
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Emergent Ultimatum
Color Identity:B,G,U
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Search your library for up to three monocolored cards with different names and exile them. An opponent chooses one of those cards. Shuffle that card into your library. You may cast the other cards without paying their mana costs. Exile Emergent Ultimatum.
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Bala Ged Recovery
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $2.85
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Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
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Barkchannel Pathway
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $3.14
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{T}: Add {G}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/barkchannel-pathway
Koma, Cosmos Serpent
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $13.49
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This spell can't be countered. At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 3/3 blue Serpent creature token named Koma's Coil. Sacrifice another Serpent: Choose one — • Tap target permanent. Its activated abilities can't be activated this turn. • Koma, Cosmos Serpent gains indestructible until end of turn.
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Fabled Passage
Market Price: $7.77
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{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/fabled-passage
Cling to Dust
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.61
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Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card.
Escape—{3}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/cling-to-dust
Elspeth's Nightmare
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.11
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target creature an opponent controls with power 2 or less. II — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card. III — Exile target opponent's graveyard.
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Eliminate
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.27
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Destroy target creature or planeswalker with converted mana cost 3 or less.
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Zagoth Triome
Color Identity:B,G,U
Market Price: $11.01
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({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.)
Zagoth Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/zagoth-triome
Disdainful Stroke
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.10
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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
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Crippling Fear
Color Identity:B
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Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.
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Shark Typhoon
Color Identity:U
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/shark-typhoon
Yorion, Sky Nomad
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $2.57
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Companion — Your starting deck contains at least twenty cards more than the minimum deck size. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} any time you could cast a sorcery.)
Flying
When Yorion enters the battlefield, exile any number of other nonland permanents you own and control. Return those cards to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/yorion-sky-nomad
Llanowar Visionary
Color Identity:G
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When Llanowar Visionary enters the battlefield, draw a card.
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Valki, God of Lies
Color Identity:B,R
Market Price: $21.54
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When Valki enters the battlefield, each opponent reveals their hand. For each opponent, exile a creature card they revealed this way until Valki leaves the battlefield.
{X}: Choose a creature card exiled with Valki with converted mana cost X. Valki becomes a copy of that card.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/valki-god-of-lies
Esika's Chariot
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.28
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When Esika's Chariot enters the battlefield, create two 2/2 green Cat creature tokens. Whenever Esika's Chariot attacks, create a token that's a copy of target token you control. Crew 4
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Heartless Act
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $2.12
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Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.
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Clearwater Pathway
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $4.60
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{T}: Add {U}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/clearwater-pathway
Swamp
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.15
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Esika, God of the Tree
Color Identity:B,G,R,U,W
Market Price: $11.24
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Vigilance
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Other legendary creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Add one mana of any color."Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/esika-god-of-the-tree
Binding the Old Gods
Color Identity:B,G
Market Price: $0.32
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
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Path to the World Tree
Color Identity:B,G,R,U,W
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When Path to the World Tree enters the battlefield, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
{2}{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, Sacrifice Path to the World Tree: You gain 2 life and draw two cards. Target opponent loses 2 life. Path to the World Tree deals 2 damage to up to one target creature. You create a 2/2 green Bear creature token.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/path-to-the-world-tree
Indatha Triome
Color Identity:B,G,W
Market Price: $5.95
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({T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.)
Indatha Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
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Elder Gargaroth
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $13.45
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Vigilance, reach, trample Whenever Elder Gargaroth attacks or blocks, choose one — • Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. • You gain 3 life. • Draw a card.
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Darkbore Pathway
Color Identity:B,G
Market Price: $4.75
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Alrund's Epiphany
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $6.00
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Create two 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Alrund's Epiphany.
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It's possible I'll end up making more changes to the sideboard and manabase, but I wanted to highlight some additional ways to improve the Emergent Ultimatum package, and I believe this list accomplishes that. Adding singleton monocolored cards to the list can be relatively low cost, while having a really nice upside. Once you make the changes to make Emergent Ultimatum better, adding the fourth copy makes sense. I will say the one downside to these changes though is you have even more seven-mana plays than before.
While the Ultimatum package is the most fun way to play Sultai, the old-school version without Ultimatum is the most popular, and perhaps the better direction to go in. The deck is similar to the Dimir Control decks we saw last season, but adding Binding the Old Gods is by itself enough of a reason to have the green. Binding the Old Gods is such an amazing saga to have access to.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Sultai Yorion by Thommimp
'Sultai Yorion' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Thommimp
Event:
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Standard
Market Price: $308.81
Fabled Passage
Market Price: $7.77
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{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/fabled-passage
Duress
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.04
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Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
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Zagoth Triome
Color Identity:B,G,U
Market Price: $11.01
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({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.)
Zagoth Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
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Soul Shatter
Color Identity:B
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Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest converted mana cost among creatures and planeswalkers they control.
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Swamp
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.15
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Temple of Mystery
Color Identity:G,U
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Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1.
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Field of Ruin
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/field-of-ruin
Extinction Event
Color Identity:B
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Choose odd or even. Exile each creature with converted mana cost of the chosen value. (Zero is even.)
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Heartless Act
Color Identity:B
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Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.
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Yorion, Sky Nomad
Color Identity:U,W
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Companion — Your starting deck contains at least twenty cards more than the minimum deck size. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} any time you could cast a sorcery.)
Flying
When Yorion enters the battlefield, exile any number of other nonland permanents you own and control. Return those cards to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/yorion-sky-nomad
Mazemind Tome
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{T}, Put a page counter on Mazemind Tome: Scry 1.
{2}, {T}, Put a page counter on Mazemind Tome: Draw a card.
When there are four or more page counters on Mazemind Tome, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/mazemind-tome
Saw It Coming
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.43
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Counter target spell.
Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/saw-it-coming
Glimpse of Freedom
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.05
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Draw a card.
Escape—{2}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/glimpse-of-freedom
Shark Typhoon
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $12.47
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/shark-typhoon
Omen of the Sea
Color Identity:U
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Flash
When Omen of the Sea enters the battlefield, scry 2, then draw a card.
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Temple of Deceit
Color Identity:B,U
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Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
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Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
Color Identity:B,U
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+1: Create a 2/3 blue and black Nightmare creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library." −3: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand, then that player exiles a card from their hand. −7: You may cast up to three spells from among face-up cards your opponents own from exile without paying their mana costs.
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Barkchannel Pathway
Color Identity:G,U
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{T}: Add {G}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/barkchannel-pathway
Darkbore Pathway
Color Identity:B,G
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{T}: Add {B}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/darkbore-pathway
Negate
Color Identity:U
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Counter target noncreature spell.
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Mystical Dispute
Color Identity:U
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This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/mystical-dispute
Binding the Old Gods
Color Identity:B,G
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
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Island
Color Identity:U
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Clearwater Pathway
Color Identity:B,U
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Bloodchief's Thirst
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.44
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Kicker {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker with converted mana cost 2 or less. If this spell was kicked, instead destroy target creature or planeswalker.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/bloodchiefs-thirst
Castle Vantress
Color Identity:U
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Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
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Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
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+2: Ugin, the Spirit Dragon deals 3 damage to any target. −X: Exile each permanent with converted mana cost X or less that's one or more colors. −10: You gain 7 life, draw seven cards, then put up to seven permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
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Forest
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.11
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Koma, Cosmos Serpent
Color Identity:G,U
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This spell can't be countered. At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 3/3 blue Serpent creature token named Koma's Coil. Sacrifice another Serpent: Choose one — • Tap target permanent. Its activated abilities can't be activated this turn. • Koma, Cosmos Serpent gains indestructible until end of turn.
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Disdainful Stroke
Color Identity:U
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Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
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Elspeth's Nightmare
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.11
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target creature an opponent controls with power 2 or less. II — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card. III — Exile target opponent's graveyard.
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Shadows' Verdict
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.12
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Exile all creatures and all planeswalkers with converted mana cost 3 or less from the battlefield and all creature and planeswalker cards with converted mana cost 3 or less from all graveyards.
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This undefeated list from a recent Standard league on MTGO is one that I like a lot. This is much more of a land-go style deck, where you wait for the opponent to play something, and then react to that.
The idea is the late game belongs to our deck, so the longer the game goes, the more time we have to set up. There is no rush, so the key is managing your mana.
Finding the right time to deploy cards like Mazemind Tome and Binding the Old Gods is definitely important, though there will be times it makes sense to hold up countermagic or threaten to cycle Shark Typhoon. There are big threats that can win the game on their own, like Koma, Cosmos Serpent, and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon.
This deck still makes terrific use of Yorion, Sky Nomad shenanigans. Even if there aren't as many cards you want to flicker compared to the Ultimatum build, there's still Omen of the Sea and Binding the Old Gods. The thing about Yorion is even if you are only flickering one thing with it, that's good enough—the card is still unbelievably strong.
For true control players this is definitely the direction to go in. A nice mix of removal and countermagic, coupled with high-powered threats and card advantage is exactly what you want. Don't worry about having enough tools to win the game, there is plenty here to get the job done.
Having access to escape cards is going to really help against Rogues. Remember that they need to get through 20 more cards to mill you out. This definitely comes up, and even if there are only a couple escape cards in the deck, you will have time to mill them and escape them. I'm not sure if I like Glimpse of Freedom more than Cling to Dust. Cling to Dust has extra utility against opposing escape cards, so I lean toward that.
It seems like every Standard deck these days has a few obligatory slots for escape cards. After that, because we are a blue control deck, Mystical Dispute is another clear inclusion. In decks like this there will always be matchups where we want less removal, like the mirror for instance, and more controlling cards, like counters. Duress also comes in for similar matchups as a form of cheap interaction.
On the flip side, Extinction Event and Shadows' Verdict are very important against creature decks. I'm a bit surprised Thommimp didn't include Extinction Event in the maindeck, but the format isn't super aggressive at the moment, so this could make sense as a metagame call.
The Ultimatum list has a similar sideboard plan to the more controlling list. Since it has sweepers in the maindeck though, the Ultimatum deck can afford Elder Gargaroth in the sideboard, which can be a great card against decks like Gruul. Countermagic doesn't work as well with Ultimatum, since that deck is more of a tap-out strategy.
It's clear that Binding the Old Gods is the single card that has allowed Sultai to take off as a deck once more.
Binding the Old Gods plays so well with Yorion, Sky Nomad that this seems like the perfect home for the card, and the versatility it adds in terms of removal means it will be good no matter what the matchup is. While Binding the Old Gods is the most significant addition from Kaldheim, the Pathways, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, Esika, God of the Tree, Valki, God of Lies, Path to the World Tree, Koma, Cosmos Serpent, Alrund's Epiphany, and Saw It Coming are also important options that Sultai now has access to.
Sultai has risen through the ranks to become a top-tier control deck again, so watch out!