By the time companions had their rules changed two weeks ago, the cards had completely taken over the Pioneer metagame. Tacking on a three-mana cost makes them much less accessible from an in-game perspective, which has opened up a lot of breathing room in the metagame for other non-companion strategies to succeed.

In some ways Pioneer now looks like it did before Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths was released, back to Theros Beyond Death and the multiple weekends of Players Tour events that featured decks like Dimir Inverter, Lotus Breach and Spirits, which are all top performers now. On top of the usual Preliminary and Challenge events online, there has also been a higher-stakes Pioneer event, with a Showcase Challenge that awarded the Top 8 invites to the season's Pioneer Championship. These events have provided a great look at the metagame. 

Bant Spirits

The winner of the Showcase event was Bant Spirits.

Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Bant Spirits by Jackl

'Bant Spirits' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!

Created By: Jackl

Event: MTGO Pioneer Showcase - 06/07/2020

Rank: 1st

Pioneer

Market Price: $402.32

Cards

Glacial Fortress

Color Identity:U,W

Market Price: $5.10

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Glacial Fortress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

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Selfless Spirit

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $12.04

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Flying
Sacrifice Selfless Spirit: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

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Plains

Color Identity:W

Market Price: $1.09

ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/235540_200w.jpg

({T}: Add {W}.)

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Rattlechains

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.91

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Flash
Flying
When Rattlechains enters the battlefield, target Spirit gains hexproof until end of turn.
You may cast Spirit spells as though they had flash.

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Island

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.43

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({T}: Add {U}.)

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Botanical Sanctum

Color Identity:G,U

Market Price: $4.44

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Botanical Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

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Mystical Dispute

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $0.35

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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}.

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Mausoleum Wanderer

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $2.37

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Flying
Whenever another Spirit enters the battlefield under your control, Mausoleum Wanderer gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Sacrifice Mausoleum Wanderer: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is Mausoleum Wanderer's power.

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Knight of Autumn

Color Identity:G,W

Market Price: $1.94

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When Knight of Autumn enters the battlefield, choose one —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on Knight of Autumn.
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• You gain 4 life.

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Damping Sphere

Market Price: $1.82

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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.

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Dromoka's Command

Color Identity:G,W

Market Price: $1.39

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Choose two —
• Prevent all damage target instant or sorcery spell would deal this turn.
• Target player sacrifices an enchantment.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

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Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft

Color Identity:U

Market Price: $13.23

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Spell Queller
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $8.04
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Flash
Flying
When Spell Queller enters the battlefield, exile target spell with converted mana cost 4 or less.
When Spell Queller leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
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Ojutai's Command
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $0.41
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Choose two —
• Return target creature card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• You gain 4 life.
• Counter target creature spell.
• Draw a card.
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Nebelgast Herald
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.20
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Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Whenever Nebelgast Herald or another Spirit enters the battlefield under your control, tap target creature an opponent controls.
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Hallowed Fountain
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $8.49
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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Empyrean Eagle
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $0.27
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Flying
Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
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Supreme Phantom
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $3.54
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Flying
Other Spirits you control get +1/+1.
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Spectral Sailor
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.30
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Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
{3}{U}: Draw a card.
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Yavimaya Coast
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $1.00
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.
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Breeding Pool
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $23.75
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({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Temple Garden
Color Identity:G,W
Market Price: $11.77
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({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
As Temple Garden enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Collected Company
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $19.00
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Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
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Rest in Peace
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $4.96
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When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
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The companion change cut down both aggressive decks from the Lurrus of the Dream-Den side and control decks from the Yorion, Sky Nomad side. This puts combo decks like Dimir Inverter and Lotus Breach at the top, and Spirits has the mix of aggression and disruption that's well-suited for slicing through them—this list took down Lotus Breach in the quarterfinals before beating Dimir Inverter in the finals.



Spirits can still easily support Jegantha, the Wellspring, but it's such a low-impact companion that this deck gives it up in favor of a sideboard slot and the ability to include the versatile Brazen Borrower.



Izzet Ensoul



Another deck succeeding in this niche is Izzet Ensoul, which combines its own brand of synergy-driven aggro mixed with removal and countermagic. 



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Izzet Ensoul by oosunq
'Izzet Ensoul' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: oosunq
Event: MTGO Pioneer Challenge - 06/14/2020
Rank: 2nd
Pioneer
Market Price: $197.33
Cards
Ensoul Artifact
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.37
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/91277_200w.jpg
Enchant artifact
Enchanted artifact is a creature with base power and toughness 5/5 in addition to its other types.
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Wild Slash
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.46
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Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, damage can't be prevented this turn.
Wild Slash deals 2 damage to any target.
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Mystical Dispute
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.35
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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}.
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Spirebluff Canal
Color Identity:R,U
Market Price: $13.71
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Spirebluff Canal enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
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Shadowspear
Market Price: $10.37
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Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip {2}
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Shivan Reef
Color Identity:R,U
Market Price: $2.00
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.
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Aethersphere Harvester
Market Price: $0.23
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Flying
When Aethersphere Harvester enters the battlefield, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters).
Pay {E}: Aethersphere Harvester gains lifelink until end of turn.
Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
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Stonecoil Serpent
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Reach, trample, protection from multicolored
Stonecoil Serpent enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
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Rending Volley
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.16
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This spell can't be countered.
Rending Volley deals 4 damage to target white or blue creature.
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Stubborn Denial
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.70
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Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.
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Shrapnel Blast
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.10
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As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact.
Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to any target.
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Gingerbrute
Market Price: $0.24
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Haste
{1}: Gingerbrute can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Gingerbrute: You gain 3 life.
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Tormod's Crypt
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{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.
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Ornithopter
Market Price: $0.30
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Flying
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Hope of Ghirapur
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Flying
Sacrifice Hope of Ghirapur: Until your next turn, target player who was dealt combat damage by Hope of Ghirapur this turn can't cast noncreature spells.
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Skilled Animator
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.04
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When Skilled Animator enters the battlefield, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5 for as long as Skilled Animator remains on the battlefield.
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Spire of Industry
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate this ability only if you control an artifact.
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Darksteel Citadel
Market Price: $1.00
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Indestructible
{T}: Add {C}.
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Ghostfire Blade
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Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
Equip {3}
Ghostfire Blade's equip ability costs {2} less to activate if it targets a colorless creature.
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Bomat Courier
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.45
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Haste
Whenever Bomat Courier attacks, exile the top card of your library face down. (You can't look at it.)
{R}, Discard your hand, Sacrifice Bomat Courier: Put all cards exiled with Bomat Courier into their owners' hands.
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Aether Gust
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.72
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Choose target spell or permanent that's red or green. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
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Steam Vents
Color Identity:R,U
Market Price: $11.93
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({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Dive Down
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.17
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Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
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Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $13.23
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Mutavault
Market Price: $8.28
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{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.
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One major Pioneer trend during the final days of pre-companion change was the rise of a Lurrus of the Dream-Den-powered Ensoul Artifact that embraced white for cards like Toolcraft Exemplar and Thraben Inspector in addition to the companion. White's no longer so desirable, so the deck has returned to its Izzet roots, but the cat's now out of the bag and the strategy remains one of the most appealing in this metagame. It had an impressive run last weekend with a third place Challenge finish followed by a second place the following day in the hands of oosunq.



Winota Combo






Pioneer has seen the addition of a brand new combo deck in the form of the Winota, Joiner of Forces. Winota was dominating Standard before the Agent of Treachery ban, and got banned itself in Magic Arena's Historic format. Now it's doing real damage in Pioneer combined with Angrath's Marauders.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Naya Winota by Daking3603
'Naya Winota' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Daking3603
Event: MTGO Pioneer Showcase - 06/07/2020
Rank: 3rd-4th
Pioneer
Market Price: $300.09
Cards
Silkwrap
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.09
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When Silkwrap enters the battlefield, exile target creature with converted mana cost 3 or less an opponent controls until Silkwrap leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)
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Mana Confluence
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{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
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Hushbringer
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.06
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Flying, lifelink
Creatures entering the battlefield or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.
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Scampering Scorcher
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.12
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When Scampering Scorcher enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens. Elementals you control gain haste until end of turn. (They can attack and {T} this turn.)
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Temple Garden
Color Identity:G,W
Market Price: $11.77
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({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
As Temple Garden enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Inspiring Vantage
Color Identity:R,W
Market Price: $5.43
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Inspiring Vantage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.
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Eldritch Evolution
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $4.81
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As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost X or less, where X is 2 plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Exile Eldritch Evolution.
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Angrath's Marauders
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $1.25
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If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.
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Voice of Resurgence
Color Identity:G,W
Market Price: $2.34
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Whenever an opponent casts a spell during your turn or when Voice of Resurgence dies, create a green and white Elemental creature token with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control."
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Mountain
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.43
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({T}: Add {R}.)
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Elvish Mystic
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.50
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{T}: Add {G}.
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Gilded Goose
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $1.44
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Flying
When Gilded Goose enters the battlefield, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
{1}{G}, {T}: Create a Food token.
{T}, Sacrifice a Food: Add one mana of any color.
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Winota, Joiner of Forces
Color Identity:R,W
Market Price: $4.10
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Whenever a non-Human creature you control attacks, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. It gains indestructible until end of turn. Put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.09
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Sacred Foundry
Color Identity:R,W
Market Price: $15.22
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({T}: Add {R} or {W}.)
As Sacred Foundry enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.72
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Llanowar Elves
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.93
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{T}: Add {G}.
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Knight of Autumn
Color Identity:G,W
Market Price: $1.94
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When Knight of Autumn enters the battlefield, choose one —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on Knight of Autumn.
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• You gain 4 life.
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Scavenging Ooze
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.48
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{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
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Legion Warboss
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $2.49
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Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. That token gains haste until end of turn and attacks this combat if able.
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Goblin Rabblemaster
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $3.82
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Other Goblin creatures you control attack each combat if able.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste.
Whenever Goblin Rabblemaster attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Goblin.
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Rootbound Crag
Color Identity:G,R
Market Price: $3.94
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Rootbound Crag enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.
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Sunpetal Grove
Color Identity:G,W
Market Price: $4.29
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Sunpetal Grove enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.
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Goblin Instigator
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.39
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When Goblin Instigator enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
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Forest
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $3.99
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/235548_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {G}.)
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Selfless Spirit
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $12.04
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Flying
Sacrifice Selfless Spirit: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
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Kenrith, the Returned King
Color Identity:B,G,R,U,W
Market Price: $5.20
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{R}: All creatures gain trample and haste until end of turn.
{1}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
{2}{W}: Target player gains 5 life.
{3}{U}: Target player draws a card.
{4}{B}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.
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Stomping Ground
Color Identity:G,R
Market Price: $9.46
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({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Winota, Joiner of Forces can be tutored with Eldritch Evolution, which adds real consistency to the strategy. Its ten mana dorks accelerate the pace at which you can drop Winota, and they also support the deck's ability to win a fair creature game with plays like turn-two Legion Warboss or Goblin Rabblemaster. Along with Voice of Resurgence (which is great with Eldritch Evolution) and Selfless Spirit (which can protect Winota), the deck can play a scrappy, aggressive game. This plan is rounded out nicely by Kenrith, the Returned King, which adds the potential for card advantage and utility, while also being another high-impact Human to hit with Winota, Joiner of Forces.



This deck has a turn four-goldfish that can race other combo decks, backed by a robust fair game plan for grinding out against control decks. The three-color deck also has access to a strong sideboard packed with disruption, including the value-generating Bonecrusher Giant and Knight of Autumn that allow it to give up the combo completely against aggressive decks and win a fair game.



Mono-Red Aggro



Lurrus of the Dream-Den decks have been the hardest hit from the companion change, and their decline has opened up the aggressive niche. Red decks have given up the Boros burn plan and returned to the more traditional creature-filled midrange approach they took before companions, centered around Torbran, Thane of Red Fell as a powerful finisher. 



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Red Aggro by Lord_Beerus
'Mono-Red Aggro' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Lord_Beerus
Event: MTGO Pioneer Showcase - 06/07/2020
Rank: 3rd-4th
Pioneer
Market Price: $150.07
Cards
Wild Slash
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.46
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/95314_200w.jpg
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, damage can't be prevented this turn.
Wild Slash deals 2 damage to any target.
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Monastery Swiftspear
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $5.10
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/145323_200w.jpg
Haste
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
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Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.72
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Ahn-Crop Crasher
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.09
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/129722_200w.jpg
Haste
You may exert Ahn-Crop Crasher as it attacks. When you do, target creature can't block this turn. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)
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Soul-Scar Mage
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $7.20
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Prowess
If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to a creature an opponent controls, put that many -1/-1 counters on that creature instead.
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Mountain
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.43
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({T}: Add {R}.)
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Goblin Rabblemaster
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $3.82
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Other Goblin creatures you control attack each combat if able.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste.
Whenever Goblin Rabblemaster attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Goblin.
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Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $7.84
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+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 2 damage to each opponent.
+1: Add {R}{R}.
−3: Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."
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Rampaging Ferocidon
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $3.70
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Menace
Players can't gain life.
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, Rampaging Ferocidon deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.
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Eidolon of the Great Revel
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $7.41
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Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost 3 or less, Eidolon of the Great Revel deals 2 damage to that player.
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Scab-Clan Berserker
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.49
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Haste
Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, if Scab-Clan Berserker is renowned, Scab-Clan Berserker deals 2 damage to that player.
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Lightning Strike
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.13
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Lightning Strike deals 3 damage to any target.
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Castle Embereth
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.23
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Castle Embereth enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
{1}{R}{R}, {T}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
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Ramunap Ruins
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.54
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/135091_200w.jpg
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R}.
{2}{R}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Ramunap Ruins deals 2 damage to each opponent.
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Searing Blood
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.32
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Searing Blood deals 2 damage to target creature. When that creature dies this turn, Searing Blood deals 3 damage to the creature's controller.
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Harness by Force
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.24
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Strive — This spell costs {2}{R} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Gain control of any number of target creatures until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.
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Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.47
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If a red source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.
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Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.25
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First strike, menace
Whenever Kari Zev, Skyship Raider attacks, create Ragavan, a legendary 2/1 red Monkey creature token. Ragavan enters the battlefield tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.
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Tormod's Crypt
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{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.
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Mutavault
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{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.
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Zurgo Bellstriker
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.47
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Zurgo Bellstriker can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.
Dash {1}{R} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
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This version made Top 8 of the Showcase Challenge and has sustained its success as the format's new go-to red deck. 



Vampires



There has also been a rise in Mono-Black decks. In a surprising twist, the most successful has been the Vampire tribal version, which made Top 4 of the Showcase Challenge in the hand of former MOCS Champion Butakov. The deck has been a big player ever since.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Black Vampires by Butakov
'Mono-Black Vampires' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Butakov
Event: MTGO Pioneer Showcase - 06/07/2020
Rank: 3rd-4th
Pioneer
Market Price: $411.04
Cards
Rankle, Master of Pranks
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $8.11
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/198584_200w.jpg
Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle, Master of Pranks deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature.
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Champion of Dusk
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.99
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When Champion of Dusk enters the battlefield, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Vampires you control.
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Mutavault
Market Price: $8.28
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{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.
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Soul-Guide Lantern
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When Soul-Guide Lantern enters the battlefield, exile target card from a graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Draw a card.
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Knight of the Ebon Legion
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $1.36
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{2}{B}: Knight of the Ebon Legion gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Knight of the Ebon Legion. (Damage causes loss of life.)
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Liliana, the Last Hope
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $25.86
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+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-1 until your next turn.
−2: Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is two plus the number of Zombies you control."
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Lost Legacy
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.22
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/122731_200w.jpg
Choose a nonartifact, nonland card name. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles their library, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.
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Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
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Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
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Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $15.00
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Lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet.
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Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $15.47
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+1: Target creature you control gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. If it's a Vampire, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
+1: You may sacrifice a Vampire. When you do, Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
−3: You may put a Vampire creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.
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Heartless Act
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $1.67
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/212369_200w.jpg
Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
• Remove up to three counters from target creature.
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Gifted Aetherborn
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $1.05
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Deathtouch, lifelink
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Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
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Drill Bit
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.14
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Spectacle {B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
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Castle Locthwain
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $3.45
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Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
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Swamp
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.43
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({T}: Add {B}.)
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Fatal Push
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $2.04
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Destroy target creature if it has converted mana cost 2 or less.
Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has converted mana cost 4 or less instead if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.
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Thoughtseize
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $16.95
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Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
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Murderous Rider // Swift End
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $1.22
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Dusk Legion Zealot
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.14
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When Dusk Legion Zealot enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
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The Vampire deck's success over the more typical aggressive Mono-Black could be a case of people simply copycatting a notable player, but it seems to go deeper. With tools like Gifted Aetherborn and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet, Vampires is in a much better position against red decks. At the same time, grinding tools like Champion of Dusk and its planeswalker Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord are great against the controlling decks in the field. Vampires does pay for this in the combo matchups, where it's less capable of hyper-aggressive starts that outrace the opponent, but Thoughtseize and sideboard disruption including Drill Bit and Lost Legacy means it has plenty of ways to put a stop to them.



Mono-Green Devotion



Maybe even more surprising than the return of Vampires was the final deck that reached the Showcase Top 8: a Mono-Green Devotion deck.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Green Devotion by stainerson
'Mono-Green Devotion' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: stainerson
Event: MTGO Pioneer Showcase - 06/07/2020
Rank: 3rd-4th
Pioneer
Market Price: $347.74
Cards
Elvish Mystic
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.50
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/231208_200w.jpg
{T}: Add {G}.
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Jadelight Ranger
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.62
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When Jadelight Ranger enters the battlefield, it explores, then it explores again. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)
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Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
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Grafdigger's Cage
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Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
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God-Pharaoh's Statue
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Spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast.
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life.
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Tormod's Crypt
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{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.
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Darksteel Citadel
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Indestructible
{T}: Add {C}.
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Wolfwillow Haven
Color Identity:G
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Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.
{4}{G}, Sacrifice Wolfwillow Haven: Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. Activate this ability only during your turn.
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Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
Color Identity:G
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You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Put your choice of a vigilance counter, a reach counter, or a trample counter on it.
−2: When you cast your next creature spell this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser converted mana cost, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
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Flying
Whenever Skysovereign, Consul Flagship enters the battlefield or attacks, it deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.
Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
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Vivien, Arkbow Ranger
Color Identity:G
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+1: Distribute two +1/+1 counters among up to two target creatures. They gain trample until end of turn.
−3: Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker.
−5: You may reveal a creature card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand.
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Nissa, Who Shakes the World
Color Identity:G
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Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land.
−8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
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Meteor Golem
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When Meteor Golem enters the battlefield, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
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Walking Ballista
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Walking Ballista enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Ballista.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Walking Ballista: It deals 1 damage to any target.
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Voracious Hydra
Color Identity:G
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Trample
Voracious Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When Voracious Hydra enters the battlefield, choose one —
• Double the number of +1/+1 counters on Voracious Hydra.
• Voracious Hydra fights target creature you don't control.
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Castle Garenbrig
Color Identity:G
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Castle Garenbrig enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.
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Questing Beast
Color Identity:G
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Vigilance, deathtouch, haste
Questing Beast can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Combat damage that would be dealt by creatures you control can't be prevented.
Whenever Questing Beast deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to target planeswalker that player controls.
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Voyaging Satyr
Color Identity:G
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{T}: Untap target land.
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Bow of Nylea
Color Identity:G
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Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch.
{1}{G}, {T}: Choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Bow of Nylea deals 2 damage to target creature with flying.
• You gain 3 life.
• Put up to four target cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library in any order.
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The Great Henge
Color Identity:G
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This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
{T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.
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Karn, the Great Creator
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Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated.
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
−2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.
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Aligned Hedron Network
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When Aligned Hedron Network enters the battlefield, exile all creatures with power 5 or greater until Aligned Hedron Network leaves the battlefield. (Those creatures return under their owners' control.)
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Verdurous Gearhulk
Color Identity:G
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Trample
When Verdurous Gearhulk enters the battlefield, distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.
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Llanowar Elves
Color Identity:G
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{T}: Add {G}.
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Pithing Needle
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As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, choose a card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
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Scavenging Ooze
Color Identity:G
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{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
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Heart of Kiran
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Flying, vigilance
Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
You may remove a loyalty counter from a planeswalker you control rather than pay Heart of Kiran's crew cost.
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Forest
Color Identity:G
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({T}: Add {G}.)
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Damping Sphere
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
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Mono-Green Devotion can almost be classified as a combo deck because of its speed and ability to go over the top of opponents.  But it can harness that explosive power to play as an aggressive deck that floods the battlefield with creatures, or as a midrange deck that can interact with Voracious Hydra, Walking Ballista and its planeswalker suite. It's these planeswalkers that have been the key to the deck's success, with this version playing the Karn, the Great Creator and Vivien, Arkbow Ranger toolbox wishboard that became standard before Ikoria.






The companions overshadowed it at first, but now Vivien, Monsters' Advocate has emerged as another potentially broken Ikoria card and a great addition to the strategy. In a deck with so many cheap creatures, its passive ability adds an incredible value engine—especially when fueled by the deck's mana creatures and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx. This alone makes Vivien, Monsters' Advocate a big threat for the opponent, but its further utility as a continuous source of creature tokens makes it even more dangerous. 



It lacks a true ultimate, but its secondary -2 ability is an incredible asset combined with the deck's flexible X-cost creatures. The tutor ability means the deck can extend its toolbox to the maindeck, which it does with Questing Beast as an aggressive option or Scavenging Ooze to hold it down against aggro or hose graveyard decks like Lotus Breach. It all adds up to make this a top-tier planeswalker that's just beginning to show the world what it can do.



Unexpected Results Ramp



Another flavor of green ramp that blurs the line between midrange and combo even curther reached the finals of Saturday's Pioneer Challenge.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Simic Ramp by fistfullofmetal
'Simic Ramp' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: fistfullofmetal
Event: MTGO Pioneer Challenge - 06/13/2020
Rank: 2nd
Pioneer
Market Price: $640.01
Cards
Skylasher
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.27
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Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Reach, protection from blue
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Island
Color Identity:U
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({T}: Add {U}.)
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Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
Color Identity:G,U
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When Uro enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Uro enters the battlefield or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
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Unexpected Results
Color Identity:G,U
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Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield and return Unexpected Results to its owner's hand.
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Castle Garenbrig
Color Identity:G
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Castle Garenbrig enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.
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Satyr Wayfinder
Color Identity:G
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When Satyr Wayfinder enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
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Thought-Knot Seer
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({C} represents colorless mana.)
When Thought-Knot Seer enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
When Thought-Knot Seer leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card.
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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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Arboreal Grazer
Color Identity:G
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Reach
When Arboreal Grazer enters the battlefield, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
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Forest
Color Identity:G
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({T}: Add {G}.)
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Growth Spiral
Color Identity:G,U
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Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
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Hinterland Harbor
Color Identity:G,U
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Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
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Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless spells. Activate this ability only if you control seven or more lands.
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Breeding Pool
Color Identity:G,U
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({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Kozilek, the Great Distortion
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When you cast this spell, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.
Menace
Discard a card with converted mana cost X: Counter target spell with converted mana cost X.
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Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
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When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents.
Indestructible
Whenever Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.
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Ipnu Rivulet
Color Identity:U
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target player mills four cards.
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Reclamation Sage
Color Identity:G
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When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
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Emrakul, the Promised End
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This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard.
When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn.
Flying, trample, protection from instants
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Nissa's Pilgrimage
Color Identity:G
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Search your library for up to two basic Forest cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, search your library for up to three basic Forest cards instead of two.
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Yavimaya Coast
Color Identity:G,U
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.
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Damping Sphere
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
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Ramp has been around in Pioneer for a while, eschewing the typical mana acceleration creatures in favor of cards like Arboreal Grazer, Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath and Shrine of the Forsaken Gods to hard-cast its top-end of Eldrazi.






This version goes further by adding Unexpected Results as a glorified Growth Spiral with the potential to flip an Eldrazi like Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger or Emrakul, the Promised End and likely win the game on the spot.



Unexpected Results may not be extremely reliable as a threat, but because it seamlessly fits into the strategy as a ramp spell, whether it's flipping a land or playing a different ramp spell, it always helps the deck work toward its endgame. When it does shortcut immediately to that endgame by flipping an Eldrazi, it's among the most powerful cards in Pioneer—perhaps that's necessary for a deck that might otherwise play too fair to compete with such a broken metagame. 



Without a lucky break from Unexpected Results or the help of sideboard cards I expect that the deck will struggle against other combo decks, but it does look to be a great option for fighting against midrange decks. It loves seeing a rise in Vampires instead of Mono-Black Aggro, for example, and even the current red decks tend to be slower than Lurrus Boros Burn and Heroic. While it did lose in the finals against the Sultai Delirium, in general Ramp should also prey on Delirium and other midrange decks like Esper Yorion.



Sultai Delirium



Sultai is on the upswing after winning Saturday's Challenge in the hands of Logan "Jaberwocki" Nettles and another list reaching the Top 8 of Sunday's.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Sultai Delirium by Jaberwocki
'Sultai Delirium' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Jaberwocki
Event: MTGO Pioneer Challenge - 06/13/2020
Rank: 1st
Pioneer
Market Price: $526.14
Cards
Duress
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.08
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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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Thoughtseize
Color Identity:B
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Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
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Hostage Taker
Color Identity:B,U
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When Hostage Taker enters the battlefield, exile another target creature or artifact until Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast that spell.
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Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
Color Identity:G,U
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When Uro enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Uro enters the battlefield or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
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Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound
Color Identity:U
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{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.
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Ipnu Rivulet
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.11
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target player mills four cards.
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Fatal Push
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $2.04
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Destroy target creature if it has converted mana cost 2 or less.
Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has converted mana cost 4 or less instead if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.
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Fabled Passage
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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.
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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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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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Zagoth Triome
Color Identity:B,G,U
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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.)
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Woodland Cemetery
Color Identity:B,G
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Woodland Cemetery enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
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Negate
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.09
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Counter target noncreature spell.
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Unravel the Aether
Color Identity:G
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Choose target artifact or enchantment. Its owner shuffles it into their library.
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Blooming Marsh
Color Identity:B,G
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Blooming Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
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Damping Sphere
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
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Tireless Tracker
Color Identity:G
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Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on Tireless Tracker.
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Island
Color Identity:U
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({T}: Add {U}.)
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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.
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Traverse the Ulvenwald
Color Identity:G
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Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for a creature or land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
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Satyr Wayfinder
Color Identity:G
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When Satyr Wayfinder enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
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Forest
Color Identity:G
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({T}: Add {G}.)
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Breeding Pool
Color Identity:G,U
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({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Murderous Rider // Swift End
Color Identity:B
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Eat to Extinction
Color Identity:B
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Exile target creature or planeswalker. Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.
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Drowned Catacomb
Color Identity:B,U
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Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
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Hinterland Harbor
Color Identity:G,U
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Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
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Watery Grave
Color Identity:B,U
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({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Emrakul, the Promised End
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This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard.
When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn.
Flying, trample, protection from instants
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Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths
Color Identity:B,U
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Menace
When Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths enters the battlefield, target opponent looks at the top three cards of your library and separates them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
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Walking Ballista
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Walking Ballista enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Ballista.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Walking Ballista: It deals 1 damage to any target.
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Abrupt Decay
Color Identity:B,G
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This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
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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}.
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Swamp
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.43
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({T}: Add {B}.)
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Overgrown Tomb
Color Identity:B,G
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({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
As Overgrown Tomb enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Sultai Delirium stands out as exactly the kind of deck that had a lot to gain from the companion change. It's solidly a midrange deck in the same vein as something like Jund. In other words, it looks to trade resources with its opponent using disruption like Thoughtseize and ultimately out-grind them with card advantage from cards like Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath. Companions presented a major obstacle to this plan, with Lurrus of the Dream-Den giving aggressive decks the extra fuel they needed to finish the job, and Yorion, Sky Nomad giving control decks a reliable and Thoughtseize-proof card advantage tool that could undo all of Sultai's grinding. 



With companions mostly out of the way, and with great tools against fair decks, that just leaves combo decks as the main problem for Sultai. Thoughtseize does go a long way against these decks, especially in multiples, but as expected Sultai's sideboard is focused on beating combo decks. A set of Mystical Dispute and a Negate do double duty as the main disruption against both Dimir Inverter and Lotus Breach, the latter of which it attacks further with three Damping Sphere.



Its eventual endgame of Emrakul, the Promised End (accessible by Traverse the Ulvenwald) and Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, puts the onus on the opponent to win the game quickly, and the deck is great at stopping opponents from doing that. While it lacks speed and killing power, Sultai has game against any opponent, and is a deck that fans of true midrange strategies like Modern Jund will enjoy in Pioneer.



Don't Count Out Companions



One consequence of the companion rule change making them harder to grab from the sideboard is an increase in decks including them in the maindeck instead. Both Lurrus of the Dream-Den and Yorion, Sky Nomad have put up notable results as maindeck cards. Yorion, Sky Nomad has simply been added to decks where it's still being used as a companion in order to increase accessibility, like in the Esper Control strategy that broke out before the change.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Esper Control (Yorion) by killersuv
'Esper Control (Yorion)' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: killersuv
Event: MTGO Pioneer Challenge - 06/13/2020
Rank: 5th-8th
Pioneer
Market Price: $498.07
Cards
Watery Grave
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $12.25
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({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Negate
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.09
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Counter target noncreature spell.
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Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
Color Identity:U,W
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+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands.
−3: Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library third from the top.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you draw a card, exile target permanent an opponent controls."
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Settle the Wreckage
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.54
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Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Narset, Parter of Veils
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $1.36
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Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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Castle Ardenvale
Color Identity:W
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Castle Ardenvale enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
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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.
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Supreme Verdict
Color Identity:U,W
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This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.
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Swamp
Color Identity:B
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({T}: Add {B}.)
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Geier Reach Sanitarium
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.
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Hallowed Fountain
Color Identity:U,W
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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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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.
{2}{U}, Sacrifice Omen of the Sea: Scry 2.
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Rest in Peace
Color Identity:W
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When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
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Isolated Chapel
Color Identity:B,W
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Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
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Fatal Push
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $2.04
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Destroy target creature if it has converted mana cost 2 or less.
Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has converted mana cost 4 or less instead if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.
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Dovin's Veto
Color Identity:U,W
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This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
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Godless Shrine
Color Identity:B,W
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({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Thoughtseize
Color Identity:B
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Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
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Omen of the Sun
Color Identity:W
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Flash
When Omen of the Sun enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens and you gain 2 life.
{2}{W}, Sacrifice Omen of the Sun: Scry 2.
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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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Drowned Catacomb
Color Identity:B,U
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Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
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Shambling Vent
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $0.80
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Shambling Vent enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}{W}{B}: Shambling Vent becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.
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Oath of Kaya
Color Identity:B,W
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When Oath of Kaya enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent attacks a planeswalker you control with one or more creatures, Oath of Kaya deals 2 damage to that player and you gain 2 life.
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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}.
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Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.09
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Teferi, Time Raveler
Color Identity:U,W
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Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
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Trial of Ambition
Color Identity:B
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When Trial of Ambition enters the battlefield, target opponent sacrifices a creature.
When a Cartouche enters the battlefield under your control, return Trial of Ambition to its owner's hand.
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Damping Sphere
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
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Glacial Fortress
Color Identity:U,W
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Glacial Fortress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.
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Command the Dreadhorde
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.73
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Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total converted mana cost of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.
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Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.43
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({T}: Add {U}.)
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Thought Erasure
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $0.28
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Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
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Fabled Passage
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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.
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Lurrus of the Dream-Den has shown up in more unexpected places, like in the White Devotion deck where its double-white mana cost is a benefit and its ability plays well with the deck's many cheap creatures.



Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - White Devotion (Yorion) by Toastxp
'White Devotion (Yorion)' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Toastxp
Event: 
Rank: 
Pioneer
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Charming Prince
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.72
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When Charming Prince enters the battlefield, choose one —
• Scry 2.
• You gain 3 life.
• Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
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Castle Ardenvale
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.27
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Castle Ardenvale enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
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Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.45
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Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)
Whenever another creature you control enters the battlefield or dies, you gain 1 life.
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Kambal, Consul of Allocation
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $4.80
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Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
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Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.09
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({T}: Add {W}.)
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Thraben Inspector
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.22
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When Thraben Inspector enters the battlefield, investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
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Concealed Courtyard
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $3.11
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Concealed Courtyard enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
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Yorion, Sky Nomad
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $4.32
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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.
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Caves of Koilos
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $1.00
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.
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Knight of the White Orchid
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.77
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First strike
When Knight of the White Orchid enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $25.11
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Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control.
{1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
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Grafdigger's Cage
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Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
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Stasis Snare
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.22
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Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Stasis Snare enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Stasis Snare leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)
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Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.74
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Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
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Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $12.00
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Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has converted mana cost 2 or less. (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.)
Lifelink
During each of your turns, you may cast one permanent spell with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard.
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Arcanist's Owl
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $0.08
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Flying
When Arcanist's Owl enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact or enchantment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
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Damping Sphere
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
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Baffling End
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.11
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When Baffling End enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls with converted mana cost 3 or less.
When Baffling End leaves the battlefield, target opponent creates a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.
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Fatal Push
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $2.04
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Destroy target creature if it has converted mana cost 2 or less.
Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has converted mana cost 4 or less instead if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.
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Thoughtseize
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $16.95
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Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
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Godless Shrine
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $9.93
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({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Stain the Mind
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.20
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Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Choose a nonland card name. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles their library.
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Oath of Kaya
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $0.48
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When Oath of Kaya enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent attacks a planeswalker you control with one or more creatures, Oath of Kaya deals 2 damage to that player and you gain 2 life.
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Walking Ballista
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Walking Ballista enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Ballista.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Walking Ballista: It deals 1 damage to any target.
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Elspeth Conquers Death
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.75
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile target permanent an opponent controls with converted mana cost 3 or greater.
II — Noncreature spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast until your next turn.
III — Return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter or a loyalty counter on it.
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Isolated Chapel
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $5.71
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Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
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Gideon of the Trials
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $4.31
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+1: Until your next turn, prevent all damage target permanent would deal.
0: Until end of turn, Gideon of the Trials becomes a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: You get an emblem with "As long as you control a Gideon planeswalker, you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game."
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Temple of Silence
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $1.00
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Temple of Silence enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Silence enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
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The deck still uses Yorion, Sky Nomad in the sideboard, so along with the maindeck Lurrus of the Dream-Den the deck has a ton of companion power and looks like a ton of fun to play. I wouldn't be surprised if maindeck companions, with or without another in the sideboard, becomes the new norm. Numbers like a playset of maindeck Lurrus of the Dream-Den or three Yorion, Sky Nomad with one in the sideboard could become commonplace as deck builders continue to adapt and the metagame further evolves.