Develop cheap eerie rewards, then cast enchantment creatures and efficient Rooms that add bodies, counters and tempo while keeping attacks moving.
Develop cheap eerie rewards, then cast enchantment creatures and efficient Rooms that add bodies, counters and tempo while keeping attacks moving.
Commit when repeated useful cards and enough support make a complete deck in these colors.
Four checks while you draft
Can I affect the board before the payoff?
The vigilant enchantment creature contributes an eerie entry and surveils when it attacks. Use safe attacks to prepare draws and delirium without leaving your early blocker tapped.
Do my actual cards enable this plan?
Play Gremlin Tamer or Optimistic Scavenger before casting Grand Entryway. The Room enters as an enchantment, then its unlock trigger creates a separate Glimmer enchantment creature for another eerie event.
Can I stop their strongest play and finish a stalled game?
Develop cheap eerie rewards, then cast enchantment creatures and efficient Rooms that add bodies, counters and tempo while keeping attacks moving.
Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.
The key card is present but its support is thin.
Prioritize useful support such as Fear of Surveillance or Optimistic Scavenger.
Play Gremlin Tamer or Optimistic Scavenger before casting Grand Entryway. The Room enters as an enchantment, then its unlock trigger creates a separate Glimmer enchantment creature for another eerie event.
Your deck enables the plan but is losing the early turns.
Take a castable early creature or efficient answer before another expensive payoff.
Eerie rewards enchantment entry and fully unlocking a Room, not every partial unlock. Inquisitive Glimmer removes generic costs only, so retain the colored mana for each door.
The support is missing
Favor independently useful creatures and interaction if the narrow support does not arrive.
Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.
Eerie rewards enchantment entry and fully unlocking a Room, not every partial unlock. Inquisitive Glimmer removes generic costs only, so retain the colored mana for each door.
Remove the eerie engine before another enchantment enters when possible. Bounce or exile can buy tempo, but returning an opposing enchantment to hand may let them trigger entry rewards again.
Sheltered by Ghosts64.3% GIH · 15,171 instances
Optimistic Scavenger64.3% GIH · 22,650 instances
Fear of Isolation62.7% GIH · 18,738 instances
Gremlin Tamer62.3% GIH · 31,089 instances
Unnerving Grasp61.6% GIH · 16,164 instances
Surgical Suite // Hospital Room1W // 3W61.5% GIH · 12,858 instances17Lands ↗ · Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.
Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery 1W // 4WWRoom: statistics and whole-card assessments describe this card, not an individual door.Dollmaker's Shop: The white two-mana door creates one Toy when one or more of your non-Toy creatures attack a player. Multiple attackers in the same attack still give one token in a two-player game. Porcelain Gallery: The six-mana white door sets your creatures' base sizes to your creature count. Develop several bodies first, and remember losing creatures can shrink the entire team immediately.
Ghostly Dancers 3WWIts entry can recover an enchantment to hand or unlock a locked door, while later eerie events create 3/1 flying Spirits. Have useful enchantments or an unfinished Room ready; fully unlocking a Room with the entry ability can immediately trigger the Dancers' Spirit reward.
Overlord of the Mistmoors 5WWThe four-mana impending mode immediately makes two flying Insects while leaving the Overlord a noncreature enchantment until its time counters are gone. Seven mana gives the 6/6 body immediately; choose the mode around your defense, then use later attacks for more flyers.
Overlord of the Floodpits 3UUImpending costs three and immediately draws two then discards one, but supplies no blocker while time counters remain. Paying five instead supplies the flying 5/3 now; choose between early selection and an immediate body, preserving enough defense for the delayed mode.
Dissection Tools 5Five mana manifests a body and attaches this Equipment, making that face-down creature a 4/4 with deathtouch and lifelink. Later equips cost a sacrificed creature and still use sorcery timing; use expendable bodies to move the Tools onto a flyer or other threat likely to connect.17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024 · 100-instance minimum
Fear of SurveillanceThe vigilant enchantment creature contributes an eerie entry and surveils when it attacks. Use safe attacks to prepare draws and delirium without leaving your early blocker tapped.
Optimistic ScavengerEvery enchantment entry or fully unlocked Room gives a counter to a creature. Play the Scavenger before cheap enchantments when safe, and remember a partial unlock alone is not an eerie event.
Prop Room2WRoom: cast this door from hand. On the battlefield, unlock a locked door by paying its cost as a sorcery; unlocking is not casting.Fear of Surveillance
Acrobatic CheerleaderDollmaker's Shop1WRoom: cast this door from hand. On the battlefield, unlock a locked door by paying its cost as a sorcery; unlocking is not casting.
Trapped in the ScreenAn enchantment answer exiles an artifact, creature or enchantment and can trigger your eerie engines. Ward taxes targeted removal, but if the Screen leaves, the exiled permanent returns.
ExorciseGremlin TamerPlay Gremlin Tamer or Optimistic Scavenger before casting Grand Entryway. The Room enters as an enchantment, then its unlock trigger creates a separate Glimmer enchantment creature for another eerie event.
Dollmaker's Shop1WRoom: cast this door from hand. On the battlefield, unlock a locked door by paying its cost as a sorcery; unlocking is not casting.Build around non-Toy attackers that can attack safely to make a Toy each combat. The white two-mana door rewards bodies already in play; the six-mana Porcelain Gallery is a separate later investment.
Examples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
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| With one pick at a time, fill the missing early play, answer or support card before adding another narrow payoff. The plan must work without drawing its key card. | Compare complete builds from the cards you opened. Keep the castable curve and interaction even if the draft theme is only partly supported. |
Grand Entryway
