Build attackers that benefit from land entries and use land search to keep pressure and resources flowing.
Build attackers that benefit from land entries and use land search to keep pressure and resources flowing.
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?
A two-mana Bird provides pressure and later landfall power. Flashback supplies another creature in a long game without being another creature spell in your deck.
Do my actual cards enable this plan?
Develop a Bird or Sabotender, then cast Wanderings before combat for landfall and a counter. With Rydia present, discard a spare card to filter from that same land entry.
Can I stop their strongest play and finish a stalled game?
Build attackers that benefit from land entries and use land search to keep pressure and resources flowing.
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 Gysahl Greens or Sabotender.
Develop a Bird or Sabotender, then cast Wanderings before combat for landfall and a counter. With Rydia present, discard a spare card to filter from that same land entry.
Your deck already enables the plan but is losing the early turns.
Take a castable early creature or efficient answer before a second expensive payoff.
Returning a land for Kick can delay your next spell. Rydia’s Saga-return ability also needs its own mana and a legal target; landfall does not reanimate anything by itself.
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.
Returning a land for Kick can delay your next spell. Rydia’s Saga-return ability also needs its own mana and a legal target; landfall does not reanimate anything by itself.
Remove the damage-dealing creature in response to Kick. Answer the landfall payoff before the extra land arrives, and exploit turns spent rebuilding returned mana.
Sazh's Chocobo59.9% GIH · 2,462 instances
Choco-Comet59.3% GIH · 2,430 instances
Summon: Fenrir58.9% GIH · 2,093 instances
Samurai's Katana58.4% GIH · 1,700 instances
Gladiolus Amicitia58.2% GIH · 3,864 instances
Summon: Fat Chocobo57.0% GIH · 5,887 instances17Lands ↗ · Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.
Nibelheim Aflame 2RRChoose your strongest useful creature to damage every other creature, including your own. Deathtouch on the source can make even small damage lethal. If that sole target is removed, neither the damage nor the flashback discard-and-draw happens, so protect the target or choose the window carefully.
Esper Origins 1GUse the cheap front to surveil and gain life, then flash it back for four mana to get a new 4/4 Saga with a finality counter. The final chapter boosts your other creatures after the Saga leaves, so maintain a board. You cannot simply cast the costless Saga face from hand.
Sazh Katzroy 3GEntry finds a Bird or basic land, making the front useful before an attack. Each attack adds a counter and then doubles all +1/+1 counters on the target; an existing counter-bearing or evasive attacker uses the growth especially well. Remove Sazh before attackers to prevent that trigger.
Smuggler's Copter 2Crew one turns a small creature into a flying attacker or blocker, and either action can draw then discard. A creature that just entered can crew it, but a Copter that just entered still normally cannot attack. The rummage supports flashback and permanent-count graveyards without losing the Vehicle after combat.17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025 · 100-instance minimum
Gysahl GreensA two-mana Bird provides pressure and later landfall power. Flashback supplies another creature in a long game without being another creature spell in your deck.
SabotenderPlay it before your land when that does not compromise the turn, turning a routine land drop into damage. Its reach body can also trade with a small flyer.
Chocobo KickChoose your creature and an opposing creature, then decide whether returning a land is worth doubled damage. The returned-land cost stays paid if a target is removed.
Blazing BombExamples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
| One-pick | Sealed |
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| With one pick, 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. |
Develop a Bird or Sabotender, then cast Wanderings before combat for landfall and a counter. With Rydia present, discard a spare card to filter from that same land entry.
Prishe's Wanderings
