Develop blockers and mana, use Town search for reliable land drops, then spend that mana on large threats and later Adventure spells.
Develop blockers and mana, use Town search for reliable land drops, then spend that mana on large threats and later Adventure spells.
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 body adds green mana on later turns. It accelerates expensive spells but cannot tap for its own mana ability on the turn it enters without haste.
Do my actual cards enable this plan?
Gardener accelerates Horizon, which finds differently named lands and can bring Sentinel toward seven lands. Greeter finds a land to hand while Ignis can put one directly onto the battlefield.
Can I stop their strongest play and finish a stalled game?
Develop blockers and mana, use Town search for reliable land drops, then spend that mana on large threats and later Adventure spells.
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 Goobbue Gardener or Town Greeter.
Gardener accelerates Horizon, which finds differently named lands and can bring Sentinel toward seven lands. Greeter finds a land to hand while Ignis can put one directly onto the battlefield.
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.
Town Adventures still need a normal land play afterward. A colored Adventure cost does not make the land side cost mana, and mana artifacts do not count toward Sentinel’s seven lands.
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.
Town Adventures still need a normal land play afterward. A colored Adventure cost does not make the land side cost mana, and mana artifacts do not count toward Sentinel’s seven lands.
Pressure the turns spent searching and answer the first large threat. Graveyard removal can interrupt Ignis’s Food setup, but removing a land from the graveyard does not undo a land already on the battlefield.
Sazh's Chocobo62.4% GIH · 1,738 instances
Travel the Overworld61.1% GIH · 1,095 instances
Eject61.0% GIH · 1,530 instances
Il Mheg Pixie60.8% GIH · 1,683 instances
Ring of the Lucii60.5% GIH · 228 instances
Dragoon's Wyvern60.3% GIH · 4,668 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.
Cryptic Command 1UUUChoose the two modes that solve the current turn, often a counter plus a card or tapping blockers plus a card. Three blue symbols make this a demanding splash. If the only chosen target becomes illegal, the spell does not resolve even when its other mode would draw or tap creatures.
Urza, Lord High Artificer 2UUThe Construct grows with your artifacts, while spare Equipment and tokens can tap for blue mana through Urza’s ability. Even a newly entered artifact creature can pay that cost. Keep an artifact board for both mana and threat size, and remember a land exiled by the five-mana ability still needs an available land play.
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
Scorpion SentinelAn early high-toughness blocker turns into a four-power creature once you control seven lands. Mana creatures and artifacts do not count as lands.
Il Mheg Pixie
Town GreeterFind a land among the four milled cards while filling the graveyard. Taking a Town gains life, but the land goes to hand rather than directly onto the battlefield.
Combat Tutorial
Goobbue GardenerA two-mana body adds green mana on later turns. It accelerates expensive spells but cannot tap for its own mana ability on the turn it enters without haste.
Reach the HorizonFind two differently named basics or Towns tapped. Include actual targets of different names; two Forest cards cannot both be selected.
Examples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
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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. |
Gardener accelerates Horizon, which finds differently named lands and can bring Sentinel toward seven lands. Greeter finds a land to hand while Ignis can put one directly onto the battlefield.
