Trade creatures and mill permanent cards, then take over with graveyard-sized removal and recurring threats.
Trade creatures and mill permanent cards, then take over with graveyard-sized removal and recurring threats.
Commit when useful cards in both colors keep arriving and the support for this plan is present.
Four checks while you draft
Can this deck affect the board before its payoff arrives?
Keep early creatures and interaction while assembling the specific support below.
Do I have enough cards that make this interaction happen?
Marionette can trade and mill permanent cards. Echo turns that stocked graveyard into a larger toughness reduction.
Can I break a board stall without drawing one particular rare?
Trade creatures and mill permanent cards, then take over with graveyard-sized removal and recurring threats.
Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.
You have the payoff but too few ways to activate it.
Look for Chupacabra Echo.
Marionette can trade and mill permanent cards. Echo turns that stocked graveyard into a larger toughness reduction.
Your synergy is already working but you keep falling behind.
Take an early play or answer before another expensive reward.
Instants and sorceries do not count toward descend. Reanimating your largest threat also reduces the permanent count.
The support is missing
Favor castable creatures and interaction if narrow support does not arrive.
Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.
Instants and sorceries do not count toward descend. Reanimating your largest threat also reduces the permanent count.
Zoetic Glyph63.7% GIH · 6,952 instances
Deep-Cavern Bat62.2% GIH · 9,109 instances
Chupacabra Echo62.1% GIH · 10,053 instances
Spyglass Siren61.2% GIH · 7,711 instances
Scampering Surveyor59.2% GIH · 2,720 instances
Sunbird Standard59.1% GIH · 186 instances17Lands ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.
Kitesail Larcenist 2UTurns troublesome permanents into Treasures, but they revert if Larcenist leaves. Save protection or follow-up pressure to exploit the window.
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal 3BBAttack to force discards while lifelink stabilizes a race. Its return as a tapped land makes ordinary destruction less final; double black still needs a real mana base.17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 100-instance minimum
Deathcap MarionetteTrades with larger creatures and can mill permanent cards for descend before combat.
Waterwind ScoutA flyer with a Map adds pressure while supporting artifact and explore rewards.
DefossilizeReturns a creature directly to play and explores twice. Draft meaningful targets and ways to put them in the graveyard.
Merfolk Cave-DiverExamples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
| One-pick | Sealed |
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| Three Draft Boosters per player; one card per pick. Premier statistics are recorded Arena games, not a prediction for your table. | Start from the cards you opened. Favor a complete curve, interaction and castable threats over forcing the draft theme. |
