Attack early and arrange for a permanent card to reach your graveyard on successive turns.
Attack early and arrange for a permanent card to reach your graveyard on successive turns.
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?
Trade Freebooter in combat to descend, leaving Treasure while Zoyowa pressures the opponent at your end step.
Can I break a board stall without drawing one particular rare?
Attack early and arrange for a permanent card to reach your graveyard on successive turns.
Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.
You have the payoff but too few ways to activate it.
Look for Zoyowa Lava-Tongue.
Trade Freebooter in combat to descend, leaving Treasure while Zoyowa pressures the opponent at your end step.
Your synergy is already working but you keep falling behind.
Take an early play or answer before another expensive reward.
Sacrificing a Treasure token alone does not make you descend. Avoid holding back useful attacks merely to keep every creature alive.
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.
Sacrificing a Treasure token alone does not make you descend. Avoid holding back useful attacks merely to keep every creature alive.
Deep-Cavern Bat62.7% GIH · 4,992 instances
Geological Appraiser60.2% GIH · 3,981 instances
Chupacabra Echo59.4% GIH · 4,284 instances
Bitter Triumph57.9% GIH · 3,994 instances
Volatile Wanderglyph56.7% GIH · 8,711 instances
Tithing Blade56.5% GIH · 8,049 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.
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.
Bonehoard Dracosaur 3RRAn evasive threat that supplies extra cards and material each upkeep. Keep early defense and enough red sources for double red.
Breeches, Eager Pillager 2RAttack with Pirates to gain Treasure, remove a blocker or use an extra card. Each mode is available once per turn, so several Pirates unlock more choices.
Magmatic Galleon 3RRRemoval and a large Vehicle in one card. Keep creatures available to crew it; the damage trigger happens even before it becomes a creature.17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 100-instance minimum
Greedy FreebooterCan trade early and leave Treasure plus a scry, also making you descend when the card dies.
Belligerent Yearling
Etali's FavorGives an attacker trample and discovers another card; cast it when losing its creature in response would be tolerable.
Deathcap Marionette
Deep Goblin SkulltakerMenace becomes harder to contain if you can descend on successive turns.
DefossilizeExamples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
| One-pick | Sealed |
|---|---|
| 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. |
