Use connive and black removal to support green’s growing creatures, with mayhem providing occasional efficient turns.
Use connive and black removal to support green’s growing creatures, with mayhem providing occasional efficient turns.
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?
Connive can grow any creature you control while setting up mayhem. Its hybrid cost lets it support either blue or black decks.
Do my actual cards enable this plan?
Connive a counter onto Lizards, then cast a discounted four-mana-value spell to add another. Use the larger body for a safer Kapow fight.
Can I stop their strongest play and finish a stalled game?
Use connive and black removal to support green’s growing creatures, with mayhem providing occasional efficient turns.
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 Mob Lookout or Swarm, Being of Bees.
Connive a counter onto Lizards, then cast a discounted four-mana-value spell to add another. Use the larger body for a safer Kapow fight.
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.
Kapow still requires your creature to survive the fight. A large power boost alone does not guarantee a profitable exchange.
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.
Kapow still requires your creature to survive the fight. A large power boost alone does not guarantee a profitable exchange.
Answer the green threat in response to its fight spell or use graveyard removal to interrupt a critical mayhem turn.
Mob LookoutConnive can grow any creature you control while setting up mayhem. Its hybrid cost lets it support either blue or black decks.
Swarm, Being of BeesAn evasive Villain whose flash allows mayhem on an opponent’s turn. Leave one black mana after discarding it if you want to cast it.
Lurking LizardsA cheap trampler that gains counters from your four-mana-value spells. Discounted spells still supply those triggers.
Vulture, Scheming ScavengerExamples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
| One-pick | Sealed |
|---|---|
| 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. |
Connive a counter onto Lizards, then cast a discounted four-mana-value spell to add another. Use the larger body for a safer Kapow fight.
Kapow!
