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RG

Red–Green

Develop creatures with useful tap triggers, use green fixing, and reuse removal or pump through harmonize. Blue Temur cards require support in the mana base.

50.2% game win · 275 games · -4.8 vs 55.0% average · Premier Draft, Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · 17Lands ↗
Mode

How it wins

Develop creatures with useful tap triggers, use green fixing, and reuse removal or pump through harmonize. Blue Temur cards require support in the mana base.

Early
Develop an early creature and the colored mana your hand needs.
Middle
Tap Botanist or Rescue Leopard to reduce a harmonize cost. Their tap triggers supply selection while the creature’s power pays only generic mana.
Finish
Develop creatures with useful tap triggers, use green fixing, and reuse removal or pump through harmonize. Blue Temur cards require support in the mana base.

What it needs

Commit when repeated useful cards and enough support make a complete deck in these colors.

Four checks while you draft

  1. 1
    A functional opening

    Can I affect the board before the payoff?

    Tapping to attack or pay harmonize can trade a spare card for a fresh draw. The rummage trigger is separate from the spell using it for the reduction.

  2. 2
    The cards that make it work

    Do my actual cards enable this plan?

    Tap Botanist or Rescue Leopard to reduce a harmonize cost. Their tap triggers supply selection while the creature’s power pays only generic mana.

  3. 3
    Interaction and a finish

    Can I stop their strongest play and finish a stalled game?

    Develop creatures with useful tap triggers, use green fixing, and reuse removal or pump through harmonize. Blue Temur cards require support in the mana base.

Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.

What to take next

The key card is present but its support is thin.

Prioritize useful support such as Rescue Leopard or Roamer's Routine.

Tap Botanist or Rescue Leopard to reduce a harmonize cost. Their tap triggers supply selection while the creature’s power pays only generic mana.

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.

The red Charring Bite Omen is usable without white mana, but its white Dragon side is not. Casting the Omen shuffles the card away rather than saving a later creature cast.

The support is missing

Favor independently useful creatures and interaction if the narrow support does not arrive.

Signals to watch
  • More than one late card such as Rescue Leopard or Roamer's Routine is stronger evidence than one gold card.

Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.

Don’t
Avoid the setup mistake

The red Charring Bite Omen is usable without white mana, but its white Dragon side is not. Casting the Omen shuffles the card away rather than saving a later creature cast.

Playing against this plan

Answer the intended harmonize contributor before the spell is cast. Once it has been tapped as a cost, removal cannot restore the mana payment.

Best commons & uncommons

17Lands ↗ · Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.

Bombs in these colors

17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · 100-instance minimum

Cards for this pair

Worked turns

1 examples

Examples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.

Use the interaction

  1. Tap Botanist or Rescue Leopard to reduce a harmonize cost. Their tap triggers supply selection while the creature’s power pays only generic mana.
  2. The red Charring Bite Omen is usable without white mana, but its white Dragon side is not. Casting the Omen shuffles the card away rather than saving a later creature cast.

Adapt the plan to your format

One-pickSealed
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.

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