Mill creatures while developing mana, then use recursion to replay your strongest threats and enter abilities.
Mill creatures while developing mana, then use recursion to replay your strongest threats and enter abilities.
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?
Naturalist helps find mana and puts creature cards in the graveyard, reducing Marauder’s cost and stocking recursion targets.
Can I break a board stall without drawing one particular rare?
Mill creatures while developing mana, then use recursion to replay your strongest threats and enter abilities.
Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.
You have the payoff but too few ways to activate it.
Look for Hollow Marauder.
Naturalist helps find mana and puts creature cards in the graveyard, reducing Marauder’s cost and stocking recursion targets.
Your synergy is already working but you keep falling behind.
Take an early play or answer before another expensive reward.
Marauder’s discount counts creature cards, not every graveyard card. Avoid milling so much that a long game empties your library.
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.
Marauder’s discount counts creature cards, not every graveyard card. Avoid milling so much that a long game empties your library.
Hollow Marauder61.9% GIH · 8,408 instances
Spinewoods Armadillo61.8% GIH · 6,137 instances
Outcaster Greenblade60.4% GIH · 4,823 instances
Beastbond Outcaster60.3% GIH · 5,746 instances
Honest Rutstein59.9% GIH · 10,752 instances
Throw from the Saddle59.8% GIH · 14,866 instances17Lands ↗ · Apr 16–May 27, 2024 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.
Overwhelming Forces 6BBAn eight-mana one-sided creature sweep that refills your hand. It needs a slow deck with real mana development; do not cut early plays for it.
Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 1GPlay before a land when practical to place a counter immediately. Its late-game activation doubles counters across your creatures, not just Bill.
Ornery Tumblewagg 2GAdds a counter at combat, then can double a creature’s counters when attacking saddled. It can supply its own setup over successive turns.
Railway Brawler 3GGPlay or plot it before the creatures you want to enlarge. Its counters use the entering creature’s power, so sequence your largest threats after it.
Vaultborn Tyrant 5GGA large threat with life gain, card draw and a replacement body after death. Seven mana and double green require a genuine ramp or long-game plan.17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Apr 16–May 27, 2024 · 100-instance minimum
Hollow MarauderCreature cards in your graveyard discount a large flyer whose enter trigger attacks the opponent’s hand.
Badlands RevivalReturns a creature to play and a permanent to hand; choose targets that rebuild both board and resources.
Honest RutsteinNaturalist helps find mana and puts creature cards in the graveyard, reducing Marauder’s cost and stocking recursion targets.
Hollow MarauderNaturalist helps find mana and puts creature cards in the graveyard, reducing Marauder’s cost and stocking recursion targets.
Badlands RevivalNaturalist helps find mana and puts creature cards in the graveyard, reducing Marauder’s cost and stocking recursion targets.
Examples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
| One-pick | Sealed |
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| Three Play 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. |
Patient Naturalist
Hardbristle Bandit
