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Blue–Black

Survive with removal while repeatable targeted effects trigger crimes and generate incremental cards or life swings.

Designed53.7% game win · 37,082 games · -0.4 vs 54.1% average · Premier Draft, Apr 16–May 27, 2024 · 17Lands ↗
Mode

How it wins

Survive with removal while repeatable targeted effects trigger crimes and generate incremental cards or life swings.

Early
Develop mana and an early creature or answer.
Middle
Exile an opposing creature to commit a crime, return Campaign to hand, and recast it on a later turn for another card.
Finish
Survive with removal while repeatable targeted effects trigger crimes and generate incremental cards or life swings.

What it needs

Commit when useful cards in both colors keep arriving and the support for this plan is present.

Four checks while you draft

  1. 1
    A playable curve

    Can this deck affect the board before its payoff arrives?

    Keep early creatures and interaction while assembling the specific support below.

  2. 2
    Support the plan

    Do I have enough cards that make this interaction happen?

    Exile an opposing creature to commit a crime, return Campaign to hand, and recast it on a later turn for another card.

  3. 3
    Answers and a finish

    Can I break a board stall without drawing one particular rare?

    Survive with removal while repeatable targeted effects trigger crimes and generate incremental cards or life swings.

Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.

What to take next

You have the payoff but too few ways to activate it.

Look for Consuming Ashes.

Exile an opposing creature to commit a crime, return Campaign to hand, and recast it on a later turn for another card.

Your synergy is already working but you keep falling behind.

Take an early play or answer before another expensive reward.

Campaign returns only from the battlefield. Its enter ability has no target and does not itself commit a crime.

The support is missing

Favor castable creatures and interaction if narrow support does not arrive.

Signals to watch
  • Repeated access to Raven of Fell Omens, Consuming Ashes, Marauding Sphinx is better evidence than one gold card.

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

Don’t
Check the support

Campaign returns only from the battlefield. Its enter ability has no target and does not itself commit a crime.

Best commons & uncommons

17Lands ↗ · 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.

Bombs in these colors

17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Apr 16–May 27, 2024 · 100-instance minimum

Cards for this pair

Worked turns

1 examples

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

Put the pieces together

  1. Exile an opposing creature to commit a crime, return Campaign to hand, and recast it on a later turn for another card.
  2. Campaign returns only from the battlefield. Its enter ability has no target and does not itself commit a crime.

Adapt the plan to your format

One-pickSealed
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.
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