Oath is perhaps the only archetype in the format that has been revolutionized by Champions of Kamigawa, thanks to one card: Forbidden Orchard. Despite the short time since its introduction, many individuals on both sides of the Atlantic have tried to use a variety of different cards in the deck. I thought it would be useful to dissect the various levels of success found by different builds in the last couple of months. In comparing the twenty Oath builds that have made Top 8s in major Type One events since October, only twelve cards were in all twenty decks:
Unanimous Cards
4 Brainstorm
4 Oath of Druids
1 Tropical Island
3 Forbidden Orchard
That doesn’t mean that the rest of the choices weren’t clear to the majority, however. It just means that for every other card, one or several deckbuilders managed to find a substitute and still make Top 8 against 50+ other players. (These builds include everything I could find up to January Waterbury, starting with the Meandeck premiere at SCG II.) Despite all the efforts of players, though, Team Meandeck’s opening build clearly dominates the numbers.
#######_#_########## 4th Forbidden Orchard
For almost everyone, success was realized by including the fourth Orchard to maximize the chances of getting the combination. The reasons I can imagine for leaving it out might be that it’s easy enough to find without #4 (three is enough for Intuition), and multiples might give the opponent too many Spirits if an Oath of Druids doesn’t show up. Neither reason is shown to be strong by the results.
##################_# 2 Blue fetchlands
#########_########_# 3rd Blue fetchland
####_####_########_# 4th Blue fetchland
_____#_#___##_______ 5th Blue fetchland
##################_# 1 Island
#########_########_# 2nd Island
#######_#_#######__# 3rd-4th Island
######__#_##_####__# 5th Island
____#_______________ 6th Island
__________________#_ 4 City of Brass
__________________#_ 2 Gemstone Mine
__________________#_ 1 Tolarian Academy
One of the strengths of the Meandeck build is its almost mono-Blueness. With so many Blue spells and a small need for Green mana, fetchlands can make it seem like the deck has abundant basic Islands. Only one quasi-insane build ditched Islands entirely, in favor of a rainbowy mana base reminiscent of a bag of Skittles. Canadian Skittles, in this case.
_________#__________ 1 Forest
_________#__________ 1 Windswept Heath
_________________#__ 1 Swamp
Green is 95% decisively not the main color in an Oath deck. (All spells are Blue. We have always been at war with Eastasia.) Black, unsurprisingly, is in the same position.
____#_##_#___#___##_ 2nd Tropical Island
____#__#_#__________ 3rd Tropical Island
____#__#____________ 4th Tropical Island
_____#___#__________ 1 Tundra
_________#__________ 2nd-3rd Tundra
_______#_#_______#__ 2 Underground Sea
_______#_#__________ 3rd Underground Sea
_____#______________ 1 Volcanic Island
Since the decks are organized in chronological order left-to-right, you can see how people gave up on other colors slowly but surely.
#####_#_############ 1 Strip Mine
####__#_############ 2 Wasteland
_________#__#_____#_ 3rd Wasteland
__________________#_ 4th Wasteland
____#____#________#_ 1 Crucible of Worlds
__________________#_ 2nd-3rd Crucible of Worlds
The same Skittles-Oath designer was also a T.S. Eliot fan. This makes sense to me considering the two Landstill decks in the same Top 8 as that build.
____#_______________ 1 Faerie Conclave
____#_______________ 4 Mishra’s Factory
The one-of Conclave struck me as pretty weird here, but I guess it was inevitable that someone would bring old-school Oath instincts to the new, more comboish version.
_____##_______#_____ 1 Library of Alexandria
Oath has a lot of very good reasons not to play this. Most of the card advantage spells it uses don’t actually result in drawing – Intuition, Brainstorm, and Impulse are strictly self-replacing by themselves. The Intuitions are also more likely to get non-AK targets than in a Psychatog deck. Moreover, with a full boat of acceleration, frequent inclusion of Misdirection, and a strong desire to play a first-turn Oath if possible, keeping seven in hand is less likely than with a lot of other decks. So no Library.
####_####_########## 1 Black Lotus
____#_____________#_ 1 Fastbond
________#__#_____##_ 1 Lotus Petal
_____#___________##_ 1 Mana Crypt
__________________#_ 1 Mana Vault
####_###__#######_## 1 Mox Emerald
####_####_##_####### 1 Mox Jet
####_###__#######__# 1 Mox Pearl
###__####_########## 1 Mox Ruby
####_####_########## 1 Mox Sapphire
___#___###_______##_ 1 Sol Ring
Speaking of acceleration, you can see a wide variety here. Some players used nearly none for budget reasons (Can you hear us, Europe? Proxies!), while others have a veritable Workshop deck’s worth. Lotus Petal is a prime display of how much a first-turn Oath is valued.
____#_______________ 2 Annul
____#_________#_____ 4 Counterspell
____________#_______ 2 Daze
_______#_#_______##_ 3 Duress
_________#_______##_ 4th Duress
##################_# 4 Force of Will
####_#########_###_# 4 Mana Drain
####__#_#_#######__# 2 Mana Leak
####__#_#_##_####__# 3rd Mana Leak
####____#_##_####__# 4th Mana Leak
####____#_###_###___ 2 Misdirection
________#___________ 3rd Misdirection
____#_______________ 2 Stifle
All the variants except for Skittles-Oath played FoW. All the non-Skittles decks played Drain except two with clear budget constraints (they chose Counterspell). No surprise that those two cards are in the standard package. Misdirection hasn’t gotten a lot of attention in North America this year, mainly for lack of a deck that could make good use of it. With so little dependence on strict card advantage, a high Blue spell count, and a need to resolve particular cards to win, Misdirection’s ability to win furious counter wars makes it a pretty common choice for this deck. Mana Leak appears for similar reasons, and beats Counterspell for pure speed reasons (playing it before colored mana develops).
##############_##### 1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
_____#_#_#____#__#__ 1 Darksteel Colossus
______________#_____ 2nd Darksteel Colossus
_________#__________ 1 Exalted Angel
____#_______________ 1 Morphling
_________#__________ 1 Phantom Nishoba
__________________#_ 1 Platinum Angel
####__#_#_####_##__# 1 Spirit of the Night
The maindeck kill conditions stayed to a reasonably small variety. The Colossus was somewhat popular, but most players seem to have preferred the Plow-proof, nonartifact Spirit. The post-rotation Extended choice of Cognivore obviously stayed at home thanks to…
##################_# 1 Gaea’s Blessing
____##___#__________ 2nd Gaea’s Blessing
_______#__________#_ 1 Regrowth
As I said before, Green is barely even an important color in this format’s Oath archetype, let alone deserving of support spells. As if people actually cast Green spells more than once a game!
####_##_#_########_# 4 Accumulated Knowledge
####_####_########_# 1 Ancestral Recall
______##_____#______ 1 Deep Analysis
______#______#______ 2nd Deep Analysis
_______#_______#____ 1 Fact or Fiction
#####__####_#####__# 2 Impulse
____#__#_#__________ 3rd Impulse
____#____#__________ 4th Impulse
____#_#_____________ 2 Thirst for Knowledge
____#_______________ 3rd Thirst for Knowledge
____#__#__________#_ 1 Crop Rotation
__________________#_ 2 Cunning Wish
_______#_________##_ 1 Demonic Tutor
_________#________#_ 1 Enlightened Tutor
####_##_#_########## 2 Intuition
####_#__#_###_###_## 3rd Intuition
####_#__#_###_#_#__# 4th Intuition
_____#_#____________ 1 Mystical Tutor
_____#_#_________##_ 1 Tinker
_______#_#_______##_ 1 Vampiric Tutor
The draw/tutor engine stayed intact through almost all builds. I was kind of freaked out by the lack of 100% correlation between Darksteel Colossus and Tinker, but then I got over it. I guess Crop Rotation was thrown in by the players who felt that (a) Green was good and (b) after cutting an Orchard for some other Green land they still wanted to actually find Orchard. Overall, the most noteworthy thing is that there isn’t very much effort to gain numeric card advantage here; it’s an exercise in filtering through your deck for needed components.
___________________# 1 Echoing Truth
_____##__#___#___#__ 1 Engineered Explosives
_____##______#______ 2nd Engineered Explosives
_____#______________ 3rd Engineered Explosives
____#_______________ 3 Nevinyrral’s Disk
_______#_#__________ 1 Pernicious Deed
___________________# 1 Rushing River
_________#__________ 3 Swords to Plowshares
__________________#_ 1 Zuran Orb
Disruption was very sparsely used. Probably as a side effect of having so many counters and such a sudden win condition, it’s usually not necessary. Nevertheless, about a third of the successful decks felt it was worth maindeck space.
####_###__########_# 1 Time Walk
_________________##_ 1 Yawgmoth’s Will
These cards go wherever the deckbuilder wants (a) extra turns and (b) winning. I’m blaming budget reasons for their absences in decks that could otherwise cast them.
Sideboard
____#_______________ 2 Annul
____##_____#________ 1 Blue Elemental Blast / Hydroblast
___________#________ 2nd Blue Elemental Blast / Hydroblast
____#_#______#_#_#__ 1 Misdirection
______#________#_#__ 2nd Misdirection
______#_____________ 3rd Misdirection
_____#____________#_ 2 Red Elemental Blast / Pyroblast
_____#____________#_ 3rd-4th Red Elemental Blast / Pyroblast
____________#____##_ 1 Stifle
____________#____#__ 2nd Stifle
_________________#__ 3rd Stifle
____#_______________ 1 Teferi’s Response
The sideboards were considerably more scatter-brained than the maindeck, but as you can see, no particular counterspells were looked upon particularly fondly.
____________#_______ 2 Ancestor’s Chosen
______#_____________ 1 Dominating Licid
_______#____________ 1 Gilded Drake
####_#_##_##________ 1 Iridescent Angel
_____##__________#__ 1 Morphling
______#__________#__ 2nd Morphling
______#__________#__ 1 Phantom Nishoba
####____#_#___#____# 1 Platinum Angel
####____#_##_##_#__# 1 Pristine Angel
_____________##_#___ 2nd Pristine Angel
__________________#_ 1 Rorix, Bladewing
______#_____________ 1 Sundering Titan
_______#____________ 1 Triskelion
______##_#__##___#__ 1 Woodripper
_______#_#___#______ 2nd Woodripper
Some of these just seem like cards a person liked without special reasoning. What does Rorix do that Akroma isn’t a bunch of times better at? What was so pressing on the life total that Ancestor’s Chosen was seen as better than Phantom Nishoba? The thing that sticks out at me among the highly popular angel selection is that Iridescent is completely out of favor in recent builds. It can probably be viewed as superfluous in light of the absence of removal capable of hitting Akroma and the dearth of creatures that are (a) power greater than four and (b) have a color.
####____#_#___#_#__# 2 Control Magic
____________#_______ 3 Echoing Truth
_______#____________ 1 Engineered Explosives
__________________#_ 1 Fire/Ice
__________________#_ 1 Firestorm
____#_____#___#_____ 1 Naturalize
____#_________#_____ 2nd Naturalize
______##__#__#______ 1 Oxidize
______##_____#______ 2nd Oxidize
_____#____________#_ 2 Rack and Ruin
_____#______________ 3rd Rack and Ruin
_____#______________ 1 Ray of Revelation
_______________#____ 4 Repulse
_________________#__ 1 Rushing River
_____#______________ 2 Swords to Plowshares
Spot removal: not all it’s cracked up to be. Noted.
Seriously, though, why wouldn’t there be more in the sideboard? In the past, we’ve grown accustomed to looking at decks with a full range of removal accessible by Cunning Wish in the sideboard. Even if it’s not that preferrable in the maindeck, why wouldn’t the sideboard have more for particular problem matchups? I think it lies in the strength of the deck’s basic plan.
There are enough basic lands that most Workshop openings don’t threaten decisive victory, unless it’s just busted and you lack a FoW (or they overwhelm the lone FoW), in which case there’s not much to be done about it no matter how you build your deck. Even when they go Workshop, Trinisphere, second turn Juggernaut, Oath still appears early enough to answer the attack. It’s a prime example of JP’s* adage that the best “answer” is winning the game.
* : I think he might be the first to say it; there’s no citation database for Magic sayings, unfortunately. (I’d make one except I’m busy.)
Control Magic is the clear exception. This is quite probably a concession to the mirror in the minds of most of those who employed it.
####______#__#_##__# 2 Arcane Laboratory
_____________#_#___# 3rd Arcane Laboratory
_______________#____ 4th Arcane Laboratory
####____#__#__#_#__# 2 Back to Basics
___________#________ 3rd Back to Basics
______#_##__#_____#_ 2 Chalice of the Void
______#__#__#_______ 3rd Chalice of the Void
_________#__#_______ 4th Chalice of the Void
_________#__________ 2 Chill
#####___####__#_#_#_ 1 Energy Flux
#####___####__#_#__# 2nd Energy Flux
#####___#_##__#_#__# 3rd Energy Flux
____#___________#___ 4th Energy Flux
####____####__###__# 2 Ground Seal
####____#_##__###__# 3rd Ground Seal
_______________#____ 4th Ground Seal
_____#_____#________ 2 Null Rod
____#_______________ 4 Propaganda
__________________#_ 1 Rule of Law
_____#______________ 2 Sacred Ground
The “rule-making” cards find a considerable home here in the sideboard. The most confusing one here is Chalice of the Void. Since obviously it can’t be set to two, the most powerful setting is probably one to block Goblin Welder, and this looks more likely when you spot that most of the Chalice decks also do not use Ground Seal.
____________#_______ 3 Claws of Gix
_______#_____#______ 3 Extract
_______#____________ 4th Extract
_________________#__ 2 Spawning Pit
__________________#_ 1 Stroke of Genius
______##_#___#_#_#__ 1 Tormod’s Crypt
______##_#___#___#__ 2nd Tormod’s Crypt
_________#_______#__ 3rd Tormod’s Crypt
While I was completely mystified by Stroke of Genius and Extract, but I can see some logic in the other choices. Claws of Gix and Spawning Pit each let you dispose of your own creatures to prevent an opponent’s Oath activation. Tormod’s Crypt was the most popular of these misfit cards, and obviously has merit against Welder decks of all stripes, as well as the side effect of providing Worldgorger Dragon insurance.
Consensus Build*
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Spirit of the Night
1 Gaea’s Blessing
4 Oath of Druids
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Mana Leak
2 Misdirection
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Intuition
4 Accumulated Knowledge
1 Time Walk
2 Impulse
4 Brainstorm
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Strip Mine
2 Wasteland
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Blue fetchlands
1 Tropical Island
5 Island
Sideboard
1 Pristine Angel
1 Iridescent Angel
1 Platinum Angel
3 Energy Flux
3 Ground Seal
2 Arcane Laboratory
2 Back to Basics
2 Control Magic
* : The consensus build is made by listing all cards played in the analyzed builds from greatest to least by number of decks that included them, and taking the top sixty maindeck and fifteen sideboard cards.
This Oath consensus build is 100% card-for-card identical to the Meandeck build originally introduced, despite over a dozen other individuals making Top 8s. I was totally not expecting this. I thought to myself as I made the table “alright! Engineered Explosives, Tinker–Colossus, and maybe a second dual land – these are subtleties that might actually make the deck better”. Then the crushing truth hit me: almost everyone won on the Meandeck skeleton.
When I did this type of breakdown for 4C Control and Psychatog, I got a good mix of card choices that suggested there was no single, best way to build them. For Oath this side-by-side comparison inclines me to think that the more you deviate, the less likely it is to work. There may be marginal changes to be made, and obviously the sideboard is particularly ripe for changes whenever new or repopularized decks drift to the top of the field, but Oath is a deck with a lot of required favorites. Keep that in mind both when you’re building your version and planning for the opposition.
Philip Stanton
prstanto at gmail.com
Alphabetized List
##################_# 2 Blue fetchlands
#########_########_# 3rd Blue fetchland
####_####_########_# 4th Blue fetchland
_____#_#___##_______ 5th Blue fetchland
__________________#_ 4 City of Brass
____#_______________ 1 Faerie Conclave
#######_#_########## 4th Forbidden Orchard
_________#__________ 1 Forest
__________________#_ 2 Gemstone Mine
##################_# 1 Island
#########_########_# 2nd Island
#######_#_#######__# 3rd-4th Island
######__#_##_####__# 5th Island
____#_______________ 6th Island
_____##_______#_____ 1 Library of Alexandria
____#_______________ 4 Mishra’s Factory
#####_#_############ 1 Strip Mine
_________________#__ 1 Swamp
__________________#_ 1 Tolarian Academy
____#_##_#___#___##_ 2nd Tropical Island
____#__#_#__________ 3rd Tropical Island
____#__#____________ 4th Tropical Island
_____#___#__________ 1 Tundra
_________#__________ 2nd-3rd Tundra
_______#_#_______#__ 2 Underground Sea
_______#_#__________ 3rd Underground Sea
_____#______________ 1 Volcanic Island
####__#_############ 2 Wasteland
_________#__#_____#_ 3rd Wasteland
__________________#_ 4th Wasteland
_________#__________ 1 Windswept Heath
####_##_#_########_# 4 Accumulated Knowledge
##############_##### 1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
####_####_########_# 1 Ancestral Recall
____#_______________ 2 Annul
####_####_########## 1 Black Lotus
____#_________#_____ 4 Counterspell
____#__#__________#_ 1 Crop Rotation
____#____#________#_ 1 Crucible of Worlds
__________________#_ 2nd-3rd Crucible of Worlds
__________________#_ 2 Cunning Wish
_____#_#_#____#__#__ 1 Darksteel Colossus
______________#_____ 2nd Darksteel Colossus
____________#_______ 2 Daze
______##_____#______ 1 Deep Analysis
______#______#______ 2nd Deep Analysis
_______#_________##_ 1 Demonic Tutor
_______#_#_______##_ 3 Duress
_________#_______##_ 4th Duress
___________________# 1 Echoing Truth
_____##__#___#___#__ 1 Engineered Explosives
_____##______#______ 2nd Engineered Explosives
_____#______________ 3rd Engineered Explosives
_________#________#_ 1 Enlightened Tutor
_________#__________ 1 Exalted Angel
_______#_______#____ 1 Fact or Fiction
____#_____________#_ 1 Fastbond
##################_# 4 Force of Will
##################_# 1 Gaea’s Blessing
____##___#__________ 2nd Gaea’s Blessing
#####__####_#####__# 2 Impulse
____#__#_#__________ 3rd Impulse
____#____#__________ 4th Impulse
####_##_#_########## 2 Intuition
####_#__#_###_###_## 3rd Intuition
####_#__#_###_#_#__# 4th Intuition
________#__#_____##_ 1 Lotus Petal
_____#___________##_ 1 Mana Crypt
####_#########_###_# 4 Mana Drain
####__#_#_#######__# 2 Mana Leak
####__#_#_##_####__# 3rd Mana Leak
####____#_##_####__# 4th Mana Leak
__________________#_ 1 Mana Vault
####____#_###_###___ 2 Misdirection
________#___________ 3rd Misdirection
____#_______________ 1 Morphling
####_###__#######_## 1 Mox Emerald
####_####_##_####### 1 Mox Jet
####_###__#######__# 1 Mox Pearl
###__####_########## 1 Mox Ruby
####_####_########## 1 Mox Sapphire
_____#_#____________ 1 Mystical Tutor
____#_______________ 3 Nevinyrral’s Disk
_______#_#__________ 1 Pernicious Deed
_________#__________ 1 Phantom Nishoba
__________________#_ 1 Platinium Angel
_______#__________#_ 1 Regrowth
___________________# 1 Rushing River
___#___###_______##_ 1 Sol Ring
####__#_#_####_##__# 1 Spirit of the Night
____#_______________ 2 Stifle
_________#__________ 3 Swords to Plowshares
____#_#_____________ 2 Thirst for Knowledge
____#_______________ 3rd Thirst for Knowledge
####_###__########_# 1 Time Walk
_____#_#_________##_ 1 Tinker
_______#_#_______##_ 1 Vampiric Tutor
_________________##_ 1 Yawgmoth’s Will
__________________#_ 1 Zuran Orb
Sideboard
____________#_______ 2 Ancestor’s Chosen
____#_______________ 2 Annul
####______#__#_##__# 2 Arcane Laboratory
_____________#_#___# 3rd Arcane Laboratory
_______________#____ 4th Arcane Laboratory
####____#__#__#_#__# 2 Back to Basics
___________#________ 3rd Back to Basics
____##_____#________ 1 Blue Elemental Blast / Hydroblast
___________#________ 2nd Blue Elemental Blast / Hydroblast
______#_##__#_____#_ 2 Chalice of the Void
______#__#__#_______ 3rd Chalice of the Void
_________#__#_______ 4th Chalice of the Void
_________#__________ 2 Chill
____________#_______ 3 Claws of Gix
####____#_#___#_#__# 2 Control Magic
______#_____________ 1 Dominating Licid
____________#_______ 3 Echoing Truth
#####___####__#_#_#_ 1 Energy Flux
#####___####__#_#__# 2nd Energy Flux
#####___#_##__#_#__# 3rd Energy Flux
____#___________#___ 4th Energy Flux
_______#____________ 1 Engineered Explosives
_______#_____#______ 3 Extract
_______#____________ 4th Extract
__________________#_ 1 Fire/Ice
__________________#_ 1 Firestorm
_______#____________ 1 Gilded Drake
####____####__###__# 2 Ground Seal
####____#_##__###__# 3rd Ground Seal
_______________#____ 4th Ground Seal
####_#_##_##________ 1 Iridescent Angel
____#_#______#_#_#__ 1 Misdirection
______#________#_#__ 2nd Misdirection
______#_____________ 3rd Misdirection
_____##__________#__ 1 Morphling
______#__________#__ 2nd Morphling
____#_____#___#_____ 1 Naturalize
____#_________#_____ 2nd Naturalize
_____#_____#________ 2 Null Rod
______##__#__#______ 1 Oxidize
______##_____#______ 2nd Oxidize
______#__________#__ 1 Phantom Nishoba
####____#_#___#____# 1 Platinum Angel
####____#_##_##_#__# 1 Pristine Angel
_____________##_#___ 2nd Pristine Angel
____#_______________ 4 Propaganda
_____#____________#_ 2 Rack and Ruin
_____#______________ 3rd Rack and Ruin
_____#______________ 1 Ray of Revelation
_____#____________#_ 2 Red Elemental Blast / Pyroblast
_____#____________#_ 3rd-4th Red Elemental Blast / Pyroblast
_______________#____ 4 Repulse
__________________#_ 1 Rorix, Bladewing
__________________#_ 1 Rule of Law
_________________#__ 1 Rushing River
_____#______________ 2 Sacred Ground
_________________#__ 2 Spawning Pit
____________#____##_ 1 Stifle
____________#____#__ 2nd Stifle
_________________#__ 3rd Stifle
__________________#_ 1 Stroke of Genius
______#_____________ 1 Sundering Titan
_____#______________ 2 Swords to Plowshares
____#_______________ 1 Teferi’s Response
______##_#___#_#_#__ 1 Tormod’s Crypt
______##_#___#___#__ 2nd Tormod’s Crypt
_________#_______#__ 3rd Tormod’s Crypt
_______#____________ 1 Triskelion
______##_#__##___#__ 1 Woodripper
_______#_#___#______ 2nd Woodripper
Ordered Greatest to Least
##################_# 2 Blue fetchlands
##############_##### 1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
##################_# 4 Force of Will
##################_# 1 Gaea’s Blessing
##################_# 1 Island
#########_########_# 3rd Blue fetchland
####_####_########## 1 Black Lotus
#######_#_########## 4th Forbidden Orchard
#########_########_# 2nd Island
####_####_########## 1 Mox Sapphire
#####_#_############ 1 Strip Mine
####_####_########_# 4th Blue fetchland
####_####_########_# 1 Ancestral Recall
####_##_#_########## 2 Intuition
####_#########_###_# 4 Mana Drain
####_####_##_####### 1 Mox Jet
###__####_########## 1 Mox Ruby
####__#_############ 2 Wasteland
#######_#_#######__# 3rd-4th Island
####_##_#_########_# 4 Accumulated Knowledge
####_###__#######_## 1 Mox Emerald
####_###__########_# 1 Time Walk
#####__####_#####__# 2 Impulse
####_###__#######__# 1 Mox Pearl
####_#__#_###_###_## 3rd Intuition
######__#_##_####__# 5th Island
####__#_#_#######__# 2 Mana Leak
####__#_#_##_####__# 3rd Mana Leak
####__#_#_####_##__# 1 Spirit of the Night
####_#__#_###_#_#__# 4th Intuition
####____#_##_####__# 4th Mana Leak
####____#_###_###___ 2 Misdirection
————————————–
____#_##_#___#___##_ 2nd Tropical Island
___#___###_______##_ 1 Sol Ring
_____#_#_#____#__#__ 1 Darksteel Colossus
_____##__#___#___#__ 1 Engineered Explosives
_____#_#___##_______ 5th Blue fetchland
_______#_#_______##_ 3 Duress
________#__#_____##_ 1 Lotus Petal
_____#_#_________##_ 1 Tinker
_______#_#_______##_ 1 Vampiric Tutor
____#__#__________#_ 1 Crop Rotation
____#____#________#_ 1 Crucible of Worlds
______##_____#______ 1 Deep Analysis
_______#_________##_ 1 Demonic Tutor
_________#_______##_ 4th Duress
_____##______#______ 2nd Engineered Explosives
____##___#__________ 2nd Gaea’s Blessing
____#__#_#__________ 3rd Impulse
_____##_______#_____ 1 Library of Alexandria
_____#___________##_ 1 Mana Crypt
____#__#_#__________ 3rd Tropical Island
_______#_#_______#__ 2 Underground Sea
_________#__#_____#_ 3rd Wasteland
____#_________#_____ 4 Counterspell
______#______#______ 2nd Deep Analysis
_________#________#_ 1 Enlightened Tutor
_______#_______#____ 1 Fact or Fiction
____#_____________#_ 1 Fastbond
____#____#__________ 4th Impulse
_____#_#____________ 1 Mystical Tutor
_______#_#__________ 1 Pernicious Deed
_______#__________#_ 1 Regrowth
____#_#_____________ 2 Thirst for Knowledge
____#__#____________ 4th Tropical Island
_____#___#__________ 1 Tundra
_______#_#__________ 3rd Underground Sea
_________________##_ 1 Yawgmoth’s Will
____#_______________ 2 Annul
__________________#_ 4 City of Brass
__________________#_ 2nd-3rd Crucible of Worlds
__________________#_ 2 Cunning Wish
______________#_____ 2nd Darksteel Colossus
____________#_______ 2 Daze
___________________# 1 Echoing Truth
_____#______________ 3rd Engineered Explosives
_________#__________ 1 Exalted Angel
____#_______________ 1 Faerie Conclave
_________#__________ 1 Forest
__________________#_ 2 Gemstone Mine
____#_______________ 6th Island
__________________#_ 1 Mana Vault
________#___________ 3rd Misdirection
____#_______________ 4 Mishra’s Factory
____#_______________ 1 Morphling
____#_______________ 3 Nevinyrral’s Disk
_________#__________ 1 Phantom Nishoba
__________________#_ 1 Platinium Angel
___________________# 1 Rushing River
____#_______________ 2 Stifle
_________________#__ 1 Swamp
_________#__________ 3 Swords to Plowshares
____#_______________ 3rd Thirst for Knowledge
__________________#_ 1 Tolarian Academy
_________#__________ 2nd-3rd Tundra
_____#______________ 1 Volcanic Island
__________________#_ 4th Wasteland
_________#__________ 1 Windswept Heath
__________________#_ 1 Zuran Orb
Sideboard
#####___####__#_#_## 1 Energy Flux
#####___####__#_#__# 2nd Energy Flux
####____####__###__# 2 Ground Seal
#####___#_##__#_#__# 3rd Energy Flux
####____#_##__###__# 3rd Ground Seal
####____#_##_##_#__# 1 Pristine Angel
####______#__#_##__# 2 Arcane Laboratory
####____#__#__#_#__# 2 Back to Basics
####____#_#___#_#__# 2 Control Magic
####_#_##_##________ 1 Iridescent Angel
####____#_#___#____# 1 Platinum Angel
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______##_#___#_#_#__ 1 Tormod’s Crypt
______##_#__##___#__ 1 Woodripper
______#_##__#_____#_ 2 Chalice of the Void
____#_#______#_#_#__ 1 Misdirection
______##_#___#___#__ 2nd Tormod’s Crypt
______##__#__#______ 1 Oxidize
_____________#_#___# 3rd Arcane Laboratory
____##_____#________ 1 Blue Elemental Blast / Hydroblast
______#__#__#_______ 3rd Chalice of the Void
______#________#_#__ 2nd Misdirection
_____##__________#__ 1 Morphling
____#_____#___#_____ 1 Naturalize
______##_____#______ 2nd Oxidize
_____________##_#___ 2nd Pristine Angel
____________#____##_ 1 Stifle
_______#_#___#______ 2nd Woodripper
_________#__#_______ 4th Chalice of the Void
____#___________#___ 4th Energy Flux
_______#_____#______ 3 Extract
______#__________#__ 2nd Morphling
____#_________#_____ 2nd Naturalize
_____#_____#________ 2 Null Rod
______#__________#__ 1 Phantom Nishoba
_____#____________#_ 2 Rack and Ruin
_____#____________#_ 2 Red Elemental Blast / Pyroblast
_____#____________#_ 3rd-4th Red Elemental Blast / Pyroblast
____________#____#__ 2nd Stifle
_________#_______#__ 3rd Tormod’s Crypt
____________#_______ 2 Ancestor’s Chosen
____#_______________ 2 Annul
_______________#____ 4th Arcane Laboratory
___________#________ 3rd Back to Basics
___________#________ 2nd Blue Elemental Blast / Hydroblast
_________#__________ 2 Chill
____________#_______ 3 Claws of Gix
______#_____________ 1 Dominating Licid
____________#_______ 3 Echoing Truth
_______#____________ 1 Engineered Explosives
_______#____________ 4th Extract
__________________#_ 1 Fire/Ice
__________________#_ 1 Firestorm
_______#____________ 1 Gilded Drake
_______________#____ 4th Ground Seal
______#_____________ 3rd Misdirection
____#_______________ 4 Propaganda
_____#______________ 3rd Rack and Ruin
_____#______________ 1 Ray of Revelation
_______________#____ 4 Repulse
__________________#_ 1 Rorix, Bladewing
__________________#_ 1 Rule of Law
_________________#__ 1 Rushing River
_____#______________ 2 Sacred Ground
_________________#__ 2 Spawning Pit
_________________#__ 3rd Stifle
__________________#_ 1 Stroke of Genius
______#_____________ 1 Sundering Titan
_____#______________ 2 Swords to Plowshares
____#_______________ 1 Teferi’s Response
_______#____________ 1 Triskelion