Last updated 5/7/2023
OBSERVATIONS & DEFINING FEATURES
- Powerful multicolor payoffs; slow/unreliable multicolor manabases.
- Better “allied” manabases than “enemy” manabases.
- Strong tribal manabases.
- Beware Price of Progress.
- Powerful one-for-one answers; relatively simple threats.
- Three-toughness creatures are safe from one-mana burn spells.
- Little-to-no relevant free interaction.
- Highly limited first-turn mana acceleration.
- No one-mana draw-fixing cantrips.
- No planeswalkers with + abilities.
- No unconditional sweepers.
- Legacy-style A+B combos but with difficulty assembling and protecting them.
DECKLISTS
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FORMAT STAPLES & HELPFUL LISTS
- Removal @ 1 CMC
- Removal @ 2 CMC
- Multipurpose Removal
- Sweepers & Crowd Control
- Countermagic
- Discard
- Proactive/Aggressive T1 Plays
- Proactive/Aggressive T2 Plays
- Reanimation
- Card Advantage & Card Smoothing
- Advantage Engines
(Note: These lists are outdated and do not reflect changes legalizing rarity downshifts.)