Introduction
Running it back with Jeskai Ascendancy after a semifinals finish. What's neat about the deck is that it can really push the Urza's Saga beatdown plan, unlike Breach. Which is weird to think about, but the density of non-artifact spells in Breach (Underworld Breach, interaction spells, Malevolent Rumble) diluted the artifact count enough that I never found myself doing construct beatdowns (also because you would just win with the combo).
Part of the deck's power is having multiple synergistic packages that play off each other. A list of synergies - italicized for basic ones
- Emry/Tamiyo/Mox Amber
- 0 drops + Emry
- Emry + artifacts
- Cori-Steel Cutter + 0 drops/cheap spells
- Emry + Jeskai Ascendancy + 0 drops (+ Mox)
- Urza's Saga + artifacts + Tamiyo
- Urza's Saga constructs + Cori-Steel Cutter for trample
- Mox Opal + artifacts for metalcraft
- Emry + Cori-Steel Cutter for haste
- Tamiyo + Mishra's Bauble and Preordain - notably, trimmed from this deck
- Stock Up + good cards
- Kappa Cannoneer + artifacts - 1 card package
- Emry + SB Phlage
Decklist & Change Discussion
- Preordain, Flame of Anor, and flipping Tamiyo: aggressive Tamiyo play makes sense online where half the field is seemingly Boros. Local meta is heavily overindexed on UB so less interested in spells that say draw a card.
- Portable Hole - this card is largely for Boros and UB. It's not dead vs other archetypes, but the efficiency and target spread is crucial for those matchups.
- Cori-Steel Cutter: Four-of is gas.
- Fetchland mana base: dropped 4 Spire of Industry, added two fetches, added two fetchables. Basic mountain hedges vs Harbinger of the Seas, then flip Flooded Strands to Arid Mesas accordingly.
Swiss
- R1 Asham K on mana-screwed Jeskai Wizards WW (1-0)
- R2 Eric D on UB WLW (2-0)
- R3 Kevin M on Boros Energy (3-0)
G1 lose the die roll, then they go Guide of Souls > Galvanic Discharge Tamiyo + Ocelot Pride okay
G3 Pithing Needle on Goblin Bombardment was big game vs double Bombardment hand + Voice of Victory - R4 Anthony D on UBr WW (4-0)
- R5 ID, 2nd seed going in
Top 8
- QF Eric D (7) LWW
- SF Josh M (3) T4 split, concession
- F Sean T (4) on UB WW
Conclusive Thoughts
- Deck is good. Like my Temur Otters time, I benefited a good bit from my opponents not knowing the matchup & therefore not able to assess threats properly.
- Cori-Steel Cutter is a very primary kill axis and adds a lot of agency to the deck.
- Jeskai Ascendancy - I describe this card as the worst card in the deck until it isn't.
- Board state management was a little tricky at times. Between several lands, Mox mana, creatures, artifacts, new constructs/monks vs old ones, Cori-Steel Cutter equips ... things get messy. To make things slightly easier for myself, I should source some white sleeves for my monk tokens.
- One thing I made sure not to miss was my own Bauble triggers, perhaps overly so. I checked every upkeep, didn't miss a one - but also checked/double-checked many times when I didn't have one. Probably should be using my reminder token more so it's less disruptive.
- Scheduled to judge some RCQs this season, should probably push for L2. Main requirement would be working a multi-judge event & writing a review.
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