Day 1: Historic

Round 1: Jan-Moritz Merkel – Sultai Midrange

Deck 4 Nissa, Who Shakes the World 4 Zagoth Triome 4 Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath 4 Breeding Pool 4 Thoughtseize 4 Fabled Passage 4 Hydroid Krasis 1 Scavenging Ooze 4 Fatal Push 3 Growth Spiral 4 Overgrown Tomb 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen 3 Drowned Catacomb 1 Fetid Pools 3 Forest 2 Swamp 2 Island 1 Maelstrom Pulse 2 Extinction Event 2 Aether Gust 1 Tale’s End 1 Languish 1 Castle Locthwain Sideboard 2 Scavenging Ooze 2 Reclamation Sage 2 Mystical Dispute 1 Questing Beast 1 Disfigure 1 Disdainful Stroke 2 Shark Typhoon 1 Narset, Parter of Veils 1 Essence Scatter 1 Witch’s Vengeance 1 Cry of the Carnarium

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

Jan-Moritz is a very skilled player, and since he decided not to play white, he had an edge in the mirror, his manabase was better and the full x4 《Hydroid Krasis》 did a lot of work. We played 3 long games and except those one-sided games, it tends to take a lot of turns and you see most of your spells, and besides the 2 《Narset, Parter of Veils》es, it ends in this way…

I’ll share with you my opener in game 1 since it was very interesting. Keep or mulligan?

This was my sideboard plan for game 2 and game 3.

vs. Sultai Midrange

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Round 2: Thomas Ashton – Jund Sacrifice

Companion 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring Deck 4 Cauldron Familiar 4 Witch’s Oven 4 Mayhem Devil 4 Woe Strider 4 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 3 Claim the Firstborn 4 Gilded Goose 4 Trail of Crumbs 1 Heartless Act 1 Maelstrom Pulse 4 Stomping Ground 4 Overgrown Tomb 4 Blood Crypt 4 Cragcrown Pathway 3 Blooming Marsh 2 Swamp 2 Llanowar Elves 2 Phyrexian Tower 2 Dragonskull Summit Sideboard 3 Noxious Grasp 3 Abrade 3 Witch’s Vengeance 1 Maelstrom Pulse 4 Thoughtseize 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

Thomas decided to play 4 《Korvold, Fae-Cursed King》 and no 《Collected Company》, and this change makes the matchup even better for us. 《Yasharn, Implacable Earth》 shuts off most of the deck, and since they only have 2 cards to kill it game 1, it is pretty easy to cast it and win the game instantly, since you only need to handle the big dragon.

After sideboard they have 4 more removals, but since without Company the deck is much slower, I decided to use a few 《Thoughtseize》 after sideboard to protect the pig and also to hit 《Korvold, Fae-Cursed King》 or 《Claim the Firstborn》. It worked perfectly and I had no problems to win the round. (I forgot to record the match)

Round 3: Ben Stark – Dimir Rogues

Deck 4 Drown in the Loch 3 Swamp 5 Island 4 Drowned Catacomb 4 Thieves’ Guild Enforcer 4 Fatal Push 3 Into the Story 4 Merfolk Windrobber 3 Cling to Dust 4 Soaring Thought-Thief 4 Thoughtseize 4 Watery Grave 4 Clearwater Pathway 4 Brazen Borrower 2 Zareth San, the Trickster 2 Castle Locthwain 2 Fetid Pools Sideboard 2 Arguel’s Blood Fast 3 Negate 3 Aether Gust 3 Grafdigger’s Cage 2 Witch’s Vengeance 2 Murderous Rider

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

I never played against Rogues in all my Historic testing process, but I felt that the match was good for me since multiple 《Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath》s for free + cheap and efficient cards are a lethal combination…

However, Ben is a very good player and he had a lot of good cards as well, so I lost game 1, and this is how I sideboarded for game 2:

vs. Dimir Rogues

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He had some mana problems on game 2, and I decided to switch the 《Eliminate》 with a 《Witch’s Vengeance》 for game 3, and again he missed the 2nd landrop (from a 7card hand) so I realized after the turn 2 that his hand was full of good and cheap spells, otherwise he would mulligan. And it was the case, because he started with 《Thoughtseize》, had 《Grafdigger’s Cage》, and 《Zareth San, the Trickster》 with more rogues, luckily for me the missed landrop cost him the game probably.

This is the moment after he put a 《Shark Typhoon》 from my side in play but it was late and 《Nissa, Who Shakes the World》 + 《Hydroid Krasis》 and 《Negate》 finished the game.

Day 1: Standard

Round 4: Jakub Toth – Naya Winota

Deck 4 Bonecrusher Giant 4 Edgewall Innkeeper 4 Lovestruck Beast 2 Plains 2 The Great Henge 4 Winota, Joiner of Forces 4 Basri’s Lieutenant 1 Evolving Wilds 4 Kazandu Mammoth 4 Fabled Passage 4 Lotus Cobra 4 Branchloft Pathway 4 Cragcrown Pathway 4 Needleverge Pathway 2 Forest 4 Selfless Savior 1 Mountain 4 Giant Killer Sideboard 1 Scorching Dragonfire 4 Ox of Agonas 1 Mountain 1 The Great Henge 2 Chainweb Aracnir 4 Luminarch Aspirant 2 Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

Time for some Standard! Jakub played Naya Winota, but since most of the deck is the adventure pack, game 1 looked like a mirror, where he did the famous turn-4 《The Great Henge》 and win the game since I couldn’t remove it until the previous turn alive.

This was my plan for game 2:

vs. Naya Winota

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I started with a 6 card good opener, but my opponent had the nuts (《Selfless Savior》, 《Lotus Cobra》, 《Winota, Joiner of Forces》) and I couldn’t even play my 《The Great Henge》 turn 4, otherwise I could have a shot.

Round 5: Yuma Koizumi – Gruul Adventures

Deck 4 Bonecrusher Giant 4 Brushfire Elemental 4 Edgewall Innkeeper 4 Kazandu Mammoth 4 Lovestruck Beast 3 Scavenging Ooze 2 Embercleave 4 Shatterskull Smashing 3 The Great Henge 4 Cragcrown Pathway 4 Fabled Passage 9 Forest 4 Mountain 3 Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate 1 Temple of Abandon 1 The Akroan War 1 Fire Prophecy 1 Shredded Sails Sideboard 2 Klothys, God of Destiny 3 Ox of Agonas 1 Fire Prophecy 2 The Akroan War 2 Soul Sear 2 Garruk, Unleashed 3 Thrashing Brontodon

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

First mirror match! His list had 3 《Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate》, 3 《The Great Henge》, but only 2 《Embercleave》. I drew pretty well on game 1 and won without any problem.

This was my plan for game 2

vs. Gruul Adventures

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This game was crazy, I drew a 《Mountain》 and the 2nd 《The Great Henge》 and couldn’t play it, and that made the game goes longer and we ended up in topdeck mode and he drew Vivien and won from then.

I took the 2 《Phoenix of Ash》 out since on the play I can handle opponent’s vivien better and brought back the 3rd Cleave and the 《Garruk, Unleashed》.

I had a good opener, with a turn 5 《Embercleave》 attack, after that his life total was 3 and Garruk ended up winning the game thanks to his +1 ability.

Round 6: Asfandyar Rashid – Dimir Rogues

Deck 1 Cling to Dust 4 Drown in the Loch 3 Heartless Act 5 Swamp 2 Bloodchief’s Thirst 1 Castle Locthwain 1 Agadeem’s Awakening 5 Island 4 Into the Story 4 Clearwater Pathway 4 Soaring Thought-Thief 4 Shark Typhoon 4 Thieves’ Guild Enforcer 2 Didn’t Say Please 1 Eliminate 4 Temple of Deceit 4 Zagoth Triome 1 Zareth San, the Trickster 2 Brazen Borrower 1 Castle Vantress 1 Jwari Disruption 1 Negate 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Muse Sideboard 3 Skyclave Shade 1 Bloodchief’s Thirst 3 Mystical Dispute 1 Cling to Dust 2 Lullmage’s Domination 3 Extinction Event 1 Soul-Guide Lantern 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Muse

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

Rogues was the match up that I was more confident to play, since the games post boards are pretty good, and sometimes you can even win game 1 as well. I had a good opener and he did not, so I won the game really fast.

This was my plan for game 2:

vs. Dimir Rogues

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Game 2 I had a 《Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate》 and when I run out of threats I remember an advice from my friend Damian Buckley: Rogues can’t really afford to play many 《Negate》 and dies against creatures, so I casted the vivien into 4 open mana, she resolved and I won a few turns after that.

Round 7: William Jensen – Esper Doom Foretold

Companion 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad Deck 1 Temple of Silence 4 Temple of Enlightenment 4 Temple of Deceit 3 Skyclave Apparition 2 Swamp 4 Omen of the Sea 3 Heartless Act 4 Plains 3 Yorion, Sky Nomad 4 Glass Casket 4 Brightclimb Pathway 4 Clearwater Pathway 4 Doom Foretold 4 Elspeth Conquers Death 4 Elspeth’s Nightmare 4 Emeria’s Call 3 Extinction Event 4 Fabled Passage 2 Mystical Dispute 2 Treacherous Blessing 2 Negate 1 Castle Vantress 2 Shark Typhoon 1 Golden Egg 3 Island 2 Cling to Dust 2 Mazemind Tome Sideboard 2 Negate 1 Mystical Dispute 2 Archon of Sun’s Grace 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad 2 Duress 2 Shark Typhoon 1 Heliod’s Intervention 1 Cling to Dust 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon 1 Baneslayer Angel 1 Bloodchief’s Thirst

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

I lost game 1 and won game 2 without nothing to do from both sides. But game 3, as you may know, being on the play is a huge difference, besides obvious reasons, on the draw is very hard to catch up the card 《Doom Foretold》, but luckily for me he didn’t draw any 《Doom Foretold》 in the early game. I kept a normal hand and we started to trade resources, and this was a key turn in which I killed the 《Archon of Sun’s Grace》 and won some turns after that.

Day 2: Historic

Round 8: Allen Wu – Jund Sacrifice

Companion 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring Deck 4 Gilded Goose 3 Claim the Firstborn 4 Cragcrown Pathway 4 Mayhem Devil 4 Trail of Crumbs 4 Woe Strider 4 Witch’s Oven 4 Stomping Ground 4 Overgrown Tomb 4 Cauldron Familiar 2 Phyrexian Tower 4 Blood Crypt 2 Dragonskull Summit 3 Blooming Marsh 4 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 1 Heartless Act 2 Swamp 2 Llanowar Elves 1 Maelstrom Pulse Sideboard 1 Maelstrom Pulse 3 Noxious Grasp 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring 3 Witch’s Vengeance 4 Thoughtseize 3 Abrade

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

Allen only had 1 《Maelstrom Pulse》 game 1, and didn’t drew it. Game two he played with 3 lands all the game thanks to 《Yasharn, Implacable Earth》.

The way to go in the sideboard is 《Negate》 against 《Collected Company》, and 《Thoughtseize》 against 《Korvold, Fae-Cursed King》. 《Fatal Push》es are better against Company and 《Essence Scatter》 against Korvold.

Round 9: Gary Patrick – 4C Midrange

Deck 3 Hydroid Krasis 4 Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath 2 Yasharn, Implacable Earth 4 Nissa, Who Shakes the World 1 Swamp 1 Plains 2 Forest 2 Island 1 Overgrown Tomb 2 Temple Garden 2 Watery Grave 4 Breeding Pool 1 Drowned Catacomb 1 Glacial Fortress 4 Fabled Passage 4 Zagoth Triome 3 Indatha Triome 4 Thoughtseize 1 Yahenni’s Expertise 4 Fatal Push 4 Growth Spiral 2 Aether Gust 2 Extinction Event 2 Eliminate Sideboard 1 Negate 2 Scavenging Ooze 2 Essence Scatter 2 Narset, Parter of Veils 3 Shark Typhoon 2 Elder Gargaroth 1 Yasharn, Implacable Earth 1 Disdainful Stroke 1 Mythos of Nethroi

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

Game 1 we drew almost the same cards, besides 《Aether Gust》, which gave me the game.

vs. 4C Midrange

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This was my plan for game 2 and it worked pretty well this game but still not full convinced about how to sideboard in the mirror.

Round 10: Corey Burkhart – Sultai Midrange

Deck 3 Hydroid Krasis 4 Nissa, Who Shakes the World 1 Eliminate 4 Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath 1 Narset, Parter of Veils 3 Fatal Push 4 Thoughtseize 1 Thought Erasure 2 Maelstrom Pulse 3 Extinction Event 2 Aether Gust 4 Growth Spiral 1 Castle Locthwain 1 Hinterland Harbor 2 Drowned Catacomb 2 Fetid Pools 4 Breeding Pool 4 Fabled Passage 4 Overgrown Tomb 4 Zagoth Triome 2 Forest 2 Swamp 2 Island Sideboard 2 Narset, Parter of Veils 2 Aether Gust 2 Negate 3 Shark Typhoon 1 Tale’s End 3 Cry of the Carnarium 2 Heartless Act

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

This was a featured match(Link to the video)

I’ll share with you some images to show respect to 《Narset, Parter of Veils》, one of the best Planeswalkers ever made:

(turn 3 《Narset, Parter of Veils》 from the top after a 《Thoughtseize》 from my side)

(2nd 《Narset, Parter of Veils》 finding 《Nissa, Worldwaker》 and killing my hopes of drawing more cards)

Corey is a very skilled player and his list was better in the mirror, in the same way as Jan-Moritz Merkel, he had 1 more 《Hydroid Krasis》, 1 more 《Narset, Parter of Veils》, 1 more discard spell and 1 《Castle Locthwain》, thanks to playing straight sultai.

Round 11: Bernardo Torres – Goblins

Deck 2 Castle Embereth 4 Conspicuous Snoop 4 Goblin Chieftain 4 Goblin Matron 3 Chandra, Torch of Defiance 4 Goblin Warchief 4 Krenko, Mob Boss 4 Muxus, Goblin Grandee 2 Phyrexian Tower 4 Skirk Prospector 4 Wily Goblin 2 Shatterskull Smashing 19 Mountain Sideboard 3 Goblin Ringleader 1 Gempalm Incinerator 3 Herald’s Horn 3 Abrade 1 Goblin Trashmaster 1 Goblin Chainwhirler 3 Magma Spray

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

Game 1 was easy, since he mulliganed and kept a onelander, missing two land drops, so I had enough time to prepare my board and ended up dealing with all his threats and won the game with 《Nissa, Worldwaker》 + 《Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath》.

This was my plan for game 2:

vs. Goblins

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On game 2, Bernardo was super unlucky with his first 《Muxus, Goblin Grandee》, hitting only 《Goblin Matron》, and I topdecked to stop the second one.

I won some turns, Nissa never got hitted, and after some trades and triggering Revolt with the -8 from Nissa. I won game 2 that I should have lost most of the time.

Day 2: Standard

Round 12: Gabriel Nassif – Mono-Green Food

Deck 1 Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate 4 Feasting Troll King 4 Gilded Goose 4 Kazandu Mammoth 4 Lovestruck Beast 4 Tangled Florahedron 1 Thrashing Brontodon 4 Wicked Wolf 3 The Great Henge 2 Witch’s Oven 3 Trail of Crumbs 2 Bonders’ Enclave 4 Castle Garenbrig 15 Forest 2 Kogla, the Titan Ape 2 Crawling Barrens 1 Ilysian Caryatid Sideboard 2 Scavenging Ooze 1 Thrashing Brontodon 2 Chainweb Aracnir 2 Sorcerous Spyglass 1 Wilt 3 Questing Beast 1 Ram Through 1 Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon 1 Primal Might

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

Back to standard, mono-G is a natural predator for my deck, Gruul, so I needed some good draws to beat a player like Gab, but it was the opposite.

T3 《Wicked Wolf》, T4 《Kogla, the Titan Ape》, T5 《Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate》 on the play against a normal opener from my side.

This was my plan for game 2:

vs. Mono-Green Food

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I kept this hand.

I drew my 3rd land off the 《Wilt》‘s Cycling on turn 3 while Gab went 《Lovestruck Beast》 on 3, 《Wicked Wolf》 on 4, 《The Great Henge》 + 《Witch’s Oven》 on 5 and I couldn’t recover from that.

Round 13: Ivan Floch – Dimir Rogues

Companion 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den Deck 3 Agadeem’s Awakening 4 Thieves’ Guild Enforcer 4 Temple of Deceit 3 Swamp 4 Soaring Thought-Thief 4 Ruin Crab 4 Merfolk Windrobber 3 Lullmage’s Domination 2 Zagoth Triome 4 Into the Story 4 Fabled Passage 4 Drown in the Loch 4 Clearwater Pathway 1 Eliminate 4 Of One Mind 2 Bloodchief’s Thirst 5 Island 1 Heartless Act Sideboard 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den 3 Mystical Dispute 4 Skyclave Shade 3 Negate 2 Cling to Dust 1 Bloodchief’s Thirst 1 Essence Scatter

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

Ivan kept a hand with a Temple + Passage 7 card hand, but drew the 3rd land (tapped) on turn 4, while I cast spells all my turns from turn 2 and the pressure was good enough to take the game before he could cast the rest of his spells.

I had a really interesting spot, knowing that he missed 2 landrops (I missed 1). What’s the play?

I will write my line of play after finish this match.

This was my plan for game 2:

vs. Dimir Rogues

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In this game I had access to plenty of cards but only two 《Mountain》s, while Ivan developed his board and hand without any problem and won the game in all ways.

I forgot to take out the 《Embereth Shieldbreaker》s so I switched them for 2 《Questing Beast》 and 1 《Garruk, Unleashed》, and since he took out 《Ruin Crab》s I switched 《Primal Might》 with 《Embercleave》.

I had an insane opener and a copy of 《Phoenix of Ash》 arrived for free being the perfect card to put even more pressure. Again taplands didn’t help him since I was attacking for 16 on turn 4 while he just cast two 2 drops.

My play on game 1 against Ivan

I tried to make Ivan tap that mana, so I casted 《Brushfire Elemental》, it resolved, I played the land untapped, casted 《Embereth Shieldbreaker》 and resolved… Since Ivan didn’t tap out, I attacked with everything and he played another 《Soaring Thought-Thief》, which I killed post combat, and he conceded the turn after that (with this play I avoided a 《Lullmage’s Domination》 from his side since he never reached 8 cards.

Round 14: Aaron Gertler – Dimir Control

Companion 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad Deck 2 Ashiok, Nightmare Muse 7 Swamp 7 Island 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon 1 Thassa’s Intervention 3 Solemn Simulacrum 4 Extinction Event 4 Shark Typhoon 4 Neutralize 4 Heartless Act 4 Mazemind Tome 4 Temple of Deceit 4 Omen of the Sea 2 Negate 4 Jwari Disruption 2 Essence Scatter 2 Cling to Dust 3 Crawling Barrens 4 Fabled Passage 4 Clearwater Pathway 4 Zagoth Triome 2 Midnight Clock 2 Eliminate 2 Sublime Epiphany Sideboard 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad 4 Skyclave Shade 3 Mystical Dispute 1 Shadows’ Verdict 1 Soul Shatter 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon 2 Bloodchief’s Thirst 1 Negate 1 Essence Scatter

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

I was super scared about this match, since the deck is very good against Gruul Adventures, and Aaron showed how good he is at playing Standard, so I couldn’t expect any mistakes or easy gameplans from his side.

Game 1 was pretty back and forth, I was holding my 《Questing Beast》 waiting for his 《Ashiok, Nightmare Muse》, and when Ashiok arrived I could manage to kill it while still pressure his life according to my plan to win after the 《Extinction Event》, since that single card potentially handle both beasts and he played 4 copies so it was certainly soon. Lucky for me it worked because it is pretty hard to connect a hit with 《Embercleave》 against Dimir Control, so it was fantastic to win game 1.

This was my plan for game 2:

vs. Dimir Control

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On game 2 he has some problems with the hand because didn’t interact with me during the very first 4 turns, and couldn’t come back from that and I won with the second wave of threats.

Round 15: Andrea Mengucci – Esper Doom Foretold

Companion 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad Deck 3 Yorion, Sky Nomad 4 Omen of the Sea 2 Omen of the Sun 2 Negate 3 Heartless Act 3 Golden Egg 4 Extinction Event 2 Dance of the Manse 3 Treacherous Blessing 4 Elspeth’s Nightmare 4 Doom Foretold 4 Elspeth Conquers Death 3 Swamp 4 Island 4 Fabled Passage 4 Emeria’s Call 1 Raugrin Triome 4 Clearwater Pathway 4 Brightclimb Pathway 2 Eliminate 4 Temple of Enlightenment 2 Temple of Silence 4 Skyclave Apparition 4 Plains 2 Temple of Deceit Sideboard 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad 4 Mystical Dispute 3 Archon of Sun’s Grace 2 Cling to Dust 2 Heliod’s Intervention 1 Heartless Act 2 Negate

How to Use It?

　1. Copy the whole text.

　2. Open the Deck menu on MTG Arena and click “Import”.

　3. If you succeeded, your deck will be there as an “Imported Deck”.

I went to 6 and Andrea had a good opener and by turn 5 I didn’t have any chance to win.

This was my plan for game 2

vs. Esper Doom Foretold

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Game 2 I won thanks to the extra 3 cards that I drew with 《Ox of Agonas》, and I kill him exactly with an 《Scavenging Ooze》 + 《Embercleave》.

I decided to bring at least 1 copy of 《Soul Sear》 because he had 3 copies of 《Archon of Sun’s Grace》. This was my plan for game 3:

vs. Esper Doom Foretold

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He started with turn-3 《Elspeth’s Nightmare》 killing my 《Brushfire Elemental》, and I drew the 《Garruk, Unleashed》 exactly on that turn, otherwise I could have a shot, but he followed with 《Doom Foretold》, and then using all his cards to kill me a few turns after.