Yesterday, Avacyn Restored was released on MTGO. Flores took this chance to start porting the powerful Miracle strategy by Hayne to Standard. He won his first 8 matches with it, so he is definitely optimistic about his first draft of a UWR Miracle deck. Keep your eye on Five with Flores for any updates to the deck.
[deck title=All American Miracle by Michael Flores]
[Lands]
1 Clifftop Retreat
2 Desolate Lighthouse
4 Evolving Wilds
4 Glacial Fortress
6 Island
1 Mountain
4 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast
1 Sulfur Falls
[/Lands]
[Spells]
1 Karn Liberated
4 Pristine Talisman
1 Blue Sun’s Zenith
1 Dissipate
4 Ponder
3 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
4 Temporal Mastery
4 Think Twice
1 Noxious Revival
4 Entreat the Angels
2 Gideon Jura
4 Terminus
[/Spells]
[/deck]
Over the last few days, many writers, like Flores, have decided to have a go at porting Miracles to Standard. Out of all the ones that were published, Hayne told me this was the one that made the most sense to him as a starting point.
[deck title=Esper Miracles by Kenji Tsumura]
[Lands]
5 Plains
4 Island
1 Swamp
4 Seachrome Coast
1 Darkslick Shores
4 Glacial Fortress
3 Drowned Catacomb
1 Isolated Chapel
3 Evolving Wilds
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Ponder
4 Thought Scour
4 Think Twice
4 Lingering Souls
2 Day of Judgment
4 Terminus
4 Temporal Mastery
3 Entreat the Angels
3 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
2 Gideon Jura
[/Spells]
[/deck]
While scrounging to find a PTQ list for this weekend, I came across the following Ramp deck. Though there are some questionable card choices (1 Desolate Lighthouse?!), this reminds me a lot of the Turboland deck from a few years ago. Of course, it is hard to see how this could ever beat Delver but maybe there’s something to be discovered here…
[deck title=RUG Ramp]
[Lands]
4 Hinterland Harbor
3 Cavern of Souls
2 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Desolate Lighthouse
2 Inkmoth Nexus
6 Island
1 Mountain
7 Forest
[/Lands]
[Creatures]
4 Huntmaster of the Fells
4 Solemn Simulacrum
4 Primeval Titan
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Ponder
4 Rampant Growth
4 Sphere of the Suns
4 Temporal Mastery
2 Garruk Relentless
2 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
2 Karn Liberated
[/Spells]
[Sideboard]
1 Garruk Relentless
2 Frost Titan
3 Crippling Chill
4 Mortarpod
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Jace, Memory Adept
3 Snapcaster Mage
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
Have fun,
KYT
Kar Yung Tom (KYT) is the Digital Content Manager for Face to Face Games. He oversees the F2FTour.com and Magic F2F websites. He is also the lead host of the First Strike podcast.