Po několika modernových decích se dnes konečně dostáváme k jinému formátu, konkrétně k pioneeru.
Je pravda, že na pioneeru je kvůli kombodeckům v podobě UB Invertera a Lotus Breache celkem těžké uspět s nějakým brew, nicméně občas se někomu i tak zadaří.
Tentokrát jsou v hlavní roli Fires of Invention, Tireless Tracker, Karn, the Great Creator a streamer SquaChief (Corey Crowfoot), kterému se shodou okolností podařilo s deckem na streamu získat trofej v MTGO lize (tj. uhrát 5:0).
Když se bavíme o Karnovi, tak musím říci, že až doteď jsem o téhle synergii nikde jinde neslyšel. Ugin's Nexus má totiž poměrně specifickou abilitu v tom, že se sám exiluje, takže ho potom Karn může vracet do ruky.
Ideální karty, do kterých Nexus obětujete, jsou Vraska, Golgari Queen a Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. Zejména s Korvoldem je to dost nekompromisní, protože potom není problém útočit za 10+ damage.
Karta, která ale drží celý deck pohromadě, je Tireless Tracker. Jednak je to skvělá value karta pro midrange, ale tady má ideální synergii jak s Fires of Invention, tak s Korvoldem, se kterým vám každé clue lízne dvě karty.
Decklisty Vše
Courser of Kruphix
Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play the top card of your library if it's a land card. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
Woodland Cemetery
Woodland Cemetery enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G} to your mana pool.
Ugin's Nexus
If a player would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead. If Ugin's Nexus would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, instead exile it and take an extra turn after this one.
Trading Post
{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Put a 0/1 white Goat creature token onto the battlefield. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
Darksteel Citadel
Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this land.) {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
Slaughter Games
Slaughter Games can't be countered by spells or abilities. Name a nonland card. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Pithing Needle
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Tormod's Crypt
{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Remove target player's graveyard from the game.
Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
Damping Sphere
If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount. Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
Stomping Ground
({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Karn, the Great Creator
Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated.
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
−2: You may choose an artifact card you own from outside the game or in exile, reveal that card, and put it into your hand.
Arboreal Grazer
Reach
When Arboreal Grazer enters the battlefield, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
God-Pharaoh's Statue
Spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast.
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life.
Legion's End
Exile target creature an opponent controls with converted mana cost 2 or less and all other creatures that player controls with the same name as that creature. Then that player reveals their hand and exiles all cards with that name from their hand and graveyard.
Fires of Invention
You can cast spells only during your turn and you can cast no more than two spells each turn.
You may cast spells with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of lands you control without paying their mana costs.
Castle Locthwain
Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Fabled Passage
{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
Flying
Whenever Korvold, Fae-Cursed King enters the battlefield or attacks, sacrifice another permanent.
Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Korvold and draw a card.
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.
Jsem si také celkem jistý, že one-of Drayda byl spíše nepodařený experiment, jelikož si ji nemáte jak najít, a v tomhle počtu nemá příliš význam ji vůbec do decku zařazovat (asi bych dal čtvrtého Coursera).
Sideboard je potom klasický toolbox ke Karnovi + jedna karta proti aggrům a jedna proti kombům. Zvlášť bych zmínil Trading Post, díky kterému si s Karnem můžete najít Nexus a potom ho další kolo hned můžete obětovat. Zajímavé bude sledovat, jakou popularitu deck nebere, protože hrát mirror Nexusů mi přijde jako docela zvrácenost (i hlediska toho, že Karni navzájem vypínají Tireless Trackery).
To je pro dnešek vše a příště se můžete těšit opět na specialtu z modernu ;)
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