A complete of 331 Commonplace decklists have been submitted for Professional Tour Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™, however some stand out greater than others. The spiciest ones use revolutionary combos of playing cards, introduce a novel archetype to the format, or do one thing that nobody noticed coming. On this article, we’ll dive into seven of probably the most intriguing Commonplace decks that caught my eye. Every one makes intelligent use of playing cards from Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY and holds actual potential to win the Professional Tour.
2 Cori Mountain Monastery
4 Lush Portico
4 Excessive Midday
1 Brushland
4 Elegant Parlor
2 Get Misplaced
4 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
2 Mountain
2 Cavern of Souls
2 Esper Origins
4 Thornspire Verge
4 Lightning Helix
4 The Elder Dragon Conflict
4 Concern of Lacking Out
2 Plains
3 Joshua, Phoenix’s Dominant
4 Yuna, Hope of Spira
1 Karplusan Forest
3 Screaming Nemesis
4 Sunbillow Verge
1 Religious Decree
1 Sheltered by Ghosts
1 Overwhelming Surge
3 Destroy Evil
2 Ghost Vacuum
2 Esper Origins
1 Pyroclasm
1 Summon: Bahamut
2 Heritage Reclamation
1 Screaming Nemesis
Bryan Hohns is the one participant at this Professional Tour to convey Overlord of the Boilerbilges and The Elder Dragon Conflict to the desk. These two playing cards have exceptional synergy with Yuna, Hope of Spira, the cornerstone card of his deck. His ardour for the cardboard fueled his need to play this spicy new technique.
Yuna, Hope of Spira
The Elder Dragon Conflict
Overlord of the Boilerbilges
The core sport plan facilities on reanimating Overlord of the Boilerbilges from the graveyard. You possibly can discard it utilizing Concern of Lacking Out; Joshua, Phoenix’s Dominant; or The Elder Dragon Conflict, or you may mill it with the surveil impact from Esper Origins. Then, on flip 5, Yuna, Hope of Spira brings the Overlord again to life. Not solely does this generate an incredible board presence, nevertheless it additionally permits you to ping one thing … with lifelink!
“This deck may very well be precisely known as Naya Burn Reanimator Management Enchantress, because it one way or the other mixes like 5 completely different themes into one,” Hohns joked. And he isn’t mistaken. Past the principle enchantment-reanimation plan, the deck can burn opponents out with Screaming Nemesis and Lightning Helix, and it may management the sport with spot elimination, Excessive Midday, and The Elder Dragon Conflict‘s sweeping first chapter. With this potent mixture of flexibility and firepower, it is simply my favourite deck in all the area.
3 Thundering Falls
4 Agatha’s Soul Cauldron
2 Abrade
4 Vivi Ornitier
4 Winternight Tales
3 Into the Flood Maw
3 Mountain
2 Island
3 Voldaren Thrillseeker
1 Spell Pierce
4 Marauding Mako
4 Concern of Lacking Out
3 Tersa Lightshatter
2 Soulstone Sanctuary
4 Riverpyre Verge
2 Glacial Dragonhunt
4 Spirebluff Canal
4 Shivan Reef
4 Proft’s Eidetic Reminiscence
2 Negate
1 Scorching Shot
2 Draconautics Engineer
2 Enduring Curiosity
3 Unable to Scream
1 Abrade
3 Lithomantic Barrage
1 Spell Pierce
Whereas almost each Izzet participant on the Professional Tour leaned on Cori-Metal Cutter, three gamers submitted a radically completely different take, ditching the Cutter completely in favor of one other highly effective artifact: Agatha’s Soul Cauldron. These three are U.S. Regional Champion Peter Husisian, Corridor of Famer Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa, and Professional Tour champion Jake Beardsley. The latter two collaborated as a part of Workforce Cosmos Heavy Play, finally selecting the identical fastidiously tuned listing.
Vivi Ornitier
Agatha’s Soul Cauldron
Proft’s Eidetic Reminiscence
The important thing goal of their deck is to discard Vivi Ornitier (utilizing playing cards like Glacial Dragonhunt, Concern of Lacking Out, Tersa Lightshatter, or Winternight Tales) after which exile the Wizard with Agatha’s Soul Cauldron. This grants Vivi Ornitier‘s activated mana capacity to any creature with a +1/+1 counter, which, because of Marauding Mako and Proft’s Eidetic Reminiscence, finally ends up being most of them. “Vivi Ornitier and Agatha’s Soul Cauldron are a really explosive mixture,” Damo da Rosa defined. “It will probably add plenty of mana on a flip and generally kill you from nowhere. We preferred that the deck had entry to this combo component in addition to a really cheap honest plan (just like Oculus).”
Past the Vivi Ornitier synergy, Agatha’s Soul Cauldron provides extra utility. Exiling Voldaren Thrillseeker turns any counter-laden creature right into a menace that may deal direct harm. And on prime of that, you get to play most important deck graveyard hate. Damo da Rosa appreciated that side “as a result of we anticipated Azorius Omniscience to be some of the performed decks,” and that forecast turned out to be spot-on. This model of Izzet will not be churning out Monk tokens, nevertheless it’s a fiery technique that would take the match by storm.
4 Infestation Sage
4 Hid Courtyard
4 Darkish Confidant
2 Dalkovan Encampment
2 Beginning City
1 Zahur, Glory’s Previous
5 Swamp
4 Caves of Koilos
3 Enduring Innocence
4 Voice of Victory
4 Vengeful Bloodwitch
4 Nezumi Linkbreaker
2 Shadowy Backstreet
4 Bleachbone Verge
3 Worthy Price
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
2 Elevate the Previous
4 Bartolomé del Presidio
2 Go for the Throat
2 Strategic Betrayal
1 Get Misplaced
2 Destroy Evil
2 Ghost Vacuum
1 Loran of the Third Path
3 Duress
2 Invasion of Gobakhan // Lightshield Array
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER has breathed new life into Orzhov Sacrifice, and two Professional Tour debutants independently arrived on the archetype as their weapon of selection: Luis Monge from Costa Rica and Juli Caballero Queralt from Spain. Whereas Monge’s listing leans into extra crime synergies, Caballero Queralt’s model goes all-in on the sacrifice theme, and that is the listing featured above.
Infestation Sage
Bartolomé del Presidio
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
Like a Vengeful Bloodwitch that triggers off everybody’s creatures, Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER drains your opponent every time a creature dies. Nonetheless, Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER‘s built-in card draw makes him a much better standalone card than a typical payoff creature, as he can flip even a humble Infestation Sage or Voice of Victory token right into a recent card. And with sufficient tokens and sacrifice retailers, reworking Sephiroth right into a formidable 5/5 flier is a really actual risk.
With a deep pool of card-draw results like Darkish Confidant, Enduring Innocence, Worthy Price, and Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, the deck churns by way of its library at a powerful tempo. Finally, Elevate the Previous ties all of it collectively, bringing again a essential mass of sacrifice retailers, token makers, and life-draining threats to shut the sport. It is a sublime, synergistic deck that appears like a blast to play.
1 Swamp
1 Agatha’s Soul Cauldron
4 Molt Tender
2 Llanowar Elves
2 City Greeter
6 Forest
1 Coati Scavenger
4 Llanowar Wastes
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Wastewood Verge
4 Blooming Marsh
4 Insidious Roots
2 Osteomancer Adept
4 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
2 Dragon Sniper
2 Rubblebelt Maverick
2 Disruptive Stormbrood
1 Nice Arashin Metropolis
2 Cache Seize
4 Haywire Mite
4 Overlord of the Balemurk
2 Dredger’s Perception
3 Darkish Confidant
1 Skyfisher Spider
2 Go for the Throat
1 Coati Scavenger
1 Ghost Vacuum
1 Cankerbloom
2 Souls of the Misplaced
1 Voldaren Thrillseeker
2 Dragon Sniper
1 Gastal Raider
One of many largest metagame surprises was the sudden resurgence of Insidious Roots decks. 5 members of staff Handshake Moxfield—Simon Nielsen, Matti Kuisma, Eli Kassis, Julien Henry, and Alex Friedrichsen—locked in a Golgari construct that they hoped would catch the competitors off guard.
“The deck does loopy highly effective issues when Insidious Roots is concerned and has plenty of endurance by way of Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler and Overlord of the Balemurk,” Simon Nielsen defined. The Professional Tour champion was clearly intrigued: “It was arduous to find out in testing whether or not this deck was nice or simply okay, and I used to be very curious to see how this may do into an unsuspecting area.”
Insidious Roots
City Greeter
Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
The important thing card within the deck is Insidious Roots, an enchantment able to flooding the board with Plant tokens. Each time you exile a creature card out of your graveyard with Molt Tender or Scavenging Ooze, or return one with Overlord of the Balemurk, Insidious Roots creates a Plant, then buffs your whole Crops with +1/+1 counters. Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler amplifies this synergy even additional by letting your freshly sprouted Crops faucet for mana instantly, fueling actually explosive turns.
The deck picked up a number of upgrades from latest units, together with Darkish Confidant for the sideboard and Dragon Sniper as an inexpensive creature with deathtouch. However the true standout addition is City Greeter, which fills the graveyard and generates card benefit. All of those new additions present gasoline for Molt Tender whereas sustaining a adequate density of creatures for Tyvar’s second loyalty capacity.
Haywire Mite additionally matches in for comparable causes, and it provides useful utility towards Cori-Metal Cutter, Momentary Lockdown, and Omniscience in a metagame teeming with targets. All in all, though the archetype has largely flown underneath the radar, it quietly posted robust outcomes on the latest Regional Championships. And now, underneath the brilliant lights of the Professional Tour, all eyes will likely be on whether or not it may rise to the event.
1 Agatha’s Soul Cauldron
2 Forest
2 Beginning City
1 Curious Forager
4 Molt Tender
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Eager-Eyed Curator
4 Llanowar Elves
1 Cankerbloom
4 Llanowar Wastes
4 Blooming Marsh
4 Insidious Roots
4 Rubblebelt Maverick
1 Osteomancer Adept
4 Dredger’s Perception
4 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
2 Haywire Mite
4 Copperline Gorge
3 Karplusan Forest
4 Terra, Magical Adept
4 Overlord of the Balemurk
1 Skyfisher Spider
2 Deep-Cavern Bat
2 Agatha’s Soul Cauldron
2 Disruptive Stormbrood // Petty Revenge
1 Eager-Eyed Curator
1 Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab
1 Glissa Sunslayer
1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
1 Haywire Mite
3 Anoint with Affliction
The opposite Insidious Roots deck got here from eight members of Flexslot Diamond: Bartek Wojciechowski, Krista Oscapinski, Mark Jacobson, Ivan Espinosa, Corey Burkhart, Mikey Bishara, Enzo Birk, and David Akers. This group opted to splash for crimson to maximise a strong new card.
Terra, Magical Adept
Overlord of the Balemurk
Cankerbloom
“The items for Roots have been round for some time,” Corey Burkhart defined, “however the newly printed Terra, Magicial Adept was the glue it wanted to place all of it collectively. It is the right card for fueling the graveyard and digging to your all-important Insidious Roots.”
As soon as remodeled, Esper Terra can copy Overlord of the Balemurk foradditional worth,opening the door to wild combo turns. The newly created Overlord token returns a creature upon coming into, then can instantly assault to convey again one other. With the proper setup, it may even go infinite. With Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler and Insidious Roots in play, tokens can faucet for mana straight away, enabling the next loop:
- Begin with 9 mana obtainable.
- Spend six to rework Terra, Magical Adept into Esper Terra.
- The primary chapter capacity of Esper Terra creates a token of Overlord of the Balemurk, which returns Cankerbloom from the graveyard. Insidious Roots creates a Plant token.
- Faucet the Plant and the Overlord for 2 mana. Spend three to forged Cankerbloom and sacrifice it to proliferate, including a lore counter to Esper Terra.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 twice, triggering the second and third chapter skills of at the price of one mana every.
- If you attain Esper Terra’s ultimate chapter capacity, you add ten mana and rework the Saga again into Terra, Magical Adept, who can activate once more instantly because of Tyvar.
Every loop nets one extra mana, permitting you to repeat it arbitrarily usually to generate infinite mana. Finally, you may select to not faucet the Overlords for mana, attacking as an alternative with a military of infinite hasty Overlord of the Balemurk tokens for the win. It is a convoluted setup, however a deeply satisfying strategy to finish the sport.
4 Brushland
2 Warden of the Internal Sky
3 Forest
1 Kellan, Daring Traveler
4 Sentinel of the Anonymous Metropolis
2 Stressed Prairie
4 Brightglass Gearhulk
4 Novice Inspector
4 Herd Heirloom
4 Hushwood Verge
3 Nightfall Rose Reliquary
5 Plains
1 Invasion of Gobakhan
1 Haywire Mite
4 Regal Bunnicorn
4 Teething Wurmlet
1 Soul-Information Lantern
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Scrapshooter
1 Phoenix Down
2 Sheltered by Ghosts
2 Ghost Vacuum
1 Choose Your Poison
2 Wilt-Leaf Liege
2 Authority of the Consuls
1 Haywire Mite
1 Nightfall Rose Reliquary
1 Phoenix Down
3 Invasion of Gobakhan // Lightshield Array
Josh Morton, who with by way of a Prime 8 end at Magic Highlight: Dragons, is the one competitor at this Professional Tour to register a deck that includes Novice Inspector, Teething Wurmlet, Warden of the Internal Sky, Regal Bunnicorn, Herd Heirloom, and Brightglass Gearhulk. “I noticed Gabriel Nassif taking part in a model of it on his stream and it seemed tremendous enjoyable,” Morton stated.
Brightglass Gearhulk
Teething Wurmlet
Phoenix Down
Whereas Brightglass Gearhulk decks have had a presence in Commonplace, sometimes in builds with Llanowar Elves and Collector’s Cage, Morton’s deck charts its personal path. With Novice Inspector and Sentinel of the Anonymous Metropolis, it leans extra closely into artifact tokens, boosting Teething Wurmlet, enabling Warden of the Internal Sky, and supercharging Regal Bunnicorn. The result’s a synergistic deck able to constant, aggressive begins. Scrapshooter additionally shines as a well-positioned three-drop in a metagame dominated by Cori-Metal Cutter and Momentary Lockdown.
The lone inclusion from Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY is Phoenix Down, nevertheless it performs an important position. It is a prime tutor goal for Brightglass Gearhulk, and whereas its second mode can exile Screaming Nemesis—a Spirit—the principle attraction is its capacity to convey again Brightglass Gearhulk for simply three whole mana. That is a incredible price, particularly when it additionally triggers Teething Wurmlet alongside the best way.
1 Swamp
1 Stressed Cottage
1 Sheoldred’s Edict
4 Darkish Confidant
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
3 Burst Lightning
2 Cecil, Darkish Knight
3 Beginning City
1 Tear Asunder
1 Underground Mortuary
2 Go for the Throat
3 Duress
2 Llanowar Wastes
1 Mountain
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
3 Blooming Marsh
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Shoot the Sheriff
1 Opera Love Music
4 Cori-Metal Cutter
3 The Final Experience
2 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
2 Raucous Theater
3 Questing Druid
4 Sulfurous Springs
3 Deep-Cavern Bat
3 Minimize Down
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Blot Out
1 Tear Asunder
2 Ghost Vacuum
1 Choose Your Poison
1 Duress
1 Pyroclasm
2 Anoint with Affliction
2 Heritage Reclamation
2 Magebane Lizard
1 Lithomantic Barrage
Pär Jones earned his spot at this Professional Tour with a Nineteenth-place end on the Regional Championship in Prague, the place he was the one one out of almost 1,000 Fashionable gamers to convey Tarmogoyf and Darkish Confidant. Now in Las Vegas, his Commonplace deck appears remarkably near the Jund Sagavan deck he used to qualify.
Cecil, Darkish Knight
Darkish Confidant
The Final Experience
Darkish Confidant, the basic engine piece that trades life for further playing cards, stays a powerhouse in midrange decks with low common mana values. If you largely reveal copies of Duress, Minimize Down, Burst Lightning, and different low-cost spells alongside your lands, Darkish Confidant supplies a sturdy draw engine with minimal life loss. All the additional playing cards you draw will assist set off the flurry capacity of Cori-Metal Cutter. What’s extra, on this deck, the same old draw back of life loss can really flip into a bonus.
Cecil, Darkish Knight needs you to rapidly drop to 10 or much less life, and The Final Experience has the same requirement. Due to Darkish Confidant and a collection of ache lands, together with the brand new Beginning City, it turns into simple to govern your life whole within the route you need. Whereas the synergy between Cecil, Darkish Knight and Darkish Confidant has been welcomed in quite a lot of Professional Tour decks, Jones’s deck stands out for his qualification story and for being the one listing to incorporate The Final Experience. As such, it embraces the life-loss technique totally. With the deck’s synergies firing on all cylinders, Jones’s deck guarantees an electrifying trip.
If you happen to’re looking out for an thrilling new Commonplace deck to experiment with, any of those seven revolutionary builds may very well be the right selection. They could simply maintain the important thing to victory at Professional Tour Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY. And will they carry out effectively, you may undoubtedly have the possibility to observe them in motion throughout this weekend’s livestream!
