Amassutate

Standard Budget Tempo WUBR

czarkingrex

Land (24)

• 2x Blood Crypt
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 3x Island
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 2x Raugrin Triome
• 3x Steam Vents
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 2x Watery Grave

Creature (23)

• 2x Dreadhorde Arcanist
• 3x Everquill Phoenix
• 2x Grim Initiate
• 3x Lore Drakkis
• 3x Phoenix of Ash
• 2x Pouncing Shoreshark
• 4x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 2x Vadrok, Apex of Thunder
• 2x Zagoth Mamba

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Angrath, Captain of Chaos

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Dreadhorde Invasion

Instant (4)

• 4x Lazotep Plating

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Callous Dismissal

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Sideboard

Sorcery (7)

• 2x Cry of the Carnarium
• 3x Mythos of Vadrok
• 2x Storm's Wrath

Instant (6)

• 3x Tyrant's Scorn
• 3x Unsummon

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ashiok, Dream Render

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 3x Dirge Bat

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Here's something immensely janky and fun. With all the fuss over a mutated Stonecoil Serpent transferring its +1/+1 counters over to its new body, I realized there was another, more consistent way to abuse this feature of Mutate: Amass!

The Setup

Considering that there are many cheaply-costed instant and sorceries that produce the tokens needed, I figured the deck should split focus between low-curve Mutate stuff, and a spells-matter theme. Lore Drakkis, Sea-Dasher Octopus and Dreadhorde Arcanist are the true all-stars here, pumping early game value into Callous Dismissal and Lazotep Plating.

The Payoff

The finishers are Phoenix of Ash and Everquill Phoenix, returnable fliers that also make juicy Mutate targets. Angrath, Captain of Chaos can seriously pull his weight here, ensuring damage gets through early, and pumping out more +1/+1 counters to boot. Vadrok, Apex of Thunder is mostly for insurance, should spells get countered, or your Dreadhorde Invasion get destroyed. A 3/3 first strike flyer is nice too.

Sideboard

As far as emergency sweepers, Mythos of Vadrok and Storm's Wrath are pretty perfect, especially when dealing with pesky planeswalkers, (this means you, Teferi, Time Raveler and Narset.) Against smaller threats, Cry of the Carnarium does nicely. Against other mutate shenanigans, Tyrant's Scorn is great to negate triggers, and acts as another perfect target in your graveyard for Arcanist. Likewise, Unsummon is great versus RDW variants, being significantly faster. Finally, Ashiok, Dream Render is, as usual, a perfect catchall against combo and reanimation.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 5 Rares 13 - 7 Uncommons 6 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.67
Tokens	Feather, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	Non-EDH