Astral Hustle

Tiny Leaders*

GureiSeion

Creatures (5)

• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Stoic Champion
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Whirlpool Warrior

Cycling (12)

• 1x Akroma's Blessing
• 1x Angelsong
• 1x Clear
• 1x Complicate
• 1x Fend Off
• 1x Gilded Light
• 1x Marshaling Cry
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Radiant's Judgment
• 1x Rescind
• 1x Scrap
• 1x Starstorm

Lands (17)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Steam Vents

Other (11)

• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Condemn
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Jeskai Charm
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Slides (4)

• 1x Astral Slide
• 1x Fluctuator
• 1x Lightning Rift
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Other (14)

• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Engineered Explosives
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Kor Firewalker
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Revoke Existence
• 1x Runed Halo

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Maybeboard

Other (2)

• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x True-Name Nemesis

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A "fun" little deck to throw together. While not as powerful as my Teysa build, I enjoy the little interactions within as well as the swiss army knife of cycling.

Basic idea is to ignore the heart of the format and disregard your general (formerly respected as a Distortion Strike finisher) and break your opponent's will through that naughty card known as Astral Slide. Or just mill them, I guess.

• Mana Base: Cycling lands aren't the greatest, but they more than make up for it when the machine is going. Karoo-likes help me play them and pitch them later on for more fuel.
  
• Cycling cards: Fuel combos, and give me options when I decide to actually cast them.
  
• Astral Slide resets voltrons, unequips creatures, disappears tokens, sends back attackers, and lets me abuse EtB abilities (not that I've many currently). Toss in Sundial of the Infinite or Containment Priest and blinked creatures have a real hard time coming back.
  
• Lightning Rift mostly acts as removal, pan-frying creatures until something else closes the game. But don't let that stop you from slow-roasting an opponent if need be.
  
• Fluctuator really greases up the gears, usually turning the game towards the absurd. Also where Elixir of Immortality becomes a necessity.
  
• Sphinx's Tutelage is an experimental add that shows promise at becoming the main game closer.
  
• Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest deserves more credit than I give him. If the path is clear, my opponent's feeling it.
• Other Creatures: Two EtB abilities and two cycle abusers. I want to add True-Name Nemesis to this section, if I can make a cut somewhere. Chasm Skulker might be it, but I'd like to give the little guy a chance first.
  
• Enlightened Tutor well, you know.
  
• Jeskai Ascendancy is intended to help filter past not-cycling or land clumps when I'm going off, and give Shu Yun an extra push when he's pumping. Extra points for helping out Skulker and Tutelage.
  
• The Rest: Make up a control / removal package supported by some of the cyclers. Preference goes towards slowing down rather than outright killing, or exiling the hell out of something so that it's no longer a worry.

Sideboard:
I need to cut this down to ten, but here are my thoughts on each one.

• Buried Ruin: My limited amount of testing has taught me that the deck relies on Elixir of Immortality to keep from self-milling more often than not. This is a contingency plan that'd also help here if I keep the sideboard mostly artifact.
• Anger of the Gods, Engineered Explosives, & Detention Sphere: Seem good vs tokens, with the latter two useful for harming non-creatures too.
• Dack Fayden: I hear Swords are in fashion this year...
• Defense Grid: Anti-control.
• Ensnaring Bridge: This deck seems pretty good at emptying its hand, and my reliance on attacking to win is a joke anyways.
• Glaring Spotlight: Suck it, Geist of Saint Traft. You too, bogles?
• Grafdigger's Cage & Relic of Progenitus: Anti-graveyard shenanigans. There are better options, but I'd rather spare my graveyard for Elixir's sake.
• Kor Firewalker: Anti-burn, mostly.
• Overburden: Halfway-tempted to mainboard this sucker. Haven't tested with it at all, though.
• Revoke Existence: In case I don't feel like my cycling package (Clear + Scrap ) is enough.
• Runed Halo: Is storm a thing here? Even if not, it might save me from a general or Nemesis.

Thanks for looking!

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Key combos	Clear + Scrap
Legality	This deck is Tiny Leaders legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 2 Mythic Rares 12 - 8 Rares 23 - 3 Uncommons 12 - 1 Commons
Cards	50
Avg. CMC	2.24
Tokens	Emblem Dack Fayden, Squid 1/1 U