Magecraft in Blue and White

Pioneer Aggro Budget Cleric Magecraft Spellslinger Wizards WU (Azorius)

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Land (24)

• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 7x Island
• 9x Plains
• 2x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment

Sorcery (7)

• 3x Guiding Voice
• 1x Mentor's Guidance
• 1x Of One Mind
• 2x Sleep of the Dead

Instant (17)

• 1x Boon of Safety
• 4x Defiant Strike
• 2x Fading Hope
• 3x Fight as One
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Opt
• 1x Opt
• 2x Show of Confidence
• 2x Study Break

Creature (16)

• 4x Clarion Spirit
• 3x Clever Lumimancer
• 3x Leonin Lightscribe
• 1x Leonin Lightscribe
• 1x Mavinda, Students' Advocate
• 1x Stormchaser Drake
• 3x Symmetry Sage

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Sideboard

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Academic Probation
• 2x Environmental Sciences
• 1x Expanded Anatomy
• 1x Mercurial Transformation
• 1x Reduce to Memory
• 1x Teachings of the Archaics

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Maybeboard

Instant (14)

• 1x And They Shall Know No Fear
• 1x Blacksmith's Skill
• 1x Keep Safe
• 1x Loran's Escape
• 1x Make a Stand
• 1x Negate
• 1x Otherworldly Journey
• 1x Rain of Revelation
• 1x Sheltering Light
• 1x Valorous Stance
• 1x Vapor Snag
• 1x You Come to a River
• 1x You See a Guard Approach
• 1x You're Ambushed on the Road

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Fragmentize
• 1x Homestead Courage
• 1x Inspired Idea
• 1x Time Warp

Creature (3)

• 1x Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 1x Usher of the Fallen
• 1x Vanguard of Brimaz

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Magecraft spellslinger deck in white and blue. Why there is no Azorius color school at Strixhaven?

Heavily inspired by a deck made for Standard 2021 in MTG Arena by CovertGoBlue .

Beware, playing this deck in paper often requires doing a lot of math:-)

This deck strategy is fast aggro with a bit of control. Play your cheap weak creatures such as Clever Lumimancer, and Symmetry Sage. Try going wide with flying spirit tokens created by Clarion Spirit. Then make your army much stronger with magecraft triggers. Every instant and sorcery you cast will make your creatures stronger, and it gets explosive especially with multiple Leonin Lightscribe on the battlefield. You will need as much mana as possible, so fetch Environmental Sciences with learn if you can.

Also, card draw is important here because you will use your hand fast. The Learn mechanics is really great for getting extra cards from sideboard, and also card draw from Defiant Strike, Mentor's Guidance, Of One Mind, eventually Impulse or Rain of Revelation and similar.

Tap your opponent's blockers with Sleep of the Dead, Study Break, make them not able to block with Academic Probation or turn the biggest blocker into a 1/1 weakling using Mercurial Transformation, eventually return them to their owner's hand with Fading Hope, Vapor Snag, Snap or similar spells.

Protecting your valuable creatures, mainly Clarion Spirit, Leonin Lightscribe and Mavinda, Students' Advocate is crucial, so keep Fight as One or Sejiri Shelter   for that case.

Maybeboard contains some optional control spells or protections spells. Thinking about testing Vanguard of Brimaz which may be fine creating cat tokens that would get pumped up.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 13 - 2 Rares 23 - 2 Uncommons 11 - 3 Commons
Cards	64
Avg. CMC	1.48
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 3/2 RW
Folders	Theme decks