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  • 1x Aetherspout

The focus of this deck is the interaction between Sidisi, Brood Tyrant, Underworld Cerberus, and Bloodsoaked Champion. Suggestions are welcome. On card choices:

Sidisi, Brood Tyrant - The star of the deck, an uncontested Sidisi generates a ridiculous amount of value. It helps the tokens can trade with Goblin Rabblemaster and can one-for-one when double blocking a Courser of Kruphix.

Sultai Ascendancy - The pet card of this deck. I think it's being underplayed in the current standard because it's a 'do nothing' enchantment the turn it comes out. Still, in this deck it can do a pretty good impression of Mirri's Guile or Sylvan Library, especially when you are digging for lands, have a Sidisi out, or are binning Bloodsoaked Champions.

Radiant Fountain - I cut a forest for this because I never need double green. It goes well with Pearl Lake Ancient and helps soften the pain of opposing Siege Rhinos.

Pearl Lake Ancient - The card could be a one-of AEtherspouts or Perilous Vault, but I'll test it for now.

Savage Knuckleblade - Nothing quite beats turn three Knuckleblade, turn four Sidisi, turn five Underworld Cerberus. The beats are real, and Knuckleblade is here to overload opposing removal.

Underworld Cerberus - Though it would return the creatures it trades for to their owner's hand, Cerberus acts as an evasive threat in the mean time and gets ridiculous value with all the spot removal in the format in combination with Sidisi's self-mill. It's also neat this card shuts off Whip of Erebos and is still a fat, evasive beatstick against Anafenza, the Foremost.

Surrak Dragonclaw - Making creatures uncounterable at instant speed is gross, especially on a control player's end step. Even if he eats a kill spell, at least you get to fight over it on their turn.

The mana base is pretty normal, though I feel like it needs more duals and less untapped lands.

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Quick story: I put together the deck and played my first testing round against a friend before classes. He was playing a RUG control deck I've been working on; it's mostly counters with some burn. He spent the first six turns countering or burning out threats and pinging me with Monastery Swiftspear. On his seventh turn, I cast a Surrak Dragonclaw on his upkeep. He mainphase Dig Through Time'd and traded the Swiftspear, a Temur Charm, and a Lightning Strike for it. He passed with no mana up. I top-decked the Underworld Cerberus, which he didn't know was in the deck, with a graveyard of Surrak, Sidisi, Brood Tyrant, Savage Knuckleblade, and Bloodsoaked Champion. He picks up the card, reads it, then looks at my graveyard and says "Eeeewwwwwww...". I got the game win four turns later due to his inability to block the Cerberus with just a top-decked Boon Satyr. After the game, he shows me his hand of Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker, Lightning Strike, and Dissolve and explained he could kill the Cerberus but could never beat the card advantage killing it would give me. The dream is real, guys.

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Date added 10 years
Last updated 10 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

8 - 5 Mythic Rares

32 - 0 Rares

5 - 9 Uncommons

5 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.85
Tokens Elemental 1/0 U, Zombie 2/2 B
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