5 color zoo, typical 2024

Premodern

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Land (20)

• 4x City of Brass
• 4x Forest
• 3x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Plains
• 1x Treva's Ruins
• 3x Undiscovered Paradise
• 4x Windswept Heath

Artifact (3)

• 3x Winter Orb

Creature (16)

• 4x Birds of Paradise
• 3x Llanowar Elves
• 3x Meddling Mage
• 4x Phyrexian Negator
• 2x Thornscape Apprentice

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Rancor

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Call of the Herd

Instant (15)

• 4x Fire / Ice
• 2x Lightning Bolt
• 3x Mana Leak
• 2x Naturalize
• 4x Swords to Plowshares

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 2x Anurid Brushhopper
• 1x Meddling Mage
• 2x Thornscape Apprentice

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Armageddon

Instant (5)

• 3x Hydroblast
• 2x Naturalize

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Engineered Plague

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This deck seems to be a typical 2024 zoo deck. Performed well at a 3-star tournament according to mtgtop8.com.

I was analyzing the premodern zoo archetype (three deuce):

Looking at mtgtop8 > premodern > zoo / three deuce > whole year 2024 > compare,,,, we can see what cards are most popular in zoo: swords to plowshares, lightning bolt, call of the herd, fire/ice, rancor, birds of paradise, phyrexian negator... Roughly in this order. So we see that zoo typically goes with mid-sized manacurve and has access to a lot of colors... Typical decklist might look like this: https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=57808&d=631883 ... so has black & white too...

This deck comes from: https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=57808&d=631883 ... It has all the cards I mentioned above as most popular in this archetype.

Phyrexian negator combos well with Thornscape apprentice (first strike), Rancor (sacrifice and recur), Sarcomancy (sacrifice, not in this deck though)

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Playtest

Tried a few games vs ug madness. A lot of fun. Won a big tight ~15 turn game. Winter orb won a slow game for me too, with just a Rancored Birds of Paradise beating. Blindnamed a Wild Mongrel with Meddling Mage... Perhaps I should name another card?

Date added	3 months
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Premodern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	28 - 5 Rares 17 - 6 Uncommons 10 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.98
Tokens	Elephant 3/3 G