Assassin Puppeteer - Budget

Standard* Arena BR (Rakdos) Budget Control

JohnDer

Creature (20)

• 4x Blood Aspirant
• 4x Cauldron Familiar
• 2x Dreadhorde Butcher
• 4x Mayhem Devil
• 2x Rankle, Master of Pranks
• 4x Woe Strider

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Kaya's Ghostform

Land (20)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 6x Mountain
• 6x Swamp
• 4x Temple of Malice

Artifact (6)

• 2x Wishclaw Talisman
• 4x Witch's Oven

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Act of Treason
• 2x Angrath's Rampage
• 4x Claim the Firstborn

Planeswalker (3)

• 3x Chandra, Acolyte of Flame

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Sideboard

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 2x Minion's Return

Instant (2)

• 2x Fling

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Spark Harvest

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This deck took me relatively easy to Diamond Rank in the arena. I believe a more experienced player will be able to achieve Mythic Rank.

Use your opponent's creatures to attack him, then sacrifice them to create food token for yourself.

Claim the Firstborn + Witch's Oven and Claim the Firstborn + Fling
Act of Treason + Witch's Oven and Act of Treason + Fling
Act of Treason + Spark Harvest and Claim the Firstborn + Spark Harvest

And, use this moderatly, don't be an asshole all the time. Steal your opponent's creatures, enchant it with Kaya's Ghostform, atack him, sacrifice his creature and... his creature comes back under your control forever. Claim the Firstborn + Kaya's Ghostform + Witch's Oven

Cauldron enters, gives you 1 life, take 1 opponent's life, then sacrifice it. Or just use Cauldron to declare block, then sacrifice it too. Cauldron Familiar + Witch's Oven

Dreadhorde Invasion: It's a fatality. As you control the game and gain some life, make these zombies grow bigger.

Blood Aspirant + Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
Chandra, Acolyte of Flame + Mayhem Devil - When you create 2 elementals and sacrifice them at the end of your turn, it'll activate Mayhem and Blood Aspirant twice. I really like Redworthy's idea to put Chandra.

Blood Aspirant + Cauldron Familiar + Witch's Oven

Top Ranked	Achieved #27 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Standard 4 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Cauldron Familiar + Witch's Oven Claim the Firstborn + Witch's Oven Claim the Firstborn + Fling Act of Treason + Witch's Oven Act of Treason + Spark Harvest Claim the Firstborn + Spark Harvest Blood Aspirant + Cauldron Familiar + Witch's Oven Claim the Firstborn + Kaya's Ghostform + Witch's Oven Blood Aspirant + Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 2 Rares 22 - 4 Uncommons 5 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.05
Tokens	Elemental 1/1 R, Food, Goat 0/1 W, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	BLAH, Black red, Eldraine, Budget, Arena, Black, black red food, Standards, Standard 2020, Buy?