Cunning Wish Storm

Premodern* Budget Combo Creatureless Mill Mono-Blue Storm Tap/Untap Value Engine

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Instant (21)

• 4x Accumulated Knowledge
• 3x Brain Freeze
• 4x Cunning Wish
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 4x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 3x Meditate
• 1x Opt

Artifact (12)

• 4x Helm of Awakening
• 4x Lotus Petal
• 4x Sapphire Medallion

Creature (4)

• 4x Cloud of Faeries

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Merchant Scroll
• 4x Sleight of Hand

Land (15)

• 15x Island

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Sideboard

Instant (11)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 2x Blue Elemental Blast
• 1x Brain Freeze
• 2x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Meditate
• 1x Snap
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Twitch

Artifact (4)

• 2x Defense Grid
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

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Maybeboard

Instant (10)

• 1x Gush
• 1x Hydroblast
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Obsessive Search
• 1x Peek
• 1x Predict
• 1x Read the Runes
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Words of Wisdom

Creature (2)

• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Sunscape Familiar

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Recall

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Propaganda

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Original brew here.

Based on:

Facundo Conde 5th. Place
Open @ Conflux (Argentina)
32 players on 3-19-2023

This is a mono-blue combo deck for the Pre-Modern format. The sequence is pretty simple: get two mana reduction artifacts into play (Helm of Awakening or Sapphire Medallion) and then play free spells that untap your lands. After drawing a bunch of cards, you can find enough copies of Brain Freeze to storm out your opponent. A storm count of 18 is lethal with 1x Brain Freeze, while a storm count of 7 followed by 2x Brain Freeze is lethal after your opponent's turn 3.

This deck easily goes off on turn 3. I'm fairly certain a turn 2 kill is possible, but not likely since it involves Lotus Petal -> Island -> Helm of Awakening on turn 1, followed by Island -> Lotus Petal -> Meditate -> draw and play Cloud of Faeries on turn two. Then, you play another Lotus Petal into a second Helm of Awakening and cast Meditate for {U}, then Frantic Search, Snap, or Cloud of Faeries to continue untapping your lands. This is an 11 card sequence that has to be drawn in perfect order.

One cool thing about this deck is how much value you get out of Merchant Scroll. You're usually going to grab Frantic Search, but it's an excellent way to refill your hand with Accumulated Knowledge, Meditate, or go for lethal with Brain Freeze. I'm considering Cunning Wish since it would effectively be an additional copy of Merchant Scroll to let you grab Frantic Search, Turnabout, Meditate, Brain Freeze, or Chain of Vapor out of the sideboard.

I've cut Islands, several Snaps, and several Impulses to make room for one mana cantrips. This is to help smooth out the opening draws and through goldfishing I've found the deck doesn't have many turn 1 plays. I'm also considering splashing other colors for more Helm of Awakening effects or to dump more lands into play to take full advantage of Frantic Search's untapping of three lands earlier in the game.

Top Ranked	Achieved #32 position overall 1 year ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Premodern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 4 Rares 8 - 6 Uncommons 26 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.00