Gain and Drain (Standard MTG Deck)

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Gain and Drain

Standard Allies Competitive Lifegain RBW (Mardu) Vampires

Diabloson

Creature (21)

Planeswalker (2)

Land (24)

Enchantment (3)

Instant (6)

Sorcery (4)

Sideboard

Enchantment (1)

1x Virulent Plague

Instant (9)

Sorcery (5)

Maybeboard

Instant (1)

1x Altar's Reap

Sorcery (2)

This is my take on Mardu Allies. Fill your graveyard, hope you have all 4 healers then march them back for 16 gain/ 16 drain, swing with alesha and bring it all back, or flood the board and have as many cut throats on the field, then blow it all up with End Hostilities.

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Small Deck change and FNM results — Oct. 15, 2015

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Before FNM started i finally got a Gideon :D plus my final Bloodstained Mire and Smoldering Marsh. -1 End Hostilities, -1 Evolving Wilds, -1 Swamp, +1 Gideon, +1 Bloodstained Mire, +1 Smoldering Marsh

FNM 2-2

Round 1; Mardu Mid range. Once again paired against my nemesis, but this time he was to be the victor. Deck had changed a little bit. Game 1: misplayed so much. Played a Drana's Emissary instead of Tainted remedy turn 3, he crackled it away in my end step. had of played it the other way around, my Deflecting Palm against his awaken swamp would have put him on -1 instead of 1 end of game. Game 2: He sideboarded in Radiant Flames, turn 2 Grand Soulfire, turn 3 radiant flames using 3 mana on the converge. he gamed 9 life and then draw all the removal for my creatures. 0-2

Round 2; Atarka Red: Game 1, he just run out of juice to fast and i dropped my Gideon turn 4 with a Healer on the field and a Drana, enough said. Game 2, he found all the gas. hit me for 11 turn 3 and his flamewake phoenix's went straight over my head. Game 3, he got in a good amount of damage and kept up the removal but once i got a creature to stick, it started going my way, Gideon turn 5, Resolute Blademaster turn 6 for the lethal swing. 2-1

Round 3; Atarka Red... again. Game 1 & 2, drew all my big creatures and very few lands. Managed to push both games to turn 5/6 but in the end, he just over ran me. 0-2

Round 4; Sultai Eldrazi. Neither of us were going to get more then our 1 pity pack so we played for the giggles. Game 1: i dropped a Drana, got in a few good hit and then he stole it with Dragonlord Sil. Played a few more allies for the Healer trigger and then waited for him to swing into me and Deflecting Palm'd back the damage for lethal. Game 2: Went much the same was as game 1 though he Languished my board, Den Protected his Languish back, did it again..... So with all the fuel in the graveyard in used March from the Tomb to bring Drana, Cut throat and Emissary all back. Dropped a Resolute Blade Master and the rest is history. 2-0

Small deck Tweak — Oct. 13, 2015

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3-1 at FNM again — Oct. 9, 2015

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Land Base change before FNM — Oct. 9, 2015

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3-1 on release day — Oct. 2, 2015

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Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 6 Rares 13 - 7 Uncommons 6 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.97
Tokens	Emblem Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, Emblem Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Goblin 1/1 R, Knight Ally 2/2 W, Vampire 2/2 B
Folders	Standard Decks, STD decks
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