Mystery Booster Draft - Mardu Midrange

Limited Goblins Haste Midrange Monarch RBW (Mardu)

EscapingBurger

Creature (16)

• 1x Avalanche Riders
• 1x Brazen Wolves
• 1x Chartooth Cougar
• 1x Ghostly Changeling
• 1x Goblin Piledriver
• 1x Impatient Iguana (Playtest)
• 1x Mogg Fanatic
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Phyrexian Soulgorger
• 1x Queen Marchesa
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Swarm of Locus (Playtest)
• 1x Thraben Foulbloods
• 1x Toxin Sliver
• 1x Voldaren Duelist
• 1x Windgrace Acolyte

Land (17)

• 8x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 7x Swamp

Artifact (2)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Sol Ring

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Fireball
• 1x Mutiny
• 1x Slave of Bolas

Instant (2)

• 1x Lightning Helix
• 1x Murder

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Sideboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Brazen Buccaneers
• 1x Geist of the Moors
• 1x Greater Basilisk
• 1x Hardened Berserker
• 1x Maelstrom Archangel
• 1x Queen's Agent
• 1x River Darter
• 1x Steamflogger Boss
• 1x Voice of the Provinces

Instant (4)

• 1x Cauldron Dance
• 1x Gut Shot
• 1x Instill Infection
• 1x Totally Lost

Land (2)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Ghost Quarter

Artifact (1)

• 1x Spy Kit

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Act of Treason
• 1x Cleansing Screech
• 1x Mephitic Vapors
• 1x Molten Rain

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Enroll in the Coalition (Playtest)
• 1x Eternal Thirst

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This was my first time drafting Mystery Booster--at PAX West 2024--which is something I'd been wanting to try for a while. It was a lot of fun, feeling just as random as a chaos draft but with a bit better mechanical throughlines, and I ended up winning all my games (though I had a bye the first round).

The draft itself was certainly an experience. I grabbed a Maelstrom Archangel first, in some vain hope of making a five-color deck work, but gave up on that pretty quickly. Next was Goblin Piledriver, thinking I could maybe find enough goblins to do something with it, but that didn't really come together either. I ended up sticking with Rakdos after I saw a Cauldron Dance wheel, then decided to splash white when I saw Queen Marchesa. I'd describe the resulting deck mostly as a pile of decent creatures and removal, which kind of seems to be the best limited strategy, though there are a few vague synergies around the graveyard, maybe.

Standout cards were:

• Phyrexian Soulgorger: I knew this guy was a gamble, but a cheap 8/8 is nothing to sneeze at. Even when it got blocked, it generally meant taking out an opposing creature each turn, which helped offset the loss of my own.
• Queen Marchesa: If nothing else, this is a 3/3 haste deathtouch that draws a card, but adding the Monarch to the mix made games a little more interesting too. And if I lost the Monarch, the assassin tokens made good Soulgorger food.
• Sol Ring: You know what this does. I won't say no to a Sol Ring.
• Fireball: I won two games with this, including one I probably would have lost otherwise, and took out two creatures at once in another. I love getting some use out of a classic like this.

It helped that we all had random, janky decks, of course, but my jank was working pretty well. This was a fun experience, and I hope I can do it again at least the next time PAX rolls around.

Date added	2 months
Last updated	2 months
Exclude colors	U
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is Limited legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 1 Mythic Rares 7 - 2 Rares 5 - 6 Uncommons 11 - 13 Commons
Cards	40
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, Human 1/1 W, Monarch Emblem
Folders	My Limited Decks