Sultai Midrangimator

Standard BUG (Sultai) Midrange

wiryjackal

Creature (21)

• 4x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 4x Gifted Aetherborn
• 4x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 4x Jadelight Ranger
• 2x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 2x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon

Enchantment (2)

• 2x The Eldest Reborn

Land (25)

• 4x Blooming Marsh
• 4x Fetid Pools
• 3x Field of Ruin
• 5x Forest
• 3x Hinterland Harbor
• 2x Island
• 4x Woodland Cemetery

Instant (9)

• 2x Cast Down
• 3x Fatal Push
• 4x Vraska's Contempt

Planeswalker (3)

• 2x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Vraska, Relic Seeker

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Carnage Tyrant
• 2x Deadeye Tracker
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 3x Thrashing Brontodon

Sorcery (6)

• 4x Duress
• 2x Golden Demise

Instant (2)

• 2x Negate

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Brewing around in Standard with a new card. Muldrotha, the Gravetide

I found this decklist over on R/Spikes. https://www.reddit.com/r/spikes/comments/8g0ond/standard_bug_midrange_the_grindmother/

While I like the idea behind the list, it looked to be very inconsistent and had many little ideas that were not fully developed in the list. The mana base as well, was highly skewed in a way that made it so you wouldn't be able to splash in for important cards in our colors. After yoinking a mana base from a few other Sultai Midrange lists and trimming the fat on the permanents, I think we're to a place where Muldrotha can really shine. The Eldest Reborn also seems like a good shore up versus a few annoying permanents, The Amonkhet Gods and Carnage Tyrant for example. Though, I can see the card coming out or being replaced with something like Trial of Ambition or putting Doomfall back in the list. We've also thrown in Jadelight Ranger for not only a good body but the ability to throw things into our graveyard to get value off of our reanimations spells. The Explore mechanic is good enough for this type of strategy, I'm tempted to cut some of our more value based cards for more explore but I'm going to try the deck like this for now and see how it runs.

Looking to the sideboard, The exclusion of any sort of board wipe was something that simply didn't make sense to me so we added Golden Demise. Deadeye Tracker is sadly required to win against God-Pharaoh's Gift decks and is a very good tool in that match up. Thrashing Brontodon brings us lower to the ground and helps us kill off annoying Enchantments like Cast Out or Seal Away. Negate seems like another requirement against control and I wish we could find space for two more. Nezahal, Primal Tide and Carnage Tyrant are both great against Control as well and either could take the place of the other.

Looking for suggestions on the deck so let me know if you have any card ideas or replacements.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WR
Splash colors	U
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 1 Mythic Rares 27 - 3 Rares 17 - 3 Uncommons 4 - 8 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.31
Tokens	City's Blessing, Pirate 2/2 B, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B