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The Terrorist (Mardu Hijack) Budget

Standard Aggro Control RBW (Mardu)

Xazrael


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Artifact (4)

Sorcery (3)


"In the name of Mardu, we will Hijack all of your planes and sacrifice all of your people!"

A unique build utilizing Hijack effects to steal creatures, deal some damage, and ultimately sacrifice them for cheap instants and sorcery's. This allows Hijacking to not only give me a temporary creature for a turn (which is likely to be the best creature they have), but also counts as removal in this deck.

Creatures

Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim: The leader of the "Regents of Mardu". Great creature on it's own, but comes with a very nice sacrifice effect. Imagine stealing a pumped up Verdurous Gearhulk, swinging with it, and then sacrificing it for 8 life.

Removed 2/16 Eldrazi Obligator: The faithful "Kamikazes of Mardu". A creature who fills the need for more hijacking. Doesn't live long with 1 toughness, but gets the job done. Will sideboard these guys out as needed. Probably the weakest creature in the deck.

Kari Zev, Skyship Raider: The master of her craft, "The Regents of Mardu" recruited her for a steep price. My new favorite card. Wish she was a 2/3, but that would be over budget. Her monkey is the key here. Allowing me to proc revolt, and possibly sac the monkey for card draw with Altar's Reap.

Sanitarium Skeleton: The brain dead "Followers of Mardu. They will do anything in the name of Mardu. These guys are great in this deck. If I am failing to draw hijack cards, they can fuel my sacrifice effects, and I can simply just bring them back to my hand with extra mana.

Yahenni, Undying Partisan: The self-proclaimed "Avatar of Mardu". This card pairs up very well with all the removal in this deck. Plus gives me more sacrifice ability. I was able to get this guy to 6/6 and 7/7 consistently in long matches.

Added 2/14 Relentless Dead: "Matyr of Mardu". Basically the same as the skeleton, except better.

Spells

Altar's Reap: Cheap card draw, allowing me to gain a huge advantage when paired with hijacking. Also instant speed, so I can play this before combat damage if one of the creatures gets blocked.

Fatal Push: Obvious card. The best removal in the game, plus I can easily get revolt.

Hidden Stockpile: An amazing card in this deck. Supplies me with nonstop creatures, plus has a nice sacrifice effect. Can also stock me up on creatures for Westvale Abbey  .

Bone Splinters: Best removal ever with this deck. Essentially a 1cmc Murder for me, and can even give me double value if I pair it with hijacking. It just feels satisfying to steal a creature, ping for damage with it, then sacrifice it to kill another creature. So broken!

Kari Zev's Expertise: Amazing card. Combos well with the deck. Just read the card, you'll understand.

Morbid Curiosity: More card draw. Specifically after I steal a high cmc creature, but can even be used in clutch situations with my own creatures.

Removed 2/14 Sram's Expertise: A card I was debating adding. Highest CMC card in the deck, but lets me play anything else for free. I might find a replacement for this, since I am afraid of being stuck with this with only 1 white mana. The servos are great though. I will do testing with this.

Wrangle: A cheaper hijack to steal those more annoying creatures, rather than powerful ones. Can target most key cards in this meta.

Stitcher's Graft: 2 reason this is in. I can use it to pump up a servo or zombie for a turn, then ultimately sacrifice it, or I can equip it to my opponent's creature that I steal, and then when I give it back (if I give it back), it won't untap for awhile.

Sideboard

Aethersphere Harvester: An answer to flying decks, plus can be crewed with every creature in the deck.

Angelic Purge: Artifact/Enchantment hate in case I square off against those kind of decks.

Eliminate the Competition: A "board wipe" in case I am against wide decks.

Fatal Push: Extra removal if I feel the 10000 removal isn't enough.

Fragmentize: More cheap artifact hate.

Hijack: With the name, you would think this is mainboard wouldn't you? I will bring these in only if I am up against a bunch of vehicles. Probably remove the Wrangles for them, but I would need to go up a mana at the same time.

Ruthless Disposal: An answer to indestructible, as well as Gideon.

Please upvote if you like the deck. Let me know what cards you think would fit in this deck. Should I try some emerge? Or maybe more creatures? I am open to suggestions.

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Did some casual play with this against friends.

0-2 vs Bant Humans Got screwed game 1. Game 2 was hard fought but lost. Hard to win with most of my deck useless vs planewalkers.

1-0 vs B/W Aggro Owned this match, but it is to be expected. As long as I get the mana I need, this should never lose to aggro.

Almost done collecting the cards for this. Then I will bring it to FNM. Only 1 person plays Control in my card shop, so as long as I don't get paired with him. I should do fairly well.

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Revision 4 See all

(7 years ago)

+1 Concealed Courtyard main
+1 Hidden Stockpile main
+1 Servo Exhibition main
-1 Swamp main
-2 Vampiric Rites main
Top Ranked
  • Achieved #6 position overall 7 years ago
Date added 7 years
Last updated 7 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 0 Mythic Rares

20 - 4 Rares

7 - 6 Uncommons

18 - 5 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 1.95
Tokens Energy Reserve, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Ragavan, Servo 1/1 C
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