Creative Grixis Jank in Ixalan (Standard MTG Deck)

Let me start out up front by saying this deck struggles a little more in playtesting than some of my past better ones. That said, it is still a fun interactive semi-budget deck that can win games out of nowhere.

The basic premise is to survive to turn 5 or 6, with a few servos or treasures on the board. Then a single Indomitable Creativity essentially ends the game on the spot. The spell is effective because we have no artifacts in our deck, and the only creatures are 4 Marionette Master (MM) and one Razaketh, the Foulblooded. One MM is a nice card, but two or more are back breaking. Let one resolve to make servos, and one to be 4/6. Each servo or treasure that is removed from the board causes 5 (or more) loss of life to the opponent.

If you get a Razaketh, the Foulblooded, then he can sac the servos on the spot and trigger the MM drain before your opponent can do any stack shenanigans (they can destroy the MM before the fabricate trigger, but we'll still get tokens).

The hard part is to survive and get artifacts on the board. I tried making the deck RB only, which relied too much on hard casting a MM before it could do the combo. Instead, adding blue gives us:

scry/search: important to help us NOT draw our creatures and get the lands we need
treasure creators: helps set up the combo and fix mana. One resolved Spell Swindle really helps us out, even if used on a 2 CMC spell.
Riddleform: provides us with a creature on the board without ruining our creative combo
bounce and counterspells to help us stay alive.

The big problem with the deck is the mana base. We have , , and spells, which is a mess. A big part of the budget is the dual lands needed to make this work. The cycling lands also serve as the land types needed for the check lands.

Budget options:If you have the cards, some of the options in the maybelist are powerful potential additions to the deck.

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Revision 2 See all

(6 years ago)

-3	Abrade	main
+4	Aether Hub	main
-1	Bontu's Last Reckoning	main
+2	Crypt of the Eternals	main
-1	Depths of Desire	main
+1	Doomfall	side
-1	Drowned Catacomb	main
+1	Essence Extraction	main
-3	Evolving Wilds	main
-1	Field of Ruin	main
+2	Glimmer of Genius	main
+4	Harnessed Lightning	main
-1	Lost Legacy	side
-1	Mountain	main
+2	Puncturing Blow	side
-1	Shock	main
-3	Unlicensed Disintegration	main

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 2 Rares 22 - 4 Uncommons 7 - 9 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	Servo 1/1 C, Treasure
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