Golgari lifegain storm

Standard BG (Golgari) Casual Lifegain Storm

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Creature (19)

• 2x Jadelight Ranger
• 2x Llanowar Elves
• 4x Merfolk Branchwalker
• 2x Pelakka Wurm
• 4x Seekers' Squire
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 4x Wildgrowth Walker

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen

Land (21)

• 7x Forest
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
• 6x Swamp
• 4x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 4x Enter the Unknown

Artifact (3)

• 3x Bolas's Citadel

Instant (5)

• 2x Assassin's Trophy
• 2x Nightmare's Thirst
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Enchantment (5)

• 4x Gift of Paradise
• 1x Path of Discovery

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A deck I've had a lot of fun (and decent success) on the mtg arena ladder.

It is based around the idea of using the explore package with bolas's citadel to both filter lands on top and gain you some life to mitigate the citadel's cost. With the usage of Enter the unknown, you can sometimes get through your entire library with bolas's citadel. The idea is to have enough life to keep playing the top card once you get to bolas's citadel and eventually outsustain the life loss

As a result of being based around bolas's citadel it is quite weak to hand disruption (playing 4 bolas's citadels ended up being too much as you'd get it on top of your library a bit too often and you'd have to pay 6 life to get through that card when you're storming)

As a result of sometimes being able to get through most of your deck I've included a few 1-ofs.

If you have a few ideas on possible routes to explore (get it?) by replacing a few of the cards I'd like to know. Also, I've been playing only bo1 as I don't think it'd be good post sideboard (artifact hate really hoses you) but if you think there is a way to make a good sideboard for this please let me know.

PS : I'm looking for a replacement for Twilight prophet as it feels kinda out of place when my other sources of lifegain are ETB, maybe an ok replacement could be another copy of path of discovery (it has been performing much better than I had thought)

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.85
Tokens	City's Blessing, Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen