Graceblade Artisan

Standard* Aggro Budget Enchantment WU (Azorius)

Cyrostorms

Instant (6)

• 2x Ajani's Presence
• 4x Gods Willing

Enchantment (20)

• 3x Aqueous Form
• 3x Battle Mastery
• 4x Chosen by Heliod
• 2x Fate Foretold
• 3x Ordeal of Thassa
• 2x Sage's Reverie
• 3x Stratus Walk

Creature (12)

• 3x Battlewise Hoplite
• 2x Eidolon of Countless Battles
• 4x Graceblade Artisan
• 3x Hero of Iroas

Land (22)

• 4x Flooded Strand
• 4x Island
• 8x Plains
• 4x Temple of Enlightenment
• 2x Tranquil Cove

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Sideboard

Instant (2)

• 2x Voyage's End

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Gift of Immortality
• 4x Ordeal of Heliod

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 3x Meletis Astronomer

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An extremely explosive deck built around Graceblade Artisan that can kill as early as turn 4.

The idea is to play a Graceblade Artisan and throw as many cheap enchantments (most of which are cantrips) onto it, making it big enough to one hit kill your opponent. If that isn't enough then you can give it double strike with Battle Mastery or draw a whole handful of cards with Sage's Reverie.

The other creatures: Hero of Iroas and Battlewise Hoplite both serve as key components of this deck, the hero can allow you to cast up to twice the number of enchantments every turn while the hoplite allows you to dig through your deck to find whatever card you need (almost always Graceblade Artisan ).

After doing some online playtesting i found this deck dominates decks such as green-based devotion decks or any slowish deck which have a lack of disruption, against control, if you don't have in your opening hand or quickly draw into at least 2 protection spells you've basically lost.

Not yet too sure what to fill in the rest sideboard with, Ordeal of Heliod was the only good one i could think of (you should side it in against aggro decks that are faster than this one such as RG aggro).

Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 2 Rares 18 - 4 Uncommons 18 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.11