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Deck is centered around getting cards into the graveyard to feed an engine of much larger beaters with strong abilities. These mainly include Polukranos, Unchained, Lochmere Serpent, and Deathless Knight. Polukranos, Unchained is a great 6/6 4-drop that can easily trade with multiple creatures. Trading is ideal with it as it can escape the graveyard as a 12/12 and deathtouch doesn't work on it. Lochmere Serpent can be late game card draw/life gain but it is mostly used to exile the opponent's graveyard and stop graveyard focused decks. Good in this new Theros set with all the escape cards. It can also deal unblockable damage and is why I'm running a little heavy on blue sources (get more islands but also have life gain lands). Deathless Knight keeps pressure in the late game and deals early game damage on curve or on turn 5 or 6 with a 4 or 5 drop respectively. The life gain in the deck keeps the Deathless Knights recurring over and over while pulling cards I need. Every creature gets value in the graveyard as 1-2-3 drops can be pulled back with Gruesome Menagerie and all higher cost spells can be used for escape cost on Polukronos, Unchained. Callaphe, Beloved of the Sea and Skola Grovedancer are there to be brought back with Gruesome Menagerie to protect the board and keep the engine running. A single copy of Chemister's Insight works well as it can be played from the graveyard in a pinch and the jump-start cost can be paid with Callaphe, Beloved of the Sea or Deathless Knight or lands to bring back Deathless Knight to your hand and gain a life with a Skola Grovedancer on the board already or Polukronos, Unchained to be played as a 12/12 threat in the late game. Many options and all the cards synergize very nicely.

The deck runs pretty smooth at the current distribution but I'm wondering if there are any obvious flaws or clunkiness that could be fixed with better or more efficient cards. I've only been playing Magic for a couple of months (online on MTG ARENA) so I don't have a huge collection of cards or know all of the good removals and such. I thought about replacing the murders with Eat to Extinction. It is one extra mana but early life gain can support it I think and exile is just better against the recurring graveyard decks. It can also target planeswalkers and it lets you surveil 1 which fits great in the deck as there are no planeswalker removal spells. I could replace both copies of Mire's Grasp with Assassin's Trophy. That would give an out but it is harder to cast and can't be grabbed with Bond of Flourishing. Realistically you wouldn't play it on turn two anyway so it probably wouldn't be any harder to cast. I think it fits better in the sideboard for BO3.

Any helpful feedback is welcome. Any help is very appreciated as I'm still pretty new to this card game.

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Date added 4 years
Last updated 4 years
Exclude colors WR
Splash colors U
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 0 Mythic Rares

12 - 4 Rares

18 - 5 Uncommons

9 - 6 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.14
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