Horror of the Broken Cycles

Standard Aggro Budget Casual Control UBR (Grixis)

MurderForBrunch

Creature (22)

• 4x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 3x Curator of Mysteries
• 3x Hollow One
• 4x Horror of the Broken Lands
• 2x Nimble Obstructionist
• 2x Shadowstorm Vizier
• 4x Vile Manifestation

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Sweltering Suns

Land (22)

• 2x Aether Hub
• 4x Canyon Slough
• 4x Fetid Pools
• 6x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 4x Swamp

Instant (10)

• 4x Censor
• 2x Countervailing Winds
• 2x Hieroglyphic Illumination
• 2x Vraska's Contempt

Artifact (4)

• 2x Abandoned Sarcophagus
• 2x God-Pharaoh's Gift

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Sideboard

Instant (12)

• 2x Abrade
• 2x Chandra's Defeat
• 2x Essence Scatter
• 2x Fatal Push
• 2x Negate
• 2x Scarab Feast

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This is my first and main Standard deck. It's basically build around cycling early for things like Shadowstorm Vizier, and later with things like Archfiend of Ifnir and Horror of the Broken Lands. The Horror of the Broken Lands can deliver some serious punch, specially against control decks, with an empty board, and a bunch of cyclers in hand. Also Vile Manifestation can grow and become at least annoying for the opponent. Late in the game, you can get stuff back from the graveyard with things like Abandoned Sarcophagus, or even Commit / Memory if you run out of gas.

What I struggle with is sideboarding though. This deck tends to work pretty well against the more aggro decks, in that it has the Archfiend of Ifnir, which is basically a sweeper on a stick. On the other hand, it doesn't play that well against the Approach of the Second Sun decks, specially after sideboarding. I tried to change it a bit to how it looks like now, and I still have to test it, but I think it can work better this way.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	30 - 0 Rares 10 - 6 Uncommons 8 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.71
Tokens	Copy Clone
Folders	U/B Cycling, Previous Standard