Whew. That's a long title.
Anyway, here's how this deck's combo works:
Jeskai Ascendancy has the ability to untap our creatures with noncreature spells.
Stoneforge Acolyte
's Cohort ability allows us to dig for Equipment.
When we put these two together, and add cheap Equipment like the -cost Bone Saw and Spidersilk Net, it's possible to go off by repeatedly untapping
Stoneforge Acolyte
for free, pumping our team enough to potentially win on turn 4!
The rest of my choices support this combo, while allowing us to have a strong aggressive deck if we don't draw into it:
Stone Haven Outfitter
is a great card in general, and its emblem effect means that our equipped creatures have a better chance of surviving board-wipes. For example, with a Spidersilk Net he is a 3/5 and thus survives Languish. If they do die, we still get a cantrip (except in the case of Flaying Tendrils) - although we do have to make sure that our creatures are actually equipped first.
Weapons Trainer
is more aggressively inclined than
Stone Haven Outfitter
, and its own emblem effect doesn't require our creatures to be equipped. This means that it can pump our Kor Ally tokens from
Captain's Claws
or even our Monks from Myth Realized. Both are excellent in the same strategy, while filling different roles.
Reckless Bushwhacker's Surge ability is easy to activate with the free Equipment we have floating around, and is a great play the turn we plan to combo. If we cast a second
Stoneforge Acolyte
on that turn, we get to repeatedly search the top 8 cards of our library for Equipment, making it virtually impossible to whiff and in all likelihood ending the game.
(I should add that if we cast a second Jeskai Ascendancy instead, we can search, untap our creatures with one copy, search a second time in between activations, untap our creatures with the second copy, and search a third time, similar to the way Amulet Bloom used to work with multiple Amulet of Vigor. This line pumps our creatures to ridiculous levels, too, but also requires more mana and thus leaves us with less creatures to attack with, so it's easier to defend against.)
Kor Bladewhirl is excellent with
Captain's Claws
, and allows us to take the greatest advantage of the many +1/+0 boosts that could have us trading otherwise.
Myth Realized is the other turn 1 play we have, and can also be pumped very quickly using our Equipment. It's a nice insurance policy against board-wipes.
We have 3 copies of Temur Battle Rage rounding things out, which allow us to get through with heavy damage. The earliest version of this deck didn't run enough noncreature spells to fuel Jeskai Ascendancy, but now we can use something else to untap
Stoneforge Acolyte
if we whiff on Equipment.
One route that I wish I could explore is Jeskai Ascendancy's ability to untap awakened lands - unfortunately, Wall of Resurgence and Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper are both a little too slow compared to the rest of the deck. We are looking to be very aggressive!
Thank you for taking a look at this list! Please upvote or comment to let me know what you think!
