Once in a Thousand Years

Standard* Combo Control Storm UR (Izzet)

maydaymayes

Instant (23)

• 2x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 3x Lightning Strike
• 2x Mission Briefing
• 3x Nexus of Fate
• 4x Opt
• 3x Shock
• 4x Syncopate
• 2x Unwind

Land (26)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 8x Island
• 4x Izzet Guildgate
• 3x Memorial to Genius
• 2x Mountain
• 4x Steam Vents
• 4x Sulfur Falls

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Banefire
• 3x Secrets of the Golden City

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 2x Thousand-Year Storm

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ral, Izzet Viceroy

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 2x Essence Scatter
• 2x Fiery Cannonade

Creature (2)

• 2x Niv-Mizzet, Parun

Artifact (5)

• 3x Sentinel Totem
• 2x Sorcerous Spyglass

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Lava Coil

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I have never had a harder time cutting down cards

First and foremost: I spent literally hours thinking of what cards I want to play, putting them all down in a list at the numbers I would want to play them at. At the end I had 67 nonland cards. Obviously not going to play a 90 something card deck so I had a TON of thinking to do.

I'm not entirely too happy with the numbers. I hate that there are so many 2-ofs and not many 4-ofs but there are cards that I just rather see an appearance than not at all.

That being said this is a super rough draft with no testing but I did REALLY rattle my brain with this one.

In an ideal world there a few simple OTKs that involve untapping with Thousand-Year Storm

Opt > Lightning Strike > Banefire for X>=4 That's just a simple version

Things get particularly spicy with Mission Briefing again these are ideal scenarios not particularly practical ones Lightning Strike already in the yard > Shock > Mission Briefing (2 copies) > Target Shock & Lightning Strike > Cast Shock (3 copies, because Mission Briefing says cast! and Thousand-Year Storm doesn't specify from hand!) > then Lightning Strike (4 Copies)

I don't know what else to say. I saw Thousand-Year Storm and really wanted to put it to use. I know it's a 6 mana enchantment that doesn't do anything the turn it comes into play. Buttttt STORMMMM

Expansion//Explosion seems broken on tapped out right now, so that's what Blue Sun's Zenith is placeholding

PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR SUGGESTIONS

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 2 Rares 3 - 9 Uncommons 23 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.68
Tokens	City's Blessing, Emblem Ral, Izzet Viceroy