Claw Turns (BO1)

Historic Blink Combo Competitive Counters Exile Prison Turns Value Engine Yorion, Sky Nomad

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Land (38)

• 2x Blood Crypt
• 2x Castle Ardenvale
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 4x Fabled Passage
• 4x Forsaken Crossroads
• 3x Glacial Fortress
• 4x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hive of the Eye Tyrant
• 2x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 3x Savai Triome
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Steam Vents
• 3x Watery Grave

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Day of Judgment
• 2x Divine Purge
• 1x Farewell
• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 3x Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1x Mythos of Snapdax
• 3x Thoughtseize

Creature (12)

• 4x Fblthp, the Lost
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Kenrith, the Returned King
• 1x Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  ^Flip
• 4x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Thraben Inspector

Planeswalker (5)

• 3x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Saheeli Rai
• 1x The Wandering Emperor

Companion (1)

Instant (4)

• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Fragment Reality
• 1x Lightning Helix
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Fires of Invention

Artifact (3)

• 3x Wishclaw Talisman

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Sideboard

Artifact (5)

• 1x Glass Casket
• 1x Portable Hole
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Creature (2)

• 1x Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
• 1x Yorion, Sky Nomad

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Doom Foretold
• 1x Elspeth Conquers Death
• 1x Elspeth's Nightmare
• 1x Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip
• 1x Omen of the Sea
• 1x Shark Typhoon
• 1x The Birth of Meletis
• 1x The Raven's Warning

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Demonic Bargain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Idyllic Tutor

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Teferi, Time Raveler

Creature (4)

• 1x Citystalker Connoisseur
• 1x Fae of Wishes
• 1x Moon-Blessed Cleric
• 1x Wandering Mind

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Wishclaw Talisman can tutor for Divine Purge, which not only board wipes but also gets Claw back. Claw basically has the alternative mode "Tutor Purge and return Claw to hand".

Fires of Invention is important because our deck is so mana-hungry. Settle the Wilds (almost) always tutors Fires + a land if we play it with exactly four lands.

Combos

Claw by itself. Claw > Purge. We can do this repeatedly to board wipe up to three times with one Claw.

Claw by itself. Claw > Karn. Karn prevents opponent from activating Claw. With Karn, we can now go off with other combos (see below), or just wish for value.

Claw and any legendary creature or planeswalker. Claw > Karn's Temporal Sundering. Sundering gives us an extra turn and bounces Claw. Next turn we can just replay Claw and take three more turns. This one-card combo costs {6}{U}{U}{B}, so it's much easier to pull off with Fires and just 6 lands. There are a few very convoluted lines that let us do even more, but it'll take me some time to write them down.

Karn by itself. Karn> Claw > Trostani Discordant. Uptick Karn on Claw so that Trostani steals it back. We can do repeatedly to tutor for {1} every turn. Claw can also do this by itself (see below).

Claw by itself. Claw > Karn > Claw > Trostani. Now do the same as above.

Claw can tutor any of the following cards for "free" because it either destroys the Claw or, even better, gives it back to us:

• Divine Purge
• River's Rebuke
• Leave / Chance
• Teferi, Time Raveler
• Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
• Karn
• Ashiok, Dream Render
• Farewell
• Hour of Revelation
• Mythos of Snapdax

Yorion + Charming Prince/The Kami War   can blink each other infinitely.

If you exile claw with Portable hole, it will come back to owner's control if it leaves. That means every time you blink hole, you can activate claw at instant speed before exiling claw again to get one free trigger. You can set up a loop of yorion + blinker to get a free claw activation every turn.

After we cast our first spell with Fires, we can cast Yorion next, and blink Fires, so we're free to play more than two spells.

Mirrorshell Crab can be played despite Fires. Notably, if opponent tries to cast Collected Company at our end step, we can Claw tutor for Crab in response.

Settle the Wilds tutors a specific card if played with the following number of lands:

• 4 lands: Fires (80% of the time). The main purpose of Settle is a way to tutor Fires, a very important card.
• 5 lands: The Kami War  
• 6 lands: Mirrorshell Crab
• 7 lands: Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Nine Lives + Solemnity prevents all damage. But be careful because Solemnity shuts off Claw and sagas.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Historic legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 1 Mythic Rares 63 - 3 Rares 5 - 3 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	80
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Clue, Copy Clone, Human 1/1 W, Illusion */* U, Samurai 2/2 W