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Jeskai Joshua

Standard Aggro Card Draw Matters Primer Reanimator RUW (Jeskai, America)

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Land (22)

Creature (20)

Sorcery (6)

Instant (7)

Enchantment (5)

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Instant (7)

Artifact (4)

Planeswalker (1)

Sorcery (1)

Creature (1)

Enchantment (1)

Standard list Jeskai Proft's Eidetic Memory list with the new inclusion of Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant  .

Jeskai aggro as an archetype has been recently focused primarily on the cards Proft's Eidetic Memory and Abhorrent Oculus. Essentially the turn two and turn three play. Both generate immense value in terms of getting through our deck and dealing damage the entire time. The problem is that Abhorrent Oculus has a steep additional cost, "exile six cards from your graveyard". This can be done, but most often the deck looks to discard Abhorrent Oculus and reanimate it via Helping Hand, which can target other cards in the deck. Essentially we are attempting to consistently go through as much our deck as possible while manipulating the cards from our hand into the graveyard via multiple discard effects. Next is a breakdown on choice of creature spells.

Best one drop is Marauding Mako as he gets bigger as the game continues and has cycling as a late game draw. Since we are an aggro deck we want a consistent turn one play so I like to also run Spyglass Siren as she has flying and creates and artifact to sacrifice to Torch the Tower.

Best two drop is Fear of Missing Out as we are looking for this 'rummage' effect to discard valuable cards to reanimate and draw more cards to keep the pressure on.

Three is where our curve ends and we have tons of gas here. Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant   is the new kid on the block and he makes this deck much better. He offers the rummage effect as an option 1-2. His transformation is also flying, lifelink, damage to face, and lastly more reanimation. He should replace Tersa Lightshatter moving forward. Steamcore Scholar is essential as one of the only 'loot' effect in the deck. His optional discard cost of "creature with flying" is especially useful for discarding Abhorrent Oculus. Lastly, but not leastly Abhorrent Oculus is the best creature in the deck providing 2/2 manifests that can close games alongside its 5/5 flying body.

We are very tight on slots, but still have the room to include some nice interaction. Into the Flood Maw is exceptional, if I create more slots in the deck it would be to add this card. Tempo removal that can end games on the spot while having the ability to be flexible to "nonland permanent" when we need it. Glacial Dragonhunt may be the weakest option here although we do get to loot and deal three on two mana is nice for sure, but slow most of the time. Spell Pierce feels right at home in this tight mana deck as it combats most pesky things that really give this deck trouble. Torch the Tower is nice as it scrys and exiles while having and upcast potential. Sheltered by Ghosts is nice as it has flexible targeting "nonland permanent" and buffs creatures with lifelink and ward. Lastly, a single Abrade to cover bigger things at instant speed and artifacts that are prevalent in the meta.
The only other cards in the deck that have yet to be mentioned are Winternight Stories a three mana sorcery speed loot three discard two unless a creature is discarded. A sorcery speed slightly better version of Steamcore Scholar. Finally Case of the Crimson Pulse is a nice option that some lists have used to replenish our hand. This deck can very easily run out of fuel and instead of having the fourth copy of Proft's Eidetic Memory I like this better. The lands are VERY standard for this deck, check mtgtop8 and every list runs exactly this.

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