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Mystery Booster Draft - Mardu Midrange

Limited Goblins Haste Midrange Monarch RBW (Mardu)

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This was my first time drafting Mystery Booster--at PAX West 2024--which is something I'd been wanting to try for a while. It was a lot of fun, feeling just as random as a chaos draft but with a bit better mechanical throughlines, and I ended up winning all my games (though I had a bye the first round).

The draft itself was certainly an experience. I grabbed a Maelstrom Archangel first, in some vain hope of making a five-color deck work, but gave up on that pretty quickly. Next was Goblin Piledriver, thinking I could maybe find enough goblins to do something with it, but that didn't really come together either. I ended up sticking with Rakdos after I saw a Cauldron Dance wheel, then decided to splash white when I saw Queen Marchesa. I'd describe the resulting deck mostly as a pile of decent creatures and removal, which kind of seems to be the best limited strategy, though there are a few vague synergies around the graveyard, maybe.

Standout cards were:

  • Phyrexian Soulgorger: I knew this guy was a gamble, but a cheap 8/8 is nothing to sneeze at. Even when it got blocked, it generally meant taking out an opposing creature each turn, which helped offset the loss of my own.
  • Queen Marchesa: If nothing else, this is a 3/3 haste deathtouch that draws a card, but adding the Monarch to the mix made games a little more interesting too. And if I lost the Monarch, the assassin tokens made good Soulgorger food.
  • Sol Ring: You know what this does. I won't say no to a Sol Ring.
  • Fireball: I won two games with this, including one I probably would have lost otherwise, and took out two creatures at once in another. I love getting some use out of a classic like this.

It helped that we all had random, janky decks, of course, but my jank was working pretty well. This was a fun experience, and I hope I can do it again at least the next time PAX rolls around.

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90% Casual

Competitive

Date added 1 month
Last updated 1 month
Exclude colors U
Splash colors W
Legality

This deck is Limited legal.

Rarity (main - side)

0 - 1 Mythic Rares

7 - 2 Rares

5 - 6 Uncommons

11 - 13 Commons

Cards 40
Avg. CMC 3.00
Tokens Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, Human 1/1 W, The Monarch
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