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Sunday Gold Run: 6-1 —April 25, 2021

Haven't played hardly any ranked this month as I've just been brewing, playing sealed, etc. so my sorry ass was still sitting at Gold heading into today. Decided to give this deck a quick spin to see how it fares in BO1 ranked, and while the competition will obviously ratchet up in future ranks, the early returns were quite promising.

Overall it went 6-1 before reaching Platinum and calling it a day, including 2 wins against rogue mill which you might think would be a problem for this deck given that it plans to draw half of the cards anyways. However, in both I was able to keep their Ruin Crabs off the board with removal and power through the opponent's removal via card advantage to snowball into a winning board state.

The only loss was a rematch of another Izzet deck that I had previously beaten - I'm pretty sure it was literally the same player - which seemed like kind of a "good stuff" deck that was able to close the game out with a few counterspells.

Good run though! I really like the consistency of this deck as you see so many cards that you're bound to draw what you need eventually. One card that has been especially impressive is The Royal Scions, as it not only is a perfect synergy piece but also can just take a lot of abuse for a 3-drop planeswalker due to the 6 loyalty it starts with after the first plus.