Josh's Tournament Decklists
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Curious Obsession
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card." At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't attack with a creature this turn, sacrifice this Aura.
Journey to Nowhere
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, exile target creature. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Sheltered by Ghosts
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has lifelink and ward .
Slip Out the Back
Instant
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
Ponder
Sorcery
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.
Exorcise
Sorcery
Exile target artifact, enchantment, or creature with power 4 or greater.
Stormchaser Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell you control, draw a card.
Optimistic Scavenger
Creature — Human Scout
Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Invisible Stalker
Creature — Human Rogue
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) This creature can't be blocked.
Hydroponics Architect
Creature — Insect
Flying Whenever this creature attacks, a random land card in your library perpetually becomes a basic Island in addition to its other types and gains "When this land enters, draw a card."
Island
Basic Land — Island
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Mystical Dispute
Instant
This spell costs less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Stone of Erech
Legendary Artifact
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
,
, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.
Surge of Salvation
Instant
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Prevent all damage that black and/or red sources would deal to creatures you control this turn.
Sunpearl Kirin
Creature — Kirin
Flash Flying When this creature enters, return up to one other target nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand. If it was a token, draw a card.
Plains
Basic Land — Plains
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Ethereal Armor
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control and has first strike.
Shardmage's Rescue
Enchantment — Aura
Flash Enchant creature you control As long as this Aura entered this turn, enchanted creature has hexproof. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Curious Obsession | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 4 | Ethereal Armor | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 4 | Shardmage's Rescue | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 4 | Sheltered by Ghosts | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 3 | Stormchaser Drake | Creature — Drake | 2/1 | |
| 2 | Journey to Nowhere | Enchantment | — | |
| 3 | Hydroponics Architect | Creature — Insect | 1/2 | |
| 2 | Slip Out the Back | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Invisible Stalker | Creature — Human Rogue | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Optimistic Scavenger | Creature — Human Scout | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Ponder | Sorcery | — | |
| 9 | Island | — | Basic Land — Island | — |
| 4 | Port Town | — | Land | — |
| 9 | Plains | — | Basic Land — Plains | — |
Sideboard (15 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Stone of Erech | Legendary Artifact | — | |
| 3 | Mystical Dispute | Instant | — | |
| 2 | Slip Out the Back | Instant | — | |
| 2 | Surge of Salvation | Instant | — | |
| 2 | Sunpearl Kirin | Creature — Kirin | 2/1 | |
| 3 | Exorcise | Sorcery | — |
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Flameblade Adept
Creature — Jackal Warrior
Menace Whenever you cycle or discard a card, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Faithless Looting
Sorcery
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Stone of Erech
Legendary Artifact
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
,
, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.
Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain
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Marauding Mako
Creature — Shark Pirate
Whenever you discard one or more cards, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Cycling (
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Ivora, Insatiable Heir
Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior
Trample
When Ivora enters and whenever it deals combat damage to a player, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with ",
, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you discard a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Ivora.
Grab the Prize
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. If the discarded card wasn't a land card, Grab the Prize deals 2 damage to each opponent.
Craving of Yeenoghu
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature gets +3/+2, has haste, and attacks each combat if able.
: Return Craving of Yeenoghu from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to target creature you control. Craving of Yeenoghu perpetually gains "Enchanted creature gets -1/-1." Activate only as a sorcery.
Barbarian Ring
Land
: Add
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —
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, Sacrifice this land: It deals 2 damage to any target. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Sneaky Snacker
Creature — Faerie Rogue
Flying When you draw your third card in a turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Blazing Rootwalla
Creature — Lizard
: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Fiery Temper
Instant
Fiery Temper deals 3 damage to any target.
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Cast into the Fire
Instant
Choose one — • Cast into the Fire deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. • Exile target artifact.
Torch the Tower
Instant
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Torch the Tower deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If this spell was bargained, instead it deals 3 damage to that permanent and you scry 1. If a permanent dealt damage by Torch the Tower would die this turn, exile it instead.
Lightning Axe
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay .
Lightning Axe deals 5 damage to target creature.
Giant Cindermaw
Creature — Dinosaur Beast
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Players can't gain life.
Soul-Guide Lantern
Artifact
When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
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, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
Sorcery // Land
Val, Marooned Surveyor
Legendary Creature — Human Scout
Vigilance Whenever you discover, investigate, scry, surveil, or seek one or more cards, Val deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Craving of Yeenoghu | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 4 | Fiery Temper | Instant | — | |
| 1 | Lightning Axe | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Blazing Rootwalla | Creature — Lizard | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Marauding Mako | Creature — Shark Pirate | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Sneaky Snacker | Creature — Faerie Rogue | 2/1 | |
| 4 | Val, Marooned Surveyor | Legendary Creature — Human Scout | 3/3 | |
| 2 | Ambition's Cost | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Faithless Looting | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Grab the Prize | Sorcery | — | |
| 2 | Flameblade Adept | Creature — Jackal Warrior | 1/2 | |
| 4 | Ivora, Insatiable Heir | Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior | 1/1 | |
| 3 | Barbarian Ring | — | Land | — |
| 1 | Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure | — | Sorcery // Land | — |
| 17 | Mountain | — | Basic Land — Mountain | — |
Sideboard (15 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soul-Guide Lantern | Artifact | — | |
| 3 | Stone of Erech | Legendary Artifact | — | |
| 2 | Giant Cindermaw | Creature — Dinosaur Beast | 4/3 | |
| 3 | Cast into the Fire | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Smash to Smithereens | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Torch the Tower | Instant | — |
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Adanto Vanguard
Creature — Vampire Soldier
As long as this creature is attacking, it gets +2/+0. Pay 4 life: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Plains
Basic Land — Plains
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Reckless Rage
Instant
Reckless Rage deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control and 2 damage to target creature you control.
Ancestral Anger
Sorcery
Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Ancestral Anger in your graveyard. Draw a card.
Rally the Monastery
Instant
This spell costs less to cast if you've cast another spell this turn.
Choose one —
• Create two 1/1 white Monk creature tokens with prowess.
• Up to two target creatures you control each get +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
Sheltered by Ghosts
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has lifelink and ward .
Loran's Escape
Instant
Target artifact or creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Scry 1.
Flowstone Infusion
Instant
Target creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn.
Homestead Courage
Sorcery
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains vigilance until end of turn.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
Instant // Land
Gods Willing
Instant
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.) Scry 1.
Meltdown
Sorcery
Destroy each artifact with mana value X or less.
Defiant Strike
Instant
Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Draw a card.
Favored Hoplite
Creature — Human Soldier
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and prevent all damage that would be dealt to it this turn.
Monstrous Rage
Instant
Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Create a Monster Role token attached to it. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.)
Illuminator Virtuoso
Creature — Human Rogue
Double strike Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell you control, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Clever Lumimancer
Creature — Human Wizard
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain
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Monastery Swiftspear
Creature — Human Monk
Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Stone of Erech
Legendary Artifact
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
,
, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Defiant Strike | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Gods Willing | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Monstrous Rage | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Rally the Monastery | Instant | — | |
| 2 | Reckless Rage | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Monastery Swiftspear | Creature — Human Monk | 1/2 | |
| 4 | Illuminator Virtuoso | Creature — Human Rogue | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Favored Hoplite | Creature — Human Soldier | 1/2 | |
| 4 | Ancestral Anger | Sorcery | — | |
| 3 | Homestead Courage | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Clever Lumimancer | Creature — Human Wizard | 0/1 | |
| 4 | Furycalm Snarl | — | Land | — |
| 1 | Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier | — | Instant // Land | — |
| 7 | Mountain | — | Basic Land — Mountain | — |
| 8 | Plains | — | Basic Land — Plains | — |
Sideboard (15 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Stone of Erech | Legendary Artifact | — | |
| 3 | Sheltered by Ghosts | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 3 | Flowstone Infusion | Instant | — | |
| 1 | Loran's Escape | Instant | — | |
| 1 | Reckless Rage | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Adanto Vanguard | Creature — Vampire Soldier | 1/1 | |
| 2 | Meltdown | Sorcery | — |
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Super Secret Tech
Artifact
Premium spells cost less to cast.
Premium creatures get +1/+1.
Maindeck (1 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Super Secret Tech | Artifact | — |
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Barbarian Ring
Land
: Add
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —
,
, Sacrifice this land: It deals 2 damage to any target. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain
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Soul-Guide Lantern
Artifact
When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Cast into the Fire
Instant
Choose one — • Cast into the Fire deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. • Exile target artifact.
Giant Cindermaw
Creature — Dinosaur Beast
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Players can't gain life.
Grab the Prize
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. If the discarded card wasn't a land card, Grab the Prize deals 2 damage to each opponent.
Blazing Rootwalla
Creature — Lizard
: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Torch the Tower
Instant
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Torch the Tower deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If this spell was bargained, instead it deals 3 damage to that permanent and you scry 1. If a permanent dealt damage by Torch the Tower would die this turn, exile it instead.
Scour the Scene
Enchantment
When Scour the Scene enters, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token. Whenever you sacrifice an artifact, choose a creature card in your hand or a creature you control. It perpetually gets +1/+0.
Flameblade Adept
Creature — Jackal Warrior
Menace Whenever you cycle or discard a card, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
Sorcery // Land
Sneaky Snacker
Creature — Faerie Rogue
Flying When you draw your third card in a turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Marauding Mako
Creature — Shark Pirate
Whenever you discard one or more cards, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Cycling (
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Ivora, Insatiable Heir
Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior
Trample
When Ivora enters and whenever it deals combat damage to a player, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with ",
, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you discard a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Ivora.
Xander's Wake
Enchantment
Whenever one or more creatures you control die, draft a card from Xander's Wake's spellbook. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Snarlfang Vermin
Creature — Rat
Whenever Snarlfang Vermin deals combat damage to a creature, if that creature is still on the battlefield, suspect that creature. It perpetually gains this ability. Whenever a suspected creature an opponent controls dies while Snarlfang Vermin is in your graveyard, that opponent loses 1 life.
Stone of Erech
Legendary Artifact
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
,
, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.
Faithless Looting
Sorcery
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Fiery Temper
Instant
Fiery Temper deals 3 damage to any target.
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Lightning Axe
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay .
Lightning Axe deals 5 damage to target creature.
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Scour the Scene | Enchantment | — | |
| 2 | Xander's Wake | Enchantment | — | |
| 4 | Fiery Temper | Instant | — | |
| 1 | Lightning Axe | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Blazing Rootwalla | Creature — Lizard | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Marauding Mako | Creature — Shark Pirate | 1/1 | |
| 2 | Snarlfang Vermin | Creature — Rat | 2/1 | |
| 4 | Sneaky Snacker | Creature — Faerie Rogue | 2/1 | |
| 4 | Faithless Looting | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Grab the Prize | Sorcery | — | |
| 2 | Flameblade Adept | Creature — Jackal Warrior | 1/2 | |
| 4 | Ivora, Insatiable Heir | Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior | 1/1 | |
| 3 | Barbarian Ring | — | Land | — |
| 1 | Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure | — | Sorcery // Land | — |
| 17 | Mountain | — | Basic Land — Mountain | — |
Sideboard (15 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soul-Guide Lantern | Artifact | — | |
| 3 | Stone of Erech | Legendary Artifact | — | |
| 2 | Giant Cindermaw | Creature — Dinosaur Beast | 4/3 | |
| 3 | Cast into the Fire | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Smash to Smithereens | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Torch the Tower | Instant | — |