Josh's Tournament Decklists
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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.)
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.
Ethereal Armor
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control and has first strike.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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."
Stormchaser Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell you control, draw a card.
Exorcise
Sorcery
Exile target artifact, enchantment, or creature with power 4 or greater.
Mystical Dispute
Instant
This spell costs less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
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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.
Island
Basic Land — Island
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Plains
Basic Land — Plains
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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.
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.
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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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.
Artillery Enthusiast
Creature — Goblin Artificer
Vigilance Whenever you discover, investigate, scry, surveil, or seek one or more cards, Val deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
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.
Ambergris, Citadel Agent
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Cleric
Whenever one or more creatures you control die, draft a card from Xander's Wake's spellbook. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Stone of Erech
Legendary Artifact
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
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, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.
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.)
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 seven or more cards are in 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.
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.)
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.
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.)
Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Artillery Enthusiast | Creature — Goblin Artificer | 2/3 | |
| 2 | Craving of Yeenoghu | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 2 | Ambergris, Citadel Agent | Legendary Creature — Dwarf Cleric | 2/2 | |
| 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 | 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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Plains
Basic Land — Plains
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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.)
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.
Loran's Escape
Instant
Target artifact or creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Scry 1.
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.)
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.)
Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain
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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.
Defiant Strike
Instant
Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Draw a card.
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.)
Reckless Rage
Instant
Reckless Rage deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control and 2 damage to target creature you control.
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
Instant // Land
Flowstone Infusion
Instant
Target creature gets +2/-2 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.
Meltdown
Sorcery
Destroy each artifact with mana value X or less.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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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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.
Ambergris, Citadel Agent
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Cleric
Whenever one or more creatures you control die, draft a card from Xander's Wake's spellbook. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Lightning Axe
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay .
Lightning Axe deals 5 damage to target creature.
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.
Flameblade Adept
Creature — Jackal Warrior
Menace Whenever you cycle or discard a card, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain
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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.)
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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 seven or more cards are in your graveyard.
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.)
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.
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.
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.)
Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
Sorcery // Land
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Ambergris, Citadel Agent | Legendary Creature — Dwarf Cleric | 2/2 | |
| 4 | Scour the Scene | 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 | — |