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Naum

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#mtgalchemy
Kona Omniscience

November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgalchemy
Statistics for this season of play
Tried to make a lot of mono B control decks
Simic (usually Kona Omniscience, but not always, have 70%+ win rate with an Ugin / Ornate Imitations ramp build) best deck to play & worst matchup
UR really effective, maybe not as much post Vivi nerf

October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgalchemy
Vivi is a pretty good card.
So is Balmor.
Cruised into Mythic rank with this brew.
@fireshoes.bsky.social

Deck
4 Vivi Ornitier (FIN) 248
6 Island (MOM) 278
4 Mountain (MOM) 280
2 Balmor, Battlemage Captain (FDN) 237
2 Fire-Brained Scheme (OM1) 79
4 Swiftspear's Teachings (Y25) 14
2 Wild Ride (TDM) 132
4 Illuminating Lash (Y25) 23
4 Into the Flood Maw (BLB) 52
4 Opt (STA) 19
4 A-Cori-Steel Cutter (TDM) 103
4 Stormchaser's Talent (BLB) 75
2 Stock Up (DFT) 67
2 Quantum Riddler (EOE) 72
4 Sulfur Falls (Y25) 8
2 Multiversal Passage (OM1) 181
4 Riverpyre Verge (DFT) 260
2 Starting Town (FIN) 289

October 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgalchemy
Luis, Pompous Pillager + The Terminus of Return + Spirited Simulacrum (& Ugin of course)

September 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgalchemy
5 color dragon control
madsanctum.nauminous.net/5-color-drag...
(exportable decklist in ALT)

About
Name Dragon Control

Deck
2 Plains
2 Island
2 Swamp
1 Mountain
3 Negate
1 Godless Shrine
3 Syncopate
2 Mystic Monastery
3 Nomad Outpost
4 Opulent Palace
4 Long River's Pull
4 Stock Up
3 Caustic Exhale
4 Strategic Betrayal
1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
1 Mistrise Village
1 The Fire Crystal
1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital
2 Beyond the Quiet
4 Archenemy's Charm
3 Cunning Azurescale
2 Dragon Typhoon
3 Stonehide Ancient
4 Desert Cenote

Sideboard
1 Fumigate
1 Teach by Example
1 Into the Flood Maw
1 Wear Down
1 Split Up
1 Seam Rip
1 Devastating Onslaught

August 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

mardu sephiroth
(decklist in ALT)
#mtgalchemy

madsanctum.nauminous.net/mardu-sephir...

About
Name New Deck

Deck
1 Swamp
1 Mountain
4 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
4 Godless Shrine
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Blazemire Verge
4 Infestation Sage
3 Three Tree Battalion
2 Bleachbone Verge
3 Sunbillow Verge
4 Voice of Victory
4 Stadium Headliner
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
4 Starting Town
4 Umbral Collar Zealot
4 Waystone's Guidance
4 Mardu Thunderkite
2 Thought Partition

Sideboard
2 Thought Partition

August 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

mardu mobilize

#mtgalchemy
madsanctum.nauminous.net/mardu-mobili...

August 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

early yeoe meta tier list snapshot

madsanctum.nauminous.net/early-yeoe-m...
#mtgalchemy

August 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgeoe draft
UW 7-1
in only loss, flooded hard
@fireshoes.bsky.social

August 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

Vivi is a pretty good card…
#mtgalchemy

August 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgarena I really didn't want to give you money…

August 3, 2025 at 4:36 AM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgalchemy
rotation - 2 days, winrate snapshot

July 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgarena
midweek magic phantom draft (FIN)
got a pretty good deck, went 3-0

July 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgalchemy
Ashiok + Ketramose deck
madsanctum.nauminous.net/awp-ashiok-w...

Deck
2 Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator (WOE) 78
3 Swamp (LCI) 397
3 Deadly Cover-Up (MKM) 83
4 Split Up (DSK) 32
6 Plains (FIN) 296
4 Mazemind Tome (M21) 232
4 Porcine Portent (Y24) 23
3 Strategic Betrayal (TDM) 94
3 Exorcise (DSK) 8
4 Authority of the Consuls (FDN) 137
3 Ketramose, the New Dawn (DFT) 209
1 Teysa of the Ghost Council (Y24) 26
1 Kaya, Spirits' Justice (MKM) 211
2 Ghost Vacuum (DSK) 248
2 Demolition Field (FDN) 687
2 Fountainport (BLB) 253
3 Concealed Courtyard (OTJ) 268
3 Restless Fortress (WOE) 259
4 Bleachbone Verge (DFT) 250
2 Fabled Passage (BLB) 252
1 Jecht, Reluctant Guardian (FIN) 104

July 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgalchemy winrate today
jeskai omniscience, the apparent answer to all the UR prowess & mono R decks
madsanctum.nauminous.net/winrate-toda...

June 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

Prefer this over Duress now:

June 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

#mtgalchemy winrate today
for a meta dominated by cori-steel cutter decks (comprise over 40% of decks, according to untapped.gg)
madsanctum.nauminous.net/winrate-toda...

June 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

alchemy meta popularity today
madsanctum.nauminous.net/meta-popular...
#mtgalchemy

May 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

temur dragon typhoon deck
madsanctum.nauminous.net/temur-dragon...
#mtgalchemy

Deck
4 Dragon Typhoon (Y25) 10
2 Island (AFR) 267
2 Marang River Regent (TDM) 51
2 Mountain (AFR) 276
4 Stonehide Ancient (Y25) 27
1 Commercial District (MKM) 259
2 Dragonweave Tapestry (Y25) 29
2 Dragonback Assault (TDM) 179
4 Molten Exhale (TDM) 113
4 Up the Beanstalk (WOE) 195
2 Cunning Azurescale (Y25) 4
4 Dispelling Exhale (TDM) 41
2 Shove Aside (Y24) 16
4 Ureni's Counsel (Y25) 6
3 Fabled Passage (BLB) 252
4 Thornspire Verge (DSK) 270
3 Willowrush Verge (DFT) 270
3 Riverpyre Verge (DFT) 260
2 Hedge Maze (MKM) 262
2 Thundering Falls (MKM) 269
2 Pearl Lake Warden (Y25) 5
2 Forest (AFR) 278

May 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

why even print cards that cost more than 3 mana anymore?
madsanctum.nauminous.net/why-even-pri...
#mtgalchemy
#mtgtdm #mtgytdm

May 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM

Naum

@nauminous.bsky.social

synthesizer deck, tdm style
(decklist in alt text)

mtg is a befuddling game. stalled at diamond 1 with mostly jeskai dragon control, but loaded this up and waltzed into mythic...

#mtgalchemy
madsanctum.nauminous.net/synthesizer-...