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Stolen identity I've recently put back in a deck because it's so fun, and if you can get two cast in the same initial turn, not that bad a rate.
Stolen identity, a 6-mana blue sorcery that creates a token copy of an artifact or creature, and then has cipher, meaning you can give it as a combat damage trigger to one of your creatures permanently once it resolves.
October 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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We see a lot of Anger and Wonder, a bit of Filth and Brawn, but not enough Valor. First Strike on everything is impossible to attack into!
Finally found a deck for Nacatl War-Pride and I'm very happy about that.
The Med Kit is a great curve filler for decks that just want artifacts.
Thrummingbird!
Valor, the white member of the same cycle as Anger, Wonder, Filth and Brawn. A 4-mana 2/2 with first strike but that's irrelevant. As long as it's in your graveyard and you have a Plains, all your creatures have First Strike at all times. Nacatl War-Pride, a 6-mana 3/3 creature that must be blocked by exactly one creature (if possible). When it attacks, it copies itself for each creature the defending player controls, including tapped creatures. The opponent has to block all of them with one creature each, which means one is always going to go through, plus one for each tapped creature, plus it prevents the opponent from blocking anything else. The tokens that survive combat are exiled at end step. Survivor's Med Kit, a 1-mana artifact that can activate for 1 more mana and tap it, giving a choice between three options, two of which are relevant. Each options can only be selected once. The first is to draw a card, replacing the med kit, the second is to create a Food token, adding a second artifact on the battlefield. The third is to sacrifice the med kit and remove all rad counters from a player, which is mostly relevant to sacrifice it to bring it back. Thrummingbird! A 2-mana blue 1/1 flying bird horror that proliferates whenever it hits a player, allowing you to add one counter of each kind to any number of permanents and/or players.
October 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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And a couple more for the road. Illithid Harvester is one of my underrated sweepers for blue and green, and both halves of it work even better at instant-speed, blanking all the creatures in an attack, or tapping down to avoid it altogether. Time Stop is already an instant, but still fun to use.
Illithid Harvester, a 4/4 blue Horror for 5, though it also has an adventure Sorcery on it. The sorcery costs X and two blue, taps X target creatures, and stops them from untapping for a turn. The creature half turns any number of tapped creatures face-down into 2/2s without abilities when it enters.
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Green also has its share of effects that work very differently when flashed in combat. Lure being able to be put on one opponent's creatures after they declared their attack is hilarious. And Vigor usually causes player to stop attacking you, but flash allows this initial burst of counters too!
Lure, a 3-mana green aura that enchants a creature and forces all creatures that can block it to do so. It can be used as evasion on your own creatures, but in this deck it also can do some fun stuff when flashed in after attackers are declared, ruining a person's attack AND their opponent's blocks. Vigor, a 6-mana 6/6 green Elemental Incarnation that tramples, and replaces all damage that would be dealt to your other creatures by an equivalent amount of +1/+1 counters. It also shuffles itself into the deck if it would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, to prevent reanimation.
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Some notable cards: Some cards are fun to flash in because it allows you to use them to much better effect. Aura Thief is a backbreaking card if you can get it to die when you want, and similarly Fool's Demise is great at instant-speed in the middle of combat.
Aura Thief, a 2/2 Illusion for four mana in blue with flying. When it dies, you steal all enchantments from all players (forever.) Fool's Demise, a 5-mana Aura in blue that enchants a creature, and returns it to the battlefield under your control when it dies. It also returns itself to your hand when it goes to your graveyard from the battlefield, ready to be reused.
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Deck Name: Surprise Test!
Commander: Kianne, Corrupted Memory
Color Identity: UG
Bracket: 2
Themes: Flash, Gotchas, Draw
Link: www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/7200030
Kianne, Corrupted Memory, a legendary 2/2 Illusion for 2 a green and a blue. She gets a +1/+1 counter whenever you draw a card and alternates between giving flash to your noncreature spells or creature spells, depending if her current power is even or odd, respectively.
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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This one? It was previewed on friday.
September 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Discounting the deck that's purpose-built to be difficult to keep track of, I have several decks that can start branching out with options. I will say, this card in particular turns any game into a math problem and is hell to resolve, I love it.
July 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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I still love this Rest in Peace, and something else I noticed with it is how well it translates on the specific framing and cropping it gets while on the battlefield in Magic Arena. It makes it stand out more than the actual card, at least for me.
July 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Talk about old cards, not just new ones!
Oracle en-Vec is a pet card of mine that does a lot more than it looks. Asking people to commit to attacks with incomplete info makes people wary, and they often decide they won't attack at all! It's also a protection against any hasty surprise.
Oracle en-Vec, a white 1/1 human wizard for one and a white from Tempest. It has a singular activated ability, allowing you to tap it during your turn to make target opponent decide in advance which creatures they will attack with during their next turn. Creatures they don't choose for it can't attack at all, and the ones they choose are forced to attack. If they can't because they were otherwise tapped or stopped from attacking, they're destroyed at end of turn.
June 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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My deck for this draft that went 2-1 losing to Tomer's in the finals
June 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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PSA because I've now seen about a dozen people read this card wrong independently: Vincent's Limit Break does not permanently or temporarily change the target's stats after it comes back, just before, the change is AFTER quotation marks end and covered under "Until end of turn."
Vincent's Limit Break, a Magic card and an Instant for one and a black. It reads: Tiered (Choose one additional cost.) Until end of turn, target creature you control gains “When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner’s control” and has the chosen base power and toughness. • Galian Beast, for zero mana, makes the creature a 3/2. • Death Gigas for one mana, makes the creature a 5/2. • Hellmasker for three mana, makes the creature a 7/2.
May 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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This deck wants as many Sun Titans as possible to keep the cards moving. While Guardian Scalelord is my favorite white card these days, and actual Sun Titan is also here, Redemption Choir is underrated I think. In a deck like this one that can reliably enable Coven, a 4-mana Sun Titan is great!
Redemption Choir, a 4-mana 3/3 Vampire Cleric with Lifelink. When it enters or attacks, if you control three creatures with different powers (including it), it can return any permanent with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Guardian Scalelord, a 5-mana 3/4 Dragon with Flying. When it enters, it gives flying and its own attack trigger to another creature for the turn along with a +1/+1 counter, thanks to Backup. When it attacks, it returns a nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the power of that attacking creature (itself or the backed up one) from your graveyard to the battlefield. Court of Ardenvale, a 4-mana enchantment that makes you the Monarch upon entering. At the beginning of your upkeep, you return a permanent with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield if you're the monarch, or to your hand if you're not. Sun Titan, a 6-mana 6/6 Giant with Vigilance. When it enters or attacks, it can return any permanent with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
May 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I actually started building this deck before Aetherdrift spoilers, and I was delighted to see Priest of the Crossing alongside it. Not only is it an additional wincon that likes the tokens the deck makes and death, it's also randomly a Cleric to enable Relic Vial. Thanks Amonkhet!
Priest of the Crossing, a 4-mana flying 3/3 Zombie Bird Cleric. At the beginning of each end step, it puts a +1/+1 counter on your entire team for each of your creature that died during the turn.
May 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Some notable cards: The main engine I wanted to play with that made me assemble the deck are these kinds of things. Along with any sac outlet, they make the deck go overboard, allowing for long lines of play as cards bring each other back as they keep dying and being brought back.
Valkyrie's Call, a 5-mana white enchantment that makes all your non-angel (nontoken) creatures come back to life with flying and a +1/+1 counter as angels when they die. Luminous Broodmoth, a 4-mana white 3/4 flying creature that makes all your non-flying (nontoken) creatures come back to life with flying when they die.
May 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Bracket: 3
The deck does feature one Game Changer, Teferi's Protection. It's actually the copy that was previously in my Bant deck (at bracket 2) moved here to fit brackets better, since this was definitely a 3, with late game combos and efficient cards all around.
Teferi's Protection, the printing of it from Sheldon's Spellbook Secret Lair. A 3-mana white instant that protects you and your entire board from pretty much everything for an entire turn cycle.
May 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Deck Name: Ao Engine
Commanders: Ao, the Dawn Sky
Color Identity: W
Bracket: 3
Themes: Small creatures going in and out of the graveyard, Aristocrats?, Value
Link: www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6863562...
Ao, a 5-mana mono-white 5/4 Dragon Spirit with flying and vigilance. When Ao dies, you get to either put 4 mana value of nonland permanents from the top 7 cards of your library, or put two +1/+1 counters on all your creatures (and Vehicles.)
May 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I'll be there too in #MCVegas this year, alongside the rest of the @mtggoldfish.com crew, if everything works out! Meeting people and playing games.

Anyone I'll meet there?
mtg.social/MCVegasTixCr...
March 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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There are too many great ones to count and I have trouble picking favorites, so I'll give the first one that came to my mind instead: this breathtaking Temple Garden art by @alaynadanner.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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The attractions and sticker sheets for the deck were picked to try to add some more tracking chaos, though concessions needed to be made for some since I need 10 of each. Special shoutout to trash bin asking to pick a random card from your graveyard, in a deck with graveyard order mattering.
Ferris Wheel, an Attraction that you visit on a 4, 5 or 6, that phases out a creature it hasn't phased out before, up until you roll a 3 or less to visit your attractions. If that makes no sense to you, don't worry, that's normal, but I'm also not gonna explain attractions here. Trash Bin, an Attraction. This specific version of Trash Bin is visited on a 2 or a 6. When you do, you mill two cards then return a random card from your graveyard to your hand. If that makes no sense to you, don't worry, that's normal, but I'm also not gonna explain attractions here. A sticker sheet with the Space, Fungus and Snickerdoodle name stickers, a Jester's Cap, Ice Cream and Dragon Whelp art stickers, a Skulk sticker for two tickets, a Batttle Cry sticker for 3 tickets, a 3/2 sticker for 2 tickets, and a 6/8 sticker for 5 tickets. If you have no idea what's going on, don't be worried, but I also won't explain it to you here. A sticker sheet with the Familiar, Beeble and Mascot name stickers, a Candied Apple, Chicken Hat and Fblthp art stickers, a "Whenever this creature attacks, untap target permanent" sticker for two tickets, a "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn" sticker for 4 tickets, a 2/3 sticker for 2 tickets, and a 5/3 sticker for 3 tickets. If you have no idea what's going on, don't be worried, but I also won't explain it to you here.
March 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Coat of Arms is famous for being a nightmare to track for everyone at the table. This is the most likely cause of splash tracking damage, forcing opponents to partake in the pain, but it was iconic enough I felt like I had to include it as a one-of non-mechanic.
Coat of Arms, a 5-mana artifact that gives each creature (on everyone's board) +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield (on anyone's board) that shares a creature type with it. With random humans and wizards and rogues and soldiers, it tends to be VERY confusing.
March 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Some notable cards: Gylwain is great because he allows me to get all three "normal" role tokens into the deck with a single card. Even better, he doesn't say on the card what any of them do!
Gylwain, Casting Director, a 3-mana green and white 2/3 legendary humand bard. When he or another nontoken creature enters under your control, Gylwain will give that creature your choice of a Royal Role token, a Sorcerer Role token, or a Monster Role token. If you don't remember what those do from Wilds of Eldraine limited, well, tough luck, the card doesn't say either.
March 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Deck Name: The Bookkeeper
Commander: Garth One-Eye
Color Identity: WUBRG
Bracket: 1
Themes: Tracking Nightmare
Link: www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4882334
Garth One-Eye, a 5-colors, 5-mana legendary 5/5 human wizard that can tap to cast an iconic spell from magic's very first set from among Black Lotus, Disenchant, Braingeyser, Terror, Shivan Dragon and Regrowth. You need to pay its mana cost to cast a spell that way. You can also only cast each of them once per instance of Garth being on the battlefield. Neither this card nor this alt text will tell you what any of these six cards do.
March 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Anointer Priest is surprisingly effective at putting you out of attack range from anyone. Between the token doublers and one Rhys activation with a token doubler, it's not rare to generate 6 of these in their first turn, triggering each other for 28 life, and it goes up exponentially from there.
Anointer Priest, a 2-mana white 1/3 human cleric that gains you a life whenever a creature token enters under your control. It also has Embalm, allowing you to create a token copy of it for 4 mana by exiling it from your graveyard.
March 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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March of Souls is fun tech in a token deck. This one runs the full suite of token-doubling enchantments that existed at the time, and is likely to have some tokens around anyway. Playing a sweeper without crippling yourself is important in token decks, and this one gives quite the headstart.
March of Souls, a 5-mana white Sorcery that destroys all creatures. Then each player gets a 1/1 flying Spirit token for each of their creatures destroyed.
March 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM