Recent Bans Position These Decks to Take Over MTG’s Newest Format – MTG Rocks

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The biggest strength of this deck is that the combo only takes up eight slots. The rest of the deck can be used to help execute Greasefangs plan. Portable Hole and Thoughtseize can deal with any hate that might start seeing play against this deck while milling creatures like Stitchers Supplier help find your combo pieces and prepare you to bring them back.

Another deck that had a decent Winota matchup, Omnath Adventures is by far the spiciest take on this list. This deck was so powerful in pre-Innistrad standard that it single-handedly added two cards to the standard ban list. Adventure lists excel when they can interact with their opponents and outvalue them by turning each card in the deck into three or four different spells with Lucky Clover. This deck has the tools to deal with everything else on this list and can do so rather easily.

Like the Yorion Fires deck, Omnath was being taken out by cards intended to deal with Winota. The meta will likely shift away from Redcap Melee now that Winota is gone, making Omnath harder to kill. Ray of Enfeeblement will be a card that this deck continues to watch out for.

The biggest appeal for this deck is the Mono Blue matchup. Adventures was created in a time when Flash and Control strategies excelled in standard. Tempo synergies that rely on counterspells to keep tempo do not deal well with a deck that copies each of their spells multiple times.

To make things even more exciting, this deck has some fringe success in Pioneer too. That version is rather different, focusing on Possibility Storm and Enter the Infinite, but if it can hang in Pioneer, it can hang in Explorer.

Strategies that scare this deck come from tempo swings that the deck cant keep up with like Nissa, who Shakes the World or things they cant interact with like Lotus Field. Those cards dont have a big impact in Explorer yet, so now is this decks time to shine! I recommend playing some copies of Yasharn, Implacable Earth in the sideboard to help deal with sacrifice.

There are other powerful strategies that are very viable in Explorer, but these are some of the best. There is now a big, but temporary, difference between Explorer and Pioneers ban lists. Is that going to affect the communitys opinion of Explorer? Hopefully, it really is temporary, and the formats become one and the same sooner than we think.

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