Much Abrew: Five-Color Azcanta Friends (Standard)

Tweet by SaffronOlive // Nov 13, 2017

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Hello, everyone! Welcome to another episode of Much Abrew About Nothing. This week, we're changing things up a bit. Rather than playing an Instant Deck Tech deck, we're going to run a brew I've been working on through a competitive league! Search for Azcanta is a very powerful card, but so far, people have mostly used the enchantment to dig for boring stuff like counterspells and removal. The thing is, Search for Azcanta can find any non-land, non-creature permanent, so what if instead of searching for Negate and Fatal Push, we overload our deck with the most powerful non-land, non-creature card type in Magic: planeswalkers?

The idea of today's deck is simple: we're playing five colors, which means we have access to all of the most powerful creatures in Standard. We back up our planeswalkers with some sweepers and targeted removal and look to use Search for Azcanta to dig for even more planeswalkers. The end result is a deck that's looking to slam a powerful planeswalker every single turn: Five-Color Azcanta Friends! Sure, our opponent might have some Negates and maybe a Vraska's Contempt or two to kill some of our planeswalkers, but our deck is stuffed so full of planeswalkers that before long, we'll overwhelm our opponent's defenses and run over their deck with planeswalker power! Can we make a five-color deck work in Ixalan Standard? How many planeswalkers is too many? Let's get to the videos and find out; then, we'll talk more about the deck!

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Five-Color Azcanta Friends (Deck Tech)

Five-Color Azcanta Friends vs. Sultai Energy (Match 1)

Five-Color Azcanta Friends vs. UB GPG (Match 2)

Five-Color Azcanta Friends vs. Temur Energy (Match 3)

Five-Color Azcanta Friends vs. Ramunap Red (Match 4)

Five-Color Azcanta Friends vs. Esper Tokens (Match 5)

Five-Color Azcanta Friends (Wrap-Up)

Discussion

Conclusion

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