Arena Standard - Horobi Dimir v2

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Midrange
  • Deck contains 11 invalid cards for this format: Valentin, Dean of the Vein (STX), Agadeem's Awakening (ZNR), Soul Shatter (ZNR), Clearwater Pathway (ZNR), Gelatinous Cube (AFR), Hive of the Eye Tyrant (AFR), The Meathook Massacre (MID), Bloodchief's Thirst (ZNR), Ray of Enfeeblement (AFR), Power Word Kill (AFR), Test of Talents (STX)
Side 15 cards (9 distinct)
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Version one of the list can be found here:  Version 1.  Special thanks to the streamer H0lydiva for the idea and inspiration!  You can check the stream out here: Holydiva stream.

Cut one Invoke Despairimage for one more Tribute to Horobi // Echo of Death's Wailimage.  While it does backfire sometimes, you can get pretty big tempo swings with it: turn four harobi flips, swing for 3 and draw a card.  If you start/follow that with either Gelatinous Cubeimage or Tatsunari, Toad Riderimage and Okiba Reckoner Raid // Nezumi Road Captainimage its just hard to deal with.

Tatsunari and Life of Toshiro Umezawa // Memory of Toshiroimage are like PB&J: they just belong together.  He can hit the board turn four, bring out the toad, and give him +2/+2 and his ability can be activated to jump blockers.  You can constantly send the toad in alone to poke and refresh him with enchantments if he's killed.

I like Nashi, Moon Sage's Scionimage and Biting Palm Ninja as SB cards vs control.  Ninjutsu works effectively in small doses, and you'll get a creature through for damage turns 4/5 unless the opponent just has a nut hand.  I'm probably going to cut the discard cards for either Spell Pierceimage or Negateimage.  I want to deal damage, not play bad control vs. a deck tuned to counteract those strategies.  Spell pierce can help preserve an early board state and setup the ninjas.

I really like the feel of this deck.  I'm a control player for the most part:  I like being flexible.  This deck provides that, and it's so bizarre that players don't know how to deal with it.  Half the cards in this deck haven't been seen by diamond rank players:  first few turns you'll see them mousing over the cards to read.

If you want a fun, aggressive and flexible deck vs the meta give it a test drive.  Remember folks, Esika's Chariotimage might own the forest trails, but we own the highway!

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*Edit*  Just hit mythic with it!  Was diamond 3 when I published the first list.  All bow to the rats and the toad!

 

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Last Updated: 10 Mar 2022
Created: 09 Mar 2022
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