Is Ugin, the Spirit Dragon the spiciest “new” card from M21?

Patrick is not sold on the three-color Casualties of War deck featuring four copies of…

• Growth Spiral,
• Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath,
• Hydroid Krasis,
• Arboreal Grazer, and
• Nissa, Who Shakes the World…

Adding “new” card Ugin, the Spirit Dragon as spicy at all. A mild spice perhaps?

But third turn Cultivate is not too bad; unless you’ve hit a second turn Cultivate via Arboreal Grazer (in which case third turn is disappointing).

But clearly Mike loves 14 four-ofs with “exactly” the correct number of Islands and Swamps. Discipline!

“Ugin is a great card to Ramp into, you know?”

-Patrick Chapin

A Lesson in Glaring Aegis

Small note for folks interested in beating down with white weenie creatures. Mike has actually played a lot of the White Auras deck with Lurrus of the Dream-Den over the last month or three, and makes a strong argument for four copies of Glaring Aegis (versus three or fewer).

Glaring Aegis is actually one of the only cards in your deck that can interact with the opponent’s side of the battlefield (or for that matter, one of the only cards that you can put into your graveyard).

The theory is that you can put Glaring Aegis on your Alseid of Life’s Bounty, tap one of the opponent’s creatures of color x, and give your attacker protection from color y. Both Alseid and Glaring Aegis go to the graveyard. Now you play the Aegis from your graveyard, tapping another creature, and ultimately getting in for one extra damage.

This is how you get past two colors of defense, exploit your option for Lurrus card advantage, and punch for one more damage.

So now you know!

But what about…

Lurrus of the Dream-Den main deck?

A new build of Rakdos Sacrifice playing multiple copies of Lurrus of the Dream-Den main deck enables you to break Archfiend’s Vessel.

Lurrus and Rakdos Sacrifice were no strangers to one another before, but instead of a now-expensive Companion, Lurrus is promoted to main deck. This lets you aggressively play and trade Archfiend’s Vessel early. It’s a 1/1 lifelink for one mana… Not “bad” at all.

But if you can trade it, or sacrifice it with one of your numerous Cauldron Familiars or Village Rites, main-deck Lurrus lets you play one quickly out of the graveyard. HOW DO YOU PLAN TO LOSE?

… And getting a Deathtouch counter on Mayhem Devil with Call of the Death-Dweller is a heck of a machine gun, itself.

And so many more M21 deck lists…

• Punching for zero with Primal Might
• Patrick explains playing Jolrael to Mike (or tries)
• How to get even more value from Frantic Inventory
• And more!

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