4,096 Auras on a Single Creature | Brewer's Kitchen
Well, hello there! Brewer’s Kitchen here and today we’re gonna kill our opponent by putting thousands of auras on a single creature.
The Gameplan
Ok let’s be honest here, obviously the thousands of auras are a bit of a “technically correct” way to phrase the win condition of this deck. The honest way to describe this deck is “doubling token doublers”.
Mondrak, Glory Dominus and Exalted Sunborn both double every kind of token we create. While Mondrak is a legendary creature, Exalted Sunborn is the first time we see this effect on a creature that we can easily copy as many times as we want without having to sacrifice it to the legend rule. Add to that that we can warp it in for cheap, copy it, and keep the copies, and we got a gameplan. Molten Duplication and Mirror Room // Fractured Realm both create a token copy of a creature. If we target the Sunborn with them, we will immediately create two token copies of it. Then, if we create another token, we will create eight times as many.
Gala Greeters, Prosperous Innkeeper and Charming Scoundrel all create treasure tokens when they or another creature enters the battlefield. Combined with eightfold token production, we quickly end up at a place where we can chain our entire hand onto the battlefield once we start going off. But the real fun begins when we continue playing copy spells at this point.
If we double copy the Sunborn and follow it up with another Molten Duplication or a Reflection of Kiki-Jiki activation, we will create eight hasty 4/5 lifelink flyers to kill our opponents with. But there’s an even cooler way to win with this.
Charming Scoundrel can create a Wicked Role token when it enters the battlefield. Since it is a token, it will be affected by the doubling effects as well. Since a creature can only have a single role attached to it, all but one role will fall off and trigger to have the opponent lose a life. Now once we stack up the token doublers, the one role token will quickly turn into thousands of roles, immediately killing the opponent and almost crashing Arena in the process.
The warp ability on Sunborn doesn’t just work well with copying effects. If we flicker a warped Angel with Ephemerate or Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd, the Sunborn will stay on the battlefield. This allows us to cheat it in as early as turn two if we start off with a Birds of Paradise. These flicker effects also work well to protect our combo pieces or re-trigger enter the battlefield effects from cards like Prosperous Innkeeper and Charming Scoundrel.
Wrap up
This deck is extremely fun to play because of its explosive play pattern. Once we set up for the big turn, we go REALLY big. Sadly, Arena’s token limit of 250 kinda messes up some lines of play, but it shouldn’t interfere with winning the game as long as you make sure to not accidentally create 250 treasures before you create something more useful. Overall, it’s a classic glass cannon that sometimes overkills out of nowhere but can’t interact with the opponent… so a classic Brewer’s Kitchen deck if we’re honest.
