Fish Five-0: Abzan Foretold (Standard, Magic Arena)
This week on Fish Five-0 we've got an enchanting deck with a planeswalker I feel has been a little underrated. That planeswalker is Calix, Destiny's Hand!
Gameplan
All throughout Eldraine, we saw an Esper stacks deck running around but using Dance of the Manse to win. This time we're dropping blue *Gasp* and trying out Abzan instead. We're still looking to slowly grind our opponents out with Doom Foretold and a bunch of our value enchantments but thanks to #MTGTHB we got a sort of slow loop in Calix, Destiny's Hand!
The main reason I added green was to get some cute value with Calix, Destiny's Hand using his -7 and then relying on Elspeth Conquers Death to bring back Calix and then repeat. Another fun thing we can do is bring back Garruk, Cursed Huntsman and then immediately -6 to get that sweet emblem. We also have some sweet targets to dig up with Calix thanks to #MTGTHB...
Treacherous Blessing is a way for us to reload and fight the late game. The cost of 1 life per spell is normally a lot but luckily we've got Doom Foretold, Vraska, Golgari Queen, and a ton of other ways to get rid of the card so I'm giving in to my greed!
Conclusion
The deck was able to go 5-1 and was pretty fun but definitely needs some retooling. I think the deck can definitely use more Enchantments. I'd like to get the enchantment count up to about 19 to 20. We'll probably have to go down a few planeswalkers. I'd also like to add a few Banishing Light as its nice to have something to dig for that can answer a problematic nonland permanent! The sideboard, however, will need some help as Mono red has resurfaced and proven to be quite efficient so maybe we'll need a few copies of Cry of the Carnarium.
After all the mentioned updates, a fun list to mess around with will resemble something like the list above!
The meta seems heavily Simic Ramp/Flash , Mono Red, and Azorius Control. Definitely tune into the stream to see me play and work on this deck live! Also, next week I'll be looking to play some viewer-submitted lists so reach out to me on any of the platforms mentioned below.
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