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Instant Deck Tech: Abducted Drake (Historic Standard)

by SaffronOlive // Sep 19, 2017

Instant Deck Tech time! As we wait for Standard to rotate and the sweet new Ixalan cards to enter the format, let's hope in the time machine back to the 1999 European Championships for one of the sweetest and most convoluted combo decks Standard has ever seen: Abducted Drake!

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Instant Deck Tech: Abducted Drake (Historic Standard)