Malevolent Rumble

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a permanent card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Barrowgoyf

Deathtouch, lifelink
Barrowgoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Whenever Barrowgoyf deals combat damage to a player, you may mill that many cards. If you do, you may put a creature card from among them into your hand.

Serra Paragon

Flying
Once during each of your turns, you may play a land from your graveyard or cast a permanent spell with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If you do, it gains "When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it and you gain 2 life."

Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

When Uro enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Uro enters or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Windswept Heath: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Wooded Foothills

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Wooded Foothills: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Once Upon a Time

If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Brotherhood's End

Choose one —
• Brotherhood's End deals 3 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.
• Destroy all artifacts with mana value 3 or less.

Force of Vigor

If it's not your turn, you may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.

Ephemerate

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Evasive Action

Domain — Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each basic land type among lands you control.

Veil of Summer

Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Red Elemental Blast

Choose one —
• Counter target blue spell.
• Destroy target blue permanent.

Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As Steam Vents enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Territorial Kavu

Domain — Territorial Kavu's power and toughness are each equal to the number of basic land types among lands you control.
Whenever Territorial Kavu attacks, choose one —
• Discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
• Exile up to one target card from a graveyard.

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Omnath, Locus of Creation

When Omnath, Locus of Creation enters, draw a card.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 4 life if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, add {R}{G}{W}{U}. If it's the third time, Omnath deals 4 damage to each opponent and each planeswalker you don't control.

Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
As Temple Garden enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Hydroblast

Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's red.
• Destroy target permanent if it's red.

Pyroblast

Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's blue.
• Destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Leyline Binding

Flash
Domain — This spell costs {1} less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control.
When Leyline Binding enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Leyline Binding leaves the battlefield.

Expressive Iteration

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Fury

Double strike
When Fury enters, it deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers.
Evoke—Exile a red card from your hand.

Solitude

Flash
Lifelink
When Solitude enters, exile up to one other target creature. That creature's controller gains life equal to its power.
Evoke—Exile a white card from your hand.

Aragorn, King of Gondor

Vigilance, lifelink
When Aragorn, King of Gondor enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever Aragorn attacks, up to one target creature can't block this turn. If you're the monarch, creatures can't block this turn.

Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Prismatic Ending

Converge — Exile target nonland permanent if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

No More Lies

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Wrenn and Six

+1: Return up to one target land card from your graveyard to your hand.
−1: Wrenn and Six deals 1 damage to any target.
−7: You get an emblem with "Instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard have retrace." (You may cast instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Subtlety

Flash
Flying
When Subtlety enters, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Create a 2/2 red Goblin Shaman creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks, create a Treasure token."
II — You may discard up to two cards. If you do, draw that many cards.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

{1}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

Pyrogoyf

Pyrogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Whenever Pyrogoyf or another Lhurgoyf creature you control enters, that creature deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Luminous Broodmoth

Flying
Whenever a creature you control without flying dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a flying counter on it.

Coiling Oracle

When Coiling Oracle enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Orim's Chant

Kicker {W} (You may pay an additional {W} as you cast this spell.)
Target player can't cast spells this turn. If this spell was kicked, creatures can't attack this turn.

Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Containment Priest

Flash
If a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

Island

Forest

Plains

Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Sacred Foundry

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.)
As Sacred Foundry enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Delighted Halfling

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.

Ignoble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Broadside Bombardiers

Menace, haste
Boast — Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Broadside Bombardiers deals damage equal to 2 plus the sacrificed permanent's mana value to any target. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Endurance

Flash
Reach
When Endurance enters, up to one target player puts all the cards from their graveyard on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Evoke—Exile a green card from your hand.

Mawloc

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Terror from the Deep — When Mawloc enters, it fights up to one target creature an opponent controls. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Teferi, Time Raveler

Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Planar Genesis

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Birds of Paradise

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Nomads en-Kor

{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to Nomads en-Kor this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Springheart Nantuko

Bestow {1}{G}
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {1}{G} if Springheart Nantuko is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Nadu, Winged Wisdom

Flying
Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand. This ability triggers only twice each turn."

Eladamri's Call

Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury

When Phlage enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Phlage enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
Escape—{R}{R}{W}{W}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Noble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Green Sun's Zenith

Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Spellseeker

When Spellseeker enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Undercity Sewers enters tapped.
When Undercity Sewers enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When Baleful Strix enters, draw a card.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Verdant Catacombs: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Neoform

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it, then shuffle.

Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Tishana's Tidebinder

Flash
When Tishana's Tidebinder enters, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as Tishana's Tidebinder remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Nissa, Resurgent Animist

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color. Then if this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an Elf or Elemental card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Tempo

Midrange

8 Point 4C Nadu Tempo

The deck I played at CanBrawl 4, which got me an overall placement score of 4-2-1, placing me at 24th!

8 Point 5C Nadu Tempo; CanBrawl 04 2024

The current version of the list; considering a paradigm shift, so figured to save the snapshot

8 Point Sneak and Tempo

The version of the deck that has placed the highest when playing at the monthly 7 Point event at our local store! It placed 2-4 of 11, tied with 2 other people for a score of 3-1

Omnath's 8 Point Freak and Show

This is the version of the list which beat Ariel for the first time! Whether just some lucky draws, some bad luck on her side, or general good play on mine, I'm very happy with the result! It struggles a little more against Walks than it used to, but that's both a skill issue on my part, and a skill upgrades on my opponent's, as he has gotten better at piloting the deck, after realising that focusing solely on the combo is likely one of the weakest ways to play the deck.

8 Point Sneak and Value; Redemption

Back to good value sneak and show stuff, this time with a different overall deck composition. I make this snapshot because, with Mana Clash this coming weekend, more changes are likely to come, and having a means of backtracking to a save is a good idea..!

8 Point Sneak and Value; Return to the Origin

Attempting a flash hulk variant. De-built it the day after

8 Point Sneak and Hulk; Death of the Soul

The final version of the super friends list before committing to building the Flash Hulk variant

8 Point Sneak and Value; Super Friends

Trying out some of the 2 point walkers as considerations. It makes the deck more tempoey, but Snapcaster and Karakas were feeling underpowered. Considering Oko as part of this, in place of Orcish and Forth.

The version of the deck I played for a 7 Point tourney at Chromatic games - I punted my last game, but it was otherwise solid. It lost its first of 3 games to Abzan Initiative, which made it to top 4, and one other which I forgot. Overall score of 3-3, thanks to punting my last game.

8 Point Sneak and Value: Good Friday @ Chromatic Games

Sideboard is designed around the idea of catering to my opponent in different ways: Bad tempo matchup? Focus on Sneak and Show. They combo faster than me? Tempo time

8 Point Sneak and Value; Paradigm Sideboard

Last version of the sneak and show + 4C value gameplan.

8 Point Sneak and Value; Final Yorion version

A slight variation on the original Sneak and Value, but one that feels overall stronger. Trying out things like Bramble Familiar, as a payoff in grindy games and a dork, and Questing Druid as a replacement for Faithless Looting as it is also a body. In gold fishing, it felt relatively strong; while it'll likely struggle against most combo piles, I believe it'll be more capable of dealing with control than before.

8 Point Sneak and Value

A Sneak and Show variant of the original value focused deck list. Points have also been adjusted to better facilitate this idea, with things like Gifts Ungiven to find Sneak and Show pieces, or assist reanimate, and Spellseeker, to find interaction, value, and so on.
An experimental pivot into a deck with a win-con, as win-conless decks tend to struggle against control and RDW.
This is also in the lead up to Mana Clash, which is in April. Lets see what we can do!

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