Art by Raymond Swanland- Kefnet the Mindful → Commit // Memory
- Bontu the Glorified → ...
- Soul-Scar Mage → ...
- Cut // Ribbons → Merciless Javelineer
- Endless Sands → Mirage Mirror
- Desert of the Fervent → ...
- Desert of the Glorified → ...
- Desert of the Indomitable → ...
- Desert of the Mindful → ...
- Desert of the True → ...
- Cinder Barrens → Canyon Slough
- Timber Gorge → Sheltered Thicket
- Tranquil Expanse → Scattered Groves
Based on Runningmonkeys' Two Player Hour/Amonkhet Cube.
Archetypes
Embalm/Eternalize
Enablers are creatures with Embalm or Eternalize. In terms of payoffs we have cards that boost creature tokens (because embalmed/eternalized creatures are tokens) and cards that fill the graveyard.
Zombies
Enablers are zombies. Also creatures with Embalm or Eternalize can become zombies later on and support the archetype.
Exert
Enablers are creatures with Exert abilities. Untap abilities synergize well with them.
Cycling/Discard
Enablers are cards with cycling or discard effects.
Spells Matter
-1/-1 Counters
Deserts Matter
Included Cycles
Gods
Monocolored Split Spells
Rare Eternalize Creatures
In AKH/HOU there exist only five rares with Eternalize. With their rather similar mana and eternalize costs, I'll call them a cycle.
Trials & Cartouches- Trial of Solidarity and Cartouche of Solidarity
- Trial of Knowledge and Cartouche of Knowledge
- Trial of Ambition and Cartouche of Ambition
- Trial of Zeal and Cartouche of Zeal
- Trial of Strength and Cartouche of Strength
The singleton rule is broken for these, since they're so essential for desert synergies and as enablers for the cycling archetype.
- Desert of the True
- Desert of the Mindful
- Desert of the Glorified
- Desert of the Fervent
- Desert of the Indomitable