(Cloned from [Jank Diver Peasant Cube](/c/5e8c9f60a0c28578ee03de2d) and modified slightly) Only contains Kaladesh-forward sets. --- >>> # Archetypes <<< --- >>> **{U/W} Artifacts** <<< <<[[!/Skilled Animator]][[!/Master's Guide-Mural]][[!/Clay-Fired Bricks]][[!/Whirler Rogue]]>> UW has been fully reworked multiple times in this cube, beginning as an overly-narrow fliers deck, morphing into a somewhat loose blink deck, and recently being refocused into a color pair that explicitly utilizes artifacts. There are still trappings of a normal UW tempo/fliers deck here, but your Azorius builds will be textured by artifacts and Clue/Treasure/Food token generation. >>> **{U/B} Self-Mill/Control** <<< <<[[!/Halo Forager]][[!/The Bath Song]][[!/Rise from the Tides]][[!/Shoreline Looter]]>> This color pair offers classic UB control cards with a self-mill subtheme. Filter through your deck and fill your graveyard with spells while answering your opponent’s threats. You can lean into graveyard synergy or simply outcard your opponents with the power of [[The Bath Song]] or [card]Behold the Unspeakable]]. This is also a better home for [[Rise from the Tides]] than Izzet, since you're good at keeping the board clear enough to take a turn off to cast it. >>> **{B/R} Aggressive Sacrifice** <<< <<[[!/Vampire Gourmand]][[!/Twisted Fealty]][[!/Book of Mazarbul]][[!/Grishnakh, Brash Instigator]]>> RB plays as an aggro deck blending efficient attackers with payoffs for creatures dying or being sacrificed. The deck commonly beats down with red creatures and burn before resolving cards like [[Blood Artist]] to inevitably close the game. The deck can also skew slower and more sacrifice-focused with recursive dorks like [[Reassembling Skeleton]] and [[Retrofitted Transmogrant]]. There's a small steal-and-sac package here, though it had to be toned down at one point. >>> **{R/G} Stompy/Ramp** <<< <<[[!/Greenbelt Guardian]][[!/Agatha's Champion]][[!/Eomer of the Riddermark]][[!/Goblin Anarchomancer]]>> RG stompy is one of the least-specific themes in the cube, offering a classic midrange attacking deck. Ramping into 4- and 5-mana threats before backing them up with burn is a common play pattern for this strategy. >>> **Mini-Archetype: {R/G} Delirium** <<< The Jund spectrum has a small delirium package at the moment, leaning on [[Patchwork Beastie]] and [[Wildfire Wickerfolk]] as two assertive beaters, and [[Fear of Burning Alive]] at the top-end to close things out. This is not an "every draft" kind of deck, but the package promotes some interesting draft pivots and smart in-game sequencing. >>> **{G/W} Tokens** <<< <<[[!/Veteran Beastrider]][[!/A Killer Among Us]][[!Propagator Drone]][[!Rosie Cotton of South Lane]]>> GW was formerly a +1/+1 counter deck, but resulted in a glass cannon playstyle that used up cube equity for hyper-specific counter synergies. The theme has been scrapped in favor of a wider-reaching tokens theme, though we're still in search of a few excellent token payoffs in the cardpool. Rosie Cotton is a huge draw into this strategy, and one of the better cards in the cube. >>> **{W/B} Grind/Recursion** <<< <<[[!/Ruthless Lawbringer]][[!/Lively Dirge]][[!/Nurturing Pixie]][[!/Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim]]>> BW is best described as the deck that's most interested in getting Ruthless Lawbringer into play as many times as possible each game. It brings together recursion elements with sacrifice texture to play a super grindy game that wins of chip advantages. This is the best "Skyfisher" deck and often bleeds into Esper territory for additional bounce + permanent-based synergy. >>> **{B/G} Graveyard Value** <<< <<[[!/Broodspinner]][[!/Back for Seconds]][[!/Under the Skin]][[!/Chupacabra Echo]]>> This is the best graveyard deck in the cube, supplemented by creatures that bin themselves, a wide array of self-mill effects, tons of recursion and reanimation effects, and a few delirium cards/graveyard payoffs. It often gets played as a Sultai pile, adding blue for additional card filtering and stack interaction. >>> **Mini-Archetype: {B/G} Gravebreak** <<< "Gravebreak" is WotC's nickname for "cards leaving the graveyard." This mini-archetype is entirely centered around [[Insidious Roots]] and [[Cadaver Lab]], and completely restructures your priorities when drafting and building the deck. It has an insanely strong late-game, but is also easy to hate on and requires an open lane/clear signals in the draft. >>> **{G/U} Tempo/Ramp** <<< <<[[!/Repulsive Mutation]][[!/Colossal Skyturtle]][[!/Depth Defiler]][[!/Rise of the Ants]]>> Simic has fallen squarely into ramp territory, made possible by the addition of more viable mana dorks in the cardpool and generally stronger top-end in Green. Simic tends to be a value-oriented guild that ramps toward [[Sifter Wurm]] or [[Colossal Skyturtle]] while drawing cards. There has also been an intentional push to give Simic more late-game staying power through 2-for-1 spells like [[Rise of the Ants]] and [[Trumpeting Herd]]. >>> **{U/R} Spells** <<< <<[[!/Sprite Dragon]][[!/Eddymurk Crab]][[!/Pinnacle Monk]][[!/Hearth Elemental]]>> Our problem child for quite some time, Izzet has always been a top contender, and no amount of nerfing has ever really changed that. It capitalizes on spells you'd already want in your deck anyway (burn and countermagic), turning them into synergy pieces on top of already-great interaction. Many of Izzet's best cards have been removed over time, but the deck continues to play well across multiple playstyles, including token generating decks, hard control decks, or all-in spell decks using [[Eddymurk Crab]] as a finisher. >>> **Mini-Archetype: {U/R} Looting** <<< This is our newest seed at the time of writing. This package was added to cut into Izzet's redundancy of powerful effects, but also presents drafters with an interesting flavor of Izzet for the occasional draft. It leans on [[Marauding Mako]] and [[Scrounging Skyray]], with extra support from cards like [[Containment Construct]], [[Mischievous Mystic]], and [[Improbable Alliance]]. There's naturally a ton of discard support to make the deck tick. >>> **{R/W} Go-Wide** <<< <<[[!/Heroic Reinforcements]][[!/Battle Cry Goblin]][[!/Ahn-Crop Crasher]][[!/Case of the Gateway Express]]>> Aggro decks are at their best with a consistent, mono-color mana base in most unrestricted environments. This is not the case here, and Boros aggro is more than the sum of its parts. White and red both have access to a density of effects that produce wide boards and the means to pump them. Unlike most Peasant environments, 2/1 statlines don't play well here, so you really want your bodies to come attached with value plays, and then use anthem effects, timely removal, and raw power to push through wins. >>> **Mono Colored Decks** <<< The cube is primarily focused on creating powerful synergies within color pairs, but mono-colored decks are certainly possible. Mono-white and mono-red are aggro decks, mono-green is a ramp strategy, mono-black is a controlling midrange deck and mono-blue can play either control or tempo plans. If a singular color is very open at the table, mono-colored strategies can certainly be powerful enough to 3-0. More likely than not, a "mono-color" deck will play around 20 cards of one color with a few gold payoffs and 2-3 cards of another color.