![]() ![]() ![]() Apart from reanimating a bunch of creatures for a low price, the other big upside of Rally the Ancestors is that it's instant speed, which is especially helpful against control decks, allowing us to cast it whenever our opponent happens to tap out to play around counterspells.Īs for Return to the Ranks, it's Rally the Ancestors five and six, although since it is limited by the amount of mana (and number of creatures, for convoke) that we have on the battlefield, it sometimes only reanimates a few creatures, rather than our entire graveyard. In theory, Rally the Ancestors has the downside of exiling all of the creatures we reanimate on our next upkeep, so we never get to attack with the creatures we reanimate, but this doesn't really matter in practice since our combo finish doesn't require attacking. ![]() In our deck, apart from a single copy of Eternal Witness, all of our creatures cost just one or two mana, meaning we can cast Rally the Ancestors for just four mana and reanimate our entire graveyard, which is incredibly powerful. The primary goal of our deck is to fill our graveyard with cheap creatures and then use Rally the Ancestors (or in a pinch, Return to the Ranks, which is basically a worse backup version of Rally the Ancestors) to reanimate them all at once to win the game. To understand the deck, the best plan is to simply walk through the pieces of the combo step by step and then talk about the other cards in the deck. One of the biggest upsides of Abzan Rally is that the deck is very redundant, with each combo piece having multiple similar cards filling the role. While it is theoretically possible to win by beating down with our motley crew of creatures, in reality, most of our creatures are underpowered as attackers, making the Aristicrats-style self-sacrifice combo kill our primary game plan. While Abzan Rally might look like an aggro deck based on the fact that it plays a ton of cheap creatures, it's really a combo deck, with the combo being filling our graveyard with cheap creatures so we can get them all back on the same turn (for as little as four mana) with Rally the Ancestors and then sacrifice them all with a few Blood Artists on the battlefield to drain our opponent out of the game. Now, thanks to the bannings, graveyard hate is on the downswing, which means a deck like Abzan Rally-looking to use Satyr Wayfinder and Stitcher's Supplier to stock the graveyard, Blood Artist, and sacrifice outlets to reanimate with Rally the Ancestors to get an Aristocrats, self-sacrifice-style combo kill-actually has a chance in the format! So today, we're going to see if a slower graveyard-focused plan (with a sweet combo kill) can work on a budget! Do the recent bannings mean it's Satyr Wayfinder time in Modern? Let's get to the video and find out then, we can talk more about the deck!įirst, a quick reminder: if you enjoy the Budget Magicseries and the other video content on MTGGoldfish, make sure to subscribe to the MTGGoldfish YouTube channel to keep up on all the latest and greatest. Dobar dan, Budget Magic lovers, it's that time once again! While it's almost time to start exploring our new post-rotation, Throne of Eldraine–infused Standard format, we're heading back to Modern this week to play a deck built around some of my favorite cards in the format: Abzan Rally! With Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis and Faithless Looting in the format, there was too much graveyard hate floating around to try to play a fair(ish) graveyard deck looking to be tricky and synergistic and win in the mid-game. ![]()
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