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One of the most exciting cards out of Eldritch Moon is Splendid Reclamation. This card is something the looks sort of innocuous on the surface, but the past week has seen people brewing up all kinds of craziness with Magmatic Insight and Evolving Wilds in Standard or something like Realms Uncharted in Modern or Legacy. Still, it can be hard to imagine the card having enough power to break out in Standard. Conley Woods has set out to prove otherwise:


This deck is crazy. Zero creatures and thirty-six lands is a pretty weird place to start, but this deck certainly pulls it off. The idea here is that Molten Vortex and Crawling Sensation buy you a lot of time. Molten Vortex in particular is absurd against a format where various flavors of Humans and Spirits are enormously popular. Being able to trade up random lands for efficient creatures at instant speed is a pretty great place to be.

But what do you do once you’ve stalled out the game and stocked your graveyard with Crawling Sensation, Magmatic Insight, and Evolving Wilds? The idea is that you can start casting Splendid Reclamation to generate an enormous amount of mana. That mana then lets you cast gigantic Animist's Awakenings. But so what? You’ve generated a bunch of mana, but to what end?

The end game is getting multiple Blighted Gorges and Westvale Abbeys into play. With the abundance of mana, Crawling Sensation triggers, and Foundry of the Consuls, it’s not hard to imagine being able to flip Westvale Abbey and take over games with Ormendahl, Profane Prince. Even if that plan is out of reach, you can just start throwing Blighted Gorges at your opponent’s face. By chipping in with Thopter tokens and Molten Vortex, any subsequent copies of Splendid Reclamation rebuying your Blighted Gorges should give you enough reach to get your opponent dead.

The exciting thing about this deck is that it doesn’t require any creatures to win the game. Those that it does generate are more incidental than anything else. You have Molten Vortex to dominate aggressive match-ups, and other decks in the format are going to have a difficult time interacting with this style of deck. As long as you can effectively race the midrange and control decks, this might just be an awesome choice for your next Standard event.


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