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Braids, Conjurer Adept
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U
- Mono Blue
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ANALYSIS

Overview:

This is a high-powered Braids, Conjurer Adept deck focused on cheating massive Eldrazi and other powerful creatures into play while maintaining heavy control through counterspells and extra turns. The deck leverages powerful artifact acceleration and clone effects to create overwhelming board states.

Primer:

The deck's primary strategy revolves around accelerating out Braids, Conjurer Adept and protecting her to cheat massive threats into play. The deck runs an impressive suite of counterspells and interaction to ensure Braids survives, while utilizing powerful mana rocks for early acceleration. The abundance of clone effects allows for copying either your own threats or opponents' best creatures, while the Eldrazi package provides consistent game-ending threats.

The secondary strategy involves taking extra turns and maintaining control through a strong counterspell suite. The deck can establish dominance through early artifact acceleration into either Braids or one of its many powerful threats. The inclusion of cards like Omniscience and powerful card advantage engines like Consecrated Sphinx ensures the deck can maintain momentum even if the primary strategy is disrupted.

Weaknesses:

The deck is heavily reliant on its commander to execute its primary strategy and can struggle if Braids is repeatedly removed. While it runs significant protection, the deck can be vulnerable to mass artifact removal and graveyard hate can shut down some of its recursion elements. The relatively low land count (27) could lead to consistency issues, though this is partially mitigated by the strong artifact ramp package.

Most Important Cards:

  • Mana Crypt
  • Omniscience
  • Blightsteel Colossus
  • Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • Force of Will
  • Mana Drain
  • Consecrated Sphinx
  • Grim Monolith
  • Chrome Mox
  • Cyclonic Rift

Attribute Ratings:

  • Speed: 8/10
  • Resilience: 7/10
  • Consistency: 8/10
  • Interaction: 9/10

Rating Justification:

This deck consistently threatens to establish a dominant board state by turns 3-4 through either fast mana into Braids or direct cheating of threats. The high density of interaction and protection places it firmly in the high-power category, while the ability to generate overwhelming advantage through multiple angles (extra turns, massive creatures, card advantage) makes it a formidable opponent. The deck's performance aligns with power level 8.0-8.5, as it can regularly establish game-ending board states by turn 3-4 while maintaining protection.

Final power level rating: 8.0 - 8.5

DECK LIST
Braids, Conjurer Adept
Creature: 22
($604.19)
1
Blightsteel Colossus
12
1
Clever Impersonator
2 U U
1
Consecrated Sphinx
4 U U
1
Empress Galina
3 U U
1
Emrakul, the Promised End
13
1
Gilded Drake
1 U
1
Hullbreaker Horror
5 U U
1
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
8 U U
1
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
10
1
Kozilek, the Broken Reality
9
1
Nezahal, Primal Tide
5 U U
1
Phantasmal Image
1 U
1
Phyrexian Metamorph
3 U/P
1
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
3 U
1
Sakashima the Impostor
2 U U
1
Sire of Seven Deaths
7
1
Snapcaster Mage
1 U
1
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
10
1
Ulamog, the Defiler
10
1
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
11
1
Vesuvan Doppelganger
3 U U
1
Void Winnower
9
Artifact: 18
($1037.32)
1
Caged Sun
6
1
Chromatic Orrery
7
1
Chrome Mox
0
1
Crucible of Worlds
3
1
Gilded Lotus
5
1
Grim Monolith
2
1
Lotus Petal
0
1
Mana Vault
1
1
Memory Jar
5
1
Mox Diamond
0
1
Mox Opal
0
1
Portal to Phyrexia
9
1
Sapphire Medallion
2
1
Scroll Rack
2
1
Sculpting Steel
3
1
Sensei's Divining Top
1
1
Sol Ring
1
1
The Immortal Sun
6
Enchantment: 6
($134.59)
1
Copy Artifact
1 U
1
Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
2 U //  5 U U
1
Mirrormade
1 U U
1
Omniscience
7 U U U
1
Rhystic Study
2 U
1
Treachery
3 U U
Instant: 19
($225.09)
1
Arcane Denial
1 U
1
Capsize
1 U U
1
Counterspell
U U
1
Cyclonic Rift
1 U
1
Defabricate
1 U
1
Disallow
1 U U
1
Fierce Guardianship
2 U
1
Flare of Denial
1 U U
1
Force of Negation
1 U U
1
Force of Will
3 U U
1
Mana Drain
U U
1
Narset's Reversal
U U
1
Nexus of Fate
5 U U
1
Rapid Hybridization
U
1
Reality Shift
1 U
1
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
1
Three Steps Ahead
U
1
Trickbind
1 U
1
Ugin's Binding
2 U
Sorcery: 7
($152.57)
1
Capture of Jingzhou
3 U U
1
Echo of Eons
4 U U
1
Expropriate
7 U U
1
Temporal Manipulation
3 U U
1
Time Spiral
4 U U
1
Time Warp
3 U U
1
Windfall
2 U
Land: 27
($273.71)
1
Ancient Tomb
1
Cavern of Souls
1
Fabled Passage
1
Flooded Strand
1
Fomori Vault
12
Island
1
Misty Rainforest
1
Mystic Sanctuary
1
Otawara, Soaring City
1
Polluted Delta
1
Prismatic Vista
1
Scalding Tarn
1
Ugin's Labyrinth
1
Urza's Saga
1
Wastes
1
Winding Canyons

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