Bandits of the Way

by RunningPigeon on 02 May 2015

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Land (1)

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Deck Description

Originally I was looking to make a budget colourless standard deck (just because why not!) using Altar of the Brood/Profane Memento along side Akroan Horse as the main win conditions, then I remembered how well Mardu Woe-Reaper and Dragon Hunter worked well together in a recent draft and that they would gain me even more life off milling.
From there on in adding in the Jeskai infinite combo seemed an inevitable addition, added some cheap removal there we go: one deck.



Sideboard has Valorous Stance, Reprisal and Hidden Dragonslayer for dealing with large creatures, plus the Dragon Hunter in mainboard means you'll have 12 cards to deal with most dragons.

May want to switch in the Learn from the Past if you want to loot your deck with no downside or use it vs control in case they counter the main combo, nothing else here for control match ups; generally speaking you're dropping too many cards too early for them to counter everything plus the continued lifegain can put you out of range of being quickly kill by a single protected creature.

For most aggro switching in Hidden Dragonslayer and the Arcbonds makes hitting a lifegain Arcbound that much easier and that can easily gain you 30+ life, doesn't directly win you the game but if you have 40+ life vs an aggro deck with no board state on T4/T5 with additional lifegain potential.... well that's what I'd call an advantageous position.

How to Play

Altar and Profane are hopefully T1 plays and if goes well another one on T2 plus a creature from there on in should be a steady stream of mill and/or lifegain.

Burning off your opponents early creatures in conjunction with attacking with the little 2/1's you have isn't necessarily game winning but it will add enough pressure to put them on the back foot buying you time for the combo to hit; so against anything but aggro decks be aggressive against them.
Against aggro you'll still want to burn off their creatures (duh!), but holding back with the 2/1's to either trade off as blockers and for graveyard exiling to maintain your life total may be the stronger play.

Deck Tags

  • Infinite Combo
  • Mill
  • Life Gain
  • Experimental

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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