![]() ![]() This next group of cards is in the deck because they work extremely well with our sacrifice plan. Ideally, we'd be able to leave our opponent shields down (for example, leaving them with just a tapped creature) and use Bloodbriar to attack for the win! When this happens, it's pretty likely that we end up with a massive Bloodbriar, maybe even big enough to kill our opponent in one shot, thanks to all the +1/+1 counters we generate from sacrificing the rest of our board. We cast a Tragic Arrogance and sacrifice everything except Bloodbriar. Imagine we are in the late game and have a board cluttered with random creatures, some creature tokens, and some Clues. That said, Tragic Arrogance can sort of combo off with Bloodbriar, since it forces a mass sacrifice. As a result, it will be pretty easy to drop Tragic Arrogance (there's a post-rotation list at the end of the article) and keep playing GW Bloodbriar even after rotation. The main reason we are playing it in the main deck is Bant Company, which is currently more than 40% of the Standard meta, but Bant Company will be rotating along with Tragic Arrogance, so even if Tragic Arrogance somehow stayed in the format, we probably wouldn't want it in the main deck anyway, since it will be losing its best matchup. In fact, if you watch the game play videos, you'll see that we sided it out a lot. Tragic Arrogance is the one card in our deck that's rotating, but in all honestly, it's not that great in a lot of matchups. If we are careful about how we manage our sacrifice effects, it's pretty easy to maneuver around these cards and grow a Bloodbriar that's big enough to dominate the board. A lot of the format is leaning on conditional removal like Dromoka's Command and red burn spells to keep creatures in check. Over the long game, it's very likely that Bloodbriar ends up being the biggest creature on either side of the board, which means it's not only a massive threat but also quite hard to kill. ![]() Sometimes, we can do this right away by casting Bloodbriar on Turn 4 and immediately playing and sacrificing a Evolving Wilds. While Tireless Tracker is the more powerful card overall, generating its own sacrifice fodder as well as card advantage thanks to the Clue tokens, Bloodbriar does have one big advantage: it starts off as a 2/3, which means that just one sacrifice grows it big enough that it's out of range of commonly played removal spells like Incendiary Flow and Fiery Impulse. Bloodbriar gets a +1/+1 counter whenever we sacrifice a permanent, while Tireless Tracker grows whenever we sacrifice a Clue, so with both on the battlefield, whenever we play a land, we get a Clue, and then whenever we sacrifice the Clue, we pump up both our Bloodbriar and Tireless Tracker permanently. The Value Sacrifice Planīloodbriar and Tireless Tracker work extremely well together and give us a pair of powerful three-drops that quickly grow out of control and take over the game. That said, we can break down the deck into two parts: first, we have the Bloodbriar half of the deck that either supports or takes advantage of sacrifice synergies then, we have the good stuff part of the deck that is only loosely associated with the sacrifice effects. Because of this, it's somewhat difficult to talk about, because we have quite a few powerful standalone cards that are in the deck simply because they are above the curve. GW Bloodbriar is really a synergistic, value-focused midrange deck that generates a lot of card advantage thanks to an endless stream of Clue tokens. ![]() The other thing I really like about this deck is that it's almost rotation proof. While we do have one card that will rotate when Kaladesh enters the format in a couple of weeks, it's a card that's quite easy to replace and won't be nearly as good after rotation anyway, but we'll talk more about it as we break down the deck. First, a quick reminder: if you enjoy the Budget Magic series 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. Oh yeah, and we sometimes meld Bruna, the Fading Light and Gisela, the Broken Blade into Brisela, Voice of Nightmares! ![]() The basic plan of the deck is to grow Bloodbriar as big as possible by sacrificing Clue tokens and other permanents, and generating value along the way, before finishing our opponent off with the powerful three-drop. This week, we are heading to Standard to play a green-white sacrifice deck built around a powerful but overlooked common from Eldritch Moon: Bloodbriar. Mar7aba, Budget Magic lovers! It's that time again. ![]()
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