Adam Haggerty's Jeskai Xscendancy Dominaria
 
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Edge of Eternities
releases on August 1, 2025!

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Edge of Eternities
releases on August 1, 2025!

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Main Deck - 60 cards, 26 distinct
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Name  Ed. Price Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (3)
3 Fatestitcher
$1.00 Creature - Zombie Wizard
Instant (13)
3 Forbidden Alchemy
$0.04 Instant
3 Noxious Revival
$4.79 Instant
4 Peer Through Depths
$0.23 Instant - Arcane
2 Quicken
$0.26 Instant
1 View from Above
$0.32 Instant
Sorcery (19)
4 Glittering Wish
$0.48 Sorcery
3 Life from the Loam
$5.42 Sorcery
4 Serum Visions
$0.72 Sorcery
4 Sleight of Hand
$0.22 Sorcery
4 Sylvan Awakening
$0.64 Sorcery
Enchantment (7)
3 Jeskai Ascendancy
$1.22 Enchantment
4 Utopia Sprawl
$0.69 Enchantment - Aura
Land (18)
1 Breeding Pool
$8.31 Land - Forest Island
4 Flooded Strand
$13.63 Land
1 Forest
$0.06 Basic Land - Forest
1 Hallowed Fountain
$11.05 Land - Plains Island
1 Irrigated Farmland
$0.22 Land - Plains Island
1 Island
$0.05 Basic Land - Island
3 Misty Rainforest
$25.73 Land
1 Plains
$0.05 Basic Land - Plains
1 Scattered Groves
$0.37 Land - Forest Plains
1 Sheltered Thicket
$0.31 Land - Mountain Forest
1 Steam Vents
$15.40 Land - Island Mountain
1 Stomping Ground
$6.75 Land - Mountain Forest
1 Temple Garden
$11.47 Land - Forest Plains
Sideboard - 176 cards, 117 distinct
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Creature (22)
4 Birds of Paradise
$8.68 Creature - Bird
1 Gaddock Teeg
$0.65 Legendary Creature - Kithkin Advisor
1 Meddling Mage
$0.88 Creature - Human Wizard
1 Noble Hierarch
$9.10 Creature - Human Druid
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
$0.52 Creature - Snake Shaman
1 Sigarda, Heron's Grace
$0.38 Legendary Creature - Angel
1 Sin Collector
$0.07 Creature - Human Cleric
1 Skarrg Guildmage
$0.10 Creature - Human Shaman
4 Sylvan Caryatid
$0.79 Creature - Plant
1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
$0.34 Legendary Creature - Merfolk Druid
1 Tidehollow Sculler
$0.34 Artifact Creature - Zombie
1 Tireless Tracker
$0.47 Creature - Human Scout
1 Vexing Shusher
$5.66 Creature - Goblin Shaman
Instant (68)
1 Abrupt Decay
$0.64 Instant
1 Anguished Unmaking
$1.82 Instant
1 Aurelia's Fury
$1.37 Instant
4 Azorius Charm
$0.23 Instant
1 Bant Charm
$0.31 Instant
1 Bound // Determined
$0.38 Instant // Instant //
2 Cerulean Wisps
$2.18 Instant
1 Counterflux
$0.38 Instant
1 Countersquall
$0.98 Instant
1 Crimson Wisps
$1.84 Instant
1 Deflecting Palm
$1.86 Instant
4 Desperate Ravings
$0.05 Instant
1 Destructive Revelry
$0.22 Instant
1 Electrolyze
$0.25 Instant
1 Evermind
$0.22 Instant - Arcane
1 Glacial Ray
$0.09 Instant - Arcane
1 Golgari Charm
$0.56 Instant
1 Guttural Response
$1.55 Instant
1 Heroes' Reunion
$0.12 Instant
1 Hide // Seek
$1.72 Instant // Instant //
1 Hindering Light
$0.33 Instant
1 Horobi's Whisper
$0.10 Instant - Arcane
1 Hydroform
$0.06 Instant
4 Manamorphose
$3.32 Instant
1 Murmurs from Beyond
$0.11 Instant - Arcane
4 Opt
$0.17 Instant
1 Part the Veil
$0.28 Instant - Arcane
4 Path to Exile
$0.97 Instant
1 Psychic Puppetry
$0.55 Instant - Arcane
1 Rakdos Charm
$0.81 Instant
1 Reach Through Mists
$0.26 Instant - Arcane
3 Remand
$0.21 Instant
1 Render Silent
$2.27 Instant
3 Repeal
$0.14 Instant
2 Research // Development
$0.32 Instant // Instant //
1 Sift Through Sands
$0.12 Instant - Arcane
1 Silence
$6.49 Instant
1 Simic Charm
$0.87 Instant
1 Sphinx's Revelation
$0.43 Instant
1 Sundering Growth
$0.13 Instant
2 Think Twice
$0.04 Instant
3 Visions of Beyond
$6.01 Instant
2 Wear // Tear
$0.69 Instant // Instant //
Sorcery (35)
1 Ancestral Vision
$0.38 Sorcery
1 Animist's Awakening
$1.40 Sorcery
1 Castigate
$0.18 Sorcery
1 Conjurer's Ban
$0.08 Sorcery
1 Dreadbore
$0.38 Sorcery
4 Explore
$0.29 Sorcery
1 Faithless Looting
$0.30 Sorcery
1 Fiery Justice
$0.33 Sorcery
1 Firespout
$0.58 Sorcery
1 Flesh // Blood
$0.20 Sorcery // Sorcery //
1 Gaea's Blessing
$0.25 Sorcery
1 Grapeshot
$0.36 Sorcery
2 Ideas Unbound
$0.48 Sorcery - Arcane
1 Kodama's Reach
$1.55 Sorcery - Arcane
1 Maelstrom Pulse
$0.37 Sorcery
1 Mind Grind
$3.05 Sorcery
3 Pieces of the Puzzle
$0.10 Sorcery
1 Reborn Hope
$0.29 Sorcery
1 Scarscale Ritual
$0.14 Sorcery
4 Search for Tomorrow
$0.27 Sorcery
1 Slaughter Games
$0.18 Sorcery
1 Splendid Reclamation
$0.75 Sorcery
1 Supply // Demand
$0.46 Sorcery // Sorcery //
1 Take Inventory
$0.07 Sorcery
1 Titanic Ultimatum
$2.22 Sorcery
1 Treasured Find
$0.18 Sorcery
Artifact (7)
2 Defense Grid
$4.42 Artifact
4 Engineered Explosives
$1.29 Artifact
1 Mishra's Bauble
$1.24 Artifact
Enchantment (18)
1 Archmage Ascension
$3.46 Enchantment
1 As Foretold
$0.66 Enchantment
1 Detention Sphere
$0.21 Enchantment
1 Fertile Ground
$0.21 Enchantment - Aura
1 Jeskai Ascendancy
$1.22 Enchantment
3 Leyline of Sanctity
$0.43 Enchantment
1 Pyromancer Ascension
$0.35 Enchantment
2 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
$1.73 Legendary Enchantment // Legendary Land
2 Trace of Abundance
$0.63 Enchantment - Aura
1 Trade Routes
$1.99 Enchantment
1 Verdant Haven
$0.05 Enchantment - Aura
1 Weirding Wood
$0.16 Enchantment - Aura
1 Wheel of Sun and Moon
$2.38 Enchantment - Aura
1 Wind Zendikon
$0.17 Enchantment - Aura
Land (26)
1 Arch of Orazca
$0.29 Land
1 Cascade Bluffs
$0.58 Land
1 Dryad Arbor
$1.59 Land Creature - Forest Dryad
2 Faerie Conclave
$0.37 Land
1 Fire-Lit Thicket
$1.03 Land
1 Flooded Grove
$0.23 Land
4 Gemstone Mine
$0.55 Land
1 Ghitu Encampment
$0.24 Land
1 Horizon Canopy
$0.95 Land
1 Lumbering Falls
$0.24 Land
1 Mana Confluence
$23.07 Land
1 Prairie Stream
$0.41 Land - Plains Island
1 Reflecting Pool
$7.65 Land
1 Rugged Prairie
$0.27 Land
1 Steam Vents
$15.40 Land - Island Mountain
1 Treetop Village
$0.69 Land
3 Windswept Heath
$8.67 Land
3 Wooded Foothills
$13.41 Land

Notes
 
I haven't touched this deck in awhile, and I had middling results last time. I think you can build in a version based off sylvan awakening that don't play creatures though, a two card combo. A version more focused on putting lands into play and bigger draw spells. You just play out a normal ramp game, and then go off. It could be more redundant, and a quicker pace.

After messing around with it a bit, you don't have to combo as hard as the other deck. Ascendancy into sylvan awakening is around 20 damage with a mere 3 cantrips. You can amass more mana more quickly too, so having natural sinks will be good, and likely largely facilitated through glittering wish. With this, each cantrip nets so much mana that you can go up the chain of spells mana cost's a little easier. Without sylvan awakening you can't go off though, so it does warp the deck to trying to find a consistent way to get it in hand similar to ascendancy. We have more mana in theory though, so this gives us more options. So velocity is the key. Some number of free spells for the ability to generate the combo from scratch is good. There is also tension with wanting some number of the enchantment land ramp spells. These spells still dodge the same hate, and allow for the fast starts the deck wants. They also ensure mana, if that matters. The best does require further restrictions as it needs a forest for most effectiveness, which pushes us to fetches. How good these are needs to be tested, and mana is definitely not the issue. We also get into a chain where our lands can be used for utility, like arch of orazca if we can afford it. Search for Azcanta is really great if we can flip it, but might be entirely to slow. the loop between the first sylvan awakening's and subsequent is interesting, as if you can cheat a land into play it will become part of the loop. This make me think that land tutors might be better, or cantrips like explore, or go really big with splendid reclamation. Because we can go bigger though, it might just make more sense to not put effort in this.

Packages:
Sakura Tribe-Elder
Search for Tomorrow
Explore
Splendid Reclamation
Kodama's Reach
Cultivate
Utopia Sprawl
Trace of Abundance
Fertile Ground
Fate Stitcher

Manamorphose
View from Above
Noxious Revival

Archmage or Pyromancer Ascension
Jeskai Ascendancy
Glittering Wish
Sylvan Awakening
Pieces of the Puzzle
Peer through Depths
Serum Visions
Sleight of Hand
Opt
Visions of Beyond
Ideas Unbound
Desperate Ravings
Think Twice
Search for Azcanta

Azorious Charm

Fetches
Painless with filter lands/checks
Horizon Canopy

Interesting thought, what happens if we are more on the enchant land route, can we use tango lands and cycling duals? Cycling duals mitigate the getting marooned problem, adds velocity in the manabase. Tango can come into play untapped sometimes. Also asks the question of life for  The loam, which would completely make a no running out of gas machine with cycling lands. Pieces of puzzle gets that much better, and visions of beyond.  Build towards a big mana kill redundantly, and enchantments mitigate tap lands. It's like a more proactive search for azcanta.

Eureke! A list is born. Once I realized life from the loam completely solves the ascendancy problem as it offers cards for land, restocked repeatedly, and offers added selection with cycling lands, it all slid into place. Pieces of the puzzle still seems great,  I want to try forbidden alchemy instead though. It's pretty awesome. It's instant instead of sorcery, grabs and card and mills 1 less, and still offers two cards because of flashback. Because we can make black, it reads grab two top 8 mill rest double ascendancy activation. It acts as a mana sink, as does loam, which the d do really needed. Man loam is so busted with ascendancy. How was it missed? Boborygmos could be in the side! Can't wait to try it out. It's possible that this list is so redundant that we go off on T2 10%, T3 40%, and T4 50%, never past. Just a little more dependable than storm, and no relianc on creatures. More graveyard dependent, but not reliant, and wish is a pretty insane card.

Another epiphany. Their is a third cantrip to have 3 of. I had chosen visions of beyond over opt for velocity. With addition of more selective cantrips and loam we have all the velocity we need. This prompts the idea of more value cantrips. Maybe this is the removal slot, but quicken seems excellent. Almost all the sorceries benefit from this, but none more than glittering wish, which at three mana instant speed cantrip is just plain excellent, and let's the deck go off at more opportune moments.
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