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Aetherdrift
releases on February 14, 2025!

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Aetherdrift
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Main Deck - 60 cards, 23 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Instant (13)
1 Ad Nauseam
$13.85 Instant
4 Brainstorm
$1.23 Instant
4 Cabal Ritual
$11.96 Instant
4 Dark Ritual
$3.46 Instant
Sorcery (24)
3 Cabal Therapy
$0.82 Sorcery
1 Dark Petition
$2.42 Sorcery
3 Duress
$0.05 Sorcery
4 Gitaxian Probe
$2.63 Sorcery
4 Infernal Tutor
$1.85 Sorcery
2 Past in Flames
$3.95 Sorcery
4 Ponder
$2.28 Sorcery
2 Preordain
$0.49 Sorcery
1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.95 Sorcery
Artifact (8)
4 Lion's Eye Diamond
$425.61 Artifact
4 Lotus Petal
$19.08 Artifact
Land (15)
1 Bayou
$399.85 Land - Swamp Forest
1 Island
$0.13 Basic Land - Island
4 Misty Rainforest
$22.23 Land
4 Polluted Delta
$14.58 Land
1 Swamp
$1.43 Basic Land - Swamp
1 Tropical Island
$496.84 Land - Forest Island
2 Underground Sea
$793.94 Land - Island Swamp
1 Volcanic Island
$695.31 Land - Island Mountain
Sideboard - 15 cards, 9 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (1)
1 Xantid Swarm
$0.98 Creature - Insect
Instant (9)
3 Abrupt Decay
$1.11 Instant
2 Chain of Vapor
$8.20 Instant
2 Flusterstorm
$5.26 Instant
2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.09 Instant
Sorcery (1)
1 Empty the Warrens
$0.23 Sorcery
Artifact (1)
1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.31 Artifact
Enchantment (3)
2 Dread of Night
$0.41 Enchantment
1 Ground Seal
$0.30 Enchantment

Notes
 
"Do something broken or get beaten by the people doing something broken." -- Ari Lax

First, some basic theory behind Storm. Your deck is implicitly divided into 4 categories: mana, draw, disruption, and business. The optimal maindeck ratios for these categories boils down to something like:

30 - 32 mana sources (lands, artifacts, rituals)
12 - 16 draw spells (cantrips, etc.)
6 - 7 disruption spells (discard, removal)
7 - 9 business spells (tutors and win conditions)

My version listed here runs a ratio of 31:14:6:9. This can be broken down even further along categories defined by Jon Alexander's article "The Storm Box": https://theweeklywars.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/the-storm-box/

Lands
Fast Mana (Bulk)
Fast Mana (Initial)
Interaction - Hand, Stack, Battlefield, Graveyard
Soft Business - Cantrips, Pseudo-Engines
Hard Business - Tutors, Engines, Payoff

Sideboarding wants to maintain these elements and adjust the ratios accordingly for each matchup. For more info on this, you should read Carsten Kotter's article: http://www.starcitygames.com/article/29060_Stormboarding.html
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