I've Never Seen a Deck So Optimized for Losing Friends | Brewer's Kitchen
Well, hello there! Brewer’s Kitchen here and today we’re playing the most streamlined land destruction deck I have ever built.
The Gameplan
Ok let’s be honest here, this is a brawl deck and I’m not gonna go over 99 individual cards. But to be honest, the only really important cards are the commander and some lands.
Wrenn and Six #217 recently made it on the client with the new Arena Anthology. And weirdly enough, the reason why it’s banned in Legacy is already on there as well. While I didn’t run into the two in Timeless, the really messed up part is the fact that Brawl allows Planeswalkers as commander. This means we always have access to Wrenn and Six #217 on turn two. On the surface, it only looks like a slow value engine that returns fetch lands to ensure land drops and at some point ultimate to retrace our spells. In practice, and (before its ban) Legacy, it’s main purpose is to return Strip Mine every turn.
Strip Mine usually just trades for one of their lands. And while this is already brutal if we’re on the play, doing this every turn will slowly strip the opponent of lands until they accept their fate and scoop.
And that’s the gameplan. Now we only need ways to find the Mine, ways to bring it back from the graveyard and ways to get extra land drops.
Tutors for Strip Mine:
Ways to get it back:
Extra land drops:
The rest of the deck is is a usual Gruul ramp shell. Some early ramp spells like Farseek #302 and Rampant Growth #199 and some big beaters like Etali, Primal Conqueror #298 Showcase and Omnath, Locus of Rage #129.
Wrap up
This deck is absolutely brutal. Often times you just need to mulligan down to a Strip Mine to have the opponent scoop at the mere sight of it. I’m not sure why Arena allowed this to be a thing, but I either think Wrenn and Six or the Mine are gonna see a ban or, which I would greatly prefer, we’ll finally get a ranked brawl queue.
