

If we can chain together enough Gyruda triggers, we can mill our opponent's entire deck. The second takes advantage of the fact that Gyruda mills both players. The most straightforward is to mill a Spark Double with Gyruda, Doom of Depths, use it to copy Gyruda, and then clone the non-legendary Gyruda a bunch of times, giving us a massive board of 6/6 Demon Krakens, which can typically win with just a single attack. As far as winning the game, there are two primary plans.Even though these cards will leave us with two Gyrudas (causing us to lose one to the legend rule), we'll still get Gyruda's enters-the-battlefield trigger to keep the Gyruda chain going. We can also hit more copies of literal Gyruda or our non– Spark Double Clones. Our best hits with Gyruda are Spark Double (which copies Gyruda, giving us a non-legendary copy that we can clone with future copiers like Mirrorhall Mimic, Undercover Operative, or Vizier of Many Faces) or Wispweaver Angel, which blinks the original Gyruda, allowing us to reuse its enters-the-battlefield ability. We're hoping that among those cards will be one of the 23 cards in our deck that will give us another Gyruda trigger to repeat the process. Gyruda, Doom of Depths enters the battlefield and mills four cards. Once we resolve a Gyruda, our deck basically turns into a math problem.We spend the first two or three turns ramping and then cast Gyruda, Doom of Depths as quickly as possible, by either paying three to snag it as your companion or, if we're lucky, drawing one naturally, which often speeds up the combo by a turn.

Gyruda, Doom of Depths (both in our companion zone and in the main deck), two-mana ramp spells to help us cast Gyruda as fast as possible, and four-mana Clones (well, and also Wispweaver Angel, which is basically another Clone thanks to its blink ability).

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Just a quick reminder: if you enjoy the Much Abrew About Nothing 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. Today's deck is full-on combo, with the goal being oddly similar to that of a Belcher deck: count up to six mana, resolve our namesake card, and trust that a single Gyruda, Doom of Depths will win us the game because of how our deck is constructed! Is Gyruda the Belcher of Explorer? Let's get to the video and find out on today's Much Abrew About Nothing!

While we played a Modern Gyruda deck a while ago for Much Abrew, that was mostly a value-y reanimator deck. Even so, it seems like there should be a combo deck or two that could be competitive while we wait for the rest of the cards to come to Magic Arena.Īs such, today, we're going to try to combo off with Gyruda, Doom of Depths and see if the Demon Kraken might actually be the Goblin Charbelcher of the Explorer format. This is partly because of the card pool: two of the most popular combo decks in Pioneer-Jeskai Ascendancy and Lotus Field Combo-are missing too many pieces to work in Explorer. Hello, everyone! Welcome to another episode of Much Abrew About Nothing. Explorer has been around for a few months now, and one of the strange aspects of the format is that no real combo decks have developed yet.
