Thanks to cards like Thassa's Oracle, Brazen Borrower, and Gadwick, the Wizened, it's pretty easy to have Nyx Lotus tap for seven or eight mana as early as Turn 5. Nyx Lotus is the mana engine that drives our combo turns. Since we have a ton of blue mana symbols in our deck, we can often get our devotion up to 20-ish during our combo turns, which makes it surprisingly easy to win the game with Thassa's Oracle. That said, the "you win the game" text is the real power of Thassa's Oracle. While the main reason we are playing it is to win the game when it enters the battlefield, it's also a perfectly fine two-drop that adds two blue devotion to the battlefield and helps to smooth out our draws. Thassa's Oracle does double duty in our deck. Our deck today is all-in on making as much blue devotion as possible, in turn giving us tons of mana thanks to Nyx Lotus, which will turn into card draw form Gadwick, the Wizened and allow us to win the game with Thassa's Oracle in one big combo turn! In theory, you can play Thassa's Oracle in a card draw–heavy plan as a backup plan, in case you draw your entire deck or in a self-mill strategy, but playing a good midrange deck with a top of Thassa's Oracle "just in case" isn't really what Against the Odds is about. The only challenge was figuring out the most spectacular way to win with the two-drop. Against the Odds: Thassa's Oracle Combo (Standard)Īs soon as Thassa's Oracle was previewed, I was pretty sure it would be our first Against the Odds card from the set. The end result is a combo deck that can potentially win the game by drawing through our entire deck as early as Turn 5! What are the odds of comboing off and winning with Thassa's Oracle in Standard? Let's get to the video and find out in today's Against the Odds then, we'll talk more about the deck!Ī quick reminder: if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to the MTGGoldfish YouTube channel. While there are several ways to potentially win with the two-drop, our deck is looking to combo off and win with Thassa's Oracle as quickly as possible by making oodles of mana with Nyx Lotus (tapping and untapping it a bunch of times, with the help of Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner and Corridor Monitor) while drawing through our deck with Gadwick, the Wizened. Traditionally, the foundation of Against the Odds is "you win the game" cards, and we got a good one in Theros: Beyond Death, in the form of Thassa's Oracle. Theros: Beyond Death is here, and we're kicking off our exploration of our new Standard format with a special episode. Welcome to episode 224 of Against the Odds.
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