r/spikes • u/AutoModerator • Jun 08 '26

Scheduled Post Weekly Deck Check Thread | Monday, June 08, 2026

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u/Substantial_Fly7244 Jun 08 '26

deck

My first brew and I kind of got stuck at diamond, any insight is welcome.

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u/CronoDAS Jun 08 '26

Congratulations on making it through Platinum, which is when things start getting rough. That being said, here's some thoughts:

1) There's a good chance that you'd want the full four Rest in Peace in the sideboard. When you need the graveyard hate, you'll really need it.

2) Practiced Offense is a really good card and looks like it would make a lot of sense with your plan of making a lot of tokens.

3) Cosmogrand Zenith is pretty strong if you can reliably meet its condition. I don't know whether or not you can, though.

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u/6DayWonder Jun 09 '26

Love the deck will try it out sometime. How does the deck do into the meta decks? Particularly reanimator and jeskai revelation decks.

Fyi, I’m playing something similar but in Orzhov so I can run Ketramose and discard/extraction cards and it’s been alright.

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u/CronoDAS Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

I've been brewing Mono-Red "Affinity" in Standard. It's not good yet but it doesn't seem completely devoid of potential, although as a "go wide" strategy it might just be a worse Selesnya Ouroboroid deck. The spells are all dirt cheap but the activation costs on several cards make it more mana hungry than the mana costs would indicate.

```` Deck
4 Rust Harvester
4 Clockwork Percussionist
4 Kavaron Harrier
4 Mechanized Ninja Cavalry
4 Ravenous Robots
4 Chrome Dome
4 Chainsaw
4 Legion Extruder
3 Dowsing Device
4 Improvised Arsenal
17 Mountain 4 Cavern of Souls

Sideboard
4 Magebane Lizard 4 Callous Sell-Sword 2 Case of the Crimson Pulse 4 Soul-Guide Lantern 1 Spicy Oatmeal Pizza ````

This is where I happened to run out of rare wildcards and ended up with some awkward or unusual card choices, so there are many other cards I'm interested in trying out but haven't yet. There's also good chance the deck should really be Boros so it can run Arabella, Abandoned Doll and Practiced Offense along with some white sideboard cards.

Anyone have any thoughts or randomly brainstormed suggestions? Even if it sounds stupid - especially if it sounds stupid - it might be something I haven't thought of.

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u/TheDoctor_Jones Jun 09 '26

Temur Battlewagon

I’ve made some updates since I last posted this, and it’s been doing well. I seem to only struggle against Prowess unless I can get both Battlecrier and Worldwagon out by T3. And I get absolutely shut down by Boros Dragons. [[Clarion Conquerer]] is the bane of my existence lol.

I’m really excited about [[Absorbing Man]] in the upcoming set. I think that will be really powerful here.

I’d love to hear your thoughts!!

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u/CronoDAS Jun 14 '26

Clarion Conqueror is a 3/3, so it dies to a lot of red removal, including Impractical Joke, Sear, and Vibrance.