During the dark days of companion spring, I tried to slot Yorion into Curses. The package of omen of the sea/trial of ambition plus Yorion/Estrids invocation felt very good. Both enablers are almost playable on their own and your engines fit the current FIRE hellscape model of guaranteed value plus running away with the game. Of course, being neither an artifact nor creature helps avoid oko disrupting your engine. It didn’t mesh well with the fast mana and land base of curses, but I always wanted to revisit it.

The name is based on a Canadian dessert, usually involving blueberries and blackberries, by analogy with the other enlightened tutor based decks strawberry shortcake and parfait.

We need redundancy as a Yorion deck, so Aminatou (the best 3 cmc pw that doesn’t see play in legacy imo) and 3feri were added as backup engines. Court of grace and reality acid were added as additional enablers. Aminatou plus is similar to a baby jace 0, so it made sense to fill out the rest of the slots with an Esper miracles shell.

The discard and enlightened tutor package serve to remedy Yorion piles usually horrible combo mus, while synergizing with the planeswalkers and estrids.


4 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
2 Tundra
3 Sea
2 Karakas
2 Mystic Sanctuary
1 Snow-Covered Plains
4 Snow-Covered Island
2 Snow-Covered Swamp

4 Brainstorm
2 Ponder
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Thoughtseize
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Arcum’s Astrolabe
4 Omen of the Sea
4 Trial of Ambition
4 Aminatou
4 Estrid’s Invocation
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Reality Acid
2 Court of Grace
2 Entreat the Angels
2 Terminus
4 Force of Will
2 Force of Negation

4 Enlightened tutor
1 Yorion
1 Stoney Silence
1 Torpor Orb
1 Act of Authority
1 Back to Basics
1 Nevermore
1 Deafening Silence
2 Rest In Peace
2 Engineered Plague