UGbw Yorion Intuition

[Hanni]

Okay, so a little background first. This deck originally started out many years ago as UBg The Mind Harvester, which had its basis off of my even older UBg Psychatog and later 4c Its The Fear decks, but is essentially an Intuition/Loam deck at its core.

Older variations were built around the card advantage and value engines of Intuition and Life from the Loam, jam packed with countermagic and removal, typically with some sort of finisher threat, but newer and better cards being printed has turned this from a hard control deck into more of a midrange combo deck, which is why I have created a new thread for it.

The current iteration combines the Yorion Snowko shell in with a Lands shell to essentially hybridize it into what it is now. The deck basically needs to run 80 cards to fit everything in anyway, so becoming a Yorion deck is a no-brainer. Even with the change to the companion rule, Yorion is still pretty good.

Arcum's Astrolabe helps stitch the deck together, allowing the colorless lands to become colored sources, and it enables the deck to become a four color goodstuff.dec

The Snowko component gives the deck plenty of spell interaction and removal, while the Lands component gives the deck acceleration with Exploration, land utility with Life from the Loam, and the one-card combo of Intuition. Intuition sets up the ability to make a 20/20 Marit Lage every turn, a near unstoppable swarm of 2/2 zombie tokens every turn, or grabs Uro when the other options are too slow (due to lack of Exploration). Both the Snowko and Lands shells give the deck plenty of card advantage and ability to grind.

Leovold and Teferi add additional disruption elements that allow the deck to interact favorably with most other decks in the format. Wasteland is another interesting component that normal Snowko decks lack.

Fundamentally, the deck is a combo deck that utilizes a midrange shell to grind against other decks before going off, similar to decks like Food Chain and Aluren. Alternatively, it can Plan B with creature/Oko beatdown, if for whatever reason it cannot go off with its primary plan.

Anyway, here's my current list:

UGbw Yorion Intuition

Lands (28)
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
2 Prismatic Vista
2 Tropical Island
1 Underground Sea
1 Tundra
2 Snow-covered Island
2 Snow-covered Forest
1 Snow-covered Swamp
1 Snow-covered Plains
1 Waterlogged Grove
1 Cabal Pit
1 Karakas
1 Blast Zone
3 Wasteland
1 Thespian's Stage
1 Field of the Dead
1 Dark Depths

Creatures (8)
4 Ice-Fang Coatl
3 Snapcaster Mage
1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

Spells (43)
3 Oko, Thief of Crowns
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Arcum's Astrolabe
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Intuition
2 Life from the Loam
4 Exploration
2 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
4 Thoughtseize
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Abrupt Decay

Sideboard (15)
1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
1 Ashiok, Dream Render
2 Flusterstorm
2 Veil of Summer
2 Force of Vigor
1 Assassin's Trophy
2 Dead of Winter
2 Surgical Extraction


I made a pretty detailed post in my other thread, which can be found here, so I won't restate all of it again.

Comments/questions/concerns are welcome. I can also post an exhaustive list of other cards I have considered for this deck, which includes a good handful that could still make their way into the deck at some point.