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Jesse Barker Plotkin
Jun 26, 2025
Jesse Barker Plotkin
Use Your Life Total as a Resource With This Cecil, Dark Knight Brew
What's the old adage? "Winning at full life is the same as winning at one life"? Jesse's got a deck that really puts that notion to the test.
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19%synergy
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17%synergy
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17%synergy
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11%synergy
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8%synergy
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6%synergy
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2%synergy
Clive's Hideaway
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5%synergy
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6%synergy
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-1%synergy
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7%synergy
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-23%synergy
Fellwar Stone
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Mind Stone
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-6%synergy
Mox Amber
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13%synergy
Thought Vessel
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-3%synergy
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-7%synergy
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7%synergy
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6%synergy
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-5%synergy
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16%synergy
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13%synergy
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-9%synergy
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27%synergy
Shattered Sanctum
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14%synergy
Marsh Flats
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13%synergy
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3%synergy
Silent Clearing
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23%synergy
Fetid Heath
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-5%synergy
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7%synergy
Shineshadow Snarl
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-7%synergy
Orzhov Basilica
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-9%synergy
Fell the Profane
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18%synergy
Tainted Field
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-24%synergy
Path of Ancestry
25%inclusion25 decks101 decks
1%synergy
Witch Enchanter
24%inclusion24 decks101 decks
12%synergy
Concealed Courtyard
24%inclusion24 decks101 decks
3%synergy
Boggart Trawler
23%inclusion23 decks101 decks
16%synergy
Scoured Barrens
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-1%synergy
Temple of Silence
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-19%synergy
Shadowy Backstreet
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-3%synergy
Desolate Mire
19%inclusion19 decks101 decks
3%synergy
Exotic Orchard
17%inclusion17 decks101 decks
-8%synergy
Glasswing Grace
17%inclusion17 decks101 decks
9%synergy
Starting Town
16%inclusion14 decks89 decks
14%synergy
Terramorphic Expanse
14%inclusion14 decks101 decks
0%synergy
Evolving Wilds
14%inclusion14 decks101 decks
-7%synergy
Insomnia, Crown City
12%inclusion10 decks83 decks
10%synergy
City of Brass
12%inclusion12 decks101 decks
8%synergy
Mana Confluence
11%inclusion11 decks101 decks
8%synergy
Scrubland
10%inclusion10 decks101 decks
-1%synergy
Razorgrass Ambush
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7%synergy
Sejiri Shelter
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5%synergy
Malakir Rebirth
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-2%synergy
Prismatic Vista
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2%synergy
Agadeem's Awakening
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3%synergy
Myriad Landscape
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-13%synergy
Orzhov Guildgate
5.9%inclusion6 decks101 decks
-3%synergy
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