It is usually hard to find a good combo deck in a smaller format. However, today we have one! The combo I'm showcasing in this article and YouTube is Warlock Class and Scourge of the Skyclaves. You will need to have Warlock Class fully leveled up, then you kick Scourge of the Skyclaves to make your opponent lose half their life total, at the end of your turn, Warlock Class will trigger taking away the other half of their remaining life total!

Let's have a look at the deck!

Time Stamps:

04:12 - Match 1

11:59 - Match 2

15:07 - Match 3

25:55 - Match 4

28:33 - Match 5

32:21 - Match 6

39:35 - Match 7

47:52 - Match 8

53:30 - Match 9

56:24 - Match 10

Warlock Combo | Standard 2022 | Ali Aintrazi

• Creatures (7)
• 3 Scourge of the Skyclaves
• 4 Shambling Ghast

• Planeswalkers (4)
• 1 Professor Onyx
• 3 Lolth, Spider Queen

• Instants (10)
• 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
• 1 Harness Infinity
• 2 Baleful Mastery
• 2 Soul Shatter
• 4 Deadly Dispute

• Sorceries (9)
• 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
• 2 Blood on the Snow
• 2 Shadows' Verdict
• 4 Hunt for Specimens

• Enchantments (6)
• 2 Binding the Old Gods
• 4 Warlock Class

• Lands (24)
• 3 Snow-Covered Forest
• 9 Snow-Covered Swamp
• 4 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
• 4 Faceless Haven
• 4 Woodland Chasm

• Sideboard (7)
• 1 Containment Breach
• 1 Confront the Past
• 2 Mascot Exhibition
• 2 Environmental Sciences
• 1 Necrotic Fumes

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The deck plays like a control deck with a combo finish. You can win without the combo through planeswalkers, Faceless Havens, Mascot Exhibition, or even Scourge of the Skyclave beatdown. What is cool about the combo is usually players do not counter Warlock Class or just cannot since it can come down as early as turn one. After you level it up to level two, your opponent does not really want to bounce it with Divide by Zero or waste a removal spell on it since it already got you value, so Warlock Class usually sticks around. Then when you kick Scourge of the Skyclaves, the lose half life trigger is a cast trigger, so a counterspell won't even stop you from comboing and killing your opponent.

The hardest matchup for this deck has been decks that can sit on Alrund's Epiphany and then are able to cast two or three back-to-back and kill you. To be fair, that kills almost any player anyway. Against these decks, try and race to the combo. If you have the cards laying around, I recommend trying this one out. It is also one that survives rotation!

That's it for today, thanks for reading/watching!

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Ali Aintrazi

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