Wait Jim, doesn't Murders at Karlov Manor release literally this week?

Why in the world would you record a Standard video right before you're about to do Ten New Brews and start playing a bunch with the new cards?

I'll tell you why.

Because this is frankly one of the coolest Standard decks I've seen in a very long time, that's both awesome as well as surprisingly very good.

Time Stamps:

00:04:47 - Match 1

00:42:16 - Match 2

01:10:28 - Match 3

Emerging Omniscience | LCI Standard | Adachi Yoshikazu

• Creatures (12)
• 4 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
• 4 Fallaji Archaeologist
• 4 Picklock Prankster

• Planeswalkers (3)
• 3 Jace, the Perfected Mind

• Instants (8)
• 4 Consider
• 4 Otherworldly Gaze

• Sorceries (6)
• 2 Terror Tide
• 4 Squirming Emergence

• Enchantments (7)
• 3 One with the Multiverse
• 4 Founding the Third Path

• Lands (24)
• 1 Island
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Spara's Headquarters
• 2 Dreamroot Cascade
• 2 Llanowar Wastes
• 2 Shipwreck Marsh
• 3 Underground River
• 3 Yavimaya Coast
• 4 Darkslick Shores
• 4 Deathcap Glade

• Sideboard (15)
• 4 Cut Down
• 3 Duress
• 2 Negate
• 2 Virtue of Persistence
• 2 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• 2 Malicious Eclipse

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In about nine matches so far, I am undefeated playing this deck, which as we saw in the video is quite difficult to play.

What makes this deck awesome is that putting Atraxa, Grand Unifier into play on turn three, which the deck is capable of doing, isn't even the main plan. Sure, putting Atraxa into play is awesome and will win a lot of games, but it's actually Once with the Multiverse and looping Jace, the Perfected Mind a few times to mill your opponent out that is the primary plan, which sidesteps almost every sort of interaction in the format.

With an impressive suite of enablers that are somehow almost all permanents for descend, this deck has a very nice amount of selection and velocity, with just enough interaction to deal with whatever problems may arise - Terror Tide is surprisingly awesome in this deck.

The deck is difficult to play and certainly odd, but it's also a monster that attacks the format from a great angle and is definitely one to watch. It's also a blast!