UR Cutter Prowess — Modern Strategy Guide

Archetype Overview

UR Cutter Prowess is a low-curve tempo-aggro deck that wins by casting several cheap spells every turn. Each spell feeds a board of small creatures that hit far harder than their printed stats. This list took 2nd place at the MTGO Showcase Challenge on 2026-10-17 out of 286 players, piloted by RigelWeenie. It costs about $411 to build.

The deck has 19 lands, 12 creatures and 29 noncreature spells. Nearly every nonland card costs one mana or less, and the most expensive cards cost two: Cori-Steel Cutter, Slickshot Show-Off and Expressive Iteration. That curve is the whole point. The deck's engine rewards spell count, and this list maximizes spells per turn.

The Plan

Your threats all scale with noncreature spells:

• Monastery Swiftspear has haste and prowess.
• Pompous Battlemage has prowess.
• Slickshot Show-Off is a hasty flyer that gets +2/+0 for each noncreature spell you cast.
• Dragon's Rage Channeler surveils every time you cast a noncreature spell. Once you have delirium, it becomes a 3/3 flyer.

Cori-Steel Cutter sits on top of all of them. Every turn you cast your second spell, Flurry creates a 1/1 Monk token with prowess. You can attach the Cutter to that token, which gives it +1/+1, trample and haste, so it attacks immediately. A resolved Cutter turns every two-spell turn into a new hasty threat. In practice, the opponent must answer it or lose to a widening board.

The cheap spells are what make this work:

• Mishra's Bauble costs zero. It still counts as a cast noncreature spell, so it triggers prowess, Channeler and Flurry for free.
• Mutagenic Growth can be paid with 2 life. It's another free spell, and it also protects a creature or adds damage.
• Lava Dart counts twice. You cast it once for {R}, then again from the graveyard by sacrificing a Mountain. Steam Vents, Thundering Falls, Sacred Foundry and basic Mountain all qualify, so the flashback is almost always available.
• Lightning Bolt is both reach and removal. It clears blockers on the way in and finishes opponents on the way out.

Turns where you cast three or four spells with two lands untapped are normal for this deck, not exceptional.

Why the Plan Is Strong

• The deck's damage is spread out. Prowess creatures, Monk tokens, Otter tokens from Stormchaser's Talent and burn all hit the opponent from different directions. Removing one threat doesn't stop the turn. And because the Cutter is an Equipment, killing the creature it's attached to leaves the Cutter behind to make the next Monk.
• Card flow keeps the engine fed. Preordain, Expressive Iteration, Bauble, Channeler's surveil, the Thundering Falls surveil and the loot from Pompous Battlemage all help you find the right spells. Fiery Islet can cash itself in for a card once you have enough lands. The deck rarely runs out of fuel before the opponent runs out of life.
• Boomerang Basics covers both offense and defense. It can push a blocker or an opposing permanent off the table for a turn. It can also return one of your own permanents and draw a card. For example, bouncing Stormchaser's Talent lets you recast it for another Otter, so you trade one spell for a body, a card and an extra prowess trigger.
• Delirium comes naturally. Fetchlands put lands in the graveyard. Bauble and Cutter add artifacts. Bolt, Dart and Growth add instants. Preordain, Iteration and Basics add sorceries. Trading creatures adds creatures, and Talent adds an enchantment. Channeler often turns on without you building toward it.
• Stormchaser's Talent has a long-game mode. At level 2, it returns an instant or sorcery from your graveyard, such as a Lightning Bolt for the last points of damage. Most of the deck runs out of gas eventually; this card gives you a late-game payoff.

Where It's Vulnerable

The weaknesses follow directly from the card text:

• Graveyard exile hurts delirium, Lava Dart flashback and Talent's level 2 all at once.
• Artifact removal on Cori-Steel Cutter takes away your best way to build a board over several turns.
• Your own life total is a cost. Ten fetchlands, three Steam Vents, Fiery Islet activations and Phyrexian-mana Growths all cost life. Against other fast decks, careless fetching and shocking will lose you races you should win.
• Your threats are small. Nothing in the main deck is large without spell support. A turn where you can't cast spells is a turn where your creatures are 1/1s and 1/2s.

Who Should Pick It Up

Play this deck if you like making many small decisions every turn and getting rewarded for getting them right. The deck asks a lot of the pilot:

• You need to count your spells in advance so the second one triggers Flurry when it matters.
• You need to choose between using Bauble now and holding it to fuel a bigger turn.
• You need to decide when to flash back Dart, since it costs you a Mountain.
• You need to manage your life total across fetches, shocks, Islet and Growth.
• You need to judge whether Boomerang Basics is buying tempo or drawing a card on that turn.

Skip this deck if you want a linear game plan you can run on autopilot. The power is there, but mistakes compound quickly. Fetching at the wrong time or casting your spells in the wrong order costs damage you can't recover.

If you already enjoy tempo decks and can sequence under pressure, this list gives you both a fast clock and cheap interaction in the same deck.

Core Strategy & Game Plan

How the Deck Wins

You win by turning cheap spells into damage. Every noncreature spell pumps Monastery Swiftspear, Slickshot Show-Off, Otter tokens and Monk tokens. Every second spell in a turn makes another hasty, trampling attacker off Cori-Steel Cutter. Lightning Bolt and Lava Dart clear blockers early and point at the opponent's face late. The deck is built to close fast, usually before a fair opponent has stabilized, with burn covering the last few points.

The Engine: Cutter and the Two-Spell Turn

Cori-Steel Cutter is the card the list is built around. Flurry triggers on your second spell each turn, and each trigger is a 1/1 prowess Monk. You can move the Cutter onto it for free, so that token comes in as a 2/2 with trample and haste and attacks right away. Two rules matter:

• The Cutter has to be on the battlefield already. Casting the Cutter itself as your first spell, then a second spell, triggers it. Casting a spell and then the Cutter does not.
• "Each turn" includes your opponent's turn. Two instants on their turn, like Lightning Bolt plus Lava Dart, make a Monk at instant speed.

The free spells are what make this cheap. Mishra's Bauble costs zero. Mutagenic Growth can be paid with 2 life. Lava Dart's flashback costs a Mountain instead of mana. Your Mountains are Steam Vents, Thundering Falls, Sacred Foundry and basic Mountain, and all three fetch types can find them. A plotted Slickshot Show-Off is cast later without paying its mana cost. With any of these, a turn spent on one real spell still makes a token.

The rest of the list supports that engine:

• Preordain and Expressive Iteration are cheap spells that count toward Flurry and dig for more fuel.
• Dragon's Rage Channeler surveils with every noncreature spell. Delirium comes together fast because the deck spreads across land, artifact, creature, instant, sorcery and enchantment. Once you have it, the Channeler becomes a 3/3 flier.
• Stormchaser's Talent is a one-mana prowess body.
• Pompous Battlemage is a one-mana prowess body that also carries an extra Improvised Act to cast while it's prepared.
• Boomerang Basics removes a blocker for a turn, or targets your own permanent to draw a card. Bouncing Stormchaser's Talent and recasting it gives you another Otter.

Posture: Proactive by Default, Reactive When Forced

You are the beatdown in almost every game. Whether you hold back depends on one question: can the opponent's board stop your attackers?

• If they have no profitable blocks, spend your burn on clearing the way and on damage to their face. Don't hold it for theoretical threats.
• If they present creatures that outclass your 1/1s and 2/2s, use Lightning Bolt on them and Lava Dart on X/1s. Lean on the Cutter's trample and on fliers (Slickshot Show-Off, a delirious Channeler) to keep damage flowing.
• If they're racing you, count both clocks every turn. Your reach comes from burn plus hasty tokens, and that can end a game from a position that looks safe for them.

The Ideal Game, Turn by Turn

1. Turn 1: Play a one-drop. Monastery Swiftspear attacks immediately. Dragon's Rage Channeler starts surveiling toward delirium. Add Mishra's Bauble if you have it, since it's another card type in the graveyard and a free prowess trigger.
2. Turn 2: Cast Cori-Steel Cutter, then a free or one-mana spell. That gets you a Monk, the Cutter on it, and a hasty 2/2 trampler swinging next to your one-drop, with prowess pumps on top. Plotting Slickshot Show-Off is the alternative when you lack the second spell.
3. Turn 3: Make two spells every turn. Any pair works: Preordain plus Lava Dart, Expressive Iteration plus a free spell, or a plotted Show-Off plus anything. Each pair adds another hasty body and pumps everything already on board. Delirium usually comes online around here.
4. Turn 4 onward: The opponent faces a wide, growing board, and you still have burn in hand. Point Lightning Bolt and flashback Lava Dart at their face to finish. Trade a Mountain for the last points when it ends the game.

Resource Discipline

• Life is a resource you'll spend constantly. Fetches, shocks, Fiery Islet and Mutagenic Growth all cost life. Pay it freely against slow decks. Against aggro, take shocklands tapped when you can afford to and save Growth for lethal or a key combat.
• Mountains are mana and ammunition. Flashing back Lava Dart early stunts your two-spell turns later. Only spend a Mountain when the damage or the token matters now.
• Your graveyard is fuel. Track your card types before surveiling. Bin a card when it completes delirium. Keep it on top when you need that exact spell.
• Count Flurry before you cast anything. Sequence the Cutter first, then decide which spell is your second. Use a free spell as the second when you can, so mana stays open for real ones.

Card Choices & Breakdown

The Engine: Cori-Steel Cutter

Cori-Steel Cutter shapes the whole list. Each turn you cast your second spell, Flurry creates a 1/1 Monk with prowess, and the trigger lets you attach the Cutter to it without paying the equip cost. The new token gets +1/+1, trample and haste and attacks that turn. Four copies is correct because this is the card that turns a stack of cheap spells into a board. Pay equip {1}{R} only when trample and haste on a bigger body matter more, such as a delirious Dragon's Rage Channeler.

The Free-Spell Package

Flurry counts spells, not mana spent. These cards let you reach two spells a turn without giving up the rest of your turn:

• Mishra's Bauble (4): A zero-mana noncreature spell. It triggers prowess, Dragon's Rage Channeler's surveil and Slickshot Show-Off, and it puts an artifact in your graveyard. Cast it when you need the spell count. Activate it whenever it suits you, since the draw comes at the next upkeep either way.
• Lava Dart (4): One card, two spells. The flashback cost is sacrificing a Mountain. Only Mountain, Steam Vents, Thundering Falls and Sacred Foundry qualify. Fetchlands and Fiery Islet do not. One damage kills X/1s and finishes games, so the card is never dead.
• Mutagenic Growth (2): No land in the 60 makes green, so this always costs 2 life. It's a free spell and a combat trick that can save a creature from damage-based removal. There are only two because the life adds up against aggressive decks and the card does little by itself.

Threats

• Monastery Swiftspear (4): A one-mana hasty prowess body. With a free spell or two behind it, it hits much harder than its stats suggest.
• Dragon's Rage Channeler (4): Surveil on every noncreature spell smooths your draws. The deck reaches delirium naturally: lands from fetches, artifacts from Mishra's Bauble and Cori-Steel Cutter, instants, sorceries, creatures, and the enchantment from Stormchaser's Talent. A 3/3 flier that must attack each combat fits a deck that wants to attack every turn anyway.
• Slickshot Show-Off (2): A flying, hasty threat that gets +2/+0 per noncreature spell. Plot is the key detail. Pay {1}{R} on a turn with spare mana, then cast it later for free. Any spell counts toward Flurry, so a free Slickshot plus one more spell makes a Monk. Only two copies, because it competes with Cutter for the two-mana slot.
• Pompous Battlemage (2): A one-mana prowess creature that enters prepared, so it brings a spell with it. Casting the copy of Improvised Act for {R} counts as a noncreature spell, which pumps prowess, triggers surveil and advances Flurry. It also lets you discard an extra land for a fresh card. This is the most contested slot in the archetype: Pompous Battlemage appeared in 15 of the 30 UR Cutter Prowess Top 8 lists (source: MTGTop8 deck exports, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18).
• Stormchaser's Talent (2): One mana for a 1/1 Otter with prowess, and it adds the enchantment type for delirium. Level 2 costs {3}{U} and returns an instant or sorcery, such as Lightning Bolt or Expressive Iteration, to your hand. That gives you a real use for extra lands in long games. Level 3 is a late-game luxury, not a plan.

Card Selection and Tempo

• Preordain (4): A one-mana sorcery that counts toward your spells for the turn and sets up your next draws.
• Expressive Iteration (2): You can play the exiled card that turn, which often lets you chain spells into Flurry or hit an extra land drop. There are only two because it's a two-mana sorcery and your second turn belongs to Cutter. It's at its best on turn three and later.
• Boomerang Basics (3): Bouncing an opposing blocker or threat buys you a turn of attacks. Bouncing your own permanent draws a card. Returning Stormchaser's Talent lets you recast it for a new Otter. Returning Pompous Battlemage makes it enter prepared again. Three copies rather than four: it's sorcery-speed, and it costs you a card whenever you aim it at the opponent.

Burn

Lightning Bolt (4) is your cheapest real removal and your reach. Three damage at instant speed clears blockers early and ends games late. Together with Lava Dart, it covers most small creatures you'll face in game one.

The Mana: 19 Lands

• Ten fetches (Scalding Tarn 4, Bloodstained Mire 3, Arid Mesa 3): Every fetch can find every Mountain in the deck, so each one effectively makes either color. Each cracked fetch also puts a land in your graveyard, which is the easiest delirium type to get.
• Steam Vents (3) and Thundering Falls (1): Your Island Mountains. Falls enters tapped but surveils, which can bin a card type for delirium. Play it on turns when you aren't using all your mana.
• Mountain (2): Fetch targets that cost no life and feed Lava Dart flashback for free. They also give you basics to fetch against nonbasic-land hate.
• Fiery Islet (2): Makes either color untapped for 1 life. Late, it cycles itself for a card. Together with the Battlemage rummage, the Islets let a 19-land count avoid flooding.
• Sacred Foundry (1): Another fetchable Mountain that can enter untapped for 2 life. No main-deck card uses white, so in game one treat it as a Mountain.

The Decklist

This is the exact 75 Cori-Steel Cutter list that took 2nd place at the MTGO Showcase Challenge on 2026-10-17 (286 players), piloted by RigelWeenie. It costs about $411 at TCGplayer market prices. Every 4-of below is a core slot. The 1-, 2- and 3-ofs are where you can tune, and each one gets a note on what it does for the deck.

Main Deck (60)

Sideboard (15)

Reading the Flex Slots

The 4-of core is the backbone of the archetype. Every UR Cutter Prowess Top 8 list in the tracked window ran 4 Cori-Steel Cutter, 4 Lightning Bolt, 4 Preordain, 4 Lava Dart and 4 Mishra's Bauble (source: MTGTop8 deck exports, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18).

Pompous Battlemage is the most contested slot. It appeared in 8 of 13 lists dated 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-09 and in 7 of 17 lists from 2026-10-10 to 2026-10-18 (source: MTGTop8 deck exports, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). If you want to cut a pair, cut these first.

Don't touch the 19-land, ten-fetch mana base unless you understand the trade-off:

• Fetches load your graveyard with lands for delirium.
• Each fetch finds a Mountain that later powers Lava Dart flashback.

Mulligan Guide

What a Keep Looks Like

This deck runs 19 lands, four zero-mana cantrips in Mishra's Bauble, and a curve that tops out at two. The hand is not built around mana. It is built around spells per turn. A keepable seven needs three things:

• Two lands, or one land plus real card flow. Fetches count as blue sources because Scalding Tarn, Bloodstained Mire and Arid Mesa can all find Steam Vents or Thundering Falls.
• A threat. That means a one-drop creature, Slickshot Show-Off, or Cori-Steel Cutter. Cutter is the best one, because every second spell in a turn makes a Monk.
• Cheap spells to fuel it. Mishra's Bauble and Mutagenic Growth (paid with 2 life) cost no mana. They let you trigger Flurry and prowess on a single land.

Check your colors before you keep. Mountain and Sacred Foundry make no blue, so a double-Mountain hand full of Preordain and Expressive Iteration is weaker than it looks.

Example Hands

Hand 1: Scalding Tarn, Steam Vents, Monastery Swiftspear, Cori-Steel Cutter, Lightning Bolt, Preordain, Mishra's Bauble
Verdict: Snap keep. On turn one, Swiftspear plus Bauble is already two spells. On turn two, Cutter plus Bauble or Preordain starts making Monks. Bolt handles an opposing blocker or finishes the game.

Hand 2: Arid Mesa, Mishra's Bauble, Preordain, Dragon's Rage Channeler, Lava Dart, Lightning Bolt, Mutagenic Growth
Verdict: Keep on the draw. Ship on the play against fast decks. The cards are excellent. Bauble and Preordain dig for land, and Channeler's surveil keeps the top of your library clean. The risk is a stall on one land, since Lava Dart's flashback eats the only Mountain you have. On the draw, your extra card covers that risk. On the play against an aggressive deck, a stumble here loses the race.

Hand 3: Steam Vents, Fiery Islet, Bloodstained Mire, Mountain, Expressive Iteration, Boomerang Basics, Preordain
Verdict: Ship. There is no threat here, and none of these spells creates one. Four lands plus three card-selection spells spins its wheels until it finds a creature or Cutter. This deck cannot afford those turns. You would rather go to six with two lands and a threat.

Hand 4: Mountain, Mountain, Monastery Swiftspear, Pompous Battlemage, Lava Dart, Preordain, Expressive Iteration
Verdict: Keep, cautiously. Every red card works: two prowess one-drops, Lava Dart, and Battlemage's prepared copy of its Improvised Act, which also triggers prowess. The blue cards are dead until a fetch or a blue land arrives. Both Mountains also turn on Lava Dart's flashback later in the game. Keep it against anything except a deck that punishes a slow start, and plan your first two turns entirely around the red half.

Hand 5: Thundering Falls, Monastery Swiftspear, Dragon's Rage Channeler, Slickshot Show-Off, Cori-Steel Cutter, Lightning Bolt, Stormchaser's Talent
Verdict: Ship. You have one tapped land and four two-mana-or-more demands with no zero-cost spells to bridge the gap. Even with a second land, the hand casts one thing per turn. That is the opposite of what Flurry and prowess want.

On Six

Six cards with two lands, one threat, and one zero-cost spell is a fine keep. The deck's power comes from spells per turn, not cards in hand. Below that bar, go lower only if the six cards cannot cast a threat by turn two.

Play vs. Draw

• On the play: prioritize speed. Hands that deploy a one-drop or Cutter on curve are worth more than hands with better card quality. One-landers need Bauble and Preordain together, or you ship them.
• On the draw: loosen up on one-landers with cantrips. Value Lightning Bolt more, because you are often answering a creature before you can race it.

Matchup Adjustments

Broodscale Bloodchief is the most represented archetype in the brief's window, with 82 of 460 Top 8 slots (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). Against it, value hands that pressure early and still hold Lightning Bolt. Postboard, hands with Consign to Memory alongside a threat move up; raw card selection moves down.

Aggro (Boros Aggro, Rakdos Delirium, 5c Domain Aggro): interaction is the priority. A hand with Bolt and a creature beats a faster hand with no removal, especially on the draw. Postboard, Unholy Heat counts as a premium keep card.

Control (Dimir Control, UW Control): threat density matters most. Two threats plus Stormchaser's Talent or a plotted Slickshot Show-Off beats a one-threat hand full of burn. Postboard, a hand with Spell Pierce protecting a Cutter is ideal.

Combo and graveyard (Living End, Instant Reanimator, Ruby Storm, Scepter Chant): speed first. Postboard, a hand holding Tormod's Crypt, Consign to Memory or Spell Pierce next to a clock is worth keeping even if it is a little slow. A fast hand with no interaction is a coin flip on whether they are faster.

Sequencing & Key Lines

Turn One: Choose the Opener That Fits Your Hand

With no follow-up spells, lead with Monastery Swiftspear. Haste means it attacks immediately, and every spell after that pumps it. Lead with Dragon's Rage Channeler when you have Mishra's Bauble, Preordain, or a second noncreature spell for turn two. Each of those triggers a surveil, which starts filling your graveyard toward delirium and smooths your draws.

Crack fetchlands on turn one even when you don't need the mana yet. A land in the graveyard is one of the four card types delirium needs. A cracked Mishra's Bauble adds artifact. Instants and sorceries come naturally. Plan your early turns around reaching those four types, not just around damage.

Turn Two: Cast Cutter First, Then the Free Spell

This is the most important sequencing rule in the deck. Flurry triggers on your second spell each turn, and Cori-Steel Cutter has to be on the battlefield when that spell is cast. So cast the Cutter first, then follow with a second spell. If you cast Mishra's Bauble before the Cutter, the Cutter becomes your second spell and the trigger never happens.

Attach the Cutter to the Monk token when Flurry resolves. That attachment is free, and the equipped token gets +1/+1, trample, and haste, so it attacks the turn it's made. Save Mishra's Bauble and Mutagenic Growth for this turn rather than spending them on turn one for small value.

Cheap Ways to Cast Your Second Spell

Know every way to reach a second spell without spending real mana:

• Mishra's Bauble: costs nothing, and cracking it adds an artifact for delirium.
• Mutagenic Growth: costs 2 life instead of mana.
• Lava Dart flashback: costs a Mountain instead of mana. A turn of Lava Dart plus its flashback is two spells for one red mana.
• Plotted Slickshot Show-Off: plot it on a turn with spare mana. On a later turn, casting it without paying its mana cost still counts as a spell.
• Pompous Battlemage: the creature plus a copy of its prepared Improvised Act is two spells from one card. The copy is a noncreature spell, so it also pumps the Battlemage's own prowess.
• Expressive Iteration: playing the exiled card adds another spell to the count when that card is a spell.

From turn three on, aim to cast two spells every turn. Each extra Monk is another threat that survives even if the Cutter is removed.

Expressive Iteration Comes Before Your Land Drop

You may play the exiled card this turn, and that includes a land. Cast Expressive Iteration before playing a land whenever you can afford it. Exiling a land and playing it from exile is a free card. Playing your land first throws that option away.

Mountain Management

Lava Dart can only sacrifice a Mountain. Your Mountains are Steam Vents, Thundering Falls, Sacred Foundry, and basic Mountain. Fiery Islet and uncracked fetchlands don't count. Two habits follow:

• When you need blue later, fetch Steam Vents or Thundering Falls before a basic Mountain. Save the basic as your flashback fodder.
• Don't sacrifice your only blue source to flash back Lava Dart unless the damage wins the game or kills a critical creature. Losing access to Preordain and Expressive Iteration costs more than one damage.

Pay 2 life for an untapped Steam Vents or Sacred Foundry only when you will spend the mana that turn. Against aggro, every point of life matters, so let them enter tapped on turns where you aren't using the mana.

Playing Around Removal and Counterspells

Flurry and prowess both trigger when you cast the spell, not when it resolves. Against a counterspell deck, your second spell makes a Monk even if it gets countered. Use your least important spell to bait the counter.

Against cheap spot removal, how much to commit depends on how many threats you have:

• Only one creature: don't pay the {1}{R} equip cost to move the Cutter onto it. Make more Monks instead.
• Several threats already on board: pay the equip cost to move the Cutter onto your best attacker, such as a delirious Dragon's Rage Channeler or a pumped Slickshot Show-Off, so trample pushes damage through blockers.

Against damage-based removal, Mutagenic Growth in response saves your creature and counts as a spell.

Use Lightning Bolt on the opponent's most important creature at the end of their turn, or to clear a blocker before attacks. Pointing it at their face early leaves you with no answer when they land something that matters.

When an opponent exiles graveyards, they shut off delirium and your Lava Dart flashbacks. Flash back Lava Dart while you still can, and stop relying on Dragon's Rage Channeler being a 3/3 flier.

Late Game: Rebuy Value

Boomerang Basics draws a card only when it returns your own permanent. Good targets:

• Stormchaser's Talent: recast it for a second Otter, and both casts count toward Flurry.
• Pompous Battlemage: it re-enters prepared, giving you another Improvised Act copy.

Use Boomerang Basics on an opponent's permanent only when tempo wins the game. For example, bounce a blocker on the turn your attack is lethal.

With spare mana and nothing better to do, pay {3}{U} to level Stormchaser's Talent to level 2 and return Lightning Bolt or Expressive Iteration from your graveyard. Leveling is an activated ability, not a spell, so it does not trigger Flurry or prowess. Level up first, then cast your spells.

Matchup Matrix

Broodscale Bloodchief is the deck to beat. It took 82 of 460 Top 8 slots and won 10 events (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). Next come the mirror at 30 slots, Rakdos Delirium at 29, and Boros Aggro and Scepter Chant at 24 each (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). Build your testing around that order.

Broodscale Bloodchief

Their lists are close to identical. Urza's Saga, Eldrazi Temple, Sowing Mycospawn and Kozilek's Command appear in all 82 Top 8 lists (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). You know their 60, so your plan should be specific:

• Get Cori-Steel Cutter down early and make it flurry every turn.
• Save Lightning Bolt for the creature their plan runs through rather than the opponent's face.
• Use Boomerang Basics on whatever they spent the most mana on. It costs one mana and costs them a turn.

After sideboarding, Consign to Memory is your best card. It counters colorless spells and triggered abilities, and an Eldrazi-and-artifacts deck gives it plenty of both. Replicate it when you can stop two pieces at once.

UR Cutter Prowess (mirror)

Lava Dart is the key card. Each copy can kill two of the following: Monk tokens, Otter tokens, a Dragon's Rage Channeler without delirium, or a Pompous Battlemage. Fire it while their mana is tapped so they can't respond with a pump.

After sideboarding:

• Spell Snare counters Cori-Steel Cutter, Expressive Iteration and Slickshot Show-Off, since all three have mana value 2.
• Unholy Heat comes in to handle delirium threats.
• Tormod's Crypt exiles their graveyard, which turns off their Channeler's delirium.

Expect bigger threats after board. Murktide Regent shows up in 16 of the 30 Top 8 sideboards (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18).

Rakdos Delirium

Treat this as a midrange removal deck. Cori-Steel Cutter is your threat that creature removal can't answer cleanly, because every double-spell turn produces a new body.

• Win the long game with Expressive Iteration and level 2 Stormchaser's Talent, which gets back a spent Lightning Bolt.
• After sideboarding, Tormod's Crypt resets the card-type count their delirium depends on.

Boros Aggro

Play the control role until you have the board. Your shocklands and Fiery Islet cost life, so manage that cost:

• Fetch a basic Mountain whenever you don't need blue. It enters untapped for free, and it keeps the flashback on Lava Dart available.
• Use Mutagenic Growth to win blocks rather than to push damage, since it costs you 2 life.
• Kill their creatures early with Lightning Bolt and Lava Dart. Bring in Unholy Heat.

Scepter Chant

This deck won both the Ottawa Regional Championship and the MTGO RC Super Qualifier on 2026-10-03 (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). You are the beatdown. Plot Slickshot Show-Off on an early turn so that later turns can combine a free threat with open mana. After sideboarding, hold Spell Pierce for a turn when they tap low.

Graveyard combo

In game one you have no graveyard hate, so the only plan is to race. After sideboarding, Tormod's Crypt and Consign to Memory come in. Consign can counter the triggered abilities these decks rely on. Crypt costs zero, so deploy it early and sacrifice it at the last moment.

Big mana

Your clock is faster than their setup. Use Boomerang Basics to turn their biggest investment into a lost turn, and bring in Consign to Memory for their colorless spells.

Control

UW Control finished first and second at the 1,228-player Los Angeles Regional Championship (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). Pace your threats instead of dumping your hand. Crack Fiery Islet for cards, and use level 2 Stormchaser's Talent to get back an answer or burn spell. Bring in Spell Pierce so you can fight through on turns when you deploy Cori-Steel Cutter.

Other combo

• Against creature-based combo, keep Lightning Bolt and Lava Dart ready for the key piece.
• Against spell-based combo, keep up pressure and keep Spell Pierce open on the turn they try to go off.

Sideboard / Tech Guide

Every swap should protect two things: spell count and cheap mana. Cori-Steel Cutter's Flurry fires on your second spell each turn, and your prowess creatures want noncreature spells. One-mana interaction keeps that engine running. Clunky cuts like a turn spent leveling Stormchaser's Talent break it. Nearly everything in this sideboard costs one or zero, so you can board aggressively without losing tempo. Tormod's Crypt is a zero-mana noncreature spell, so casting it still triggers prowess, surveils off Dragon's Rage Channeler, and counts toward Flurry.

Broodscale Bloodchief

This is the matchup the sideboard has to be built around. It took 82 of 460 Top 8 slots (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). Consign to Memory counters any triggered ability or colorless spell, and replicate lets one cast cover several targets. Before the match, know which of their key pieces are triggers or colorless so you never waste a copy. Expect a heavy hate package after sideboarding: Grafdigger's Cage appeared in all 82 Bloodchief Top 8 lists and Trinisphere in 79 (source: MTGTop8 deck exports, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). Cut Stormchaser's Talent and Pompous Battlemage because you need to be faster, not grindier. Boomerang Basics stays in, since resetting their best nonland permanent buys a full turn of damage.

The Mirror

Spell Snare is at its best here. It counters Cori-Steel Cutter, Expressive Iteration, and Slickshot Show-Off, all mana value 2. Consign to Memory stops a Flurry trigger before the Monk token exists, or counters a Mishra's Bauble. Unholy Heat with delirium kills anything they have, including a delirious Dragon's Rage Channeler. Keep Mutagenic Growth: it costs no mana, wins combat, and saves a creature from Lightning Bolt. Bouncing a Cutter with Boomerang Basics only delays it, so those copies come out. Treat Jeskai Aggro and UR Aggro the same way. Prioritize cheap removal and cut the slow cards.

Creature Aggro and Midrange

Swap Stormchaser's Talent for Unholy Heat and race. Against Rakdos Delirium, if their threats depend on card types in their graveyard, Tormod's Crypt resets them at instant speed and costs you no tempo. Keep it until their graveyard is stocked and then exile it in response to the play that matters. Lava Dart stays in all these matchups because it kills small creatures twice.

Graveyard Decks

Tormod's Crypt and Consign to Memory are your hate, and Spell Pierce backs them up against noncreature enablers. Boomerang Basics stays in, since bouncing a cheated-in creature sends it to their hand and out of the graveyard loop. Lava Dart is the cut because it does little against large creatures.

Spell Combo and Control

Spell Pierce wins games on the turn they commit to their key noncreature spell while tapped low. Hold it rather than running out a second threat when they're close to going off. Consign to Memory answers any payoff that triggers. Check their deck for those before you decide how many copies to bring in. Boomerang Basics has few good targets here, so it comes out. Pompous Battlemage stays as a cheap threat that brings its own spell.

Pinnacle Affinity

Wear/Tear is the three-copy slot for permanent-based matchups like this one. Bring in all three, plus Unholy Heat for their creatures. Mutagenic Growth and Stormchaser's Talent don't interact with their board, so they come out.

On the Play vs the Draw

On the draw against aggro, trim one Expressive Iteration for an extra cheap answer, because you can't afford a sorcery-speed turn that adds nothing to the board. On the play against combo and control, keep both copies, since the card advantage pays off when they're spending turns setting up.

Tech Choices & Variations

The core is fixed: Cori-Steel Cutter, the one-mana prowess creatures, Lightning Bolt, Lava Dart, Preordain and Mishra's Bauble are what make the deck work. The real flexibility is in the two-of and three-of support slots, the mana base edges, and how much of the sideboard you move into the main deck. Every swap below uses cards already in the 75, so you can retune between rounds of testing without buying anything.

Main-Deck Flex Slots

Why these slots interact:

• Plotted Slickshot Show-Off. Once plotted, you cast it on a later turn without paying its mana cost. That free cast still counts toward your second spell each turn for Flurry, so extra copies are not purely a beatdown swap.
• Boomerang Basics on your own Stormchaser's Talent. You draw a card, and recasting the Talent makes a fresh Otter. That line is a big reason the two cards sit together.
• Cutting Talents. If you remove the Talents, your own-permanent targets for Boomerang Basics get thinner. Lean toward cutting a Basics alongside them.

Mana Base Edges

The deck runs 19 lands. Two of them are worth questioning based on your field.

• Fiery Islet. It costs life every time you tap it for mana, and it is not a Mountain, so it can't pay Lava Dart flashback. Replacing one with a Mountain gives you more flashback fodder and saves life against aggro. The cost is losing the late-game card you get by sacrificing it.
• Thundering Falls. It enters tapped but surveils, which fuels delirium for Dragon's Rage Channeler. A 4th Steam Vents in its place gives you an untapped Island Mountain for 2 life. That swap is better in fast mirrors and worse in grindier games where delirium matters.
• Sacred Foundry. It is the only land in the 75 that adds {W}. If your sideboard configuration never needs white mana, a third Mountain does the same red job with no life cost.

Sideboard Flex

• Consign to Memory (4). It counters triggered abilities or colorless spells, and replicate lets you counter several triggers at once. Its value rises with how many colorless threats and trigger-based engines you expect. Broodscale Bloodchief took 82 of 460 Top 8 slots and made Top 8 in 46 of 59 events (source: MTGTop8 Top 8s of 32+ player events, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). That is the case for keeping all four.
• Tormod's Crypt (2). It is a zero-cost graveyard exile. The trade-off is that it also exiles fuel you might want. Go up to 3 by trimming a Spell Snare if graveyard decks are common locally. Living End held 17 slots and Instant Reanimator 14 (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18).
• Spell Snare and Spell Pierce (2 each). Snare only hits mana value 2. Pierce hits any noncreature spell but can be paid through later in the game. Shift the split toward whichever card answers the key spells you see most often.
• Unholy Heat (2). With delirium it deals 6 damage, which makes it your answer to large creatures. Consider a third copy, or moving it main, if creature decks dominate your room.

Tuning for Your Local Field

• Aggro-heavy room (Boros Aggro, Rakdos Delirium, mirrors):
  • Cut Mutagenic Growth and a Fiery Islet.
  • Bring Unholy Heat main.
  • Consider the 4th Steam Vents over Thundering Falls.
• Big-permanent or Eldrazi-heavy room:
  • Go to 4 Boomerang Basics.
  • Keep the full 4 Consign to Memory in the sideboard.
  • Prioritize the hasty, evasive threats: Slickshot Show-Off over Pompous Battlemage.
• Control-heavy room:
  • Keep both Stormchaser's Talent, since the Level 2 recursion matters in long games.
  • Consider a 3rd Expressive Iteration over a Pompous Battlemage.
• Graveyard-heavy room:
  • Add a 3rd Tormod's Crypt to the sideboard by trimming a counterspell that is weak against that field.

Modern's card pool is stable for now. The 2026-10-12 announcement made no Modern changes, and the next announcement is set for 2026-11-30 (source: Wizards of the Coast, Banned and Restricted Announcement, 2026-10-12). That means tuning comes down to reading your room, not reacting to bans.

Budget Options

The list runs about $411 at TCGplayer market prices. Most of that cost likely sits in the mana base, not the spells. The engine of the deck, meaning Cori-Steel Cutter, the one-drop creatures, and the cheap spells, is probably not where your money goes. The lands are. That is good news for you, because the mana base is the part you can downgrade while keeping the deck's core game plan.

Where the Money Probably Is

• Fetchlands: 4 Scalding Tarn, 3 Bloodstained Mire, 3 Arid Mesa. That is ten slots, and probably the largest share of the total.
• Shocklands: 3 Steam Vents and 1 Sacred Foundry.
• Utility lands: 2 Fiery Islet and 1 Thundering Falls.
• Spells to check before buying: Dragon's Rage Channeler, Expressive Iteration, Mishra's Bauble, Slickshot Show-Off, and Cori-Steel Cutter itself. Prices move, so look these up at the time you buy rather than assuming they are cheap.

What You Can Cut, and What It Costs You

Fetchlands to basics. This is the biggest saving. Replace the fetches with basic Mountains and Islands. Here is what you give up:

• Graveyard fuel for Delirium. A cracked fetch puts a land in your graveyard on turn one or two. That is one of the four card types Dragon's Rage Channeler needs to get +2/+2 and flying. Without fetches, your land type has to come from other sources:
  • Sacrificing Fiery Islet.
  • Paying Lava Dart's flashback cost, which sends a Mountain to the graveyard.
  • Surveiling a land into the graveyard with Channeler.
  Delirium still happens, just a turn or so later on average.
• Color flexibility. Every fetch here can find Steam Vents or Thundering Falls, because both are Mountains. So one fetch gives you whichever color you need. A basic Island or Mountain locks you into one color. You need red on turn one for Monastery Swiftspear and blue for Preordain. A split basic mana base will sometimes give you the wrong one.
• Lava Dart compatibility. A basic Island is not a Mountain, so it cannot pay Lava Dart's flashback. Every Island you add makes Dart's second shot harder to cast.

You do gain one thing. Basics cost no life, while fetches and shocks do. That helps you in aggressive matchups where the life total is a real resource.

Sacred Foundry to Mountain. Foundry is the only land here that adds {W}. Nothing in the main deck has a white mana cost. If you are not playing white sideboard cards, swap it for a basic Mountain and lose nothing in the main deck.

Shocklands: trim, don't cut. Steam Vents is what keeps a basic-heavy mana base working. It makes both colors, and it is a Mountain for Lava Dart. Cut fetches long before you cut Vents. If you must save more, add a second Thundering Falls. It shares Vents' Island Mountain typing, but it enters tapped. That costs real damage in a deck that wants to spend all its mana every turn.

Spells: hold the line. Do not swap out Cori-Steel Cutter, Lightning Bolt, Lava Dart, Preordain, Mishra's Bauble, or the one-drop creatures. Bauble costs zero mana and enables the Flurry trigger on Cutter. Without it, the deck loses much of its explosiveness.

The softer slots are Pompous Battlemage and Stormchaser's Talent. Battlemage appeared in 15 of the 30 UR Cutter Prowess Top 8 lists, and Talent in 11 of 30 (source: MTGTop8 deck exports, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). If either is expensive when you buy, fill those slots with more copies of cheaper cheap spells already in this 75 and add them later.

Sideboard Priority

Build the sideboard last, and start with the cards that are close to universal:

• Unholy Heat was in all 30 UR Cutter Prowess Top 8 sideboards.
• Consign to Memory was in 29.
• Spell Pierce was in 25, Spell Snare in 24, and Tormod's Crypt in 21.

(source: MTGTop8 deck exports, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18)

The most-played Modern archetype across that same window was Broodscale Bloodchief, with 82 of 460 Top 8 slots (source: MTGTop8 event pages, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). Since Consign to Memory counters triggered abilities and colorless spells, buy all four copies early.

Upgrade Path

1. Start here. Buy the full spell suite and creatures. For lands, use 3 Steam Vents, 2 Fiery Islet, 1 Thundering Falls, and basics for the rest. Lean toward Mountains so Lava Dart always has fuel, and include just enough Islands to cast Preordain on curve.
2. Buy Scalding Tarn first among the fetches. It finds either basic type and every dual, so each copy replaces a basic with no downside except the 1 life.
3. Add Bloodstained Mire and Arid Mesa next. They find Mountain or the dual-typed lands. They are slightly less flexible than Tarn, but you get the same Delirium boost.
4. Finish the sideboard in the priority order above.
5. Buy Sacred Foundry last, and only if your sideboard actually needs white mana.

A basics-plus-Vents build still plays the real game plan of cheap spells into Cutter triggers. What you give up is consistency and speed of Delirium, not the deck's strategy. Upgrade the fetches before you consider any change to the spells.

Common Mistakes

1. Spending Your Spells One Per Turn

Cori-Steel Cutter does nothing until your second spell in a turn. The most common way to lose with this deck is casting a cantrip on turn two, a burn spell on turn three, and a threat on turn four. That plays fair Magic and leaves your engine idle. Before you cast anything, ask whether you can pair it with another spell this turn. If you can't, ask whether holding it until next turn makes a token. A turn with zero spells followed by a turn with three is usually better than three turns with one each.

Remember that Flurry counts spells cast on any turn, including your opponent's. Holding Lightning Bolt and Lava Dart to fire both at end of turn gives you a Monk that untaps ready to attack. That frees Cori-Steel Cutter to stay on your best attacker instead of moving to a summoning-sick body.

2. Burning Your Free Spells Too Early

Mishra's Bauble, Mutagenic Growth paid with life, a flashed-back Lava Dart, a plotted Slickshot Show-Off, and the prepared copy from Pompous Battlemage all count as spells you cast without needing much mana. They are the cheapest Flurry and prowess triggers you have.

• Casting Mishra's Bauble on turn one with nothing else going on wastes a trigger you could have used on a key turn. Its card is still there whenever you cast it.
• Plotting Slickshot Show-Off early is correct when you have spare mana. Cast it for free later on a turn when it is your second spell, not on a turn when it is your only one.
• Don't fire the prepared copy from Pompous Battlemage just to loot. Save it for the turn it turns one spell into two.

3. Forgetting the Monk Misses Its Own Trigger

The Flurry token enters after your second spell is cast, so it gets no prowess bonus from that spell. Only spells cast after it exists pump it. If you plan to attack with a fresh Monk, sequence the spell you want to resolve last as your third spell, not your second. The usual example is Mutagenic Growth or a Lava Dart flashback to clear a blocker.

4. Mismanaging the Equipment

The attach from Flurry is free. The equip cost of {1}{R} is not. Players often pay to equip at sorcery speed in the main phase, then make a Monk and get to move the Cutter for nothing anyway. If you expect to trigger Flurry this turn, wait and take the free attach.

The opposite error matters too. Don't automatically move the Cutter to every new token. The Monk needs the Cutter's haste only if it was created this turn and you want to attack with it. A delirious Dragon's Rage Channeler or a Monastery Swiftspear with a stack of prowess triggers often makes better use of trample.

5. Running Out of Mountains, or Blue

The Lava Dart flashback cost is sacrificing a Mountain. Steam Vents, Thundering Falls, Sacred Foundry, and basic Mountain qualify. Fiery Islet does not. Two mistakes follow from this:

• Fetching the wrong land. Sacred Foundry and Mountain produce no blue. If you fetch them early with a hand full of Preordain and Boomerang Basics, you strand your spells. Fetch a blue-producing land first unless you have a specific red-only reason.
• Darting away your only blue source. Sacrificing Steam Vents to kill an X/1 feels free until you can't cast Expressive Iteration next turn. Count your remaining colors before you sacrifice.

6. Breaking Your Own Delirium

Flashing back Lava Dart exiles it. If it is the only instant in your graveyard, you just shrank Dragon's Rage Channeler back to a 1/1. Count your card types before every flashback. The types this deck fills most easily are land, artifact, instant, and sorcery. Creatures and Stormchaser's Talent add creature and enchantment as backups.

Delirium also forces Dragon's Rage Channeler to attack each combat if able. Turning it on the turn before your opponent lands a big blocker can throw your best threat away. When the board is hostile, use surveil to hold a type out of the graveyard rather than filling it immediately.

7. Wasting Expressive Iteration

You may play the exiled card only this turn. Casting Expressive Iteration with no mana left, or after your land drop, regularly exiles a card you could have used. Cast it before playing a land, with mana open. Then exile the card you can actually play this turn, not just the one you value least.

8. Paying Life Like It's Free

Fetches cost 1 life, shocks cost 2, Fiery Islet costs 1 per tap, and Mutagenic Growth costs 2. Against aggressive decks, those payments add up to a turn of damage you handed over yourself. Enter Steam Vents tapped when you don't need the mana this turn. Tap a basic before Fiery Islet. Save Mutagenic Growth for when it wins combat, saves a creature from damage-based removal, or completes a Flurry, rather than adding two damage to a race you're already winning.

Tournament Prep & Final Notes

What to Practice Before the Event

The deck's difficulty is in counting. Most of your losses at this level come from misordering a turn, not from bad draws. Goldfish until these become automatic:

1. Flurry math every turn. Cori-Steel Cutter triggers on your second spell each turn, and creature spells count. Before you cast anything, count how many spells you can cast and decide which one is second. Your cheapest enablers are Mishra's Bauble for zero, Mutagenic Growth for 2 life, a Lava Dart flashback, and a plotted Slickshot Show-Off. Spend those for the trigger and keep your real mana for the spells that matter.
2. Fetch planning. Every fetch decision is also a Lava Dart decision. Steam Vents, Thundering Falls, and Sacred Foundry all have the Mountain type, so they all pay for flashback. Fiery Islet does not. Before each fetch, know what is left in your library. Scalding Tarn cannot find Sacred Foundry, and Arid Mesa and Bloodstained Mire can.
3. Life budgeting. Fetches, shocks, Fiery Islet, and Mutagenic Growth all cost life. Against aggressive decks, fetch basic Mountain early and save the shock payments for turns when the extra color or tempo actually matters.
4. Delirium tracking. Your realistic card types are land, artifact, creature, instant, sorcery, and enchantment (Stormchaser's Talent). Know which two or three types you still need, and use Dragon's Rage Channeler surveils and Thundering Falls to fill those gaps rather than just to dig.

Rules Interactions to Know Cold

• Flurry works on the opponent's turn. Casting Lightning Bolt and then a Lava Dart in their end step makes a Monk. You may attach Cori-Steel Cutter to the new token as part of the trigger, with no equip cost.
• The Monk misses the spell that made it. The token is created after your second spell was cast, so its prowess starts counting from your third spell. Sequence your biggest pump spells after the trigger resolves.
• Delirium forces attacks. With delirium, Dragon's Rage Channeler attacks each combat if able. Against a big blocker, decide in advance whether you can afford to turn it on.
• Expressive Iteration can find a land drop. You may play the exiled card this turn, and that includes a land if you haven't played one yet. If the exiled card is a spell you cast, it counts toward Flurry.
• Mishra's Bauble delays its draw. The card arrives at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Crack it on the opponent's turn and you draw on your own upkeep. It still counts as a spell cast on the turn you cast it.
• Pompous Battlemage copies are cast. The card's text says you cast a copy of its spell. That makes the copy a noncreature spell for prowess, Dragon's Rage Channeler surveils, and Flurry counts.
• Boomerang Basics on your own permanent draws a card. Bouncing your own Stormchaser's Talent lets you recast it for a second Otter and replaces itself.
• Consign to Memory has narrow targets. It counters only triggered abilities or colorless spells. Before you board it in, confirm the opponent's key cards actually fit one of those categories.

Expected Field and Sideboard Drills

In 59 tracked Modern events, Broodscale Bloodchief took 82 of 460 Top 8 slots, UR Cutter Prowess took 30, and Rakdos Delirium took 29 (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). Plan your testing in that order:

• Broodscale Bloodchief first. Spend the most reps on this matchup, and spend them post-board.
• The mirror second. In the mirror, your plan revolves around Unholy Heat, Spell Snare, and Spell Pierce.
• Have a fixed plan for every common matchup. Write your sideboard swaps on a card so you aren't deciding them under clock pressure.

On format stability, the 2026-10-12 Banned and Restricted announcement made no changes to Modern, and the next announcement is scheduled for 2026-11-30 (source: Wizards of the Coast, 2026-10-12). Cori-Steel Cutter is legal in Modern, though banned in Standard and Pioneer (source: Wizards of the Coast B&R list, accessed 2026-10-19).

Time Management

The deck wins quickly, but it generates a lot of actions. On a chess clock, the dangers are the prowess triggers, surveils, fetch shuffles, and Flurry decisions stacking up across a long game three. To keep your clock healthy:

• Plan during the opponent's turn. Decide your fetch target and your spell order then, not on your own priority.
• Make surveil decisions fast. Ask one question: does this card help delirium or my next turn? If not, bin it.
• Don't over-optimize trivial turns. A turn where you cast one spell doesn't need deep thought. Save your time for the turns where Flurry and lethal math intersect.

Final Assessment

This list took 2nd of 286 players at the MTGO Showcase Challenge on 2026-10-17. A second UR Cutter Prowess list also made Top 4 there (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-17).

Its core matches the shell in every tracked Top 8 list: 4 Cori-Steel Cutter, 4 Lightning Bolt, 4 Preordain, 4 Lava Dart, and 4 Mishra's Bauble (source: MTGTop8, 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-18). The distinguishing choices are three:

• Two Pompous Battlemage
• Two Stormchaser's Talent
• Three Boomerang Basics

Together these give the deck more cheap spell density and more card-neutral Flurry enablers.

At roughly $411, this is an efficient buy-in for a deck that punishes slow hands and rewards tight sequencing. If you are willing to count spells every turn and drill the post-board Broodscale Bloodchief matchup, this is a strong choice for your next event.

Metagame Context

Built from RigelWeenie's 2nd Place list at MTGO Showcase Challenge (286 players, 2026-10-17), via MTGTop8. Metagame context comes from a research brief dated 2026-10-19 covering 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-19, drawn from MTGTop8; Wizards of the Coast. Card text and prices: Scryfall.

Source: tournament results. Decklist and placements as reported by the event organizer.