MPDC Season 26 Champion

Another season of Monday Pauper Deck Challenge is in the books, and with it we bid farewell to the Return to Ravnica block in Standard. I can't think of a better way to close it out than to highlight the championship winning decklist from MPDC Season 26 WORLDS: 4CC ETB, which stands for Four Color Control Enters the Battlefield. And it just so happens that the deck is built around three of best Commons from Return to Ravnica block: the Gatekeepers! Let's take a look at the list:

4CC ETB

1st place by MyGalaxy in MPDC 26 WORLDS

Creatures 4 Centaur Healer 4 Cloudfin Raptor 4 Keening Apparition 4 Saruli Gatekeepers 4 Sunspire Gatekeepers 4 Ubul Sar Gatekeepers 24 cards Other Spells 4 Gods Willing 3 Peel from Reality 3 Sign in Blood 2 Font of Return 1 Zephyr Charge 13 cards

Lands 4 Simic Guildgate 3 Azorius Guildgate 3 Evolving Wilds 2 Dimir Guildgate 2 Forest 2 Orzhov Guildgate 2 Selesnya Guildgate 1 Golgari Guildgate 1 Island 1 Plains 1 Swamp 1 Transguild Promenade 23 cards Sideboard 4 Revoke Existence 3 Duress 3 Negate 2 Shrivel 2 Pillar of Light 1 Zephyr Charge 15 cards

It's pretty easy to see what this deck is trying to accomplish! Recurring the Gatekeepers (as well as the Centaur Healer) with both Peel from Reality and Font of Return creates some amazing card value. While the metagame saw its share of aggressive strategies, this list ensures that it can live long enough to get this value with eight different sources of Life-gain! It also has great game against Enchantment-based strategies, with 4 Keening Apparition in the main and another 4 Revoke Existence in the board. Throw in Gods Willing to protect those creatures, Sign in Blood for card draw, and even a one-of Zephyr Charge to sneak all of those ground based creatures past your opponent's defenders, and you've got quite the game plan! Congrats to MyGalaxy on his unique build and his excellent piloting skills in taking this deck undefeated through the entire tournament!

I can't wait to see what new archetypes emerge with Khans of Tarkir. And maybe you'll be the one to pilot one of those new archetypes to victory in the capstone event of Season 27 of MPDC, which starts next Monday, October 20th. Don't miss it!