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Cecil, Dark Knight
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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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-20%synergy
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-1%synergy
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-6%synergy
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16%synergy
Godless Shrine
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14%synergy
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-7%synergy
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Silent Clearing
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23%synergy
Fetid Heath
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-3%synergy
Shineshadow Snarl
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-6%synergy
Orzhov Basilica
34%inclusion36 decks106 decks
-7%synergy
Brightclimb Pathway
32%inclusion34 decks106 decks
5%synergy
Fell the Profane
30%inclusion32 decks106 decks
18%synergy
Tainted Field
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-22%synergy
Path of Ancestry
27%inclusion29 decks106 decks
4%synergy
Concealed Courtyard
23%inclusion24 decks106 decks
2%synergy
Boggart Trawler
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16%synergy
Scoured Barrens
23%inclusion24 decks106 decks
-1%synergy
Witch Enchanter
22%inclusion23 decks106 decks
10%synergy
Temple of Silence
22%inclusion23 decks106 decks
-18%synergy
Desolate Mire
20%inclusion21 decks106 decks
4%synergy
Shadowy Backstreet
19%inclusion20 decks106 decks
-4%synergy
Glasswing Grace
19%inclusion20 decks106 decks
11%synergy
Exotic Orchard
18%inclusion19 decks106 decks
-7%synergy
Starting Town
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15%synergy
Evolving Wilds
15%inclusion16 decks106 decks
-5%synergy
Terramorphic Expanse
13%inclusion14 decks106 decks
-1%synergy
Insomnia, Crown City
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10%synergy
Scrubland
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1%synergy
City of Brass
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8%synergy
Myriad Landscape
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-9%synergy
Razorgrass Ambush
10%inclusion11 decks106 decks
8%synergy
Mana Confluence
10%inclusion11 decks106 decks
7%synergy
Sejiri Shelter
10%inclusion11 decks106 decks
5%synergy
Malakir Rebirth
8.5%inclusion9 decks106 decks
-3%synergy
Prismatic Vista
7.5%inclusion8 decks106 decks
2%synergy
Agadeem's Awakening
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3%synergy
Fabled Passage
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-4%synergy
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-3%synergy
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0%synergy
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5.7%inclusion6 decks106 decks
2%synergy
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-5%synergy
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