╔══════════════════╗ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒ ║How do you want to║ ┌──No────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▶┃ Burn ┃▒ ║ win the game? ║ │ ┃ ┃▒ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ I'll either win │ ║Do you want to win║ │ ║ How many ║ ┌─No──▶┃ Zoo ┃▒ ├─▶│ quickly or fall │─────────────────────────▶║ with creatures? ║───┴──Yes──▶║ creatures? ║ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ behind. │ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ └──────────────────┘ ╚══════════════════╝ ╚══════════════════╝ ║ ║ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ║ Do you want a ║ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ ┌▶║ budget deck? ║──┤ ┃ ┃▒ │ │I'll make big mana│ ║ Do you like ║ │ │ ║ ║ └─Yes─▶┃ Stompy ┃▒ ├─▶│ to play huge │────▶║ playing with ║───No──────────────────────────┐ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ threats early. │ ║ colorless cards? ║ ▼ │ │ A few good │ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ └──────────────────┘ ║ ║ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ├─▶│ creatures. │─┘ ╔══════════════════╗ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ┃ ┃▒ │ └──────────────────┘ ║ ║ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ ┃ Tooth and Nail ┃▒ │ ┌▶║ Elves or Robots? ║ ┃ ┃▒ │ Yes ┃ ┃▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ║ ║ ┌───▶┃ Affinity ┃▒ │ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ A whole lot of │ │ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ▼ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ├─▶│creatures at once.│─┘ │ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ └──────────────────┘ │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒ │ ├────Robots───┘ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ║ Eldrazi or ║ ┌─Planeswalkers─▶┃ RG Tron ┃▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ║ Planeswalkers? ║────┤ ┃ ┃▒ └─▶│ One is enough. │ └────Elves────────▶┃ Elves ┃▒ │ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ └──────────────────┘ ┃ ┃▒ │ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ │I'll find and play│ ║ ║ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ║ ║ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ a specific combo │ ║ And if you don't ║ └─Eldrazi───────▶┃ W/B Eldrazi ┃▒ │ ║ 20 damage or 10 ║ ┃ ┃▒ ├─▶│ of cards that │────▶║find your combo...║ ┃ ┃▒ └─▶║ poison counters? ║──────┬───Poison──▶┃ Infect ┃▒ │ │ simply win. │ ║ ║ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ║ ║ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ └──────────────────┘ ╚══════════════════╝ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ │ I'll gain small │ ║ Creatures or ║ ┌─Counterspells─▶┃ Scapeshift ┃▒ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ├────▶│advantages card by│────▶║ counterspells? ║────┤ ┃ ┃▒ └───Damage──▶┃ Bogles ┃▒ │ │ │ card until I do. │ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ └──────────────────┘ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ │ │ I'll either win │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┃ ┃▒ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ├────▶│ quickly or fall │────▶┃ Soul Sisters ┃▒ └─Creatures─────▶┃ Kiki Chord ┃▒ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ │ behind. │ ┃ ┃▒ ┃ ┃▒ ┌──Yes───▶┃ Storm ┃▒ │ │I'll deny them the│ │ └──────────────────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ┃ ┃▒ ├▶│ resources they │───────┐ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ need to win. │ │ │ │ I'll play small, │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ └──────────────────┘ │ │ │efficient threats │ ┃ ┃▒ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ ├────▶│ and stop their │────▶┃Kiki-Exarch Combo ┃▒ ║ ║ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ │ │ answers. │ ┃ ┃▒ ║ Do you like ║ ├──No────▶┃ Ad Nauseam ┃▒ │ │ │ └──────────────────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ┌───────────▶║ puzzles? ║─────────┘ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ║ ║ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ │ │ │I'll play threats │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ ├────▶│ and answers that │────▶┃ Abzan Company ┃▒ │ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ │ │are hard to stop. │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ║Many creatures, or║ ┌──Many───▶┃ Living End ┃▒ │ │ │ └──────────────────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ║ just a few? ║────────┤ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ Spells ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ │ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ ▲ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ │ │If I don't find my│ ║ Creatures or ║ │ │ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ │I don't care about│ │ └────▶│combo, I'll lose. │────▶║ Spells? ║─────┴─Creatures────────────┘ ├───Few───▶┃Goryo's Vengeance ┃▒ │ │ winning, I just │ │ └──────────────────┘ ║ ║ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┃ ┃▒ ├─▶│want people to say│ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ "What was that?" │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▶║ Which resources? ║ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ └──────────────────┘ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ║ ║ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ ┃ ┃▒ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ▼ ┌────Too many───────────▶┃ Zombie Hunt ┃▒ │ └──Plants─▶┃ Dredgevine ┃▒ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ║ Do you want a ║ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ║ budget deck? ║─────┐ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ║ ║ │ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┃ ┃▒ │ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ├────Very few───────────▶┃ Belcher ┃▒ ├──▶│ Their hand │────▶┃ 8-Rack ┃▒ │ │ Yes │ ┃ ┃▒ │ └──────────────────┘ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ │ ║ ║ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ├──▶│ Their lands │──┐ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ │ └────▶║ How many lands? ║ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ └───No─────────┐ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ┌Yes───▶┃ Cheerios ┃▒ ├──▶│ Their draws │─┐└─▶┃ Blue Moon ┃▒ │ │ I'll gain small │ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┃ ┃▒ ├▶│advantages card by│─────┐│ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │card until I win. │ ││ ║ But really... do ║ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ └──▶│ Everything I can │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ └──────────────────┘ │└────▶║you like winning? ║───────┤ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ └──────────────────┘ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ ║ ║ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ ╚══════════════════╝ └─No───▶┃ Mill ┃▒ ▼ └──▶┃ Lantern Control ┃▒ │ │ ┃ ┃▒ ╔══════════════════╗ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ║ ║ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║Do you want to use║ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ │ ║ your graveyard? ║ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ┌─▶┃ Hate Bears ┃▒ │ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ ║ ║ ├────No─────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ ║ What's your win ║ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▶║ condition? ║ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ I'll play small, │ ║ ║ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ │efficient threats │ ╚══════════════════╝ └────Yes──────▶┃ Loam Pox ┃▒ ├─▶│ and stop their │────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ answers. │ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ Attacking with │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┃Flow chart by Kerrick Long.┃█ ├──▶│ animated lands │─┐ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┃ ┃█ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ ┃ https://kerricklong.com ┃█ │ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ │I'll play threats │ ║ Aggressive or ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛█ │ └▶┃ Jeskai Control ┃▒ └─▶│ and answers that │ ┌───────────────▶║ controlling? ║ │ █████████████████████████████ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┃ ┃▒ │are hard to stop. │ │ ║ ║ │ ├──▶│Dragonlord Ojutai │─┐ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ └──────────────────┘ │ ╚══════════════════╝ │ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ │ │ ▼ │ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ▼ │ ┌─Controlling──┤ ╔══════════════════╗ ╔══════════════════╗ │ │ ┃ ┃▒ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ▼ │ ║ ║ ║ ║ │ ┌──────────────────┐ └▶┃ UW Control ┃▒ ║ ║ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ║ Creatures or ║ ║Many creatures, or║ ├──▶│ Mindslaver │─┐ ┃ ┃▒ ║ Tarmogoyf: ║ │ ║ ║ │ ║ instants? ║───Creatures──▶║ just a few? ║ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ║ Yea or Nay? ║ │ ║ How good is ║ │ ║ ║ ║ ║ │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║ ║ │ ║ Lightning Bolt? ║ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ║ ║ │ │ │ └──▶│ Tasigur │ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ ╚══════════════════╝ │ │ │ └──────────────────┘ └▶┃ U Tron ┃▒ ┌────────Nay─┴─Yea──────┘ │ └Aggressive─┐ │ └──┬───────Many─────────┐ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┌────────Great─┴─Meh─┐ │ └─Instants───────┐ Few │ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ └─────┐ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒ │ ┃ ┃▒ ┃ BW Tokens ┃▒┃ Jund ┃▒┃ Abzan ┃▒┃ Wilted Abzan ┃▒┃ UR Delver ┃▒┃ Temur Delver ┃▒┃ Merfolk ┃▒ └──────▶┃ Grixis Control ┃▒ ┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒┃ ┃▒ ┃ ┃▒ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒