What if Dandân Was a Miracle? Try WrathWrath by Sarusta
As appreciation for custom boardgame-style, open-and-play formats as Dandân grows, variants with other cards in the Forgetful Fish limelight are coming to the surface. Particularly so after the recent 27-minute buyout of Chaos Vault: Secret Lair of Dandân by scalpers aiming to double the price on the secondary market.
Today, we get to look at a Dandân variation that sparks my heart. Miracles, my primary joy in Legacy, has been powercrept out by the absurdities of Commander-focused snowballs and Modern Horizons of all shades.
Miracles remain, however, in the creative minds of those who experiment in the Forgetful Fish space. Check out WrathWrath!
Top Deck a.k.a. WrathWrath by Sarusta
The decklist and primer below were created by Sarusta and were shared with me via Discord. The primer has been lightly edited for readability.
Spells (45)
8 Brainstorm [u]
8 Portent [u]
8 Memory Lapse [1][u]
6 Predict [1][u]
2 Swerve [u][r]
2 Misdirection [3][u][u]
11 Thunderous Wrath [4][r][r]
Artifacts (3)
3 Mishra's Bauble [0]
Lands (32)
2 Halimar Depths [u]
8 Island [u]
4 Izzet Boilerworks [u][r]
6 Lonely Sandbar [u]
4 Smoldering Crater [r]
8 Temple of Epiphany [u][r]
Maybeboard (9)
Consider [u]
Faithless Looting [r]
Noxious Revival [phyrex-g]
Thought Scour [u]
Mission Briefing [u][u]
Recoup [1][r]
Redirect [u][u]
Mystic Retrieval [2][u]
Ricochet Trap [3][r]
Deck Primer by Sarusta
Top Deck is a single-deck format I created akin to Dandân and the like, heavily inspired by Dandân's use of Memory Lapse in a shared deck.
The win condition is Thunderous Wrath. Dome the opponent four times to win. If the library runs out of cards, whoever draws the "0th card" loses.
Play like a typical game of Magic: The Gathering, except use the shared library. Players are allowed a free mulligan if they believe their hand will lead to a non-game (e.g., hands that contain four or more lands, one or fewer lands, or hands with three or more Thunderous Wraths, etc.)
As a for-fun deck, the list is changeable; feel free to experiment. The Maybeboard are cards I've considered at various times. The only parts I believe are core are the Thunderous Wraths, Brainstorms, Portents, and Memory Lapses.
I recommend keeping Predict and the Redirect-like effects. Makes for fun stacks.
Scry lands and cycle lands are great.
Mishra's Bauble has tested quite well.
The previous version included 4 copies of Temporal Mastery; they really didn't do anything.
Remand sounds good, but creates too many feel-bad moments; Remanding a Miracle is the worst feeling.
There aren't enough Islands to support Mystic Sanctuary.
You can use Thunderous Wraths to track life since nothing in the deck can remove them from the graveyard. Four Thunderous Wraths are lethal.
If you add effects that care about Thunderous Wraths in the graveyard (e.g., Flashback effects, Noxious Revival, Mystic Retrieval, etc.), you may need dice or another life-total tracking method.
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Featured image: Thunderous Wrath by Adam Paquette