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Meme or Dream? 69-Card No-Sideboard Dogs (Standard)


A few months ago, Wizards started publishing decklists from Magic Arena. To qualify for publication, a deck needs to win at least six matches in a row at platinum rank or better. This sounds simple on its face, but some incredibly janky lists end up being published every time lists are published. This has led to speculation that a bug in the system allows decks that didn't actually win six matches in a row to be published or, for the most tin-foil-hatted crowd, the idea that Wizards just publishes whatever it wants, to make the metagame look more diverse than it really is. 

This week's deck honestly has me wondering if players on Magic Arena intentionally are trying to quality for Meme or Dream? Not only is it lacking a sideboard, but for some reason, it also has exactly 69 cards in the main deck (which I guess qualifies it as a meme even without playing any matches). Oh yeah, and it's essentially Dog tribal, with Winota, Joiner of Forces to help put more Dogs into play. While playing 69 cards in any deck is inadvisable, playing 69 cards in Dog tribal—a tribe that struggles to fill a 60-card deck with playables—is especially ambitious. Could 69-Card No-Sideboard Dogs be a dream hiding behind an extremely meme-y exterior, or will it be just as janky as it looks on paper? Let's play some matches and find out!

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