
Reanimating a bunch of lands with Splendid Reclamation is one of our best ways to ramp into this kill. It takes eight mana to cast a Galvanic Iteration, flash it back, and follow up with a Tasha's Hideous Laughter. While not directly related, the Tasha's Hideous Laughter plan is connected to our Crab Mill plan by Splendid Reclamation. In most matchups, Tasha's Hideous Laughter will exile somewhere around 15 cards from our opponent's library, which means it usually takes two (if we have some other mill) or three (if we don't have other mill) to win the game. The second way we can mill our opponent out is with the help of Tasha's Hideous Laughter, Maddening Cacophony, and spell-copying effects like Galvanic Iteration and Dual Strike. Of course, we can easily have more than four fetchlands in our graveyard later in the game, which makes it even easier to mill our opponent's entire deck, and doubly so if we manage to do some early-game milling with Ruin Crab, Maddening Cacophony, and Tasha's Hideous Laughter. With two Ruin Crabs, this will mill 48 cards, which should empty our opponent's entire library. With a single Ruin Crab on the battlefield, we can reanimate the lands in our graveyard to mill 24 cards.

Let's say we get just four fetchlands in our graveyard, which isn't too difficult. Later, we can reanimate them all with Splendid Reclamation, either as ramp to set up our "copy Tasha's Hideous Laughter plan" or, ideally, with a Ruin Crab or two on the battlefield. In the early game, they give us some incidential double-milling with Ruin Crab while also stocking our graveyard with lands. These lands do a couple of things for our deck. Our Splendid Reclamation land-reanimation plan takes advantage of the fact that our deck is playing a very unique (and very budget friendly) mana base consisting of 29 lands, with 14 of the Streets of New Capenna sac fetchlands and 15 basic lands we can tutor up. In general-especially before sideboarding-it plays like a combo deck: we're trying to set up a big turn where we'll mill our opponent's entire deck, either by copying Tasha's Hideous Laughter two or three times with Galvanic Iteration or Dual Strike or by reanimating a bunch of fetchlands with Splendid Reclamation with a Ruin Crab or two on the battlefield.

Splendid Mill, as its name suggests, is a mill deck. Hey there, Budget Magic lovers, it's that time once again! This week, we're heading back to Standard (a Standard that has been almost shockingly good since Streets of New Capenna was released) to see if we can mill our opponents out in one of the jankiest ways possible-by combining Splendid Reclamation with the common fetchlands from Streets of New Capenna and Hedron Crab! While we can also win by copying Tasha's Hideous Laughter or Maddening Cacophony a few times with Galvanic Iteration, our main plan is to take advantage of a very unique mana base-29 lands, with all of them being either the Streets of New Capenna sac fetchlands or basic lands to fetch out-to power up Splendid Reclamation, turning it into an absurd ramp spell that can also mill our opponent's entire deck if we find a Ruin Crab or two! The best part? The deck costs just $77 in paper and has only 16 main-deck rares for Magic Arena purposes! Is it finally time for Splendid Reclamation to shine in Standard? Let's get to the video and find out then, we'll talk more about the deck!Īnother quick reminder: if you enjoy Budget Magic and the other content on MTGGoldfish, make sure to subscribe to the MTGGoldfish YouTube channel to keep up on all the latest and greatest.
