Hey everyone! Today you all get to see me play in the Fandom Legends event I participated in last week. This is a past broadcast from my twitch channel, www.twitch.tv/alieldrazi. We take a Golos deck to a competitive event with competitive players and finish... Highly with it. I've been working on Golos for about three to four weeks now and I'm pretty happy with this finish after I've committed so much time to it. I think it's a very fun deck and one that will last after rotation. Here's the decklist!

Time Stamps:

Round 1 - 00:00:21

Round 2 - 00:50:45

Round 3 - 01:25:07

Round 4 - 01:40:23

Round 5 - 02:11:34

Quarterfinals - 02:32:15

Semifinals - 03:04:46

Finals - 03:32:11

Five-Color Golos | Core Set 2020 Standard | Ali Aintrazi

• Creatures (18)
• 2 Massacre Girl
• 4 Elvish Rejuvenator
• 4 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
• 4 Hydroid Krasis
• 4 Risen Reef

• Instants (8)
• 4 Growth Spiral
• 4 Nexus of Fate

• Sorceries (4)
• 4 Circuitous Route

• Lands (30)
• 1 Forest
• 1 Island
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Arch of Orazca
• 1 Dimir Guildgate
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Gateway Plaza
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Gruul Guildgate
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Orzhov Guildgate
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Simic Guildgate
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Temple of Triumph
• 1 Thornwood Falls
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 2 Breeding Pool
• 2 Hinterland Harbor
• 2 Temple of Mystery
• 4 Field of the Dead

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Agent of Treachery
• 3 Cerulean Drake
• 2 Legion's End
• 2 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
• 2 Noxious Grasp
• 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
• 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity

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I don't want to spoil anything in case you haven't seen the video, but this deck is pretty dang good. It really wants a Farseek or Rampant Growth over Risen Reef but we don't have access to a two-mana ramp spell that gets a land outside of Thunderherd Migration which we can't really play without making major changes. I really like the main deck but Risen Reef and Massacre Girl are flex slots and the Sideboard can easily be changed to accommodate what meta you expect to face. I predicted the meta a little wrong as I didn't run into as many vampire / Mono-Red decks as I expected so the Cerulean Drake and to a lesser extent the Legion's End kind of rotted in my Sideboard.

Just some quick tips about the Sideboard, I usually only bring in Zacama when I am cutting Nexus of Fates, this is usually against aggressive decks. My plan against aggressive decks is to trim Nexus and Reefs for Zacama, Agent of Treachery, Liliana, Yarok, and sometimes Legion's End. You'll be able to see how I sideboard against the biggest decks in the format if you watch the video gameplay. You usually don't change the deck too drastically just because you tend to be a combo deck late in the game. The longer the game goes, the closer you get to Nexus loop with Golos. Ashiok isn't even that great against us since if they minus Ashiok they just get us closer to Nexus Looping.

Well, that's the article for today. I am very happy and proud of this deck and I can't wait to see where it goes after Throne of Eldraine as the deck doesn't lose that much. We just need some big crazy spell to replace Nexus of Fate, it doesn't even have to take extra turns. Just needs to do some huge effect.

As always, thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Ali Aintrazi

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