Like cascade before it, discover is supposed to be a random bit of card advantage. Cast a spell, get another random spell that costs less.

However, also like cascade before it, we've seen that clever deck-building can get around this restriction!

Time Stamps:

02:58 - Match 1

20:25 - Match 2

37:18 - Match 3

Always Imodane | FDN Standard | ilikecookies, 7th Place BOP Standard Challenge

• Creatures (20)
• 2 Beza, the Bounding Spring
• 3 Imodane's Recruiter
• 3 Trumpeting Carnosaur
• 4 Autonomous Assembler
• 4 Geological Appraiser
• 4 Steel Seraph

• Planeswalkers (4)
• 4 Quintorius Kand

• Instants (2)
• 2 Seized from Slumber

• Enchantments (9)
• 1 Season of the Burrow
• 4 Etali's Favor
• 4 Virtue of Loyalty

• Lands (25)
• 3 Plains
• 2 Mountain
• 2 Fabled Passage
• 2 Restless Bivouac
• 4 Battlefield Forge
• 4 Inspiring Vantage
• 4 Mirrex
• 4 Temple of Triumph

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Rest in Peace
• 1 Beza, the Bounding Spring
• 4 Sheltered by Ghosts
• 2 Kayla's Command
• 4 Starfall Invocation
• 2 Split Up

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I made a few small changes, but this clever list comes from Magic Online player ilikecookies, who took it to 7th place in a recent Magic Online Standard Challenge.

By building the deck in a manner where Imodane's Recruiter (and Etali's Favor, which will restart the chain anyway) is the only card with a printed mana value of three or less, every time you fire off a discover effect you've got a great chance of going down the chain and ending up with a bunch of extra bodies in play and an Imodane's Recruiter to top it off and give them all haste.

Quintorius Kand is especially impressive here, as it can start a discover chain but also drains for two for each time you do discover, while also being a solid threat of it's own.

The deck played out surprisingly well, and although it may need a little tuning to the removal suite it's just another awesome and innovative deck in an excellent Standard format!