I found this decklist while I was building or reconstructing our team decks for this weekend’s Gameday tournaments. Japanese Pros are well known for piloting peculiar decks, and this one is no exception. It was played by Jun Ishihara and got an 8-2 record in the Standard portion of the recent Pro Tour Aether Revolt.

That finish and seeing the list convinced me that it has the potential to stop the popular Mardu vehicles deck. Below is the decklist:

Maindeck
2 Aether Hub
4 Blooming Marsh
2 Botanical Sanctum
4 Evolving Wilds
1 Forest
2 Island
2 Lumbering Falls
4 Sunken Hollow
3 Swamp

2 Ishkanah, Grafwidow
2 Tireless Tracker
1 Noxious Gearhulk
3 Torrential Gearhulk

2 Liliana, the Last Hope

2 Disallow
2 Fatal Push
3 Glimmer of Genius
3 Grapple with the Past
3 Grasp of Darkness
1 Negate
1 Overwhelming Denial
2 Pick the Brain
2 To the Slaughter
4 Traverse the Ulvenwald
3 Vessel of Nascency

Sideboard
1 Appetite for the Unnatural
2 Fatal Push
4 Grim Flayer
1 Ishkanah, Grafwidow
1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
1 Negate
1 Overwhelming Denial
1 Pick the Brain
1 To the Slaughter
1 Transgress the Mind
1 Yahenni’s Expertise