MTG Deck of the Week: “Golgari Yawgmoth” – Counter Magic
Check out the current trending decks in Magic: The Gathering! This week, “Golgari Yawgmoth” proves you don’t have to play blue to have lots of counters.
Welcome Magic: the Gathering players! We’re back to showcase one of the top decks of the week for competitive Magic. We have the top lists being played on MTGO, what’s winning, and the decks that won the major events this last week. So get your playmat ready, set your spindown to 20, and dive into the data, brought to us by TCGPlayer.com.
Our deck of the week is “Golgari Yawgmoth” by GanYanCHN, which is currently trending on TCGPlayer. The deck came in first place during the MTGO Modern Challenge on September 17th.
Decklist
3 Agatha’s Soul Cauldron
4 Blooming Marsh
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
4 Chord of Calling
4 Delighted Halfling
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Endurance
2 Forest
4 Grist, the Hunger Tide
1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
1 Haywire Mite
2 Nurturing Peatland
4 Orcish Bowmasters
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Pendelhaven
3 Strangleroot Geist
1 Swamp
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
2 Twilight Mire
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wall of Roots
4 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
4 Young Wolf
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
Sideboard
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Elven Chorus
2 Endurance
2 Force of Vigor
2 Fulminator Mage
2 Go for the Throat
1 Legion’s End
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Spike Feeder
Deck Notes
This is a pretty bog standard Yawgmoth deck, but repetition does not equal weakness. This deck is incredible at throwing counters and tokens around, both to take out opponents and buff friendlies. MVP definitely goes to Agatha’s Soul Cauldron, which allows you to steal the activated abilities of your opponent’s strongest creatures to buff your own. Of course we can’t ignore the deck’s namesake either; he’s the engine that runs it, after all.
