This guide will contain everything you need to know about the Festival: Rise of the Cabaretti event, including rewards and our exclusive sample decklists.
For the next three weeks, you’ll be able to win a bunch of new card styles in the Rise of the Five Families Festival events! Each event is Alchemy Singleton, but with a twist! You start with an Emblem with an ability which is related to the family of the event, that will create interesting deck building dynamics. This guide will contain everything you need to know about this event, including rewards and our exclusive sample decklists.
Ends After: You can keep playing, but rewards do not go past five wins.
Match Structure: Best-of-one matches (BO1)
Cabaretti Emblem
“Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, draw a card instead.”
For these events I’m going to keep the base lists for each article and a few on top that are specifically tailored for the event to utilize the emblem as much as possible, so if you see a repeat in archetypes, this is why!
Feel free to replace any cards you don’t have with something that serves a similar function; the beauty of Singleton is that you don’t need all the powerful cards for the deck to play optimally!
You can even use ones from previous events and tweak it further to your preference and collection. Find these Alchemy Singleton decks and more at our deck database.
If you need a lot of creatures to play, it’s hard to do better than Mono White! With plenty of cheap threats and a fast curve, you’ll be able to go underneath most decks while accruing a bunch of cards in the process!
Mono White isn’t the only fast deck that can take advantage of the emblem! With access to cheap removal, plenty of cheap threats, and some rewards for going wide, mono Red seems like a similarly excellent choice for this event.
Looking to get the emblem trigger as often as possible, Selesnya gives you the most token producers and go wide payoffs which makes it a natural fit for the powerful emblem ability!
While Mono Green may not be as fast as Mono Red or Mono White, the card quality is higher so it can grind better against the slow decks and have better bodies against the fast decks!
Combining the best elements of Red and White, Boros trades some consistency for pure power as you have the strongest threats and interaction of both colors!
Gruul Werewolves is already one of the best decks in Alchemy so why not play it here? Great curve, powerful threats, and strong synergies are always a strong choice for any event.
For those who like more tempo oriented Control, Izzet has the best card selection around, great interaction, and excellent late game threats for a well rounded deck.
With Whites great threats and Blacks powerful interaction, Orzhov Aggro can be blisteringly fast and keep the opposing board clean which is a tough combination to beat.
If you want more anti-meta options, it’s hard to go wrong with Orzhov! Plenty of blocks, removal, and wraths should give any creature deck a headache.
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