This guide will contain everything you need to know about the Festival: Rise of the Maestros 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 have a family-themed Maestros Emblem that will create interesting deck building dynamics where you want a good mix of spells and creatures that like being sacrificed. This guide will contain everything you need to know about this event, including rewards and our exclusive sample decklists.
We all know the Maestros of today: elite vampire assassins with a passion for fine art. But how did they go from generous patrons to a murderous crime family?
In this 60-card Singleton event, harness the ruthless ambition of the Maestros as you sacrifice creatures to recast instants and sorceries from your graveyard. As you do, you’ll earn Golden Age Showcase card styles from Streets of New Capenna, each featuring spells from the Maestros family!
For more details on this format, including a full list of card styles, click here.
When this event ends, entrants will receive any unclaimed rewards automatically.
Duration: May 12, 2022 at 8:00 AM PST – May 15, at 8:00 AM PST
Ends After: You can keep playing, but rewards do not go past five wins.
Match Structure: Best-of-one matches (BO1)
Maestros Emblem
“Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard by sacrificing a creature in addition to paying its other costs. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it 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, 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 also find these Alchemy Singleton decks and more at our deck database.
Rise of the Families: Maestros Mono Black Midrange
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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Robert "DoggertQBones" Lee is the content manager of MTGAZone and a high ranked Arena player. He has one GP Top 8 and pioneered popular archetypes like UB 8 Shark, UB Yorion, and GW Company in Historic. Beyond Magic, his passions are writing and coaching! Join our community on Twitch and Discord.
