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Goryo’s Vengeance Split Threat

Champion: Atraxa, Grand Unifier · Instant-speed reanimator · Esper blink shell

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Meta snapshot · August 2026. Dated starting configurations from the source guide, not live, not auto-updated, and not immutable plans.

vs Boros Energy

Your role · Stabilizing combo-controlAtraxa, Grand Unifier
19shuffled units after boarding✓ Stable
1719 floor25

Bring in

3×Wrath of the Skiesspell / gear
2×Quantum Riddlerunit
1×Spell Snarespell / gear

Take out

2×Otherworldly Gazespell / gear
1×Griselbrandunit
1×Fallaji Archaeologistunit
2×Force of Negationspell / gear

Qualifications

Preserve life. Every decision downstream of that gets easier.

Wrath at X=2 clears most of their creatures and Goblin Bombardment, Rest in Peace, High Noon and Vexing Bauble alongside them.

Riddler is the post-sweeper threat, and it does not care what they boarded against your graveyard.

Fetch basics before the Blood Moon turn, not after.

PreserveSolitude · Prismatic Ending · March of Otherworldly Light · Atraxa, Grand Unifier · Atraxa over Griselbrand in every game. Your life total will not pay for seven cards here.

Avoid · Overcommitting Frog and Archaeologist into your own Wrath.

Avoid · Spending removal on every one-drop when a sweeper is a turn away.

Avoid · Reanimating Griselbrand because the ceiling looked higher.

Full matchup treatment, postures and rules context in the guide’s matchup viewer.

Memory aids

Structural problem → the card that answers it. Each sideboard slot exists for a specific structural reason, not a general one.

78.3%At least two lands in the opening seven
77.8%At least one of the eleven direct enablers
54.1%At least one dedicated reanimation target
39.9%At least one Goryo’s Vengeance
39.9%At least one Ephemerate
32.0%Solitude plus another white card
20.0%Goryo plus a dedicated target
19.6%Force of Negation plus another blue card
13.8%Goryo plus target plus a direct enabler