Standard Heartbeat deck

Heartbeat tournament decks are based on combos using <c>Heartbeat of Spring</c> and <c>Early Harvest</c> to generate a massive amount of mana to cast a game winning spell. The deck was piloted by Maximillian Bracht for a top 8 finish at Pro Tour Honolulu.
<d title= Heartbeat>
Lands
10 Forest
10 Island
1 Mountain
1 Swamp
Artifacts
4 Sensei's Divining Top
Creatures
4 Drift of Phantasms
1 Maga, Traitor to Mortals
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
Enchantments
4 Heartbeat of Spring
Instants
1 Boomerang
4 Early Harvest
4 Muddle the Mixture
4 Remand
Sorceries
1 Compulsive Research
1 Invoke the Firemind
4 Kodama's Reach
1 Recollect
1 Weird Harvest
Sideboard
3 Iwamori of the Open Fist
1 Keiga, the Tide Star
2 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
1 Pyroclasm
3 Savage Twister
1 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Vinelasher Kudzu</d>
The basis behind the deck is to use <c>Heartbeat of Spring</c> to accumulate large amounts of mana, then through <c>Early Harvest</c>, <c>Weird Harvest</c>, and <c>Drift of Phantasms</c>, acquire an X-spell such as <c>Invoke the Firemind</c> or <c>Maga, Traitor to Mortals</c> with enough mana to play it. Most of the other cards are either fixers to improve the chances of going off, as getting the combo is called, or counters to ensure that opponents don't interfere with the combo via countermagic or destruction.
The sideboard is what is often called the "Man Plan", which involves taking out the combo pieces and siding in various more aggressive creatures. The sideboard also has mass removal in the form of <c>Savage Twister</c> and <c>Pyroclasm</c>. When used, the Man Plan works by tricking your opponent into siding out the mass removal and winning via beatdown.
Category:Tournament decks