Aug 27, 2026 · 1 hr 56 min · 12 segments
Sean sits down with **Jonathan Foster**, longtime magic player from Dallas and creator of the deck Mana Dork Tribal which recently won the TopDeck 2026 invitational. Jonathan breaks down his success…
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before we go into the details of that do you mind sorting it by mana cost You got it.
I leaned it up some, I didn't like playing things like con Sphinx and whole break or Eileen more into the, uh, Valley flood color, banishing neck type loops and stuff like that.
You were
having to make sure you had two lands, a mana accelerant, a draw engine, and hopefully a piece of interaction.
That's a lot to ask from one hand, especially a hand that doesn't tutor very well.
So I was very regularly mulliganed to like three or four, and it was punishing.
And I was like, all right, let's try to lean into more of the kind of activation thing.
Not only because it'd be more forgiving and Mulligan's, but because Raag is shy was big on this coming on the scene, Jace and Zach.
before we go into the details of that do you mind sorting it by mana cost You got it.
I leaned it up some, I didn't like playing things like con Sphinx and whole break or Eileen more into the, uh, Valley flood color, banishing neck type loops and stuff like that.
You were
having to make sure you had two lands, a mana accelerant, a draw engine, and hopefully a piece of interaction.
That's a lot to ask from one hand, especially a hand that doesn't tutor very well.
So I was very regularly mulliganed to like three or four, and it was punishing.
And I was like, all right, let's try to lean into more of the kind of activation thing.
Not only because it'd be more forgiving and Mulligan's, but because Raag is shy was big on this coming on the scene, Jace and Zach.
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