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SaffronOlive’s November 11 Standard experiment gives Infinite Diversity a specific job: multiply Jeskai Revelation enough times to win on the spot. The published build uses four Infinite Diversity, four Superior Spider-Man and four Zaffai and the Tempests, alongside three Jeskai Revelation and two Dream Harvest. The plan is to put both Zaffai and Revelation into the graveyard while keeping Infinite Diversity in hand.
Superior Spider-Man copies Zaffai but keeps additional creature types. The combined type line provides five distinct types: Human, Bard, Sorcerer, Spider and Hero. Human is shared and counts only once. Zaffai’s ability then gives the deck a way to cast Infinite Diversity from hand without paying its mana cost. Diversity targets Jeskai Revelation in the graveyard and produces one copy per distinct type among non-Borg creatures you control. With five Revelations, four damage from each adds up to 20 if the copies resolve.
The useful deckbuilding idea is to count types rather than bodies. A single Spider-Man can carry all five relevant types after copying Zaffai. That lets the combo devote more slots to assembling the graveyard and protecting the turn, instead of relying on several creatures surviving together. Dream Harvest offers a different spell to copy when the immediate damage plan is unavailable, but it serves a different purpose from Revelation’s direct finish.
The author reports turn-four examples from early access. Those games show that the sequence can work; they do not establish a reliable turn-four rate or a competitive win rate. Graveyard interaction can disrupt either half of the setup, and removing Spider-Man before Diversity counts types can reduce the output. Watch whether later lists can keep enough interaction to survive while still drawing the enabler, payoff and copy spell in the right zones.
Superior Spider-Man copies Zaffai but keeps additional creature types. The combined type line provides five distinct types: Human, Bard, Sorcerer, Spider and Hero. Human is shared and counts only once. Zaffai’s ability then gives the deck a way to cast Infinite Diversity from hand without paying its mana cost. Diversity targets Jeskai Revelation in the graveyard and produces one copy per distinct type among non-Borg creatures you control. With five Revelations, four damage from each adds up to 20 if the copies resolve.
The useful deckbuilding idea is to count types rather than bodies. A single Spider-Man can carry all five relevant types after copying Zaffai. That lets the combo devote more slots to assembling the graveyard and protecting the turn, instead of relying on several creatures surviving together. Dream Harvest offers a different spell to copy when the immediate damage plan is unavailable, but it serves a different purpose from Revelation’s direct finish.
The author reports turn-four examples from early access. Those games show that the sequence can work; they do not establish a reliable turn-four rate or a competitive win rate. Graveyard interaction can disrupt either half of the setup, and removing Spider-Man before Diversity counts types can reduce the output. Watch whether later lists can keep enough interaction to survive while still drawing the enabler, payoff and copy spell in the right zones.
Original source: Against the Odds: I Copy a Hilarious Spell a Ton of Times (Standard) ↗MTGGoldfish