Reed Richards, Smartest Man

Reed Richards is a Blue card-draw engine that wants to fill your hand and fuel spell-heavy strategies. The passive ability is elegant: your first draw each turn is normal, but every other draw becomes four cards instead, turning casual cantrips into massive value engines. This creates a card advantage snowball where you're constantly stocked with options to cast spells, activate abilities, or hold up interaction. Your deck should lean into instant-speed effects and cantrips to maximize the "extra draws" trigger, using cheap card draw like Ponder, Opt, and Svyelun of Sea and Sky to turn every turn into a mini-draw phase. The deck wins through a combination of card advantage, mana ramp, and either evasive threats or a combo finish enabled by your massive hand.

The strategy revolves around playing lean, efficient spells that replace themselves or cost almost nothing. With an unlimited hand size and explosive draw triggers, you can chain cantrips together to sculpt your draws, dig for answers, and set up explosive turns. Plan enchantments like Glorious Purpose synergize perfectly—drawing extra cards naturally feeds connive triggers and plan counters. Consider backup finishers like Stroke of Genius or Blue Sun's Zenith as both card draw and a clock, or lean into small creatures that grow explosively (like Baral, Chief of Compliance) once your hand is full of spells to cast.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.