What’s better than casting your spells once? How about twice? With Maestros Ascendancy from Streets of New Capenna, you get additional uses out of the instants and sorceries in your graveyard, doubling the value of your spells!
Maestros Ascendancy
This enchantment basically gives all your instant and sorceries in your graveyard flashback. You have to sacrifice a creature as an additional cost. And you can only cast one instant or sorcery from your graveyard per turn. But those small setbacks hardly deter from this card’s potential.
Maestros Ascendancy basically gives you a Snapcaster Mage effect every turn. Another comparison would be Kess, Dissident Mage, a super popular and competitive commander, which, as a side note, will happily accept Ascendancy as an addition to the deck.
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Best Cards to Pair With Maestros Ascendancy
Maestros Ascendancy will certainly be good in Commander. But the enchantment is actually viable in a variety of Magic: the Gathering formats.
Standard & Pioneer
Maestros Acendancy’s biggest limitation is that you need to sacrifice a creature to rest a spell from your graveyard. But there are several ways to get around this.
When you sacrifice Oni-Cult Anvil’s Construct token to Maestros Ascendancy, Anvil will trigger and replace that token with another one, giving you endless fodder to fuel Maestros Ascendancy.
Similarly, Sedgemoor Witch, Poppet Stitcher, and any other creature that makes creature tokens whenever you cast an instant or sorcery will do the same trick. Sedgemoor Witch is particularly good because when you sacrifice the Pest tokens she makes you gain life.
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Commander
Just about any Grixis (blue-black-red) Commander deck can make use of Maestros Ascendancy. I mentioned Kess as one example, whose entire deck is already built around the effect of Maestros Ascendancy. But there’s another commander that’s perfect at leveraging the enchantment–Marchesa, the Black Rose.
Similar to Oni-Cult Anvil, when Maestros Ascendancy sacrifices a creature, Marchesa can return that creature back to the battlefield. But this is so much better than returning a Construct token.
With Marchesa, the Black Rose, whenever a creature with a +1/+1 counter dies, you can return it to the battlefield. You can get extra uses of nasty ETB (enters the battlefield) abilities such as
Peregrine Drake
Peregrine Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.
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River Kelpie
River Kelpie
Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card.
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
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Agent of Treachery
Agent of Treachery
When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.
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