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When Life of Toshiro Umezawa // Memory of Toshiro was first spoiled (showing my age here) I was very excited about the card. As things played out, his Jitte ended up stealing the show, but Toshiro remains a pretty sweet design, and Tiny Leaders is the ideal format to put the old Samurai to work.
There are certain leaders that will make taking full advantage of Toshiro difficult. Geist of Saint Traft comes to mind. Forbidden Orchard is an option for Toshiro decks to give you something to kill, but then you also need to expend resources to kill the spirit tokens. Instead I like just filling up on a few choice removal spells and a bunch of great card advantage spells.
This is my current list for Life of Toshiro Umezawa // Memory of Toshiro:
Tiny Toshiro
The deck is a little light on win conditions and is definitely on the suicidal side, but the interactions are sweet. Mimic Vat and Fleshbag Marauder is a pretty nice little combo that only gets better with an active Toshiro.
The sideboard for this deck needs to be dedicated to "correcting" matchups. The edits here are great, but very lack-luster against Elves or Goblins, so having access to cards like Shrivel and Drown in Sorrow is a must.
running forbidden orchard and engineered plague naming spirit would kill them instantly and give you a trigger off Umezawa. Back when those cards were in standard I ran that but with Night of Soul’s Betrayal. it was really effective against affinity when it was king…
Good call. Plague is also a nice one for when you play against Elves or Goblins.
A cheaper option for that is Illness in the Ranks.
This is a good call right here
not worth playing just for the orchard tokens. certainly not if you play bitterblossom 😉
mimic vat also makes tokens.