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"Doyle" <mypetrock@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Here's an idea I had for a deck for post-Champions Extended. It may be
> more casual than competitive, but the idea is there.
I know its just an idea, but I made a lot of comments. I'm not trying to be
critical - I'm trying to drive this deck forward from the concept stage.
> 3 x Uyo, Silent Prophet
> 4 x Harrow
> 4 x Explosive Vegetation
> 3 x Crucible of the Worlds
So far the deck has only Harrow and Constant Mists putting land in the
graveyard, so 3 lands would be better than 3 Crucible of Worlds. Is CoW
meant to protect against your opponent's land destruction? In that case,
they shouldn't be in the main deck unless all of your opponents play LD.
> 2 x Asuza, Lost but Searching
> 4 x Exploration
> 1 x Constant Mists
> 3 x Cunning Wish
> 4 x Moment of Peace
> 4 x Roar of the Wurm
I don't see a way to discard Roar, which makes it a dead card in the early
game. I think Call of the Hunt (or almost anything else) would be better.
When playing a combo deck, the key is surviving long enough to pull of the
mega-combo.
> 4 x Grizzly Fate
>
> 14 x Forest
> 6 x Island
> 4 x Yavimaya Coast
>
> Use Uyo and Harrow/Explosive Vegetation to thaw all of the land out of
> your library. With Crucible and Asuza you'll be able to get them all
> into play. And from there on out, everything you draw is useful.
It is an interesting land engine, which could do some even more interesting
things depending on which offensive cards you paired it with.
The only win condition I currently see in this deck is to attack with a
swarm of tokens. So you would want some insurance against your opponent
playing Upheaval (a very popular extended card, to say the least) after you
create your swarm.
With 3 Cunning Wish and the ability to copy them, you could potentially
bring your entire sideboard into the game, making the choice of 15 instants
for your sideboard particularly critical to this deck. I think you should
have an alternate win condition, perhaps a sideboard "mill" card
(Brain Freeze, Vision Charm). You can fetch it with Cunning Wish when you
have the ability to make enough copies to deck your opponent.
IMHO Constant Mists (and some more one-ofs) belong in the sideboard, where
you are more likely to get it when you need it (and not get it when you
don't need it).
Another win condition is to use copies of a bounce spell like Boomerang to
lock the opponent with no permanents, in which case you could win by
attacking with Azusa
here some of the sideboard candidates I choose from when making a CW deck
(note - some are not extended-legal; if someone has a better list, or one
tailored to extended, please post it):
Green: Tranquil Domain, Serene Heart, Oxidize + Emerald Charm (or
Naturalize), Crop Rotation
Blue: (flavors of Counterspell
Disrupt, Force Void, Annul, Abjure, Remove
Soul, Flash Counter, Arcane Denial, Dissipate, Prohibit, Spell Blast, Daze,
Power Sink, Hindering Touch, Memory Lapse
Hydroblast
(flavors of Boomerang
Capsize, etc.
(flavors of Deflection) Meddle, Rebound
(non-counter
Ensnare, Shadow Rift, Siren's Call, Ether Well, Unsummon, Boomerang, Reality
Ripple
(anti-creature
Ray of Command, Tidal Wave
Infuse
(versatile
Vision Charm (mill 4, art phase, lands become 1 type), Sapphire
Charm (draw, creature phase, fly) Trickery Charm (look@4, fly, creature
type)
carddrawing: Brainstorm, Three Wishes, Read the Runes
Mind Games
Foreshadow (vs. decktop tutors)
Sleight of Mind, Magical Hack (vs. color-hosers)
At worst, you could use Gatherer to list the extended-legal green and blue
instants.
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