Idea here was to build a green ramp deck that exploited the more powerful but more fragile ramp engines that untap. Examples are Lotus Vale, Krosan Restorer, Somberwald Sage, etc. Surrak was chosen to provide big fatties trample and uncounterability, while also giving me a consistent and solid threat.
It worked ok, but not quite as well as I'd have liked. As with all ramp decks, it runs into the issue of just blowing through too many cards, and I think for the next version I'd like to narrow down its selections to be a little more selective, as well as use some tighter threats.
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Breya Morph
So this isn't some super uncommon idea but basically I was thinking about using polymorph and all its related cards when I realized Breya allows you to cheaply create tokens, and then you have inexpensive tokens and lots of redundant polymorph effects to throw down with. After a bit of goofing around I decided I wanted to make it almost sphinx tribal, so there's a bunch of sphinxes in here from esper to go with breya.
End result is a really wonky, silly deck. I played it two nights, polishing it a little, but unfortunately dismantled the second version before I wrote it down. I would say the sphinx legend from HOU would be good, and Enigma Sphinx is just terrible. Also, In the Web of Wars is such a great little trick that people never seem to react to properly. It's twelve points of hasted damage with breya, who can easily stack two sack chains to put players who thought they were still safeish out of the game. And good news everybody, it combos with magister sphinx very unkindly.
I think this was one of my favorite decks for the month. Proteus Staff, as an aside, is really nice for helping out players who have their commander control magiced, just as reweave angers people less while removing key frustrating permanents. I splice reweaved a False Cure into a Havoc Festival, resulting in one player getting their life halved while forcing the table to remove the festival for me.
Nice.
End result is a really wonky, silly deck. I played it two nights, polishing it a little, but unfortunately dismantled the second version before I wrote it down. I would say the sphinx legend from HOU would be good, and Enigma Sphinx is just terrible. Also, In the Web of Wars is such a great little trick that people never seem to react to properly. It's twelve points of hasted damage with breya, who can easily stack two sack chains to put players who thought they were still safeish out of the game. And good news everybody, it combos with magister sphinx very unkindly.
I think this was one of my favorite decks for the month. Proteus Staff, as an aside, is really nice for helping out players who have their commander control magiced, just as reweave angers people less while removing key frustrating permanents. I splice reweaved a False Cure into a Havoc Festival, resulting in one player getting their life halved while forcing the table to remove the festival for me.
Nice.
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