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6 years ago ::
May 13, 2007 - 10:24AM
#111
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6 years ago ::
May 21, 2007 - 10:56AM
#112
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This deck has Hatching Plans and Perilous Research. Obviously a nice combo that will get you closer to the Rite of Flames you need for a high storm count. Perilous Research also works well with Chromatic Star (sacrifice it to draw a card). Hatching Plans also works well with Claws of Gix (as it gives you another sac outlet). It's a lot of nice little synergies. All of these cards have very low mana costs, so they can easily jack up the storm count for a huge Empty the Warrens. The above list runs just 16 lands, which seems a bit on the low side, and I have my doubts about the consistency of the deck. At some point you will get draws where you get infinite Hatching Plans without a way to sacrifice it, or you have to start sacrificing lands to Perilous Research. But I admit that if it works, you can get insanely big and fun turns, and you can easily make 10 Ignite Memories copies in one turn. The advantage of this deck over Dragonstorm is that it's better versus the hate; instead of having to go all-in on one big turn you can distribute your key cards over various turns. Turn-four Empty the Warrens for four, turn-five Ignite Memories for a couple, then turn six another Empty the Warrens is not an uncommon sight with the amount of card draw in this deck.
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6 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2007 - 7:13AM
#113
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By Frank Karsten
Lands
6 x Island 
1 x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb 
2 x Underground River 
4 x Watery Grave 
4 x Breeding Pool 
3 x Gemstone Caverns 
2 x Horizon Canopy 
Creatures
4 x Drowned Rusalka 
2 x Flame-Kin Zealot 
4 x Golgari Grave-Troll 
4 x Stinkweed Imp 
4 x Thought Courier 
2 x Bonded Fetch 
4 x Magus of the Bazaar 
4 x Narcomoeba 
Spells
2 x Life from the Loam 
4 x Bridge from Below 
4 x Dread Return 
SIDEBOARD
2 x Blazing Archon 
2 x Darkblast 
4 x Leyline of the Void 
2 x Shadow of Doubt 
1 x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
4 x Krosan Grip 
This deck pretty much guarantees a turn-four kill (sometimes turn-five) if played and mulliganned correctly, disregarding opposing disruption. A sample draw:
Turn zero: Mulligan the opening hand because it did not contain two lands, a discard enabler creature, and either a dredge card or another discard enabler creature. Keep the six-card hand because it has lands, a Thought Courier, and a Stinkweed Imp. Don't be afraid to mulligan down to three or four cards; you can net a turn-four kill with a hand consisting of Magus of the Bazaar, Island, and Golgari Grave-Troll.
Turn one: Watery Grave, go.
Turn two: Island, Thought Courier.
Turn three: Activate Thought Courier in the upkeep, discarding Stinkweed Imp. You do this in your upkeep, because now you can dredge the Stinkweed Imp in your draw step. Then you play another Thought Courier and a land.
Turn four: In your upkeep, activate both Thought Couriers. You have found a Golgari Grave-Troll for more efficient dredging by now, and mill one Narcomoeba and one Bridge from Below. Dredge the Troll in your draw step as well. In your main phase, you sacrifice all your creatures to Dread Return a Drowned Rusalka. Bridge from Below nets you three Zombies, which you all sacrifice to Drowned Rusalka one by one in order to dig even further in your deck. After doing this—and milling a couple Narcomoebas and Bridge from Belows in the process—your library will now only consist of nine cards. You should have found all the pieces by now, so sacrifice your Drowned Rusalka and two Narcomoebas to Dread Return a Flame-Kin Zealot (giving you lots of zombie tokens), and attack for the kill with lots of hasty zombie tokens.
I discussed this deck in more detail here.
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6 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2007 - 11:24AM
#114
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This deck is built around Korlash (with a 23 Swamp mana base it's pretty strong) and card advantage in Dark Confidant and Phyrexian Arena, along with mid-range elements in cheap creatures. The version above is a deck geared towards a specific metagame; it has maindeck Shadow of Doubt vs Dragonstorm, maindeck Soul Spike vs Gruul aggro, and maindeck Withered Wretch vs NarcoBridge.
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6 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2007 - 11:29AM
#115
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6 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2007 - 11:38AM
#116
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This deck is pretty awesome, I like it. All the important spells in the deck cost 4 mana, so Dimir House Guard can tutor for them. Furthermore, it has the typical card draw (i.e., Compulsive Research), creature control (i.e., Damnation), mana acceleration (i.e., Dimir Signet), and big win conditions (i.e., Korlash) that you would expect from any good control deck. If you want to learn more, you can read Chapin's articles here and here.
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6 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2007 - 11:53AM
#117
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6 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2007 - 12:14PM
#118
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6 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2007 - 12:54PM
#119
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6 years ago ::
Jun 30, 2007 - 12:19PM
#120
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