This is 'Reveillark Combo', unless someone comes up with a better name. For the people out there that don't know, it's a Blue/White deck abusing momentary blink and blue/white creatures with come into play abilities to gain tremendous card and tempo advantage through carddrawing (bonded fetch , mulldrifter ) and bounce (venser, shaper savant and riftwing cloudskate ). What's special about this blink deck is that it has the ability to dump into the graveyard a body double , a mirror entity , and one of the aforementioned creatures to 'go infinite': See below for combo explanation
As you can see, the Aggro and Control aspects are also well represented. Mirror entity can kill very fast when given the chance (Note: Flying creatures + Entity is a great secondary win con, almost a second combo). Also, momentary blink in multiples combined with Venser also gives you a good fighting chance (Note: Venser is really important). The deck is very consistent, reliable, and powerful. It's perhaps the first combo deck that has an answer to extirpate : Pull from eternity (except Pickles, which has willbender ). This card doesn't just give you back your lark/body double to start again from the grave, it also answers greater gargadon , aeon chronicler , anything suspended really. If worst comes to worst, it can return a flashbacked momentary blink for another go. It could answer oblivion ring , but you'd rather bounce the ring.
The deck works great. Against aggro, you want to open with either Epo (removed) or a Riftwatcher, to chump and/or to gain some life back. Riftwatcher + Blink is brutal vs. a dedicated aggro deck such as monored or red/green (Note: not maindeck due to lack of fast aggro decks). In the later turns (or on turn 3) you can start digging for combo pieces, dumping them in the grave. Blocking with bonded fetch and Blinking it gives you 2 loots, prevent the damage, and keep the fetch. Against control, lay down low importance flyers and suspend Cloudskates, following pretty much the same process of drawing and digging.
This deck is capable of going off turn 5, or turn 4 if the opponent is stupid enough to kill the reveillark then. It more often goes off later, stalling with Wraths, blinked vensers and cloudskates, and drawing cards to get the three crucial creatures.
Put entity's ability on the stack infinite times (since there's no infinite in magic besides mox lotus , we'll just use one billion). Let one resolve, reveillark or body double copying it and the entity (and any other creatures you might have) will die. Bring back body double copying reveillark and a creature with a CIP ability. Let the CIP ability trigger, let it resolve, then let the next entity's ability resolve. Both die, both come back, both die, both come back, and the combo of course is the abuse of those CIP abilities. Either draw your deck and find merrow witsniper to mill your opponent, or bounce everything they've got and swing with an army of 2/2's (let all the entity's abilities resolve, bringing back just body double with them until there is one left, get mirror entity back, blink body double if you want, and either way they can never win with 1-2 lands while you beat face with two 10/10's, one of which flies.
The decklist posted is very good as it is, there might be some minor changes. The reason everything's 3-of is because I want full blinks, and support cards like careful consideration and wrath of god . With its immense carddrawing, it should be easy to get all the pieces.
Something from own experience: This deck doesn't die to extirpate or withered wretch . Wretches are easilily disposed of (they're worse than extirpate though), but them casting Extirpate often gives me enough card- and tempo advantage to win it anyways. For instance, while I was comboing out, my opponent at one point responded with double extirpate on my body double and reveillark . I shrugged, and on the back of a mulldrifter , riftwing cloudskate , and venser, shaper savant , I beat for 4-6 every turn while Blinking my venser to bounce his spells. I once played a mono black aggro deck with extirpate , withered wretch and sudden spoiling (!!!) maindeck. It was surprising, but through disrupting my combo and killing reveillark without triggering its leaves play trigger, I still won it thanks to cloudskate, mulldrifter, and blink. Summary: This deck can win without the combo.
1. Have a body double , mirror entity , and a CIP creature (mulldrifter , venser, shaper savant ...) in the graveyard. 2. Evoke reveillark 3. Bring back Body double and Mirror entity. Let body double copy Reveillark. Play mirror entity's ability for 0. In response, play it for 0. Repeat this 10000 times. Do not pass priority between activations. 4. Pass priority. If your opponent passes priority, let one copy of mirror entity's activations resolve. 5. Body double and mirror entity will die. With 9999 activations still on the stack, Body double's leaves-play ability will trigger when it is in the graveyard. Choose body double and a CIP creature, then put the ability on the stack. 6. Return body double and said CIP ability. Let the CIP ability, trigger, then resolve. You'll get the effect. Let one of the remaining 9999 mirror entity's activations resolve. Body double and the creature die. 7. Repeat step 5 and 6 any number of times. With the last activation on the stack, let it resolve and return body double and mirror entity to play, ready to combo again. 8. If the returned creature was a merrow witsniper , you win. If it was a venser, shaper savant or riftwing cloudskate , you just bounced all their permanents. If it was a mulldrifter , draw your merrow witsniper , play it, and win. If you can't play it, pass the turn, discard down to 7, and in their upkeep combo again with the witsniper. If it was a bonded fetch , tap it in response to each time it will die, dig for merrow witsniper , and win.
Pass priority" is asking your opponent "do you want to respond?" You have to pass priority before each activation resolves. As long as you're putting activated abilities on the stack, you must retain priority. Whenever you pass priority, if your opponent it passes back to you without responding by playing another spell or ability, the next spell or ability on the stack will resolve (First In, Last Out).
epochrasite is the NUTS against aggro and counterless control. It chumps for a turn and comes back as a 4/4. Also works with wrote:
Epocrasite?[/quote] epochrasite is the NUTS against aggro and counterless control. It chumps for a turn and comes back as a 4/4. Also works with Blink.
They say that life's a carousel, spinning fast you've got to ride it well, the world is full of kings and queens, who blind your eyes and steal your dreams, it's heaven and hell, oh well!
Right now body double is filling that role, but a black/green/white version of this deck could certainly use her. The problem is it's a leaves-play trigger, so you still need a sac outlet. Blue is also better in carddrawing (and filtering) and if it doesn't find the combo, it can still function well.
However, I'm going to test a WBG version of this deck with saffi, lark, nantuko husk , (maw seize garruk birds etc.) and idyllic tutor toolbox (grave pact ftw).
This actually could be the first half-decent combo deck in a long time (no, Lorwyn Dragonstorm doesn't count). It's very resilient, it can survive until it goes off, and it can win in a mind-bottling number of ways (I love that movie). I actually cannot think of a way off the top of my head to disrupt this. (EDIT: Tormod's Crypt . How'd I miss that?)
However, I think it still needs a reliable discard outlet to get all its crud in the graveyard. Splash black for Oona's Prowler , maybe?
OTHER EDIT: If you do go black, I really don't think you need Nantuko Husk . The combo is strong enough with Mirror Entity as the sac-enabler.
the deck has done well in testing and after proxieing up a deck very similar to yours i think that in the mirror i win because primal slows you down alot since you have no MD acceleration and i can have 5+ mana on turn 3 but yours looks kind of solid, mine is better vs midrange and aggro yours looks better vs most combo and control i think
This actually could be the first half-decent combo deck in a long time (no, Lorwyn Dragonstorm doesn't count). It's very resilient, it can survive until it goes off, and it can win in a mind-bottling number of ways (I love that movie). I actually cannot think of a way off the top of my head to disrupt this. (EDIT: Tormod's Crypt . How'd I miss that?)
However, I think it still needs a reliable discard outlet to get all its crud in the graveyard. Splash black for Oona's Prowler , maybe?
OTHER EDIT: If you do go black, I really don't think you need Nantuko Husk . The combo is strong enough with Mirror Entity as the sac-enabler.
Triple bonded fetch and triple careful consideration is enough. Crypt is a problem, but this deck won't get too popular anytime soon, so feel free to build it and win with it in PTQ's and FNM's.
