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4 years ago ::
Apr 27, 2009 - 8:52AM
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- Gleemax RP Justicar
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What is EtherStorm?
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EtherStorm is an artifact deck that takes advantage of the synergistic abilities of artifact cards.
The main engine is the cost-reducing Etherium Sculptor  , combined with cheap cantrips such as Chromatic Star  , Mind Stone  , Elsewhere Flask  and Kaleidostone  to cycle through the deck and dig for goodstuff. Etherium Sculptor can also be used with any other artifact with good effect.
Note that EtherStorm is not an Esper deck, merely a subset of it, focusing on chaining artifacts for a quick win. Why Should I Play This?
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There are many different strategies you can take when building and playing this deck, so if you like artifacts, this is the deck for you -
Aggro-Combo
[INDENT]This comes as close to Mirrodin-era Affinity as you will ever get without building the original deck itself. Add Glaze Fiend  , Master of Etherium  and cheap, recurring artifacts such as Springleaf Drum  and Thopter Factory  for explosive turns. It regularly gets T3-4 wins, with a significant amount of must-answer threats (10+). If you like to laugh at peoples expressions when you suddenly beat with a 11/12 creature on Turn 4, then this is the deck for you.[/INDENT]
Midrange
[INDENT]Add removal (such as Executioner's Capsule  ), and additional engines such as Scarecrone  , Tezzeret the Seeker  and Bitterblossom  for a more midrange yet still resilient build.[/INDENT][/INDENT]
Additionally, most of the deck is made up of commons and uncommons, which makes this a budget deck that still performs very well. Cards To UseCreatures
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- Salvage Titan
 - A free 6/4 fattie, or a 4-5 CMC 6/4 with Sculptor out, and it recurs from the graveyard to boot
- Mind Stone - Acceleration that functionally costs
 with Sculptor out (you play it for  , and it can also generate ). Chaining a few of them together will not only buff your Glaze Fiend , it'll also quickly accelerate your mana like any other green deck.
- Elsewhere Flask - Excellent cantrip, and also fixes mana (like the manabase needs it)
- Courier's Capsule
 - "Draw 2 cards" for 3 mana (with Sculptor out). Elsewhere Flask is significantly better than this, especially since it works better with Esperzoa  too, and Flask buffs Master of Etherium after drawing the card, while this doesn't.
- Kaleidostone - Good cantrip that can replace or be played with Elsewhere Flask
- Thopter Factory - Absolutely insane in the deck. Buffs Glaze Fiend , yet also gains you life, and also produces 1/1 blockers.
- Time Sieve
 - The 5 artifacts is not a problem in this artifact heavy deck. Useful in more midrange/control builds.
- Bitterblossom - Unsynergistic with the deck, but shores up weak matchups
- Call to Heel
 - Temporary removal so that your attackers can get through for that last few points of damage, or removal evasion. Also cantrips, which is a plus
- Agony Warp
 - Removal
- Terror
 - Removal
- Countersquall
 - Counterspell
- Esper Charm
 - Flexible spell, but not recommended unless the manabase can take it.
- Profane Command
 - Deals the last few points of damage after your fatties have beat in the early turns. Also can reanimate another finisher or grant evasion.
- Painlands
- Filterlands
- Basic Lands
This deck plays a bit like a mix of Affinity and Threshold, playing a lot of cheap artifacts that cantrip into more cheap artifacts. You normally want Sculptor down as early as possible (but it depends on the matchup), but you want Glaze Fiend to be dropped even earlier, because it often gets at least one chance to hit the opponent, so use that chance to buff it up as much as possible.
Don't play colorless artifacts on turn 1 (eg. Sigil, Star), because you'll rather save them to pump the Fiend later on, unless you don't have Sculptor and have a Master of Etherium , in which case you should play them early.
Don't keep a hand without a Sculptor unless there's Master of Etherium , or enough artifacts to fuel your Glaze Fiend . Never keep a hand with no threats (Fiend, MoE and Esperzoa). Salvage Titan doesn't count.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket, especially if your opponent can nuke your beaters (especially Fiend). Don't overextend your creatures, although you can overextend your non-creature artifacts.
Examples of T4 wins
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T1: Land
T2: Land, Fiend
T3: Land, Sculptor, Chromatic Star (cracked), Mind Stone, Mind Stone, Elsewhere Flask, beat for 10
T4: Flask, Sigil (for 2, after equipping = 1), MoE, beat for 10
T1: Land, Capsule
T2: Land, Sculptor
T3: Land, Fiend, MoE (4/4), beat for 2
T4: Land, Stone, Flask, Sigil for 4, 7/8 Fiend & 7/7 MoE and 5/6 Sculptor beat for 19
Or alternatively, Profane on T5 if you draw a lot of lands. Or Titan T4 after combat.
Examples of T3 win
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T1:Land, Drum, Thopter, Drum
T2:Land, Sculptor, Fiend, Fiend
T3:Land, Star(pop), Flask, Star(pop), Flask, Thopter, Swing 21  - Fae: 80-20
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T2 fiend and you cant lose. They lose a life everytime they make a 1/1 flyer, we gain a life for the same creature. Fae has Scion to make there 1/1s big. We have MoE, and Tez to tutor for Master. They usually run 2-3 MD Scion, we have essentially 6 chances to draw into a master. Getting an Executioners capsule to stick is like a nail in the coffin, once you have it on board you laugh in the face of an impending Mistbind Clique.
- RDW: 70-30
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The trick is getting a thopter foundry or warhammer to stick early. Usually the lifegain you produce is to much for them.
- 5 Color Control: 70-30
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You come out of the gates rediculously faster than 5CC. By the time they have cryptic mana open you usually have them down to an easy kill range.
- Dark Bant: 70-30
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In this match you usually have an upper hand with a continual stream of chumpers, which end up pumping fiend for continual damage. They only card that gives us problems is rhox war munk, If you can kill it early on when they play it, you cant lose.
- Boat Brew: 50-50
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These decks are horrible for us. The only thing you can do is throw your hand up on the board and hope they dont T2 Bitterblossom, T3 Spectral, T4 Ajani. T5 Siege-gang. Post board your cumberstones are allstars.
- Blightning Beats: 40-60
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The trick is getting a thopter foundry or warhammer to stick early. Usually the lifegain you produce is to much for them. This is a lot harder to beat post board than RDW, because they will usually be running 6-8 sweepers.
- BW tokens: 40-60
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These decks are horrible for us. The only thing you can do is throw your hand up on the board and hope they dont T2 Bitterblossom, T3 Spectral, T4 Ajani. T5 Siege-gang. Post board your cumberstones are allstars.
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4 years ago ::
Apr 27, 2009 - 8:52AM
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- Gleemax RP Justicar
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This replaces the Etherium Snare thread in the Tournament Center.
*goes to ask for move*
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4 years ago ::
Apr 27, 2009 - 10:39AM
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First post :P
Also, the T3 win needs to be modified so that the Ornithopter is the last card played on T3, since the T3 win requires 10 cards to be played, including cantrips, and you wouldn't get the three cards after the thopter if it came second.
The T4 wins require 10 cards also, but you have 11, so there's a little leeway.
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4 years ago ::
Apr 27, 2009 - 11:04AM
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4 years ago ::
Apr 27, 2009 - 12:50PM
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@ Propagandist
I think your deck has nothing to do with the style of play this is going for. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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4 years ago ::
Apr 27, 2009 - 1:10PM
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New thread eh.....
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4 years ago ::
Apr 27, 2009 - 1:29PM
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@ Propagandist
I think your deck has nothing to do with the style of play this is going for. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't see how it's out of the realm of Mid-Range / Control versions of this deck that are mentioned in the OP.
EDIT: But alright I'll move it to the Transmuter Archetype thread I just found.
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4 years ago ::
Apr 27, 2009 - 2:06PM
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This is my current list, I have been doing about 10 hours play testing with it. It really is efficient, and can bash early for a lot, but follow up with a solid mid range game as well. Mid-Range Savage SalvageMana [20 x ]  6 x *Island  5 x *Swamp  1 x *mountain  3 x *Mistvein Borderpost  3 x *Sunken Ruins  2 x *Cascade Bluffs  . Creatures [19 x ] 4 x *Etherium Sculptor  4 x *Master of Etherium  4 x *Esperzoa  4 x *Glaze Fiend  2 x *scarecrone  1 x *Razormane Masticore  . Others [21 x ] 4 x *Mind Stone  4 x *Elsewhere Flask  3 x *Executioner's Capsule  3 x *Thopter Foundry  2 x *profane command  1 x *Unscythe, Killer of Kings  2 x *Loxodon Warhammer  2 x *Tezzeret, the Seeker  . Sideboard [15 x ] 4 x *Cumber Stone  2 x *Rite of Consumption  2 x *banefire  3 x *Time Sieve  4 x *Anathemancer 
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4 years ago ::
Apr 27, 2009 - 2:36PM
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With all the token generation in MD, why only Time Sieve in the SB? Why not throw 1 MD so Tezz can grab it?
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4 years ago ::
Apr 27, 2009 - 2:38PM
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What's everyone's thoughts about Sculpting Steel  , I know it's situationally good, but making sure you pump out that extra Sculptor to play all your tripping spells for free is kinda important.
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