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12 months ago  ::  Jun 14, 2012 - 11:57AM #1
Mise_Mage
Date Joined: Jun 7, 2012
Posts: 167
Me and a friend just put together a Scepter control deck to see what you guys think


Lands (25)


Hallowed Fountain
4 Glacial Fortress
Steam Vents
Arid Mesa
2 Sacred Foundry
4 Island
4 Plains
1 Mountain


4 Meddling Mage
4 Geist of Saint Traft
Delver of Secrets


4 Isochron Scepter
4 Mana Leak
4 Lightning Helix
4 Silence
4 Negate
3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant


Sideboard


4 Disenchant
3 Surgical Extraction
Angel's Grace
3 Echoing Truth
2 Early Frost                 

       
                    
  

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12 months ago  ::  Jun 14, 2012 - 12:12PM #2
MadAdmiral
Date Joined: Oct 26, 2011
Posts: 2,133
I don't think you want or need that many Shock lands.  I'd probably go down to 2 Fountains and 1 Foundry.  Put in more of the fetches and more basics instead.

Remand is probably better than Negate because you can counter anything.  And if you can put it under the Scepter, it's going to counter everything and draw you cards at the same time.

Geist looks very underwhelming in this list.  You don't have any equipment to make it a monster or give it evasion (outside of Elspeth).  Plus, having it as a 4-of makes it likely that you have one on board and get a second one stranded in your hand.

I think that you don't have a very good chance of putting together the "combo".  You have no draw spells and no filtering spells.  You're going to run out of answers very soon.  I'd probably cut the Geists and an Elsepth and put in some draw/dig spells to find the Scepter and a good spell to put under it.

It also seems like Meddling Mage is a bit of sideboard card to me.  Maybe you could use Spellskite s to protect your Scepter instead?

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12 months ago  ::  Jun 16, 2012 - 5:49PM #3
Svetlio
Date Joined: Jan 17, 2006
Posts: 133
Replace Meddling Mages and Geists with Vendillion Cliques and some path to exiles. Remove nagate as MadAdmiral suggested(all his suggestions are pretty spot on) and get in remand. As i see it
-4 Geist
-4 Meddling Mage
-4 Negate
+3 Clique
+3 Path
+3 Lightning Bolt
+3 Snapcaster Mage

You can replace Elspeth with Thirst for Knowledge or another draw spell. Also sideboard get rid of early frost and angels grace and disenchants. Obviously Divine Offering is better since there are no scary enchantments in Modern and lifegain is very relevant vs affinity. Get Mindbreak Trap or Trickbind vs Storm and this is something you really need to beat that deck since a mana leak is useless in this matchup usually. Also I would play a split of 2/2 surgical+relic of progenitus to combat storm and melira. Good luck and happy brewing


PS: If Echoing truth is in vs splinter twin combust is strictly better. I know some of them are running stuff like mutagenic growth but still echoing truth just does not work with their spellskites and this is going to be a tough match most likely.
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