John Cox
06-02-2013, 01:39 AM
I've been working on a deck that is kind of a pet deck for me. It's Doomsday with main deck oath of druids. I live in a part of my city known as The Beaches, hence the name.
4 Doomsday
4 Oath of Druids
4 Dark Ritual
4 Gush
4 Force of Will
4 Mystic Remora
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Pact of Negation
1 Gitaxian Probe
3 Duress
2 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Preordain
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Island
1 Tropical Island
4 Underground Sea
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Doomsday is really good at beating up on control but has problems against workshops and landstill. Straight Oath (not burning oath)is good against landstill and workshops. Oath in this deck is kind of like a hurkyls that wins the game outright.
Mystic remora is pretty great if you have it out post doomsday. Every bolt or swords they aim at your lab maniac draws you a card (wins you the game) so it basically blanks all removal. Even if they cast a Krosan Grip targeting Remora, -the remora trigger will go on the stack and win you the game. Pre doomsday it's still good. It draws you into your win condition and wins attrition wars. It's also good against storm. Mindbreak trap is a singleton to tutor up with mystical or vampiric while storm is going off and you have a remora out.
There are a couple of cards that I go back and forth over. I like speed of the rituals but feel there might be a better use of the space. I would also like to work a memory's journey and tendrils in. The pact of negation is a horrible card to draw but allows you to have a counter in your pile if you have a cantrip in your hand, FWIW I'm not married to this card.
I'll add a bit about sideboards later.
4 Doomsday
4 Oath of Druids
4 Dark Ritual
4 Gush
4 Force of Will
4 Mystic Remora
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Pact of Negation
1 Gitaxian Probe
3 Duress
2 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Preordain
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Island
1 Tropical Island
4 Underground Sea
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Doomsday is really good at beating up on control but has problems against workshops and landstill. Straight Oath (not burning oath)is good against landstill and workshops. Oath in this deck is kind of like a hurkyls that wins the game outright.
Mystic remora is pretty great if you have it out post doomsday. Every bolt or swords they aim at your lab maniac draws you a card (wins you the game) so it basically blanks all removal. Even if they cast a Krosan Grip targeting Remora, -the remora trigger will go on the stack and win you the game. Pre doomsday it's still good. It draws you into your win condition and wins attrition wars. It's also good against storm. Mindbreak trap is a singleton to tutor up with mystical or vampiric while storm is going off and you have a remora out.
There are a couple of cards that I go back and forth over. I like speed of the rituals but feel there might be a better use of the space. I would also like to work a memory's journey and tendrils in. The pact of negation is a horrible card to draw but allows you to have a counter in your pile if you have a cantrip in your hand, FWIW I'm not married to this card.
I'll add a bit about sideboards later.