Combo deck poll

[Asthereal]

Doomsday or Solidarity, the latter especially when fighting through Emrakul triggers. :)

[HokusSchmokus]

I can not not vote for dredge.

[Silent Requiem]

I agree that Solidarity and Doomsday should have been on there. In my view, Solidarity & PSI are the decks to watch. Whenever I play any of those decks at a local tournament, I'm the player everyone is gathering around.

Why is this? Partly because both decks virtually auto lose if they fizzle (Solidarity goes off in response to lethal damage and PSI plays cards that read "lose the game" on them) so there is a great deal of tension. Equally, they are draw dependent (or "non linear") decks that have to improvise to win. Decks that win via controllable conditions (IGG loop, Show & Tell, etc) are less exciting because (absent disruption) the result is known as soon as they start to go off.

[Gui]

Doomsday would be the one I enjoy the most looking at someone able to do that, simply because it requires nuts training.

I can't really vote for Dredge because it's usually my side of the table that has it =P

So with the given options, I'd either vote for Elves, because it's fun to see the table getting flooded with small green dudes while the opponent gets pissed (although sometimes I'm the one pissed), and then SI, because well, if someone is running SI, it's already worth noting. xD

[Ignithas_]

My top four (I don't really have a favorite) are: Dredge, Reanimator, Elves and SneakShow, because you can have a good chance with fair decks to beat them (not like all kind of storm decks).

But the winner for me is SneakShow, because I love the face when they realise that their Griselbrand gets stopped by a 2/1 creature that they cheated into play with Show and Tell.

[Julian23]

But the winner for me is SneakShow, because I love the face when they realise that their Griselbrand gets stopped by a 2/1 creature that they cheated into play with Show and Tell.

Until they start periodically rotating it by 90°.

[The Spanish Tunnel King]

Awesome topic, although I fear that raising the awareness of spanish inquisition might make it lose its chief weapon...

ALSO boo no doomsday :D

The Spanish Tunnel King

[Ignithas_]

Until they start periodically rotating it by 90°.

SneakShow player aren't that smart. They usually scoop when they see something they don't know XD.

Now on a serious note. With my DnT deck my chances to win against SnT are better than 50% and Phyrexian Revoker is one of the reason and the second is strong removal and disruption, pre and post board. So if he can atack with Griselbrand many turns after a resolved Phyrexian Revoker he was usually lucky or activated Griselbrand at least once.

[Anusien]

Watching any combo deck go off is the biggest troll ever. Most of the time you know you're beat, but the opponent has to sit there and figure out if he can kill you with 10 mana floating, 8 storm and hellbent Infernal Tutor on the stack. The worst is therefore High Tide, because they can't even say "IT for IT for Tendrils and kill you?", you're not mathematically dead and they have to play it out.

So naturally I picked Dredge just because everyone hates it, even combo players.

[Bryant Cook]

So naturally I picked Dredge just because everyone hates it, even combo players.

Truth. I picked my deck, because well..I just fucking LOVE (G)rapeshotting for 50-60 after drawing my deck.

The only reason SI is interesting to watch is because it doesn't fizzle once a year and you're left with the thought of, "OMG, is this it?! Is it actually going to work? Aww, shux, nope."

[feline]

Somehow I knew Bryant Cook would pick TES >^,^< Now if we can just get the hatfields to come on here and give high tide 2 more votes ha ha

I really should finish making spanish inquisition myself, noone would expect it at the local metagames I go to, though I am already known for pushing combo or "wonky" decks like prison stax or pox, i just love resource denial when it comes to my opponent having no lands in play

maybe that's my new goal, just make every combo deck available that's viable in type 1.5, though cherri0s would be lol.

[joemauer]

I really should finish making spanish inquisition myself, noone would expect it at the local metagames I go to, though I am already known for pushing combo or "wonky" decks like prison stax or pox, i just love resource denial when it comes to my opponent having no lands in play

No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!

[feline]

Exactly lol.

[rxavage]

I agree with Bryant, nothing feels better than pulling off a ridiculous grapeshot. It's also nice to swing with Emrakul and/or Griselbrand on turn 2 but that's not as difficult and it doesn't really feel earned.

[feline]

Yea, the "cheat a bomb into play" combo's don't even feel like combo's.

[Vacrix]

Awesome topic, although I fear that raising the awareness of spanish inquisition might make it lose its chief weapon...

Well... our chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and Fear. So 2 Weapons. Fear and Surprise.. and Ruthless Efficiency. Three Weapons! Fear, Surprise, Ruthless Efficiency.. and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

Hmm... perhaps I might need to order us some nice red uniforms. So we can have 5 weapons.

Oh and we board in 15 cards to shore up our worst matchup. Surprise!


EDIT:
I just read some of the above comments. I don't know how it could be fun watching anyone play AdN as engine. Is auto-pilot storm really that interesting to watch? I can, however, see people picking it because they like playing it.

Also, ask anyone who has actually played with blue against the PSI post-board grind plan. Most people I've encountered or read reports about have claimed its the most fun they've had playing magic in a long time (for both players). Sure TES can showboat with Grapeshot, but the harder combo decks to play, granted they might not be as viable as TES, but they are WAY more fun to watch because going off with the deck is literally showboating.

[baghdadbob]

You left out Cheerios. I would have voted for that.

[Star|Scream]

but they are WAY more fun to watch because going off with the deck is literally showboating.

That word ^ I don't think it means what you think it means.

[Vacrix]

No I definitely meant that. Solidarity? Spiral Tide? Dredge? SI? Way more fun to watch than Ad Nauseam engines. Granted, if you're Grapeshotting through Teeg, then thats pretty boss. Otherwise, meh..

[Kap'n Cook]

Cephalid Breakfast should definitely be on here. Watching your opponents reaction to combining two almost useless cards to kill with the Mimeoplasm of all things is the best.

but I gotta show the love for all those topdecked grindstones in the meantime