[Developmental] GW Opal-Wave

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Opal-Wave

Opal-Wave is a Green White deck designed to maximize the interaction between of Opalescence and Parallax Wave & kill with attacking enchantment creatures.

The Deck uses the Green for filtering and Card Draw, and White for Controlling the board and killing


Deck (60)

Kill Cards:
4 Opalescence
1 Starfield of Nyx

Card Selection and Draw:
4 Sylvan Library
4 Kruphix's Insight
2 Commune with the Gods
2 Enlightened Tutor
4 Enchantress's Presence

Ramp:
4 Utopia Sprawl
4 Wild Growth
1 Fertile Ground

Enevitability:
3 Replenish

Disruption:
4 Parallax Wave
1 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Oblivion Ring

Mana Base: (20)
4 Serra's Sanctum
4 Windswept Heath
2 Wooded Foothills
2 Plains
2 Savannah
6 Forest



Sideboard:

4 Eidolon of Rhetoric
3 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Sphere of resistance
3 Carpet of Flowers
2 Banishing Light

Understanding the Deck Interactions

Opalescence & Parallax Wave:
With both Opalescence and Parallax Wave on the battlefield Parallax Wave is a 4/4 creature.
Parallax Wave can target itself with its own exile ability this will exile Parallax Wave. When Parallax Wave exiles itself it triggers it’s own exit the battlefield clause and returns itself and all of the other exiled creatures exiled by Parallax Wave to the battlefield. This will reset the Fading counters to 5.

Opalescence & Parallax Wave: Infinite Creature Exile Combo [Holding Priority & the Stack]
If you target an opposing creature with Parallax Wave, hold priority then target Parallax Wave the stack will look like below:

Top
[Parallax Wave Exile Trigger – Targeting Parallax Wave]
[Parallax Wave Exile Trigger – Opponent’s creature]
Bottom

The stack will resolve top to bottom and start with the exile ability targeting Parallax Wave. This will then trigger Parallax Wave’s Exit the battle field trigger. The stack will then look like below

Top
[Parallax Wave Return to Battlefield Trigger]
[Parallax Wave Exile Trigger – Opponent’s creature]
Bottom

Parallax Wave will then return to the battlefield with a fresh set of 5 counters on it. In the Game of Magic this is treated as a new object, and no longer has any relation to the exile trigger remaining on the stack. Then the stack will look like follows

Top
[Parallax Wave Exile Trigger – Opponent’s creature]
Bottom

This will exile the opponent’s creature indefinitely as there will be no exit the battle field trigger from the Parallax Wave that exiled the creature since that copy has already left the battlefield. This can be repeated indefinitely.

Opalescence& Parallax Wave and Infinite Creature removal Evasion
The “blink ability” can also be used to evade all non-split second removal.

Top
[Removal Targeting Parallax Wave]
Bottom

Top
[Parallax Wave Exile targeting itself]
[Removal Targeting Parallax Wave]
Bottom

Parallax Wave exiles itself triggering the exit the battlefield trigger

Top
[Parallax Wave exit the battlefield trigger]
[Removal Targeting Parallax Wave – Now Gone]
Bottom


Parallax Wave returns back to the battlefield as a new copy

Top
[Removal Targeting Parallax Wave – Now Gone]
Bottom

The removal spell fizzles due to lack of target.


Parallax Wave, Opalescence, Oblivion Ring: Infinite Permanent removal
Oblivion Ring enters the battlefield and triggers.

Top
[Oblivion Ring Enter the Battlefield Exile Trigger Targeting Permanent]
Bottom

Use Parallax Wave to target Oblivion Ring to get the following Stack

Top
[Parallax Wave Exile Trigger Targeting Creature Oblivion Ring]
[Oblivion Ring Enter the Battlefield Exile Trigger Targeting Permanent]
Bottom

Parallax Wave trigger resolves exiling Oblivion Ring

Top
[Oblivion Ring Enter the Battlefield Exile Trigger Targeting Permanent]
Bottom

The Permanent is removed

Blink Parallax Wave to bring back both 5 counter Parallax Wave and Oblivion Ring. Oblivion Ring can choose a new target and is considered a new object and when leave the

Evading Wrath Effects

Hide select enchantments under Parallax Wave, and let the Wrath resolve. All creatures under Parallax Wave will return to the Battlefield


Playing the Deck

...forthcoming