Hello TheSource

You may have seen this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RggOcNE3-t0

It features a hilarious deck which harnesses the raw power of Didgeridoo, Artificial Evolution, and a couple of minotaur bois.

Here's the original list, which I based my (arguably) upgraded list upon:


3 Griselbrand
4 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

4 Show and Tell
2 Preordain
4 Ponder
4 Arcane Adaptation
4 Didgeridoo
4 Lotus Petal
2 Artificial Evolution
4 Force of Will
1 Intuition
4 Brainstorm
1 Flusterstorm
1 Spell Pierce

2 Scalding Tarn
4 Ancient Tomb
3 Flooded Strand
1 City of Traitors
6 Island
2 Misty Rainforest

Sideboard (15)

2 Defense Grid
1 Echoing Truth
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
1 Wipe Away
4 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Intuition
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Flusterstorm


Now, you might ask yourself "but self, how can you improve upon this greatness!?". Well that's where our friend Boros F̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶s̶h̶a̶p̶e̶r̶ Battleshaper comes into play. My highly trained team of professionals (shoutout to "kinda") also tweaked some of the other aspects of the deck to maximize both hilarity and consistency.

Here's the list we came up with:

3 Griselbrand
4 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

4 Show and Tell
1 Preordain
4 Ponder
1 Arcane Adaptation
1 Blood Moon
4 Didgeridoo
4 Lotus Petal
4 Artificial Evolution
4 Force of Will
1 Intuition
4 Brainstorm
2 Flusterstorm
1 Spell Pierce

4 Scalding Tarn
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Flooded Strand
1 City of Traitors
3 Island
1 Mountain
2 Volcanic Island
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Sideboard (15)

1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Pithing Needle
4 Boros Battleshaper
1 Blood Moon
2 Sneak Attack
2 Abrade
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Echoing Truth
1 Kozilek's Return


I played this deck in the GP Seattle side event on Saturday, which had over 100 players, but was still capped to 3 rounds.

Here were my matchups and results:

Round 1: Goblin Charbelcher

Game 1:
My opening hand was Force of Will, Flusterstorm, Fetchland, Artificial Evolution, Emrakul, the Aeon's Torn, Brainstorm, Island. I figured it was not a terrible start, since I only needed the fabled Didgeridoo in order to TOOT TOOT my way to victory. I won the die roll and led with Island and passed the turn. My opponent proceeded to reveal his hand with land grant, and I saw he was on the empty the warrens plan, he proceeded to get storm count up to 5 then cast Empty the warrens with exact mana to cast it. I flusterstormed every single copy. Better lucky than good eh? A couple of turns go by and I drew a show and tell to cheat the 15/15 Emrakul, the Minotaur into play. GG.

Game 2:
I obviously boarded in echoing truth, kozilek's return, and pithing needle. I don't have notes for this game, but he mulligan'd to 5 and kept a hand that didn't do anything immediately. I countered his first attempt to cast a goblin charbelcher, then I drew a show and tell to cheat in Emrakul, the Minotaur to end the game.

Toot Toot counter: 0

Round 2: Jund Depths (sort of)

Game 1:
Opponent kept a somewhat slow hand, preferring to establish some lock pieces (chalice of the void, exploration/wasteland, life from the loam) rather than go for the fast as possible 20/20 marit lage token. On the turn he had the mana to create the 20/20, I was able to use an artifically evolved didgeridoo into cheat in a Griseltaur, draw 14 cards, cast show and tell, my opponent says "resolves" and I called a judge to quickly get a ruling to reassure what I was about to do would, in fact, "fuck my opponent up". Since he had already stated show and tell resolved, I put blood moon into play. He was unable to respond and sat there taking horns to the face for a couple of turns until he was defeated.

Game 2:
OMG OMG OMG it's Boros F̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶s̶h̶a̶p̶e̶r̶ Battleshaper's time to shine! I board in all 4 of the glorious minotaurs and the extra blood moon, boarding out Intuition, 1 Artificial Evolution, 1 Preordain, and 2 flusterstorm. My opponent opted to go for a faster kill this game, getting his Thespian's Stage and Dark Depths as soon as possible. It was already too late though, as I had cast a turn 1 didgeridoo which went relatively unnoticed. I had assembled the greatest combo, and the ultimate foil to a 20/20 flying indestructible token. On the 3rd turn of this game I used lotus petal + 2 islands to use Didgeridoo to put a Boros Battleshaper into play and pass the turn. My opponent, of course, ignored the stupid 5/5 creature I had just lovingly placed onto the battlefield, and proceeded to make his 20/20. On my opponent's turn he had a puzzled look and said "attack for 20?" I replied "Hang on a sec, you enter combat step and that creature can't attack this turn". He picked up the Mighty Minotaur, read it. Set it back down. Picked it up again, read it, said "That's fucking awesome!" then set it back down and passed the turn. On my turn I drew another Boros Battleshaper, entered combat, delcared his 20/20 couldn't block, and attacked for 5. My opponent then read Boros Battleshaper a 3rd time, then took 5 damage. I proceeded to play my 3rd land and put the second Boros Battleshaper into play. Two turns later and I had defeated my opponent.

Toot Toot counter: 2

Round 3: Storm
I asked my opponent if he'd like to split or if he wanted to play it out. He asked to play it out.

Game 1:
I don't have a lot of notes for this match, but in game 1 my opponent stormed me out pretty quickly and I lost.

Game 2:
I boarded in echoing truth, kozilek's return, 2 surgical extraction; boarding out 1 Preordain, 1 Intuition, 1 Blood Moon, and 1 Arcane Adaptation. Like I said I don't have a lot of notes from this matchup, but I didgeridoo'd in an emrakul and proceeded to win from there.

Game 3:
It seemed like every time I was about to draw a fatty, my opponent made me discard my show and tell or abrupt decay'd my didgeridoo. A couple of turns of draw-go go by, and he assembled enough cards in hand to go duress me to see if the coast is clear (which I brainstorm'd in response to hide my echoing truth on top of my deck) then go for an empty the warrens for 14 goblins. I drew the echoing truth on my turn and dispatched all of the goblin tokens. Two turns later he cast "dark ritual, rite of flame, ad nauseum" with a couple of lands untapped. I responded by surgical extracting his lion's eye diamonds, as I thought he would have a very difficult time going off without them. Turns out he had enough lands and lotus petals to storm me out with a tendrils of agony for the win.

Toot Toot counter: 3

Overall record: 2-1

Prizes won: 200 prize tickets and the pride of winning a game of legacy with Boros Battleshaper and Didgeridoo.

This deck was very silly and fun, and I did much better than I expected to. Shout out to Vince AKA PleasantKenobi for playing the original list and posting an entertaining video to youtube.