RGW Toolbox Control

[eq.firemind]

This deck has evolved from my attempts to use a nice rare card Rings of the Brightheart. Firstly I tried to build a deck around Rings, but soon realized that puttin Rings in E-Tutor toolbox is far better 'cause running >1 Rings means more dead topdecks. First attempt was to abuse it in Death and Taxes shell, but the brokeness of Rings + Planeswalker or Rings + Wasteland moved me into more control direction. Here's what I have now:

LANDS (24)
4 Wasteland - Great with Rings
4 Windswept Heath - Nice with Rings, shuffle for Top
2 Wooded Foothills - Nice with Rings, shuffle for Top
2 Savannah
2 Plateau
1 Taiga
2 Horizon Canopy - Nice with Crucible, lifeloss is... well, see below...
5 Plains
1 Forest
1 Mountain

1-DROPS (12)
3 Enlightened Tutor - One of the key cards
1 Relic of Progenitus - Toolbox singleton, works with Rings
4 Swords to Plowshares - Obv
2 Sensei's Divining Top - Draw engine with Rings
2 Engeneered Explosives - all-round answer.

2-DROPS (10)
4 Lightning Helix - removal for tribal and utility creatures, very effective against :r:-based aggro like Goyfsligh.
2 Eternal Dragon - Shuffle for Top, manafixer, wincon, usable with Rings
1 Runed Halo - Toolbox singleton, wide-range proactive answer.
1 Isochron Scepter - Toolbox singleton to abuse StP, Helix and Chantlock from SB.
2 Sylvan Library - Additional topdeck manipulator, becomes draw engine with huge number of lifegain in the deck (Helix, Ajani V., Pulse), becomes wincon with Words of War/Wilding, tutorable.

3-DROPS (7)
2 Pulse of the Fields - Gives you needed time, great against aggro, great synergy with Sylvan Library.
1 Crucible of Worlds - Toolbox Singleton, creates wastelock, negates StaX and land destroy.
1 Rings of the Brightheart - Toolbox singleton, the main reason I created this deck. Don't do a shit on its own, but makes good cards broken.
1 Words of War/Wilding - Toolbox Singleton, great synergy with Sylvan Library. Looks like the red one is better.
2 Eternal Witness - Just dunno what to put here.

4-DROPS (7)
1 Wrath of God - Baam!
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant - Broken with Rings
2 Ajani Venegant - Broken with Rings
1 Humility - Toolbox singleton, very unfair card.
1 Moat - Toolbox singleton, very unfair card.

SIDEBOARD
4 Orim's Chant - Anticombo, sometimes chantlock
3 Krosan Grip
1 Choke - Anti-:u: toolbox singleton
2 Firesprout - additional help against swarm decs
1 Aura of Silence - Toolbox singleton, usable with Rings
1 Tormod's Crypt - Additional GY hate against Loam and Dredge
1 Wheel of Sun and Moon - Toolbox singleton vs Dredge, Loam, Painter
1 Ensnaring Bridge - to stop Progenitus, 'Nought and everything else with Words of War/Wilding or opponent with discard.
2 Free Slots - reserved for metagame

As you can see, many ideas of the deck were taken from Quinn, its praetor Rabid Wombat and other :w:-based control decks of the past. It also tries to abuse Sylvan Library in a way I haven't seen before: through Pulse of the Fields to have plain CA.
It plays like control deck should play: survive early game, gain some control, then turn on your CA engines, drop something scary and win.
The decklist is untested, but has a great number of synergies and options to fight against different opponents, so I believe the deck can become competitive.
I'll be glad to hear any suggestions!

[morgan_coke]

That's a really interesting idea. You do know that multiple rings can stack activations, right? Exploration seems like it might be useful here. The deck also seems really mana hungry, some kind of acceleration might be useful. You also may want a tiny blue splash for Academy Ruins and Etched Oracle. Finally, is there a reason you aren't running engineered explosives? Seal of Primordium/Cleansing/Fire and Spellbombs would also work for you.

Oh, and a single ethersworn canonist should be in your board to help with combo.

[eq.firemind]

That's a really interesting idea.
Thanks. :smile:

You do know that multiple rings can stack activations, right?
Rings is not a good card without any help.
2 Rings in play are somewhere between "winmore" and "danger of cool things". But I'll try to fit in 2nd one...

Exploration seems like it might be useful here. The deck also seems really mana hungry, some kind of acceleration might be useful.
Sounds fair. I'll try some form of early accel.

You also may want a tiny blue splash for Academy Ruins and Etched Oracle.
Well, I prefer stable manabase. Also, another manahungry engine is something I don't really need...

Finally, is there a reason you aren't running engineered explosives?
I run 2 EE. They are in 1-drops 'cause very often I blow up Vial, Figure of Destiny or Nacatl.

Seal of Primordium/Cleansing/Fire and Spellbombs would also work for you.
I changed Seal of Disenchant to Aura of Silence 'cause they do same thing with Rings and Aura is better without one. Seal of Fire... Dunno, looks too weak without Rings...

Oh, and a single ethersworn canonist should be in your board to help with combo.
Dunno here, Rule of Law is harder to deal with... Needs testing to decide wich is better...