Combo-Top

[Sevryn]

This deck tries to layer a snazzy combo finish on top of everyone's favorite soft-lock: counter/top. First off, the combo:

2x Sensei's Divining Top + Etherium Sculptor = arbitrarily large storm

With this as our win condition (a la brain freeze), I threw together some preexisting counter/top tech and added the combo in.


Counterspells (13)
4 Counterbalance
4 Force of Will
3 Daze
2 Spell Snare

Draw/Tutor (11)
4 Brainstorm
2 Ponder
3 Predict
2 Trinket Mage

Combo (12)
4 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Etherium Sculptor
2 Helm of Awakening
3 Brain Freeze

Random Goodness (1)
1 Pithing Needle

Land (23)
19 Island
4 Polluted Strand



Predict: good synergy with brainstorm and SDT, but also mills 1, which is neat if your opponent is using academy ruins to not deck himself.

Helm of Awakening: same function as Etherium Sculptor, lowers cc of SDT to zero.

Rest of the deck is pretty straight-forward... solid counter magic package with a combo that uses part of counter/top and rewards you for drawing that 2nd SDT.

[Jeff Kruchkow]

resolved creatures seem to hurt. like, turn 1 dude seems like gg if you have no force.

[Dark_Shakuras]

resolved creatures seem to hurt. like, turn 1 dude seems like gg if you have no force.

Yeah, i would suggest shackles to fix that. Assuming your not playing goblins and it was a lacky, you can shackle the critter, and force them to drop 2 more creatures down to start winning again. Of course you out right lose to dredge but so does half the format.

I suggest taking a MUC list, and adding in your combo idea to that.

[Soldar]

I remember seeing this deck in Extended for a bit - what about changing the Helms out for Artificer's Intuition and Locket of Yesterdays? Not positively affecting your opponent seems strong, though I guess it doesn't make a difference how much you're helping your opponent if you're soft-locking him with Counterbalance.

[HPB_Eggo]

The combo is something like ten times better when you add in Future Sight, as it lets you draw your entire library. Just something to think about...

I have other suggestions, but I'm not sure how useful they'd be, since they would basically come from the time when I used to play Countertop, which obviously isn't the same deck, and that was a long time ago. Only thing I know for sure is that 23 lands is way too much for the curve you have going.

[Nidd]

I suppose you need Stifle for Gaea's Blessing.

And some sort to prevent resolved creatures from smashing your face in.
And some kind of tutor.

Gosh, it's a 4 card combo. Do you really think this works?

[Poron]

I will never understand why people keep on designing combos that involve more than 2 cards while Painter's Stone is still available.