TooCloseToTheSun
05-05-2010, 08:28 PM
Once upon a time there was a deck called Brand. The deck revolved around the card Brand and creatures that gave your opponent token creatures or Gilded Drake-d their creatures and then branded them all back. Then, M10 came and ruined the whole strategy because under the new rules tokens are owned by the player whose control they enter under. So my roommate (porcupinetreeman) decided that he would radically change the deck into something that could compete, and this is the list we came up with.
Brand New
Lands
2 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
2 Island
4 Wasteland
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Tropical Island
2 Flooded Strand
2 Scalding Tarn
Creatures
4 Dark Confidant
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Sylvan Safekeeper
Spells
4 AEther Vial
4 Stifle
3 Brainstorm
4 Trickbind
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
Sideboard
3 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Engineered Explosives
2 Spell Pierce
4 Krosan Grip
3 Faerie Macabre
You may notice that this deck looks nothing at all like what brand used to be. Well that is because the strategy is not even remotely close to viable. So instead we put together a deck that uses similar tricks to win the game.
Some Card Choices:
-Aether Vial allows you to spend mana else where while allowing your opponent to tap down and allowing you to vial in a dreadnought, or you can use it to vial in a dreadnought in response to another one to keep one in play.
-Dark Confidant is a great way to generate card draw and is also a magnet for removal leaving the more vicious creatures behind also vialing him in EOT almost guarantees at least one draw.
-Tarmogoyf–Why not?
-Sylvan Safekeeper is possibly the only debatable slot main board. He used to be Mother of Ruins but through some testing seemed to just work better and is the same color as Tarmogoyf which is kind of a benefit
-Stifle and Trickbind are both great cards, but why run all eight? Well because any extras can be used to attack mana bases and it ensures you always have one with a Dreadnought.
I don’t have any matchup analysis right now but we will get to it eventually. Also the sideboard is pretty much just thrown together so it is nowhere near set in stone.
So what do you think?
[Edit] Found an old Brand list
Brand
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Underground Sea
4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
2 Polluted Delta
2 Bloodstained Mire
1 Badlands
4 Hunted Horror
3 Hunted Phantasm
4 Dark Confidant
3 Gilded Drake
4 Brand
4 Brainstorm
4 Mystical Tutor
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Stifle
2 Extirpate
1 Pyroclasm
1 Powder Keg
1 Engineered Explosives
Sideboard:
4 Divert
1 Perish
1 Stench of Evil
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Shattering Spree
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Phyrexian Furnace
Brand New
Lands
2 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
2 Island
4 Wasteland
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Tropical Island
2 Flooded Strand
2 Scalding Tarn
Creatures
4 Dark Confidant
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Sylvan Safekeeper
Spells
4 AEther Vial
4 Stifle
3 Brainstorm
4 Trickbind
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
Sideboard
3 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Engineered Explosives
2 Spell Pierce
4 Krosan Grip
3 Faerie Macabre
You may notice that this deck looks nothing at all like what brand used to be. Well that is because the strategy is not even remotely close to viable. So instead we put together a deck that uses similar tricks to win the game.
Some Card Choices:
-Aether Vial allows you to spend mana else where while allowing your opponent to tap down and allowing you to vial in a dreadnought, or you can use it to vial in a dreadnought in response to another one to keep one in play.
-Dark Confidant is a great way to generate card draw and is also a magnet for removal leaving the more vicious creatures behind also vialing him in EOT almost guarantees at least one draw.
-Tarmogoyf–Why not?
-Sylvan Safekeeper is possibly the only debatable slot main board. He used to be Mother of Ruins but through some testing seemed to just work better and is the same color as Tarmogoyf which is kind of a benefit
-Stifle and Trickbind are both great cards, but why run all eight? Well because any extras can be used to attack mana bases and it ensures you always have one with a Dreadnought.
I don’t have any matchup analysis right now but we will get to it eventually. Also the sideboard is pretty much just thrown together so it is nowhere near set in stone.
So what do you think?
[Edit] Found an old Brand list
Brand
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Underground Sea
4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
2 Polluted Delta
2 Bloodstained Mire
1 Badlands
4 Hunted Horror
3 Hunted Phantasm
4 Dark Confidant
3 Gilded Drake
4 Brand
4 Brainstorm
4 Mystical Tutor
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Stifle
2 Extirpate
1 Pyroclasm
1 Powder Keg
1 Engineered Explosives
Sideboard:
4 Divert
1 Perish
1 Stench of Evil
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Shattering Spree
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Phyrexian Furnace