Polymorph Emrakul

[thefreakaccident]

lands//20
4 mishra's factory
2 mutavault
4 underground sea
2 island
1 swamp
4 polluted delta
3 flooded strand

1 emrakal, the aeons torn

spells//39
4 brainstorm
3 ponder
4 fact or fiction

4 polymorph

4 innocent blood
4 thoughtseize
4 bitterblossom

4 daze
4 force of will
4 dark ritual



The idea is pretty straightforward, disruption + relatively quick emrakal into win.

Ritual is kind of hit/miss, it can allow nutty plays like T2-3 fact or fiction or polymorph, it can also let you make powerplays with your cantrips in the lategame if you get lucky.


Dunno about a sideboard yet.

[Leftconsin]

One Trick Pony.

That's what this deck is. So, I have some questions about your deck. Stuff I feel you should have answered in the first post.
Why aren't you running Show and Tell?
What happens when you don't draw Polymorph? 'Cause you know its gonna happen eventually.
So you attack for 15 on turn 5, doesn't everybody?
On turn 4 you need to make sure that Polymorph, a targeted spell, resolves. I don't feel you have enough disruption to stop a single StP from making your target invalid most of the time.

[thefreakaccident]

I wouldn't call this deck a one trick poney, in fact the deck is very versatile.


Polymorph/Emrakal takes 5 slots in the deck, its a 4cmc emrakul as your win-condition... It's not better than show and tell, but it allows you to run just the one critter and make sure it's the emrakul every single time.


The deck runs a lot of draw, and dark ritual can enable some stupid T2-3 plays.

If you think they'll have too much removal dig for more manlands or bitterblossom, odds are they won't have 4 removal spells in one turn.


But then again, I just thought of this deck yesterday, so I doubt the list is even close to where it should be...


Doe's anyone have any thoughts to improve the current deck list? Should I up the countermagic, up the removal, or change the way the deck generates tokens (like thopter foundry instead of bitterblossom)?

[RaNDoMxGeSTuReS]

Needs moar Ancient Tomb.

[Leftconsin]

Four removal spells in one turn? All your opponent needs is one pointed squarely at the creature you target with Polymorph.

I understand that your deck runs 11 draw spells. But I'd like to quote your own signature ""Drawing it consistently" is a joke. It doesn't matter whether you have 10 copies or 1 copy. Some games you'll start with it. Some games you'll start without it " When you don't find Polymorph your backup plan is a few 2/2s. I just really don't think you can win a competitive game where you don't find and resolve Polymorph.

Ancient Tomb is a good suggestion. Another suggestion I'd have is up the number of board sweepers. You do get Emrakul out relatively slow. I'd imagine a lot of aggro decks will have you dead on board even with Emrakul out on turns 4-6. He can only block one creature after all. I'd also put in a pair of Jittes to compliment the Bitterblossoms. That will give you a better chance against Zoo and random aggro.

[sclabman]

Needs Vedalken Shackles. I had a similar idea but it was mono-blue splashing red for Firespout and also ran Dispel to protect the combo. It wasn't very good but it was certainly fun. I came to realize that removing 'Morph and the slower cards for Goyf and faster stuff ended up being a better plan, but then I ended up with Counterbalance or Bant Aggro.

[Meekrab]

This was the first idea everyone tried back when Emrakul was first spoiled, then people realized Show and Tell was just better, and then some crazy dude decided to use Sneak Attack in the same deck, and that's what people who want to swing with 15/15s use now.

[sclabman]

Hahaha or Mosswort Bridge! That's what I'm currently working on. I think that if you're going to go with the Pmorph Emrakul idea that it should be a backup plan to a heavy control deck... but control decks already have such great tools I'm not sure it's needed. You could also just focus on the combo but there are better options, like Meekrab says. You can't really make it an aggro deck because the only other creature you can run is Emrakul.

Furthermore, I don't think Innocent Blood should be in this deck, as it will kill your Emrakul if it's out when you need to kill something.

[freakish777]

Don't play this deck. Trust me.

[pippo84]

I also thought of a deck similar to this one when Emrakul was spoiled.

It's not good really.. It's slow and Polymorph neets to target a creature leaving you vulnerable to opponent's removal.

As suggested though adding Vedalken Shackles and Ancient Tomb would be good.

Another thing is cut the Manlands please. Sacrificing a Mishra for Polymorph is slow as.. Well it's really slow! :tongue: