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Guy I Don't Know
08-24-2011, 12:36 PM
Hello ladies and gentlemen,
I was thinking about how cool it would be to make a chalice deck that had other interactions on turn 1. I have found in the past, having few 1 drops because of CotV made decks too slow to prosper. With the printing of mental misstep I think there is enough ways to shut down 1 drops so you can play 2+drops. Without further ado:

4 Ancestral Vision
4 Mental Misstep
4 Daze
4 Chalice of the Void

4 Bitterblossom
4 Dark Confidant
4 Spellstutter Sprite

3 Umezawa's Jitte
3 Diabolic Edict

4 Chrome Mox
4 Underground Sea
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Island
1 Swamp
4 Mutavault
4 Wasteland

Sb:
4 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Surgical Extraction
3 Perish

This is a rough draft. The idea is being able to play CotV while having early drops still. Mental Misstep is dead when you have Cotv, but they are not going to be playing 1 drops then! Daze can be used T1 if needed, but isn't countered with a cotv in play. Ancestral visions can be played on t1, and can resolve under Cotv. Even Flusterstorm isn't dead under Cotv because the copies still resolve! So what do you think? Is it too novel? I do miss playing brainstorm. I feel like Jitte and Edict are flex spots that can be changed. The things I am worried about are decks like merfolk. At the moment, there is no very good plan to beat them, what is the plan versus green decks main? Maybe some steal effects could be good.

Maveric78f
08-24-2011, 01:35 PM
I would play 2 mox diamond. Probably in place of 1 chrome mox and 1 land.

About the lands: you don't need a basic swamp, I'm not sure you need a basic island neither. You don't need that many colored mana sources. Play 3 or 4 rishadan ports.

The 6 anti-creature slots might be replaced with Sower and Jace. It hurts a bit more with BB, but at least you'll know what to do with your mana at turn 4/5.

Anusien
08-24-2011, 02:09 PM
If you have Chrome Mox and Jitte, Thirst for Knowledge probably turns out to be better than Ancestral Vision.

Guy I Don't Know
08-24-2011, 08:05 PM
Playing Thirst for Knowledge before Jace TMS feels just wrong. Sower of Temptation and Jace both feel like great cards. I probably should build the deck before I comment further :) I was also thinking of Phantasmal Image, Dismember, and Threads of Disloyalty.

Tombstalker
08-26-2011, 07:47 PM
This deck looks like it could go places but why no stoneforge mystic? You could go -2 jitte -1 BB -1 daze, +3 SFM +1 batterskull. I know its the newest flavor but it seems to fit really well here. Just a thought.