Rivfader
12-05-2014, 10:45 AM
The concept of this deck is to build a prisondeck, with Trinisphere and Chalice of the void, but also with Bloodmoon and Magus of the Moon. Much like MUD, Painter or the Sylvan Plug thread, but with some major differences, like mooneffects to complement Chalice/Trini, because they also shut down manaramp strategies through sollands, or locus'es like MUD or 12-post, which dodge Trini/chalice.
Another part of the concept was to rely on recurrable burn, providing a kill condition but also creature control, and easily castable through the mooneffects. And lastly, to minimize randomness I felt there was need of a cardfilter because I don't want to play blue for Brainstorm.
That kinda lead me to Sylvan Library + Words of War as a core-interaction. Sylvan Library basically filters the game for further lockpieces or burnspells, and converts itself later to a damage engine when it find Words of War. Here's a preliminary list:
Prisoncards
-4 Trinisphere
-4 Chalice of the Void
-4 Magus of the Moon
-4 Blood Moon
-3 Ensnaring Bridge
CardFilter
-4 Sylvan Library
Burnspells
-4 Punishing Fire
-2 Hammer of Bogardan
-2 Words of War
Accelerators
-4 Chrome Mox
-4 lotus Petal
Manabase
-4 City of Traitors
-4 Ancient Tomb
-4 Grove of the Burnwillows
-4 Wooded Foothills
-1 Taiga
-1 Plateau
-1 Forest
-2 Mountain
Sideboard:
-4 Red Elemental Blast
-4 Surgical Extraction
-1 Ensnaring Bridge
-1 Words of Wilding
-2 Words of Worship
-3 Krosan Grip
Like other Trini/Chalice decks, the primary goal is to land a lockpiece as soon as possible, with sollands and Chrome mox / Lotus Petal. I opted Lotus Petal instead of Simian Spirit Guide to have access to green under a mooneffect for Sylvan Library.
Secondary goal is to establish boardcontrol by landing additional lockpieces, playing Library to find what you need, or to burn away whatever creature slipped under the prisoncards. Punishing Fire with Grove of the Burnwillows is perfect for this, even though it's not synergical with mooneffects (theoretically bloodmoon should prevent your opponent from playing creatures in the first place). There is also Hammer of Bogardan. It seems an unplayable card as it's an overcosted burnspell, but in this deck it's really good. With a Trinisphere out it's manacost doesn't matter, and it's playable through chalice 1 and 2. It recurs from the graveyard as well (albeit at a high manacost), and it's meant to take over from Punishing Fire after bloodmoon landed.
The endgame lies in [cards]Sylvan Library[cards] finding Words of War, dealing 6 damage (divided in 3x2) a turn for 3 mana. Or with multiple libraries, multiple damage. Hammering away Bogardanstyle is also possible when there's 8 mana on the table.
The sideboard consists of Surgical Extraction to counteract decks that don't play spells, like Dredge or Oops all Spells, for fast combo as Reanimator or against Life from the loam. Red Elemental Blast is boarded against combo for Punishing Fire, while not synergetical with chalice (but if chalice 1 lies on the table, the scale should tip over in our favor against combo). Krosan Grip deals with opposing hatecards like Pithing Needle, Leyline of Sanctity, and many more. Words of Wilding is an alternative wincondition and Words of Worship is meant against fast damagedecks like burn (might be too cute because of the mooneffects).
I haven't tested this deck yet in a tournament, but I am confident that it won't perform bad (not saying it will shine either!). All testing has been done online or against a group of befriended testers with tournamentplayable decks, and here it did very well. It plays well against the fast delver variants, as it can burn away Delver and friends that managed to get through the prisoncards.
Thanks for reading, and I'd appreciate some constructive advice (especially the sideboard)!
Another part of the concept was to rely on recurrable burn, providing a kill condition but also creature control, and easily castable through the mooneffects. And lastly, to minimize randomness I felt there was need of a cardfilter because I don't want to play blue for Brainstorm.
That kinda lead me to Sylvan Library + Words of War as a core-interaction. Sylvan Library basically filters the game for further lockpieces or burnspells, and converts itself later to a damage engine when it find Words of War. Here's a preliminary list:
Prisoncards
-4 Trinisphere
-4 Chalice of the Void
-4 Magus of the Moon
-4 Blood Moon
-3 Ensnaring Bridge
CardFilter
-4 Sylvan Library
Burnspells
-4 Punishing Fire
-2 Hammer of Bogardan
-2 Words of War
Accelerators
-4 Chrome Mox
-4 lotus Petal
Manabase
-4 City of Traitors
-4 Ancient Tomb
-4 Grove of the Burnwillows
-4 Wooded Foothills
-1 Taiga
-1 Plateau
-1 Forest
-2 Mountain
Sideboard:
-4 Red Elemental Blast
-4 Surgical Extraction
-1 Ensnaring Bridge
-1 Words of Wilding
-2 Words of Worship
-3 Krosan Grip
Like other Trini/Chalice decks, the primary goal is to land a lockpiece as soon as possible, with sollands and Chrome mox / Lotus Petal. I opted Lotus Petal instead of Simian Spirit Guide to have access to green under a mooneffect for Sylvan Library.
Secondary goal is to establish boardcontrol by landing additional lockpieces, playing Library to find what you need, or to burn away whatever creature slipped under the prisoncards. Punishing Fire with Grove of the Burnwillows is perfect for this, even though it's not synergical with mooneffects (theoretically bloodmoon should prevent your opponent from playing creatures in the first place). There is also Hammer of Bogardan. It seems an unplayable card as it's an overcosted burnspell, but in this deck it's really good. With a Trinisphere out it's manacost doesn't matter, and it's playable through chalice 1 and 2. It recurs from the graveyard as well (albeit at a high manacost), and it's meant to take over from Punishing Fire after bloodmoon landed.
The endgame lies in [cards]Sylvan Library[cards] finding Words of War, dealing 6 damage (divided in 3x2) a turn for 3 mana. Or with multiple libraries, multiple damage. Hammering away Bogardanstyle is also possible when there's 8 mana on the table.
The sideboard consists of Surgical Extraction to counteract decks that don't play spells, like Dredge or Oops all Spells, for fast combo as Reanimator or against Life from the loam. Red Elemental Blast is boarded against combo for Punishing Fire, while not synergetical with chalice (but if chalice 1 lies on the table, the scale should tip over in our favor against combo). Krosan Grip deals with opposing hatecards like Pithing Needle, Leyline of Sanctity, and many more. Words of Wilding is an alternative wincondition and Words of Worship is meant against fast damagedecks like burn (might be too cute because of the mooneffects).
I haven't tested this deck yet in a tournament, but I am confident that it won't perform bad (not saying it will shine either!). All testing has been done online or against a group of befriended testers with tournamentplayable decks, and here it did very well. It plays well against the fast delver variants, as it can burn away Delver and friends that managed to get through the prisoncards.
Thanks for reading, and I'd appreciate some constructive advice (especially the sideboard)!