[Deck] U/R OmniWish

[death]

http://i.imgur.com/qVSfLbG.jpg


8 a.m. day after Christmas.... really don't wanna break away from Established (Cick here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?24583-Deck-U-R-OmniTell)) but since this is barely getting traction, here ya go. Differences between Mono-U? 7 Show and Tells, resilience to red blasts, does not lose to Extirpate, less dead ETI/DTT draws and Gaddock Teeg is a walkover.

Chains of Mephistopheles, Spirit of the Labyrinth, Notion Thief? No problem.

Maindeck
4 Burning Wish
4 Cunning Wish
3 Show and Tell
2 Intuition
1 Split Decision

4 Omniscience
3 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

4 Force of Will
3 Flusterstorm
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Preordain

2 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
4 Island
3 Flooded Strand
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Volcanic Island
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Sideboard
1 Show and Tell
1 Intuition
1 Time of Need
1 Overmaster
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pact of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Noxious Revival
1 Pyroclasm
1 Sudden Shock
1 Firemind's Foresight
1 Beacon of Immortality
1 False Cure
1 Enter the Infinite
1 Through the Breach


http://i.imgur.com/KIXZQ0K.jpg


Show and Tell win:
SnT > Emrakul
SnT > Omniscience > see below

Burning Wish win:
B-Wish > Time of Need > Emrakul
B-Wish > Enter the Infinite: 1) C-Wish + SD into False Cure + Beacon or 2) cast your Emrakuls

Cunning Wish win:
C-Wish > Intuition > Emrakul
C-Wish > Through the Breach > Emrakul
C-Wish > Firemind's Foresight (C-Wish + SD + BS/Fstorm) > False Cure > Beacon of Immortality

- requires 1 Cunning Wish available & Split Decision not in the GY
C-Wish > Firemind's Foresight (Intuition + SD + BS/Fstorm) > Emrakul + X card

- in case Cunning Wish meets Surgical Extraction mid-combo

Intuition win:
Intuition > any of the above lines of play or let your opponent choose his/her own poison


Sideboarding is easy as pie: -1 Ponder + 1 Red Elemental against anything blue.

In response to a removal spell/ability on the stack targeting Omniscience (O-ring, Ashen Rider, Qasali Pridemage, Reclamation Sage), you can just win at instant speed (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?24583-Deck-U-R-OmniTell&p=855710&viewfull=1#post855710).

The wishes can be used as reset button to buy time while looking for the other half of the combo (Omniscience): Burning Wish > Pyroclasm or Cunning Wish > Through the Breach.

You have access to 75 cards at any given time and the consistency of a 60-card deck. Its compactness conceals its brokenness and reactive nature. This ranks amongst the most powerful decks as it is but would welcome improvements.

On that note: "It kind of feels like something ought to get banned, so I want to take advantage of getting to play these sick-o decks while I have the chance." — Brian DeMars

[death]

reserv'd :smile:

[somethingdotdotdot]

I dont understand why you have both wishes in the list. Personally, if you're playing red, I believe burning wish to be the superior card as it acts as both an enabler and a win con. Cunning wish is really just a win con and occasionally a protection spell, but its very clunky in most situations when you're not going off. Having both wishes also makes your sideboard way too crowded without any real sideboard plans. I believe dig through time is better than cunning wish here.

As to the win conditions: you really don't need so many. Beacon/False cure is just taking 2 extra slots that could easily be spiraling embers or grapeshot which pair with enter the infinite.

I've been playing this list (below)every now and then on cockatrice and its been treating me well. Obviously its only cockatrice, but the deck seems fairly solid at the moment.

4 Burning Wish
3 Show and Tell
4 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
4 Omniscience
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Preordain
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Pyroblast
4 Dig Through Time
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
2 Island
1 Mountain
3 Volcanic Island
2 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
1 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 1 Show and Tell
SB: 1 Enter the Infinite
SB: 3 Pyroclasm
SB: 2 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
SB: 2 Defense Grid
SB: 2 Blood Moon
SB: 1 Void Snare
SB: 2 Flusterstorm
SB: 1 Grapeshot

[Maro]

Cunning Wish v. Dig Through Time
-gives access to silver bullets
-alternate Through the Breach
-0% chance of drawing bricks
-0% risk of your combo fizzling
-can be cast without Threshold
-operates under Gaddock Teeg
-you can go off at instant speed
-you can go off in different ways

[KobeBryan]

I think this version should only be played if you are expecting a lot of DNT

[death]

Maverick and UWr, B. wish gives an out to Meddling Mage on C. wish, and vice versa. Intuition can fetch Emrakul in the face of hate bears and Leyline 2.0

[KobeBryan]

Maverick and UWr, B. wish gives an out to Meddling Mage on C. wish, and vice versa. Intuition can fetch Emrakul in the face of hate bears and Leyline 2.0

I have never seen anyone name cunning wish with meddling mage.

I wish they do, because it would be easier to win than them naming show and tell.

[death]

I mentioned it because I'm seeing mono blue cutting EtI in hopes of Dig > C.Wish. If DTT whiffs at finding EtI or their 1-off Emrakul then they can be pretty much stuck.

The list in the OP is slightly weak (but doesn't auto-lose) to Counterbalance/Chalice of the Void though equipped in fighting ANT, Reanimator, Elves, D&T, Mav and Patriot. It might be difficult to play around CB/CotV, if the meta calls for it, accommodate in the sideboard:
Trickbind
Meltdown
Hurkyl's RecallAs much I would want the extra room, removing the instant speed C.Wish pathway would expose vulnerability and overreliance on Enter the Infinite. This is true regarding both Release the Ants/Spiraling Embers.

[Jables237]

I mentioned it because I'm seeing mono blue cutting EtI in hopes of Dig > C.Wish. If DTT whiffs at finding EtI or their 1-off Emrakul then they can be pretty much stuck.

I have been playing the 1 ETI 4 DTT Mono blue list and it really does work well. There are so many things that you can hit to just keep going you will find what you need. 4 Branstorm 4 ponder 3 pre-ordain, 4 DTT, 4 Cunning wish, 1 Impulse. It is very very rare to fizzle out.

[death]

But why play 4 when you can have 7 or 9 Show and Tells though?

Dig Through Time is a shiny new toy like Enter the Infinite once was. But once they lose luster it'll be clearer that mono U durdle.dec is no better, then you'll see this and my other U/R Omniscience (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?24583-Deck-U-R-OmniTell) thread back on the DTB :)

And if Brainstorm/Ponder gets the banhammer next January, which is long overdue, this combo deck can survive by simply replacing 2 cantrips.

[tescrin]

This was the direction I expected the deck to take *IF* brainstorm were banned; simply to reduce the bricks that you could no longer toss away. I still kinda believe that since S&T doesn't live on wishes like Omnitell can and because omni can't stay MonoU and be as reliable without BS.

That said, I think the deck has potential, but I don't think it's necessarily better. Just weakening the manabase is enough to lose some ground, though I'd expect free wins off of players assuming you're on Sneakshow and siding wrong (since even if you win with omni; it'll look like it's just a suboptimal hybrid.)

Actually... maybe you can drop a wish and turn it into a transformational. Omni next to Gris would be pretty cool.