Clark Kant
05-09-2008, 07:22 AM
Deck: Vaka Bind
//Land
2 Swamp
4 Island
4 Underground Sea
4 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
//Beatz
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
3 Hunted Horror
//Draw
4 Brainstorm
4 Dark Confidant
//Disruption
4 Engineered Explosives/Powder Keg
4 Duress/Hymn
4 Thoughtseize
4 Force of Will
4 Stifle
3 Trickbind
3 Spell Snare
3 Daze
If you recall, I originally developed this deck several weeks ago. Since then though, I've dropped the Sensei's Top + Counterbalance minilock from the deck as it was taking up too many slots that I needed to play faster disruption.
I love the idea of playing 7/7 and 12/12 tramplers without a drawback on turn two/three very consistently, on the back of the best card drawing and disruption spells available in magic.
But once again, the deck is still in the development phase, so I'm open to any and all suggestions.
Think of this deck as a thresh variant that isn't reliant on the graveyard. The advantages are that...
1) 7/7 tramplers and 12/12 tramplers outclass 4/5 vanilla goyfs any day of the week.
2) The deck is invulnerable to graveyard hate as this is the most popular way that decks hate on thresh.
3) The manabase is extremely resilient, far more so than 3 color or 4 color thresh decks that lose to both Back to Basics and Blood Moon.
4) You don't need to play tons of cantrips and waste mana going crazy playing cantrips to make the deck function.
Other than that, think of the deck as basically a threshold variant and you will fare very well with it.
I've played this deck against a number of decks, and it's been faring extremely well. I just haven't kept track of the exact numbers unfortunately.
Other considerations...
Going up to 4 Hunted Horror and/or 4 Trickbind.
EE vs. Powder Keg - I think EE is better, as it doesn't blow up your guys as often. But Powder Keg lets you blow up 3/3s before they get one attack off of them, unlike EE when you are below 4 mana.
Duress vs. Hymn - Is Duress definately better. Would a 2/2 split work beset?
//Land
2 Swamp
4 Island
4 Underground Sea
4 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
//Beatz
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
3 Hunted Horror
//Draw
4 Brainstorm
4 Dark Confidant
//Disruption
4 Engineered Explosives/Powder Keg
4 Duress/Hymn
4 Thoughtseize
4 Force of Will
4 Stifle
3 Trickbind
3 Spell Snare
3 Daze
If you recall, I originally developed this deck several weeks ago. Since then though, I've dropped the Sensei's Top + Counterbalance minilock from the deck as it was taking up too many slots that I needed to play faster disruption.
I love the idea of playing 7/7 and 12/12 tramplers without a drawback on turn two/three very consistently, on the back of the best card drawing and disruption spells available in magic.
But once again, the deck is still in the development phase, so I'm open to any and all suggestions.
Think of this deck as a thresh variant that isn't reliant on the graveyard. The advantages are that...
1) 7/7 tramplers and 12/12 tramplers outclass 4/5 vanilla goyfs any day of the week.
2) The deck is invulnerable to graveyard hate as this is the most popular way that decks hate on thresh.
3) The manabase is extremely resilient, far more so than 3 color or 4 color thresh decks that lose to both Back to Basics and Blood Moon.
4) You don't need to play tons of cantrips and waste mana going crazy playing cantrips to make the deck function.
Other than that, think of the deck as basically a threshold variant and you will fare very well with it.
I've played this deck against a number of decks, and it's been faring extremely well. I just haven't kept track of the exact numbers unfortunately.
Other considerations...
Going up to 4 Hunted Horror and/or 4 Trickbind.
EE vs. Powder Keg - I think EE is better, as it doesn't blow up your guys as often. But Powder Keg lets you blow up 3/3s before they get one attack off of them, unlike EE when you are below 4 mana.
Duress vs. Hymn - Is Duress definately better. Would a 2/2 split work beset?