Lauerpotence

Custom RBW (Mardu)

The_Adm0n

Land (24)

• 2x Bad River
• 4x Badlands
• 3x Gemstone Mine
• 3x Lake of the Dead
• 4x Scrubland
• 8x Swamp

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Necropotence

Instant (15)

• 4x Demonic Consultation
• 3x Disenchant
• 2x Firestorm
• 2x Incinerate
• 4x Lightning Bolt

Creature (9)

• 1x Ihsan's Shade
• 4x Knight of Stromgald
• 4x Order of the Ebon Hand

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Drain Life
• 4x Hymn to Tourach

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Sideboard

Instant (11)

• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Firestorm
• 3x Honorable Passage
• 3x Pyroblast
• 3x Terror

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Circle of Protection: Black

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Mind Warp

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"The greatest Extended deck of all time."

"...It is difficult to describe how innovative and important this deck was because so many of its features have become automatic for deck designers. The deck plays super-cheap mana costs—mostly one- and two-mana spells—so as to maximize the card advantage purely derived from Necropotence. It did not seek to generate card advantage any other way (no Nekrataals)... They were just too inefficient compared to Necropotence.

Buehler was a master of Firestorm play. He would typically Necropotence up extra just so he could brain his opponent with the Firestorm, recognizing that a delta of one life point on his part could equate to 5 or 6 damage as he discarded his hand. Most importantly this deck played four copies of Demonic Consultation. Every successful Trix deck that came after can thank Erik Lauer: the default number of Demonic Consultations to that point was between 0 and 2.

It is not often - or at least not automatic - that the best deck actually wins the Pro Tour. This deck was just so special, knew how to win and how to maximize its edges, that it gave Buehler the room to out-play some opponents and bowl others completely over. I think deck designers are still learning from this one.

Necropotence as a strategy temporarily fell out of favor following Randy's win as Tempest hit Extended. Lake of the Dead was a spotty engine when Wasteland was in every red deck and Jank arsenal. If the deck did nothing but put the fourth Demonic Consultation in every deck with Necropotence, that would have been enough to memorialize LauerPotence, but other defining characteristics, such as its strict adherence to curve and its positioning of Firestorm (seen again in Randy's Tax Rack deck, above) were important additions to the Magic deck design vocabulary."

• Mike Flores

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Custom legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 16 - 4 Rares 19 - 7 Uncommons 13 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.94