It is a cold October morning in Washington DC, and Congress has been locked down for days. The Fog Banks drifting about outside Capitol Hill are nothing compared to the fog of bias and ideology clouding each and every mind. It is as if there are trapped in a Ghostly Prison full of Bribery, deceit, and Propaganda. The Grand Arbiters of each house look down in frustration and disdain upon their colleagues. From their high perch, each arbiter sees above the fog and into the very flaws at the core of the entire system. Each party thinks itself secure inside its own Sphere of Safety. They truly believe they are would be making Steady Progress if they other party would just stop filibustering...
Hello and welcome to my Government Shutdown deck! Let's get a rundown of the cards:
Azor's Elocutors the main... okay basically the only wincon of the deck. But who wouldn't want to kill someone by talking them to death? I, for one, do so daily.
Bribery steals the most important creatures out of the opponent's deck and forces them to work for us! (Or just removes those nasty Purphoros, God of the Forges that really mess this deck up.)
Fog Bank is to block the one or two creatures that might somehow be attacking. "Prevent all damage" is kind of what the deck is about.
Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, and Sphere of Safety provide our main defense. Horay for pillow forts! But yeah, when it costs 6+ mana for a single creature to attack, and only then to be blocked by a Fog Bank... your opponent will be flipping the table very quickly.
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV helps us get our enchantments and creatures out faster and slows our opponents down even more. He's basically perfect for this deck.
Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer is mostly there to lock down any nasty unblockables floating around.
Finally, Steady Progress can be used for draw power early game and to proliferate Filibuster and Bribery counters late game. As to why we would proliferate bribery counters... well because we can.
I will try to get on tomorrow and make the opposite to this deck, a Jund deck built around inciting chaos and anarchy and shutting down the government from the outside. Yay, anarchy!
