This is my own, original brew. I’m really proud of it. It all came together because of a little card I was having difficulty dealing with. As someone who likes to mill people out,
Gaea's Blessing
has been super annoying. There are several ways of dealing with it, like exiling it from their graveyard or countering it if they cast it but I decided to take a different approach....an entire work around. What if instead of the typical mill deck that puts cards from my opponent’s library into their graveyard, I force them to draw their entire deck...and have them discard! And thus, this janky deck was born. Thank you Gaea’s Blessing for .... blessing me?
There are at least 3 known different win scenarios. Game plan A: Mill your opponents by having them draw their entire deck in a single, explosive turn! (I’ve done this successfully against even 100-200 card decks on Arena.) Game plan B:
Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
’s ultimate (duh). Game plan C:
Karn, Scion of Urza
produces massive beaters off the abundance of
Smothering Tithe
treasures you’ll be creating with which you can beat face.
Game Plan A: The Combo Route Induced Amnesia + Overflowing Insight + Smothering Tithe
: Survival should be the early game focus. You have to protect your life total until you get your combo pieces down. So a good hand to keep is one with minimum 2 lands but preferably 3 (one must be white), one board wipe, and card draw that gains you life. This will allow you to hit land drops, gain life and board wipe until you begin assembling the pieces you need. There are lots of ways to make it happen from here, but generally I like to have a
Smothering Tithe
on the battlefield and enough mana to cast
Overflowing Insight
. Your opponent won’t have any clue what you’re up to so they’ll typically use up all their mana on their turn. Then you cast
Overflowing Insight
during your first main phase, targeting your opponent. They draw seven cards.
Smothering Tithe
triggers and you will get seven treasures. You can now use the treasures to cast
Induced Amnesia
, targeting your opponent. They exile their hand and draw that many cards.
Smothering Tithe
will trigger again and net you a mountain of treasures. With them you can now cast card draw spells, cast a planeswalker, cast
Recollect
or
Flood of Recollection
to retrieve
Overflowing Insight
or another spell you want from your graveyard and so on and so on. If you play it right, you will almost certainly mill you opponent out, or have them concede. It’s truly satisfying!
Something else you should know....
Induced Amnesia
says when it enters the graveyard from the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to it’s owner’s hand. So sometimes I will cast
Naturalize
on my own
Induced Amnesia
in order to maximize my opponent’s hand size before casting another
Induced Amnesia
. Also of note, if your opponent bounces or exiles your
Induced Amnesia
, their cards remain exiled permanently! Gotta read the fine print. :)
