Ideally, you would start the game off with a Shambling Ghast, a Deadly Dispute, a Putrid Goblin, a Thran Vigil, an Altar of Dementia, a Swamp, and a Phyrexian Tower in your hand. This would be the perfect hand that lets you pull off the turn 3 mill. The other cards in this deck are mostly to search for the main combo pieces (Putrid Goblin, Thran Vigil, and Altar of Dementia).
Turn 1: You play a Swamp and a Shambling Ghast.
Turn 2: You play Phyrexian Tower and a Putrid Goblin.
Turn 3: You sacrifice Shambling Ghast with Phyrexian Tower, and create a Treasure token. Then you play Altar of Dementia and Thran Vigil, and bam, you have your infinite combo! Now you can keep sacrificing Putrid Goblin with Altar of Dementia and slowly mill your opponents.
How does this combo even work? Thran Vigil lets you place a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control when a creature you control leaves the battlefield. Putrid Goblin has Persist, which returns it to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter when it dies if it didn't have one on it when it died. The way triggered effects happen in Magic let you sacrifice the Putrid Goblin, return it to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it, then negate that -1/-1 counter with the +1/+1 counter that Thran Vigil places on a creature you control, resulting in the Putrid Goblin having no -1/-1 counter on it, and letting you sacrifice it again. Then with a sacrifice engine like Altar of Dementia that lets you infinitely sacrifice creatures you control, you can easily set up a cheap infinite combo.
But what about the other cards? Cryptbreaker is there to create blockers that can stall out the game against an aggro deck, and its synergy with cards like Deadly Dispute and Phyrexian Tower. Cut Down is there to remove key creatures your opponents control, and is another way to stall out the game long enough for you to get your combo down. Wishclaw Talisman, Grim Tutor, Deadly Dispute, Warlock Class and Castle Locthwain are also there to help you find the missing pieces of the combo faster.
The amazing thing that this deck has that most early win decks do not is that even if you're playing against multiple people, you can still take all of them out with this combo on turn 3. What a way to surprise your friends!
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Credits to Qwazar77 for the deck.
