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ping/deathtouch

Standard*

Cennix


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Ping/Deathtouch style deck, with a few options for mana ramp.

The general concept would be to snipe all of your opponents creatures with stuff like Izzet Staticaster or any creature with Lightning Prowess and then (if it doesn't have deathtouch) give it deathtouch by soul-bonding it with Nightshade Peddler. Meanwhile you have an Invisible Stalker with a couple of Hidden Strings ciphered to it so you can tap your creatures to deal damage, combat phase attack with your Invisible Stalker and untap your "tap to deal damage" creatures, so that you can do it again at the end phase of your opponents next turn, or sooner if it would benefit before then. Theres also a few other utility cards in there like Tandem Lookout to get some card draw from your pinging creatures, which would be very very useful if put on a Zhur-Taa Druid in a multi-player game since he deals damage to each opponent, and every time a creature soul-bonded with Tandem Lookout deals damage you draw a card, so Ie: 4 player game 3 opponents, every time you tap Zhur-Taa Druid for mana while soulbond to Tandem Lookout you draw 3 cards. A few flash cards like izzed staticaster and Ambush Viper just for the extra utility of flash. Then Alpha Authority to hand out some hexproof to your creatures that will get a lot of hate like Nightshade Peddler. Finally theres some Devil's Play tossed in there. Since theres a bit of mana ramp in the deck, ( Zhur-Taa Druid or using Hidden Strings to untap your Zhur-Taa Druid or even your lands) I decided that I would like to have some nice "X to cast" cards, Origionally I wanted to have more than 4, but I felt that i would have to take out cards that were in my opinion more important. So I went for Devil's Play since it has flashback.

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Glaring Spotlight & Electrickery : The only real purpose for these cards would be dealing with hexproof creatures, which would be immune to the majority of the decks function. Since there are quite a bit of hexproof, I thought it would be necessary to have a defence against, but these cards are not necessary unless playing against something with hexproff, thus they were sideboard-ed.

Guttersnipe : A very powerful creature however the low amount of actual instants/sorceries makes me a bit unsure if this should even be in the sideboard, let alone the main board. However this card would have strong synergy with Invisible Stalker when he had a few cipher cards because then Guttersnipe would trigger at least once every turn per cipher card on Invisible Stalker . Also would have nice synergy with Tandem Lookout in the same way that Zhur-Taa Druid does.

Tablet of the Guilds : A life gain option that doesn't require a specific color to cast, and its also very powerful with multicolored spells.

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Date added 11 years
Last updated 11 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

13 - 4 Rares

16 - 8 Uncommons

20 - 3 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.20
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