EGGS!!!
EGGS is a notoriously complex strategy but it’s always been one of my favorites due to the ridiculously long combos it pulls off. It’s just so satisfying to spend ten plus minutes on a single turn chaining card effects together!
It’s a large endeavor, but I’ll try to break down the strategy as simply as I can manage:
Step one: Play your eggs!
This will mostly serve to help you draw through the deck at first, but they also serve the purpose of giving you the mana colors you need to cast other spells.
“Eggs” are your little one cost artifacts that can blow themselves up for both a card draw and mana conversion. That being said, your best egg is definitely
Chromatic Star
. This card (unlike its counterpart
Chromatic Sphere
) allows you to draw whenever it hits the graveyard from play regardless of whether or not you activate its mana effect.
It should come as no surprise that
Sensei's Divining Top
and
Ancient Stirrings
should both be used extensively here. Gotta get dem eggs in hand to get em’ on the field after all!
Step two: Crack dem eggs open!
Now you’ll want to start activating those egg abilities to draw cards. You’re going to want copies of
Noxious Revival
,
Buried Ruin
,
Myr Retriever
(these guys are awesome!) and most importantly,
Second Sunrise
. These cards each serve the purpose of bringing your eggs back from the graveyard to do their magic all over again.
Essentially what you want to do with this step is push through your deck to set up a win-con. Pop off all your eggs, draw cards, bring em back with
Second Sunrise
then rinse and repeat. Eventually you’ll get
Conjurer's Bauble
on the field to stick
Second Sunrise
on the bottom on the deck. Once this happens you can just keep popping the eggs, casting
Second Sunrise
, putting it back into your deck until it’s the only card in the deck, redrawing it and then doing all of that over and over again TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!
You can use
Noxious Revival
to bring
Second Sunrise
back to your hand from the graveyard before you manage to get all the way to the bottom of your deck. This really helps in the early game!
Step three: MILL MILL MILL!
...or kill... I guess, if you’re in to that.
The old-school strategy is to simply draw/mill through your entire deck until
Second Sunrise
is the only card left. You can then fling infinite incarnations of
Pyrite Spellbomb
at their FACE!
However, this deck specializes in both milling and killing!
Play
Altar of the Brood
ASAP!!! Seriously, this thing gets stupid with the amount of artifacts constantly coming in and out of play on your side of the board!
Whilst drawing through your library you might find yourself a
Heartless Summoning
. Toss this bad boy down to infinitely cycle two copies of
Myr Retriever
and proceed to mill them into oblivion thanks to
Altar of the Brood
.
You might also find that you’ve managed to roll through your eggs a couple dozen times in a single turn. If that’s the case, simply drop
Brain Freeze
. The storm mechanic will kick in thanks to the plethora of times you’ve cast
Second Sunrise
this turn (hope you were keeping track!) and mill em’ out with a single card! This of course will also work if you’ve cycled through the
Myr Retriever
combo a few times.
OR...
... you might feel like milling yourself out! Why would you do this!? Well you’re kinda already doing that, seeing as how you’ve been cracking open so many eggs and drawing so many cards. So of course you have
Laboratory Maniac
! Run out of cards in your library and you actually win the game!
All in all, it’s a personal flavor on a nice callback strategy that I’ve always enjoyed immensely. I hope someone out there will try building and playing it themselves. I would love to hear about any other variations on the EGGS deck that you may have conceived!
Oh yeah, before I forget...
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
People tend to HATE playing against this deck... take from that what you will!
THANK YOU AND HAPPY GAMING
