Do you enjoy playing unique decks?
First off this deck's name comes from Blustersquall and
Downpour
which it was originally based on.
This deck is designed to Control creatures. If I still have 10 life or better by turn four (without blocking more than once or twice), I should be able stop my opponent's creatures from ever (successfully) attacking again.
The average turn cycle after about turn four involves:
1 - tapping out opponent's creatures on their turn after main-phase one. (Or during my main phases with sleep)
2 - Then swing all (depending on if they played new blockers in main-phase 2).
3 - Draw lots of cards.
4 - Pass turn, repeat.
I don't deal a lot of damage per turn but I can attack over and over again without retaliation because I can tapout/unsummon ALL creatures I don't control with several cards.
Judge's Familiar
may seem like an odd fit at first, but he is my chump blocker/ one drop / possible buddy for Tandem Lookout/ "spellskite"
Shimmering Grotto is in there so that I can play the cards I gain control of with Nightveil Specter. You never know what you're gunna get, and that's a fun concept in it'self.
I chose to use Rewind as my counter spell because I often save 4 mana for Blustersquall after their main-phase one anyway, if a worth while spell is cast, it costs me NOTHING but a card in hand to stop it.
This deck does pretty badly the first game against a NON-Creature deck like Red deck wins with a focus on instant spells. But this deck controls creature based decks insanely well once it is set up.
I have played this at a few FMN's but I never put together a sideboard until just now so that's probably the part of this deck that needs the most comments / attention.
I love how this deck is so incredibly inexpensive, and so incredibly unique. If nothing else, it's just entertaining to play and that's the whole point of magic cards!
