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SnowMage87

7 February 2011

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Hello and welcome to "From the Vat". This will be something I will do from time to time. I will sit down and build a few decks that hopefully can be an outline or idea for other players for FNM decks or maybe even to mold it into something better. Today I have built a mono white infect deck using artifact creatures with infect and card:Tempered Steel. Next, we have a deck with Psychosis Crawler and a ton of draw spells. Lastly, we have a mono green deck with an army of big green guys, Genesis Wave and Green Sun's Zenith to bring them out super fast.

         

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I have had the idea for this deck for a few weeks now, but when I first looked into it I knew I would have to wait for more artifact creatures with infect to really give it a shot. Core Prowler was a dream for this deck but a lot of the other infect guys just didn't make the cut to me. Plague Myr did make the cut because it is a 2 drop infect guy and because worse case its an Everflowing Chalice to help ramp things up bit. I also took a look at Phyrexian Juggernaut but at the end of the day I wanted to keep the highest drop at 4 and this guy just did not seem like a card I wanted to put in. Inkmoth Nexus was a card that as soon as I saw it I knew it was going to be one of my favorite cards from this set. card:Inkmoth Nexus will be in every infect deck and could be one of the biggest reasons why it may get pushed into the spotlight. In this deck a land turning into a 3/3 flying infect guy for 1 is a huge play and will win games. Who would have guessed Ajani would go to the dark side? But I find Ajani Goldmane is the best planeswalker for this deck. He gives you a way to keep your life up vs beatdown decks and power your guys up to swing and still have guys to block. This deck wants to always push every turn and try to get in with damage as fast as it can, so with that in mind you need removal to get other guys out your way. We have Oust and card:Journey to Nowhere. To keep your guys safe allowing more of them to swing unblocked we have Emerge Unscathed. I will be trying this deck out once I get everything I need to build it. If it does well I will write it up a followup.

         

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I saw Psychosis Crawler and my mind went to Time Reversal. So I say that we run a few copy guys like Clone and Cryptoplasm to make Psychosis Crawler go farther. Then we also run draw guys like Enclave Cryptologist and card:Consecrated Sphinx. To go with Consecrated Sphinx we have Jace Beleren so we can +2 and opponent drawing 3. Also we have Echo Mage which will let us to use spells that are trying to smack us down and copy our draw cards as well. So with all these guys to copy card:Psychosis Crawler and to draw cards we hope to burn out the other guy. Time Reversal can end the game with 2 crawlers on the field and if you get a Consecrated Sphinx on the board too it just becomes a blow out. Then we have just some cards that you need run in blue like Mana Leak and Preordain. Then we have Into the Roil to bounce something and draw us a card. We also have card:Distant Memories which I think you have to play smart. If the other guy does not know what you are playing then you can search out anything and you may get it, if not you draw 3. But most of the time I would go for a card like Jace Beleren, card:Time Reversal or Consecrated Sphinx. Last we have card:Blue Sun's Zenith that can let you draw as many cards as you can at the end of your opponent turn and burn them and then set your hand up for your next turn. Nothing much may come from this deck other then a fun FNM deck but I will be trying to build this deck and play around with it.

         

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Genesis Wave decks had a splash or two at worlds and Star City Open a few weeks ago but I wanted to do something a little off from what was done before, so I wanted to build just a mono green non-elf wave deck. We have 3 waves 3 Green Sun's Zenith and 1 card:Praetor's Counsel as our spells we can not hit off of wave. But I don't think these 7 should throw the deck off and I really like card:Green Sun's Zenith in a deck like this to be able to ramp on turn 3 or 4 and not have Genesis Wave in hand and still go get a Primeval Titan or maybe something else like Gaea's Revenge or card:Avenger of Zendikar. But most of the time I think primeval is going to be the way to go and I don't see avenger being the right one to get unless you are in a spot where he would be better then Primeval Titan but I don't think there will be a lot of them. You can always go get Gaea's Revenge if they have no blocker on something like that but the titan set up the deck so well he is the one to go get 9 times out of 10. We have just one Praetor's Counsel mostly because I want this card to be good and it just seems like a deck with so much mana and guys that you want to play after they go to the yard. This deck is also has the staple ramp cards like Joraga Treespeaker, Overgrown Battlement, Lotus Cobra and Oracle of Mul Daya. the oracle may need to be cut down and something else in its place but only playtesting can tell this.

Well that's it for today I always enjoy being able to share decks with people on tapped out and I hope that if nothing else I got your wheels turning and thinking about decks off from the same old thing. From time to time I will be doing article like this so if you have an idea for a deck and want to share it with me then just hit me up at [email protected].I always like the hear other people idea. Well til next time, keep brewing.