MTG Combo: Mana Crypt + Mana Vault + Sol Ring

PookandPie on Improving Ezuri

9 years ago

Don't use Prossh as an example of Contagion Engine being good. A well-built Prossh deck would have Food Chain and would've killed you before you could have assembled the 10 mana for a Contagion Engine activation (barring some kind of one sided Mana Crypt + Mana Vault + Sol Ring opener or something).

Similarly, Contagion Engine is useless against a well-built Ghave because that deck doesn't want to win on the combat step, and instead wants to drop Ashnod's Altar, Geralf's Messenger, etc., and then make you lose all of your life on the fourth turn (or literally twenty some other combos. Toss in Young Wolf and Blood Artist, toss in Phyrexian Altar, it doesn't matter lol).

Contagion Engine isn't good against combo, and if you're playing against non-combo Prossh or Ghave, you're playing against a deck that was purposefully built to win slower than it effectively could.