blargathan says... #2
Cabal Therapy in the side is kinda bad without ways to see your opponent's hand. I'd run Thoughtseize or Inquisition of Kozilek over it.
August 14, 2016 7:08 a.m.
cutthroat_hoplite says... #3
Cabal Therapy is good because you name Force of Will, Pact of Negation etc. So you can go off turn 1 without them countering the combo.
August 15, 2016 12:44 p.m.
titanreaver says... #4
Since Beck costs the same as a Personal Tutor and a Glimpse of Nature, I would just play the tutor, and the glimpse than sideboard the Beck so you have something if the name glimpse with a Meddling Mage or Cabal Therapy. I also am huge fan of turn one decks. Whether its Belcher, or Spanish inquisition, Hellcarver combo,or All my spells, or flash hulk (vintage), or what ever they are all fun. However you need to not worry so much about Force of Will, or Chalice of the Void because there just really isn't anything you can do about it. Sure you could sideboard Ingot Chewer, or Guttural Response, but all you are doing is diluting your combo. Its just like when I am playing Dredge and my opponent starts with Leyline of the Void. Scoop it up, next round. In storm or doomsday, you can at least protect the combo a little bit, but the decks are less likely to go off turn one. Its not just combo decks that experience this, if I am playing Lands, and I see a Blood Moon drop, same story, scoop it up. Now if you want to try and beat those cards, the most effective way for me has been to play rather than counters, and Ingot Chewer because he gets by the Chalice of the Void. Also Cloudstone Curio is a pretty decent option for this deck, and Crop Rotation with Gaea's Cradle can be sweet and can allow you to play things like Craterhoof Behemoth as another option. Good luck
August 22, 2016 11:14 p.m.
I made a variant if you wanna look, it uses grapeshot and other mana producer and someone might like it, I like some of the ideas in the deck
August 24, 2016 8:26 p.m.
Holy freaking crap this deck is awesome. You may want to run Pact of Negation mainboard for some extra protection.
September 19, 2016 9:20 a.m.
Force_of_Willb says... #8
Since most of your creatures are artifact you can try running Mox Opal and Retract over Lotus Petal and Scapegoat
bouncing and recasting multiple Mox Opals allows us to float mana helping with recasting more retracts, scapegoats, and tendrils, instead of the one time use of Lotus.
(...though I love scapegoat and retract and would run both) Might be worth a playtest.
October 18, 2016 1:29 p.m.
Aetherflux Reservoir could be an alternate to Tendrils of Agony
October 19, 2016 5:34 p.m.
I saw a list with this basic concept last year that ran 4 Chalice of the Void and 4 Multani's Presence in the place of Beck//Call, Scapegoat, and Personal Tutor. Which I'm not saying is better, just kind of hilarious to me.
October 29, 2016 11:52 p.m.
Hi - Working on putting this deck together. Have there been any updates? I still think it's a bit difficult to make a win out of the deck. Anyone with experience on this deck care to share?
ande1235 says... #1
Colgate great advice I will have to make some revisions
August 10, 2016 4:31 p.m.