Lich Tech Inc.
The Idea of the Deck revolves around Phylactery Lich. He is the key threat we bring to the table. This fellow is indestructible and we try to put his phylactery counter on Darksteel Relic or Darksteel Citadel so destroy artifact spells won't work. That makes him generally hard to remove and lets him live through the board controll mechanisms we intend to use:
Necroplasm and Ratchet Bomb Both use destruction effects which dont bother our lich and his Phylactery at all. A steadily growing Necroplasm can get a threat itself of course.
To protect our threats I tried to build a solid controll shell around them. This is the part of the list I am the least sure of. I haven't got much experience with controll decks in generell and I hope this set of spells suits the idea of the deck. Any Help with that is appreciated!
Monastery Siege with its second option should make it harder for the enemy to get through with his disruption. First option gives ome extra card draw if needed.
Stubborn Denial as a cheap counterspell works well with the 5 strength of our undead fellow.
Disdainful Stroke combined with the second option of Monastery Siege can counter a lot. Big artifact sweepers for example...
Pithing Needle targets Planeswalkers or any permanent hate we encounter.
Duress as a budget Thoughtseize should help us to remove nasty spells directly from our opponents hand and gives us some information for our gameplan.
Bile Blight + Doom Blade are just reactions on the biggest threats in form of creatures or tokens our opponent brings to the table.
Tumblestone functions as cheap disruption and is counter based. This leads us to the third element of the deck:
Tezzeret's Gambit This card is our draw-mechanism and reinforces the counter based elements of the deck by adding the prolifirate mechanic.
Sphere of the Suns / Everflowing Chalice give some neat mana supply which can get out of hand if you add some counters to it later on.
Tezzeret's Gambit can also ramp up the counter numbers on Necroplasm & Ratchet Bomb if needed.
Think Twice is just added as a flashback draw card for longer games
I'm going to cover the manabase later. Regarding the sideboard I'm completly lost. Maybe you people can figure that out for me. Just added some cards that seem usefull. The maybeboard are just cards I considered using while planing the deck.
So what do you guys think? Is this deck viable? Any criticism or help? Please keep in mind that this is a budget deck which tries to play some cards that are rare in actual play so no Wyrmcoil Engine and now Tezzeret even that I'm aware that they might fit in the concept. If the deck idea functions I might add them.
