Now we get into what Grenzo plays best with a little card called
Doomsday
. This card is one of the riskiest approaches in the game, due to certain interactions potentially causing us to outright LOSE if we don't set up appropriately.
Unlike other lists I want to explain Doomsday and how it works, many people are already familiar with the card itself but I still think there is some precedent in explaining it.
Doomsday is a 3 cost spell costing . When cast you pay half your life, rounded up and then put your graveyard and library together.
Then you select five cards and remove the rest of your library from the game entirely, we then put those specific 5 cards in any order and they become our new library. Doomsday is the ultimate all-in card, this is throwing caution to the wind with a willingness to let yourself get destroyed if it can allow to gain victory.
There are several lines we can use for this, but understand once we have five cards in our deck and we start using Grenzo's effect to move them to our field we CAN be targeted with an instant speed draw spell and lose the game if we have no cards in our library as such we have two avenues to victory.
One is our standard "Safe" Doomsday pile.
Priest of Urabrask
,
Priest of Gix
,
Skirk Prospector
,
Metallic Mimic
, and
Murderous Redcap
.
To explain we assume we have a limited amount of mana available to us after we Doomsday, we must set up so we can activate Grenzo's effect at the minimum 2 times depending on if we have
Dark Ritual
or
Desperate Ritual
in hand.
The first activation puts the first Priest into play giving us either 3 or 3 allowing us another activation we then activate Grenzo again to get the next Priest then activate him 3 more times to play Prospector, Mimic, and Redcap. Now we're completely out of Mana but we have our combo on the field.
Skirk Prospector
+
Metallic Mimic
+
Murderous Redcap
this allows us to sacrifice Redcap and have it reenter with a -1/-1 counter but due to Mimic with us having chosen the Goblin type for its effect gives Redcap a +1/+1 counter canceling out its persist effect. This allows us to do infinite damage to the entire board, and also allows us to avoid some pesky cancellation of damage effects.
Since Prospector's effect is a mana ability it does not use the stack, meaning the combo is more airtight. People can respond to the Mimic and Redcap triggers, but luckily we are making mana off these sacrifices giving us the potential to interact and protect our combo depending on the cards in our hand.
Alternatively,
Viscera Seer
, or
Carrion Feeder
can also be put into the Doomsday pile, or if you have
Ashnod's Altar
or
Phyrexian Altar
on the field or in hand they can also be substituted out.
The other pile is our risky pile .
Priest of Urabrask
,
Priest of Gix
,
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
,
Mad Auntie
, and
Zealous Conscripts
.
Now you can alternatively tech out Mad Auntie if Grenzo is a 3/3 but assuming he is not you essentially do the same steps as before.
Use Grenzo's effect twice to play both of the priests then Kiki, tap Kiki to make another Priest and then use the new mana to play Auntie and Conscripts. This will put our combo out onto the field.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts
The combo works as so Conscripts will target Kiki and untap him allowing him to make another Conscripts and essentially make infinite Conscripts which we use to overrun our opponents.
Now this is a riskier play because we HAVE to go to combat to win the game, which means any sort of targeted instant speed draw spell, or fog effect causes us to lose the game. So we can only execute this if we 100% are confident we can win the game.
Now there are ways to avoid an unwinnable scenario, the card
Recoup
and a sac effect will allow us flashback Doomsday to put together our pile again, although we can only do this ONCE and if we fail after that, that's it.
Now otherwise we can also use these combos by hard casting them or potentially reanimating a piece they are a bit hefty in mana cost so that's usually a last resort.
Its also possible to have pieces in our hand when we Doomsday so its a good idea to plan accordingly for that such as finding a way to structure our mana so that we can still go off by casting from our hand.
