Note: Part of this deck is under revision, the change in strategy with the addition of Phyrexian Obliterator and Ammit Eternal is not yet reflected below. Also new strategies with Demonic Tutor, and a better understanding of MTG's rules since I first made this deck.
My first (and only?) attempt at a powerful Wish deck! Being able to summon any cards in your collection is great, but the costs are steep, so this deck focuses on repeatedly using Wish spells, and using twelve cards to cause subgames.
When a subgame ends, all cards in all zones of that subgame will be put back into the main deck, including the cards in exile. This means a
Burning Wish
used in the subgame will be put back into the main deck of the previous game, allowing it to be used to repeatedly find various silver bullets to use against your opponent when you want to close in for the win.
Early turns are spent getting the main game into a subgame as fast possible. Early Wishes should be used to get more copies of
Enter the Dungeon
into the deck, effectively letting
Burning Wish
and
Death Wish
act as copies 5-12 of
Enter the Dungeon
. You have pretty good odds of pulling at least 1 of twelve cards out of 60 in the opening hand of your deck, and with all the mana accelerants, it's not hard to get the table into a subgame on the first or second turn.
Midgame
Midgame is where things get really crazy: you can cast
Enter the Dungeon
while in a subgame from
Enter the Dungeon
to further mutilate everyone's decks and sanity. You can Wish for more copies of
Enter the Dungeon
to have in your deck and use repeatedly. This shouldn't distract you from the goal of figuring out what deck your opponents are playing, and what cards will be crippling to them when you get back to the main game and need to finish off any players who haven't quit. Storm and burn spells are great for quickly killing people due to low life totals in the subgame, and mana accelerants upping the storm count.
Endgame
The deck's endgame involves throwing out creatures such as
Phyrexian Obliterator
,
Ammit Eternal
,
Phylactery Lich
, etc., and beating your opponent down with mana-efficient bodies. Worst case, all the fast mana in the deck means you can grab
Lich's Mirror
and use it without being set back when it triggers, especially in a subgame.
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