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Land (21)
Enchantment (8)
Artifact (1)
Instant (14)
Sorcery (8)
Sideboard
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Enchantment (3)
Creatures: 4x Invisible Stalker, 4x Triton Shorestalker
Draw Mechanic: 4x Curiosity, 4x Military Intelligence
Removal: 4x Doom Blade, 2x Ultimate Price
Counter Spells: 4x Dissolve, 4x Mana Leak
Cipher Cards: 4x Hands of Binding, 2x Undercity Plague, 2x Stolen Identity
Win-Conditions: 2x Undercity Plague, 2x Stolen Identity, 1x Elbrus, the Binding Blade
Early Game:
It's important to only keep a hand with at least one Invisible Stalker or Triton Shorestalker, similar to a Bogles Hexproof deck. Once you have your creature out, you always attack. There are very few situations in which jump-blocking with your creatures brings greater benefit than attacking.
To keep drawing answers to your opponent's spells play Curiosity onto one of your creatures, preferably Invisible Stalker, as he is hexproof. The Second draw mechanic is Military Intelligence. Because you will always attack with all of your creatures, it is very easy for its effect to trigger.
Mid Game:
After you set up your creatures, use the variety of control spells, including Mana Leak, Dissolve, Doom Blade and Ultimate Price, to slow down your opponent.
Once you drew into one of your Hands of Binding, play it and cipher it onto one of your creatures. From now on, you are going to be able to always tap their best creature that's currently on the battlefield.
Late Game:
The Late Game is all about dropping your Win-Conditions and slowly crushing your opponent down to Zero permanents and/or life.
There is no preferred Win-Condition in this deck, just make sure you play everything with Cipher that you draw into and keep pressuring your opponent. Undercity Plague is arguably the worst Win-Condition in the deck, as it is very slow. But if your opponent is not able to answer it, he won't be able to play any spells anytime soon.
Stolen Identity is the second Cipher-Win-Condition in the Deck. It has great Synergy with Hands of Binding, as you can tap your opponent's best creature instead of killing it, to copy it later that game.
Last but not least is Elbrus, the Binding Blade . He might not be the most quality card, but if you can drop him, he is always going to transform due to your unblockable creatures. And once he transformed, he becomes Withengar Unbound , which is very hard to deal with.
Sideboard:
to be continued...
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| Date added | 10 years |
| Last updated | 9 years |
| Legality | This deck is Modern legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 1 - 0 Mythic Rares 10 - 2 Rares 14 - 2 Uncommons 24 - 11 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.44 |
| Tokens | Copy Clone |
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