Deck Breaker 2000

Modern* Mongo

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DJWang2012 says... #1

Have you tried running Despise in your sideboard so you can deal with aggro decks?

July 9, 2013 11:39 a.m.

DJWang2012 says... #2

By the way, +1 from me. This deck excites the Johnny in me to no end.

July 9, 2013 11:39 a.m.

DJWang2012 says... #3

So I did a version of your deck without the price restrictions (I have enough blue shocklands and m13 duals thankfully). Let me know what you think if you ever decide to look at it. I Want to See Your Tears

July 9, 2013 5:27 p.m.

KaraZorEl says... #4

I'm not really a fan of Traumatize. It's too slow. I think Wrench Mind would be better.

July 9, 2013 11:51 p.m.

DJWang2012 says... #5

Ever thought about Snapcaster Mage to repeat some of the graveyard cards? He is pricey though.

July 9, 2013 11:52 p.m.

Mongo says... #6

yeah, i just rely on Elixir of Immortality as a reshuffle mechanic. Snapcaster Mage is good but not necessary in this deck.

July 10, 2013 1:35 a.m.

DJWang2012 says... #7

It occurred to me: Have you thought of a Ghost Quarter and Archive Trap Mill combo?

July 11, 2013 3 p.m.

DJWang2012 says... #8

And if you are not on a budget, Glimpse the Unthinkable

July 11, 2013 3:04 p.m.

DJWang2012 says... #9

I also took your advice and updated my deck with all out mill. Who needs to win when a game is this much fun (for you)?

July 11, 2013 4:59 p.m.

pip74205 says... #10

At first, I was dubious as to how successful this deck could possibly be. After play testing, I see that the deck is powerful, but does have a glaring weakness: Creatures.

Simply put, you can't stop your opponent from getting something onto the board. I would suggest moving a few Damnation s to the main deck. Another option is Hedron Crab . Its a cheap blocker that also helps mill your opponent.

Against slower decks, this will have no troubles walking all over them. Against aggressive decks, your dead. The closest I was to getting decked in a play test was 15 cards before I swung for lethal.

On the plus side, this deck has a crazy first two turns. I really like this deck and how brutal it can be.

If you can afford it, swamp out the Mind Sculpt s or Tome Scour s for Glimpse the Unthinkable . It is just disgusting. I would also recommend adding the Mind Funeral . I rarely hit for less than 10 card.

+1

July 11, 2013 7:05 p.m.

Mongo says... #11

Thanks for all the comments, I appreciate it. I was actually in the process of adding Damnation to the main board for the board control that this deck is missing. I would like to include both Mind Sculpt and Glimpse the Unthinkable because they're both incredible mill cards. Mind Funeral is also great but I want to include Tome Scour as a turn one mill card and combo with Surgical Extraction ; so it'd be a choice between Mind Funeral and Mind Sculpt at that point. I am also looking to include Ghost Quarter main board with Archive Trap in the sideboard to play against search heavy decks. I am considering (hesitantly) to play this as a 65 card deck with 22 land to fit in what I want but I'm not sure how much I like the idea. Hedron Crab is an awesome card to include but I'd like to keep this as an instant/sorcery deck for my own amusement.

I am considering dropping Traumatize to run more cheap mill, although dropping a Traumatize and then a Haunting Echoes the next turn is just flat out mean and hilariously entertaining. I am also considering only running 3x Dream Fracture to fit in more mill.

Essentially I could drop 2x Traumatize , 1x Dream Fracture to add 3x Mind Funeral and then I could drop 1x Darkslick Shores to add 3x Ghost Quarter and then add 3x Mind Sculpt to run a 65 card deck. But like I mentioned I hesitate to run a deck that is 5 cards heavier than what I prefer to run.

July 11, 2013 7:43 p.m.

DJWang2012 says... #12

With some slight tweak, this deck could deck an opponent by turn 6 or 7. I would argue keeping Tome Scour as two of them equates to a Glimpse in effect and mana-cost: its efficient. If anything wants to get replaced, Mind Sculpt is probably it.

Here is a link to an updated non-budget version of this deck that I tweaked.http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/i-want-to-see-your-tears/

July 11, 2013 7:49 p.m.

DJWang2012 says... #13

Well, actually, yours is no longer budget at this point, my bad lol

July 11, 2013 7:51 p.m.

Mongo says... #14

Ok, I've got it narrowed down to play as a 60 card deck, it doesn't have Traumatize or Mind Sculpt at all nor does it have Ghost Quarter in the main board but it does have a very brutal feel to it now. This deck has a few weakness as mentioned any speed deck will smack down my life total before I have a chance to mill them out. And any deck with reshuffle mechanics will win the first game every time and the only thing I can do against reshuffle is to sideboard in Memoricide and Sadistic Sacrament and hopefully draw enough of them to exile the reshuffling cards out of the deck, but hey you can't make a deck do everything.

July 11, 2013 8:08 p.m.

Ogobogo says... #15

I think you should run Glimpse the Unthinkable over Mind Sculpt

July 11, 2013 8:18 p.m.

Fizzz says... #16

Breaking , Jwar Isle Refuge and Dismember come to mind :)

July 11, 2013 8:24 p.m.

scarmask says... #17

Been planning a deck very similar to this for a while now. You've given me some good ideas, thanks! +1

July 12, 2013 6:21 a.m.

DJWang2012 says... #18

I've been looking around, and found this card, Circu, Dimir Lobotomist . I know you are eschewing creatures, but this guy's effect looks very vexing for opponents ;)

July 13, 2013 2:08 p.m.

DJWang2012 says... #19

The best part is that the card can exile your own cards if you choose and this is great when you are also facing a mill deck, so for example if you exile a Mind Sculpt from your library, your opponents can't play Mind Sculpts for the rest of the game but you can play the other ones that you've got.

July 13, 2013 2:10 p.m.

Mongo says... #20

Oh wow, that card would work very well. I know that there are a few creatures that could work well in here. I might look at running a few creatures via sideboard,

July 14, 2013 12:43 a.m.

Nice deck!

July 23, 2013 6:47 p.m.

4hyperion says... #22

i like this deck a lot. those annoying cards that i keep losing to? OUT!

personally i would splash red in for Slaughter Games , and would add cards like Lobotomy , Sever the Bloodline and Reap Intellect

but that's just me.

July 23, 2013 10:28 p.m.

Mongo says... #23

Initially this deck had red in it for slaughter games, I took it out because playing 2 colors is easier than 3 and it focuses on the mill aspect with some exile. Thanks for your suggestions I hadn't seen Reap Intellect thats a really nasty card I might sideboard that. Sever the Bloodline is also something I'll be looking into sideboarding as reshuffle mechanics need to be dealt with.

July 23, 2013 10:38 p.m.

linkizzl says... #24

Although I am not looking forward to the huge amounts of notifications I am going to get from this deck, it needs to be said. You have no (or at the least, very bad) removal in this deck. Your only counter spell is 3 costed, and your only removal is a 4 mana board wipe. Of which you only have 2. You will get your face rolled by any deck that has ANY kind of a creature presence, because by the time you can start counterspelling or removing creatures, the damage will already have been done. Add Hedron Crab to possibly use as blockers, plus his mill is amazing. Jace's Phantasm can be a great secondary win or just a 5/5 to sit there and block your opponent's creatures.

You NEED some way to prevent damage to your face, because at the moment there is none and you will die long before anything can come from your mill.

October 2, 2013 11:15 p.m.

Dreno33 says... #25

a great idea for lands would be 4 Darkwater Catacombs and 4 Nephalia Drownyard .

also, why not put Breaking / Entering in?

i just noticed, our decks are somewhat similar. Mine is faster, but yours can hold opponents off longer. nice deck Mongo

here's mine for comparison: Not Even a Sideboard can Save your Deck.

October 3, 2013 4:33 a.m.

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