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NO LONGER LEGACY LEGAL!
Five Colors! No Lands! First Turn, Did that really just happen?!
A Johnny/Jenny's dream!
The most wicked/maniacal deck ever built, I do believe, though, it may not be the most reliable. It is sort of a one trick pony, starting off at least and therefore can be easily disrupted if it doesn't go off on the first turn.
Are you a combo player? Use this deck as a platform for potentially any combo of up to 15 cards! Just replace the sideboard! That's a lot of combo! Note: You may not need Sylvok Replica so potentially 16. Don't forget to guard against drawing as you likely have no library.
~><~Ultimate Goals~><~
1) Force your opponent to kill themselves with a Door to Nothingness you give to them. (Reset the board if they try to kill you)
2) Steal your opponents' entire deck(s) and use it/them as your own with access to unlimited mana.
Do either of these on (hopefully) your first turn.
Vintage legal as well and would still turn some heads.
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See also sister deck Bookwurm - made to fit in the extra 25 sleeves I have for this deck (physical).
I HIGHLY recommend that you have at least
Balustrade Spy
or
Undercity Informer
. It is best to avoid most of the singles in the deck. The main ones being
Angel of Glory's Rise
,
Dread Return
and
Eternal Witness
. There is a single
Cabal Therapy
in the case that you get the perfect opening hand but also have a card you don't want. Once
Cabal Therapy
is in the graveyard you can sacrifice a creature in order to pay the flashback cost before moving on to the next step. If you have more than one of the singles that you NEED to get rid of or you were unlucky enough to have one and
Cabal Therapy
in your hand it is a good idea to throw turn 1 and 2 in order to force discard of that card. As bad as wasting a turn or two is it is even worse to not have the combo go off at all and then you will most definitely lose.
The way I figure it, anything over 66.66% or 2/3 games won is a win! Notice that the the results are slightly less favorable when using paper cards. I believe this is due to lack of time spent shuffling and/or thorough shuffling. Where the playtest gives a completely random configuration of cards an actual deck, no matter how hard we try just will never be able to be as random as the Playtest. I would suggest spending every second possible shuffling. I would think that this is even more of a necessity if you had just had the deck go off and of course it has been (at least semi-) “reorganized”. This is an assumption however. With 250 test cases to get through I often only shuffled for 15-30 seconds, at most and never played the deck. Assuming you actually get the deck to go off more often than not you will be doing a lot of shuffling. Note:These were done before I knew about the "new" mulligan rule. I just don't have the time to go back and redo the tests right now.
From here you want to be capable of producing at least four mana with at least one of those mana being . This is done by using Simian Spirit Guide , Elvish Spirit Guide , Lotus Petal and Chrome Mox . Wild Cantor and Manamorphose aid in mana washing. Use Dark Ritual and/or Cabal Ritual to aid in mana ramping.
It is best that all the
Wild Cantor
s and
Priest of Gix
are in either your library or graveyard before
Angel of Glory's Rise
hits the battlefield. Thus it is advisable to cast any
Priest of Gix
and/or
Wild Cantor
you have in your hand. Use
Wild Cantor
’s ability even if you do not need the mana washing and use
Priest of Gix
as fodder for the flashback costs of
Cabal Therapy
and/or
Dread Return
.
Use
Dread Return
's flashback ability, by sacrificing three
Narcomoeba
s and target
Angel of Glory's Rise
putting it into play and subsequently all human creatures from your graveyard as well. When
Priest of Gix
comes into play you get from each and up to two mana of any color of your choosing by (re)sacrificing the
Wild Cantor
s. The
Eternal Witness
that has returned to the battlefield allows you to return
Open the Vaults
to your hand. Assuming you already had
Open the Vaults
in hand, I would suggest grabbing
Dark Ritual
if for some reason you can't obtain six mana. Otherwise pull
Research
as it will make things slightly easier in the future.
Sacrifice Wild Cantor s to get a minimum of in order to cast Open the Vaults . This will put all the artifacts residing in your graveyard directly onto the battlefield. It is advised, if you are able, to exile other cards that were still in your hand and not needed in order to satisfy Chrome Mox 's imprint ability. All artifacts should now be on the battlefield.
You now have a choice of a couple options to play your sideboard.
Cast Hive Mind , letting it resolve then cast Channel the Suns to add one mana of each color to your mana pool as well as your opponent's. Shuffle it back in with the Elixir of Immortality and draw it with Staff of Domination , casting it repeatedly until both players have an arbitrarily large amount of mana of each color in their mana pools. I personally would add extra mana from Composite Golem + Nim Deathmantle to my own mana pool and only bother with giving them 4 mana of each color. Hopefully they will be so dumbfounded by now that they will not respond to any of the following now that they have mana.
Now you will need to cast Vedalken Orrery , Mirror of Fate , Cast Through Time , and Door to Nothingness .
Use Staff of Domination to put its card-draw ability on the stack seven times. Then sacrifice Mirror of Fate , putting its ability on the stack as well. Mirror of Fate doesn't target, so you can worry about what you'll be choosing later.
Now cast Paradigm Shift . Hive Mind will give your opponent a copy of the spell. Cast Through Time will give it rebound, so that the card will be exiled when it resolves instead of being put in the graveyard. You won't be choosing to cast it again on your next upkeep, so you don't need to worry about remembering that bit. Sacrifice Sylvok Replica , targeting Hive Mind , letting just that ability resolve. Cast Worldfire (originally Decree of Annihilation ), which will also be given rebound for the sole purpose of exiling it.
With all of these things still on the stack, cast an Oblivion Ring and let it resolve, exiling Door to Nothingness . Cast the second Oblivion Ring and exile Vedalken Orrery . Now it's time to let the stack resolve. It should look something like this:
Stack setup
1) Worldfire
2) Paradigm Shift (opponent's copy)
3) Paradigm Shift (original)
4) Mirror of Fate 's ability
5) Seven instances of "Draw a card" ala Staff of Domination
Worldfire resolves, exiling all cards from all graveyards, hands and all permanents. Thanks to rebound it will be exiled, so your graveyard will still be empty afterward. Vedalken Orrery and Door to Nothingness return to the battlefield from their Oblivion Ring -induced exile. Now Paradigm Shift resolves for each player, exiling both libraries and leaving no cards in any zone other than exile.
Now Mirror of Fate 's ability resolves. In order to continue, get back these seven cards:
1) Upwelling
2) Shared Fate (originally Omen Machine )
4) Donate
5) Twiddle
The last thing on the stack is the seven copies of Staff of Domination 's "draw a card" ability. Let those resolve, putting the seven cards you just retrieved into your hand.
Cast each permanent but save the two Oblivion Ring s. Use Donate to give your opponent Door to Nothingness , and Twiddle to untap it.
Remember that both players still have an arbitrarily large amount of mana of each color from Channel the Suns , since you haven't changed phases yet.
You opponent now has three choices: activate Door to Nothingness targeting himself or herself, activate Door to Nothingness targeting you, or do nothing. Getting your opponent to effectively concede using the Door to Nothingness is your goal, but it won't always be so easy.
If your opponent targets you with the Door to Nothingness , cast the two Oblivion Ring s with the ability on the stack, exiling Shared Fate and Vedalken Orrery . Once the Door to Nothingness ' ability resolves, Lich's Mirror will shuffle everything into your library, then the draw seven cards bit will put it all back in your hand. Shared Fate and Vedalken Orrery will then return to the battlefield. Thanks to Vedalken Orrery , you can cast everything at instant speed, essentially resetting the board and giving your opponent the opportunity to make the correct decision.
If your opponent does nothing, you'll eventually need to force the win. Use Oblivion Ring to exile Shared Fate during his or her upkeep. Even if your opponent tries to kill you with the Door to Nothingness in response, Lich's Mirror will prevent you from dying as well as getting rid of Shared Fate itself, clearing the way for your opponent to draw a card and lose the game.
You will need to cast Vedalken Orrery , Mirror of Fate and Cast Through Time
Use Staff of Domination to put its card-draw ability on the stack seven times. Then sacrifice Mirror of Fate , putting its ability on the stack as well. Mirror of Fate doesn't target, so you can worry about what you'll be choosing later.
Now cast Worldfire (originally Decree of Annihilation ). Cast Through Time will give it rebound, or the sole purpose of exiling it when it resolves instead of being put in the graveyard. You won't be choosing to cast it again on your next upkeep, so you don't need to worry about remembering that bit.
With all of these things still on the stack, cast the Oblivion Ring s and let them resolve, exiling Composite Golem + Nim Deathmantle . Now it's time to let the stack resolve. It should look something like this:
Stack setup
1) Worldfire
2) Mirror of Fate 's ability
3) Seven instances of "Draw a card" ala Staff of Domination
Worldfire resolves, exiling all cards from all graveyards, hands and all permanents. Thanks to rebound it will be exiled, so your graveyard will still be empty afterward. Composite Golem and Nim Deathmantle return to the battlefield from their Oblivion Ring -induced exile.
Now Mirror of Fate 's ability resolves. In order to continue, get back these seven cards:
1) Hive Mind
2) Shared Fate (originally Omen Machine )
6) 2x Oblivion Ring
The last thing on the stack is the seven copies of Staff of Domination 's "draw a card" ability. Let those resolve, putting the seven cards you just retrieved into your hand.
Remember you still have the ability to produce infinite mana with Composite Golem + Nim Deathmantle . Cast each permanent but save the two Oblivion Ring s and the Hive Mind .
Your opponent(s) should have nothing on the battlefield, no hand or graveyard only a library. You should have two Oblivion Ring s and a Hive Mind in hand, no library or graveyard and Composite Golem , Nim Deathmantle , Shared Fate , Lich's Mirror , Staff of Domination and Vedalken Orrery on the battlefield.
You now have the ability to produce as much mana of any color of your choosing as you wish, draw as many cards as you wish and each draw gets converted into a pseudo-draw from your opponent’s/opponents’ libraries. Yes that is right you can “draw” everyone’s library and use it against them. Vedalken Orrery allows you to do what you wish at instant speed.
If you haven’t messed with your opponent(s) enough by now by completely destroying any chance they have of doing anything and using their deck against them, you can find some of the strangest combinations they never thought of using before or were unable to due to not having the ability to cast at instant speed with Vedalken Orrery or throwing Hive Mind into the mix. This is compounded when you are in a multiplayer game and have multiple decks to make combinations with.
Lich's Mirror is mostly there as a safeguard. In the case you accidentally manage to kill everyone, including yourself, Lich's Mirror will keep you from losing.
Instead of one of the seven you could opt to pull Sylvok Replica to make sure you can get rid of Hive Mind if you wish or even Upwelling to help you store mana in case something happens to Composite Golem and/or Nim Deathmantle .
If you wanted you could always resort back to using an Oblivion Ring to exile Shared Fate , pass the turn and then force the win by forcing your opponent(s) to draw from an empty library. )
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| Rarity (main - side) | 2 - 3 Mythic Rares 8 - 8 Rares 27 - 1 Uncommons 23 - 3 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.48 |
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