So, our dear friend Scapeshift has been in standard for nearly a full year, and it hasn't even seen a little bit of play. I'm saddened by this, but honestly, if anyone gave a shit to design something to do with the card, it wasn't until now. Lands entering the battlefield in standard? Nobody cares. Proliferate? Sure whatever. That wasn't the answer. I need actual damage, life, card advantage...these are the fully bosomed advantages we're needing in our lives. Then low and behold; she walks in. Tall, dark, full of night, and might eat your face like a bowl of strawberries on a Sunday morning. Well, I'm wet, lets take a look at our dearest
Dread Presence
.
There is a Jund version of this deck rolling around, but it isn't optimized at all, requires you to run many non-basics and swamps just don't filter through enough. The combo works in a simple way. You first get
Dread Presence
on the field, and then you just cast
Scapeshift
to kill your opponent. You can do crazy shit on a secondary whim like have
World Shaper
,
Dread Presence
, and then cast something like
God-Eternal Bontu
or use
Vraska, Golgari Queen
to sacrifice lands and shaper to trigger a massive ETB orgasm and deal insane damage and get insane life. Is all that necessary to win though? No way; as with pregnancy, nature will find a way. Therefore we're gonna call on some old girls to do things the right way. Both
Nissa, Who Shakes the World
and
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
are on deck as deal sealers for this deck. You simply need a way to keep a board up, and control the board as well.
Massacre Girl
saunters over and comments "You look like you're having fun killing everything, can I help?" and you say sure, why not. Threesome commences. Now that you're up to your eyeballs in murder, you can just use cards like
Deathsprout
and
Assassin's Trophy
as spot removal. You'll use two copies of
Scheming Symmetry
as combo lube, or even to fetch whatever you need to keep it up. Don't blame me if the match goes longer than four hours though. See a doctor. IDGAF.
The sideboard has the usual suspects, with some new tech against our dear friend Teferi, who seems to just keep coming back like a bad disease. He's not really fun honestly. Whilst red decks might be around, and elementals might be pouring out of every orafice (thanks to that crazy red head with no self-control), you should be ok if you just wipe everything clean.
If this deck works great, I'm hoping it does. We just need to focus up, and I'm open to new things. I'm just so sad that
Scapeshift
will be rotating out in October, but at least we'll always have the summer...sniffles. Ah, flings.
