The deck has been performing surprisingly well. It is highly effective vs. the heavy Agro/Midrange meta. The deck really only has issues with other control decks that run Negate & Dissolve.
I had an almost 2 hour match with someone online Friday night.
He was running a U/W/G control deck that looked like it gets regularly wrecked by the Agro meta, but it felt like this deck was solely built to destroy my baby (Duels 2015 Turbo Fog).
I think we both saw a good showing of each other’s deck and would have milled ourselves out twice over if we hand not both been running elixir of Immortality. I’m unsure on quantities but I remember the following cards from his deck.
Reclamation Sage
Wall of Omens
Pelakka Wurm
Phytotitan
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
Elixir of Immortality
Darksteel Ingot
Sphinx-Bone Wand
Cultivate
Dissolve
Negate
Nullify
Think Twice
Voyage's End
Chill of Foreboding
The game got off to a slow start. My first casting of Sphinx-Bone Wand meet an early end at the hands of Negate.
Thankfully after that my opponent over committed a bit to the board and I was able to wipe away his Pelakka Wurm and Phytotitan with Planar Cleansing.
After the board was clean I was actually able to get a few attacks in with Elvish Visionary SIX TIMES, normalizing his health after the Pelakka Wurm incident.
Dealing with my opponent’s own Sphinx-Bone Wand around turn 20-30 hand me in trouble and my library was showing a measly 15 cards. Bleaker than that looking into my graveyard revealed that my opponent’s Chill of Forebodings hand resulted in the loss of my other Planar Cleansing. A bit panicked I recklessly unloaded my had with every ounce of Draw effects that I had until I found Elixir of Immortality and recovered my graveyard. With a bit of effort and some timely draws I was able to prevent my opponent from achieving lethal damage prior to me resolving another Cleansing.
My second Sphinx-Bone Wand resolved but died to Reclamation Sage before my next untap. Luckily this time I had Archaeomancer In play and a Cloudshift in my hand. I was able to squeeze 10 damage off of my Bone Wand by cloudshifting the Archaeomancer over and over. Unfortunately my opponent had already used his Elixir of Immortality twice, so I basically just got his health back to 21.
I was on the ropes the entire game and hand to pull off some interesting combinations of cards to prevent death a few times. I ended up destroying Kozilek, Butcher of Truth twice and managed to keep him from ever getting off of summoning sickness thank god. The 2nd time I killed Kozilek my opponent had amassed enough mana to hold back a Dissolve that he spent countering my Planar Cleansing but hitting up my Archaeomancer with Cloudshift allowed me to recover the cleansing and leaving me with EXACTLY enough mana to recast it.
Finally I was able to resolve the Sphinx-Bone Wand, and unload 6 additional spells from my hand without passing the turn, dealing exactly 21 damage and winning the game.
-I sent the standard "Good Game" to my opponent… and received no response
