Knowledge is a Curse

Standard*

Zielk

Creature (9)

• 4x Birds of Paradise
• 4x Treasure Mage
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

Land (22)

• 5x Forest
• 2x Glacial Fortress
• 2x Hinterland Harbor
• 2x Inkmoth Nexus
• 3x Island
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 5x Plains
• 2x Sunpetal Grove

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Curse of Exhaustion

Artifact (4)

• 4x Knowledge Pool

Instant (4)

• 4x Think Twice

Sorcery (16)

• 4x Day of Judgment
• 4x Ponder
• 4x Rampant Growth
• 4x Terminus

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 2x Spellskite

Artifact (8)

• 2x Grafdigger's Cage
• 2x Nihil Spellbomb
• 2x Ratchet Bomb
• 2x Witchbane Orb

Instant (5)

• 2x Surgical Extraction
• 3x Turn Aside

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I have seen a number of variations of Knowledge Pool/Curse of Exhaustion combo decks and I wanted to try one myself. I haven't seen a deck using green/white/blue or many decks using the cards from the new set. If someone else has already thought of this deck or something very close to it, then by all means, props to you, sorry, and I'll delete this posting. All I'm saying is that I haven't seen one like this, and as far as i know this is an original idea for the pool/curse combo.

Ideally, this deck can hit the combo by Turn 5, to demonstrate...

Turn 1: Forest, Birds of Paradise
Turn 2: Plains, Treasure Mage(fetch Pool)
Turn 3: Plains, Curse of Exhaustion
Turn 4: (Land), Birds, Treasure Mage(fetch Wurm)
Turn 5: (Land), Knowledge Pool

I've been thinking of a way to make a Sideboard that would remove the combo from the Main and replace it with Aggro cards. This way on Game 2, if they mainboard counters to the combo, I can completely alter my deck and throw them off. I was thinking of changing the deck into an Angel/Green Stompie Aggro. Any suggestions would be great.

Date added	12 years
Last updated	12 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 10 Rares 8 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.34
Tokens	Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink