Snipe & Summon - Nov 2012

Standard*

antoinephi

Creature (14)

• 4x Guttersnipe
• 3x Invisible Stalker
• 2x Snapcaster Mage
• 3x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 2x Tandem Lookout

Land (24)

• 2x Evolving Wilds
• 8x Island
• 6x Mountain
• 4x Steam Vents
• 4x Sulfur Falls

Artifact (3)

• 3x Runechanter's Pike

Instant (6)

• 2x Desperate Ravings
• 2x Searing Spear
• 2x Think Twice

Sorcery (13)

• 2x Artful Dodge
• 2x Faithless Looting
• 2x Krenko's Command
• 3x Mizzium Mortars
• 2x Pillar of Flame
• 2x Talrand's Invocation

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Clone
• 2x Lobber Crew

Instant (8)

• 2x Dissipate
• 2x Izzet Charm
• 2x Mizzium Skin
• 2x Negate

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Sleep
• 1x Switcheroo
• 2x Vandalblast

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Maybeboard

Instant (2)

• 2x Cyclonic Rift

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Pillar of Flame

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Guttersnipe and Talrand, Sky Summoner team up again!

The deck's engine:

• you deal damage by drawing: emphasis on draw spells with flashback in order to deal damage or summon drakes while digging for more instants and sorceries.

• you draw when dealing damage by bonding Tandem Lookout with Invisible Stalker or Guttersnipe or a drake or Lobber Crew

A few tweaks on the archetype:

• Cast Krenko's Command and Talrand's Invocation early to hold the ground and control the sky or cast them later for damage and more drakes

• Added Artful Dodge for cheap and sure damage: you can deal damage with Guttersnipe AND attack with it, especially if equipped with Runechanter's Pike

• Invisible Stalker with Runechanter's Pike is an alternate win condition.

• Put in 24 lands in order to reach quickly 6 manas and overload Mizzium Mortars . Extra lands are used to increase chances of discarding them with Desperate Ravings or directly discard with Faithless Looting .

Sideboard options:

• Against beatdown:

Take out Invisible Stalker , Faithless Looting one Talrand, Sky Summoner and one Runechanter's Pike

Bring in Lobber Crew , Mizzium Skin , Izzet Charm , and Sleep .

• Against control:

Side out Tandem Lookout , one Mizzium Mortars and Pillar of Flame

Side in Negate , Dissipate , Clone , and Switcheroo .

Against Tormod's Crypt and Grafdigger's Cage , replace Searing Spear with Vandalblast

Comments welcome!

Date added	12 years
Last updated	12 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 1 Rares 11 - 8 Uncommons 16 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.28
Tokens	Drake 2/2 U, Goblin 1/1 R