"It came, writhing, from her body, like a newborn maggot escaping from its egg. I could see its glistening, plastic skin stretching as it emerged, dyed a deep maroon with her blood; its talons grasped at the meager flesh which it was confined in, and, gurgling some cursed language from its demented beak, pulled it apart.
As it dragged itself further out, I realized that its uppermost parts were no longer red. It still dripped and shone with the luster of a marble, but the color was gone--it was as though the creature had sucked the life out of the blood, and of everything else it touched. It was awful. When it breathed, the light grew dimmer; and when it spoke, the air turned sour with despair.
After a few moments, it was free, and stood at height. The second that I stood there, mummified, lasted an eternity; and in that infinite speck of time, that never-ending instant, I beheld the most horrific creature that could ever come to being.
It was the sum of all the nightmares that brought children to their parents’ rooms at night, screaming and crying; a monster the likes of which would bring Orzhov priests to their knees in repentance, praying to whatever corrupted deities they worshipped, for fear that the end times were near. Looking at it, into its filthy eyes devoid of color, felt as though my greatest fears were collected and extracted of their purest essence, then simultaneously compacted and expanded such that the suffocating feeling in the back of my throat would swell and burst, and the fear would escape from my lungs in a raking, breathless scream. Its presence was a heavy blanket, like being buried beneath the snow in a blizzard; every second, I could feel more of the frigid coldness piling onto me, on and on until I was frozen solid and hypothermia set in; every moment, the unbearable pressure pushed on my body and mind, and I could tell-—nay, I could feel!—the vast, unfathomable, incomprehensible depths of the being’s knowledge, and its disdain and contempt for my very existence."
-- Some poor sap who had to deal with a turn 4
Elder Deep-Fiend
on the draw
This is a Simic Emerge deck whose plan is to use counterspells and removal in the early game while ramping with
Growth Spiral
and
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
, then finish it off with
Elder Deep-Fiend
hits or by smacking them with your other creatures.
In testing, this deck has proven to be very flexible (probably because the majority of the deck can be played at instant speed). While typical Emerge lists tend to peter out or fumble when they draw the wrong parts of their deck, this deck is able to keep the gas pumping with the Uro/
Tamiyo, Collector of Tales
package. It sometimes feels like a UG control deck (when you get to the late game and start attacking with Uro), but other times you get the nutty hands with ramp into turn 3
Frilled Mystic
and turn 4
Elder Deep-Fiend
and a bunch of
Brazen Borrower
s and Engulf the Shores to back it up with.
Loosely inspired by Simerge.
