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The aim is to make a budget deck that can neutralize expensive Tier 1 cards (hence the name), via Slaughter Games and Reap Intellect , as well as good ol' milling.

The gist is that Slaughter Games doesn't care how much the named card costs: it's gone, no questions asked. After milling, you can use Entering (from Breaking / Entering) to turn your opponents' expensive creatures against them.

The Method

Step 1:

    Identify the biggest threats/winning conditions via Breaking, Nephalia Drownyard, (and, if you can wager a guess, local meta).

Step 2:

    Neutralize these with Slaughter Games and/or Reap Intellect (using Cyclonic Rift/Far / Away if needed).

Step 3:

    Juicy creatures that end up in the graveyard are conscripted via Breaking / Entering (hellooo, sexy Obzedat, Ghost Council).

Step 4:

    Rinse and repeat.

The Madness

Mainboard:

  1. Removal: Far / Away, Tribute to Hunger , Sever the Bloodline, Dreadbore, Izzet Charm .
  2. Cyclonic Rift to deal with aggro and/or non-creatures, hopefully followed by either a Reap Intellect or Slaughter Games .
  3. Rolling Temblor to deal with blitz.

Sideboard

  1. AEtherize to deal with blitz and/or token decks.
  2. Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker. Cause he's awesome. You might be wondering: "why not mainboard him?" Basically: almost every deck runs tons of removal mainboard. Being my only creature, this guy won't survive my post-combat main phase (and I don't want to babysit him with counters). However, 2nd game comes around, most players will sideboard their creature removal--and that's when Mirko joins the party...
  3. Psychic Spiral vs. mill decks.
  4. Rakdos Charm vs. reanimators.
  5. Blasphemous Act, if needed.

The Punchline

Any help is greatly appreciated, be it feedback or +1! (Also looking to bring down to 60).

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Date added 11 years
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Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 0 Mythic Rares

24 - 5 Rares

15 - 10 Uncommons

12 - 0 Commons

Cards 61
Avg. CMC 3.78
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