A deck built around Yet Another Aether Vortex, made for a casual multiplayer play group. The goal is to get the Enchantment out, and then kicking off some chain reactions between it and the other cards in the deck. Dwarven Ruins allows for a quick boost of mana to get the Vortex out a little faster once it is drawn, and both Reaper of the Wilds and Viscera Seer's scrying ability help in digging through the deck to get to the enchantment in the first place. Many of the creatures in the deck are sturdy enough or replace themselves with tokens, allowing you to keep other players at bay for at least a little while.

While Yet Another Aether Vortex is on the battlefield, the top card of each players' libraries count as though they're on the battlefield, but "enter the battlefield" effects are ignored for those cards when they are revealed. Which means:

Dwarven Ruins, Terramorphic Expanse, and Evolving Wilds can be sacrificed, thinning out the deck of its basic lands in the process in the case of the latter two.

Brindle Shoat, Wurmcoil Engine, and Sprouting Thrinax can all be sacrificed from the top of your library, and still leave behind some tokens to also be sacrificed if the deck hits a basic land as its top card. This will either provide for some defenses if none of the win conditions are out yet. If Viscera Seer is out, the tokens can be sacrificed to scry away the land and hopefully continue the combo. Pawn of Ulamog also helps in this department, providing both tokens and mana.

Phyrexian Plaguelord, Thoughtpicker Witch, and Viscera Seer are the deck's sacrifice outlets, allowing you to dig through your deck and get rid of your opponents' creatures.

Zulaport Cutthroat and Falkenrath Noble allow you to drain the other players of their life, the deck's main route to victory.

Extractor Demon, combos off well with many of the other cards as well; since it cares about creatures "leaving the battlefield" rather than them dying, when a creature is drawn, scried away, or leaves the top of any player's library for any other reason (such as Thoughtpicker Witch exiling them), his ability triggers, allowing to mill a player for two. If one or both of the two cards happens to be a creature, the effect goes off again.

Even if, for some reason or another, the Zulaport Cutthroats and Falkenrath Noble are rendered ineffective, the deck can generate lots of tokens, which can attack right away since the Vortex gives them haste! What's more, if your opponent reveals an Aura, a Planeswalker, or a creature with 0 toughness atop of their library, it goes straight to the graveyard, seeing as their "enter the battlefield" effects also don't go off! Just remember that your opponents' creatures also gain haste, so surprise counter attacks are always something to be wary of.

And if your library grows thin, using Elixir of Immortality to replenish it allows you to restart the whole process!

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Date added 7 years
Last updated 4 years
Legality

This deck is not Unformat legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 0 Mythic Rares

11 - 0 Rares

21 - 0 Uncommons

12 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.22
Tokens Boar 3/3 G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
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