how tin with as blink deck

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Posted on March 1, 2020, 9:30 a.m. by megamon575

how does a blink deck win that isn't a Infinite combo

shadow63 says... #2

Value

March 1, 2020 9:47 a.m.

JANKYARD_DOG says... #3

Blink decks revolve around "Enter the Battlefield" (ETB)/"Leaves the Battlefield" (LTB) effects either attached to permanants being blinked i.e. Mulldrifter or a triggered effect i.e Elemental Bond. Working with the examples I've given you could add something like Laboratory Maniac to draw your Library and win, or Atemsis, All-Seeing as a win condition. Drawing out your deck isn't considered infinate as your deck as a finite number of cards.

Another route to go is theft if in a creature heavy meta. Steal opponents creatures, blink them with effects that read "return under your control" not owners, then you keep them permanently to swing or sacrifice.

Infinite mana combos (example Peregrine Drake & Deadeye Navigator) into X spells that result in a win like Torment of Hailfire, Blue Sun's Zenith, & Villainous Wealth.

Other than that you can just try to generate enough advantage via ETB/LTB effects to outpace your opponents.

March 1, 2020 10:04 a.m.

ZendikariWol says... #4

I run Roon of the Hidden Realm so my wincon is basically to Aura Shards/Knight of Autumn/Reclamation Sage and Duplicant/Mangara of Corondor/Djinn of Infinite Deceits/Meteor Golem/Palace Jailer/Sundial of the Infinite the opponents' boards away and chip in with dorks.

March 1, 2020 1:08 p.m.

DrukenReaps says... #5

Depends entirely on what you are blinking. Aminatou, the Fateshifter might run Magister Sphinx and Gray Merchant of Asphodel as win cons. Roon of the Hidden Realm will probably do it with Avenger of Zendikar or Craterhoof Behemoth. It all comes down to the colors of your blink deck and these are far from the only possibilities.

March 1, 2020 1:46 p.m.

dbpunk says... #6

There are quite a few ways, such as bouncing a Prime Speaker Zegana a bunch while Psychosis Crawler or Laboratory Maniac is in play. My favorite way Ive won (back when I had Cyclonic Rift in my Roon of the Hidden Realm deck is as follows.

2 opponents left, one with almost no board state due to being a spellslinger deck and the other a newer player using a BR deck

  1. Have an opponent play Phage the Untouchable

  2. Gain control of Phage using Illusory Gains, then attacking with Phage at the no board state spellslinger

  3. Bounce Phage back to its owners using Roon.

March 1, 2020 7:31 p.m.

probablywygo says... #7

Without some type of combo, a blink deck will generally only win in a casual play group where people aren’t winning very quickly. My Mairsil, the Pretender deck is basically a blink deck. The deck has a card that doesn’t involve an infinite combo, Tree of Perdition to set their life total to 4... usually gets the job done.

But moral of the story, the combo doesn’t have to be infinite. But if there’s no combo at all in the blink deck, it’s probably a bad deck.

March 3, 2020 12:44 a.m.

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