Battle of Wits - slightly more doable?
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Posted on April 23, 2013, 1:45 p.m. by meecht
In DGM, there will be several alternate win-cons in Standard:
Biovisionary
Battle of Wits
Azor's Elocutors
Maze's End
Laboratory Maniac
Door to Nothingness
Vraska the Unseen
tokens
Hellkite Tyrant
How viable would it be to squeeze all of these into some durdley deck? Obviously it would require all possible wrath effects, tutors, and counter spells. It would also need all the good artifacts to effectively use Hellkite Tyrant (keyrunes, cluestones, Chromatic Lantern ) and at least one of each gate to use Maze's End.
That's 8 Win-con's in one deck... 9 if you include damage... 10 if you add Mill (which some cards would be needed for with Laboratory Maniac anyway).
I was going to say it would have to be a 5 color deck... but other than the door to nothingness, and Gates, white doesn't need to come into play.
Also.... if you include Serra Avenger , Slaughter Games , and Elbrus, the Binding Blade Flip .... you will be using every card in Standard that contains the word "game" in it's rules text.
Call it "This Deck's got GAME!"? :)
meecht says... #2
By viable I mean it can be pulled off with relative consistency, not PTQ viable.
April 23, 2013 1:54 p.m.