Finally found a use for Worldslayer
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Posted on March 2, 2012, 10:19 a.m. by cryptichorror
Check out Master Craftsmen. I added Worldslayer, and I think it will make for a very fun result. I'll playtest it, and might reverse my decision. But for now, I think it will be fun.
cryptichorror says... #3
Blightsteel Colossus + Worldslayer
When you attack, your opponent has to throw 11 toughness worth of creatures in Blightsteel Colossus's path, effectively clearing the board (or at least taking a huge chunk out of it). If even a single point tramples over, you wipe the board of everything, except Worldslayer and Blightsteel Colossus (indestructible), leaving the next round a pretty certain win.
March 2, 2012 11:01 a.m.
cryptichorror says... #5
I don't like that with that deck, having Worldslayer means Shape Anew won't guarentee I end up with Blightsteel Colossus anymore. Essentially, it will slow the deck down enough to require two Shape Anews before I can count on a win instead of one. But, it ups the effectiveness of the win. Still now sure if the addition is worth it.
March 2, 2012 11:13 a.m.
Worldslayer is good in indestructible creature decks regardless. Somebody played a deck like that on me at FNM once not to long ago.
March 2, 2012 11:18 a.m.
cryptichorror says... #7
I just think it would be really fun to clear the table of everything except for a blightsteel. I think I'll need to up the control a bit to help keep the game alive long enough to see it happen.
March 2, 2012 11:24 a.m.
Heartless Summoning / Ramp / Primeval Titan might help with that ha.
March 2, 2012 1:33 p.m.
aloehart199 says... #9
I built one for casual as well, quite fun. But i threw in scrambleverse and the deck is standard legal :) its a blast lol.
March 2, 2012 2:04 p.m.
aloehart199 says... #10
i had helvault in mine and the mana was mono red though.
Swung with a manor gargoyle in the air with worldslayer on it, in response to worldslayer trigger use helvault to exile him. Worldslayer destroys everything and i get my gargoyle back.
March 2, 2012 2:05 p.m.
Uhh. Why use a 12-cost Indestructible creature when you could just be using Predator Ooze?
It just seems to me that, if you HAD to use Worldslayer and inherit all of its badness, Predator Ooze would be a good candidate.
But it still only takes your opponent playing an Island and casting Vapor Snag, and that's more-or-less game over.
March 2, 2012 2:21 p.m.
cryptichorror says... #12
This was a Blightsteel Colossus/Shape Anew deck long before I added Worldslayer. It's not a Worldslayer deck. If it were, it would look much different.
Also, Vapor Snag isn't much of a threat again 4x Mental Misstep.
March 2, 2012 2:41 p.m.
Half the time, you'll have the counter. Half the time, you won't. That's statistics.
March 2, 2012 3 p.m.
cryptichorror says... #14
@zandl What are you suggesting? That this deck doesn't work because someone might have a Vapor Snag?
a. I don't think the odds of me having Mental Misstep is exactly 50%. I'm no statistician, but that seems pretty unlikely. I would say it's at least as likely that I'll have that as it is my opponent has Vapor Snag.
b. Even if I don't have Mental Misstep, I also have 4x Negate, and 4x Mana Leak. That's the whole point of counter spells. It's not game over because your opponent casts a spell you don't like. Counter it!
c. It wouldn't be game over anyway. This deck has back up plans. There are 2 copies of Blightsteel Colossus in the deck. I can always Shape Anew the other one. (Odds are just as good that I'll have Shape Anew as it is that I'll have Mental Misstep.) Also, Cryptoplasm is there to clone Blightsteel Colossus, giving me a second one.
March 2, 2012 3:22 p.m.
If they play Vapor Snag, you have a 50% chance of already having the counterspell.
Whatever. Have fun with Worldslayer.
March 2, 2012 3:43 p.m.
aloehart199 says... #16
also predator ooze? really? 2 words. Tragic Slip
And the odds of him having the counter depends on the turn. 4x tragic slips in a deck of 60 means he has a 1/15 chance of drawing it. turn 1 he has just under 50% (7/15) of having the spell. Considering the colossus isnt hitting the field until about turn 4 we can assume he has drawn 11 cards from his deck.
11/15 chance of having the spell.
The odds of running a 4of spell you don't need until turn 4, pretty good.
not to mention most decks that run vapor snag (which in standard right now are... delver) don't run a full playset.
swamp_water says... #2
Enlighten me. I don't see it.
March 2, 2012 10:44 a.m.