Combo Deck!!
Standard forum
Posted on Sept. 2, 2014, 7:54 p.m. by GlistenerAgent
Khans of Tarkir has provided Standard with an awesome combo deck. Here goes:
Turn 1: Elvish Mystic
Turn 2: Morph Rattleclaw Mystic
Turn 3: Flip Rattleclaw Mystic --> Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker
Turn 4: See the Unwritten --> Polukranos, World Eater ? Hornet Queen ? You name it!
RUG Devotion will be a thing. I desperately hope so.
BorosPlayer says... #4
I think
T1-T2 any mana dork
T3 facedown Sagu Mauler
T4 morph and swing with Sagu Mauler .
sounds pretty fearsome and not at all unlikely.
September 2, 2014 8:12 p.m.
Yay . . . epoch gets to explain what a combo is again...
September 2, 2014 8:15 p.m.
Here is an example of a combo deck.
T1 land
T2 land
T3 flash in Pestermite their end step.
T4 Splinter Twin on Pestermite , create an arbitrarily large number of tokens then swing for the win.
September 2, 2014 8:18 p.m.
GlistenerAgent says... #7
Well, I suppose it depends what you reveal from your deck. If you reveal Kiki-Jiki and one of any number of things, you're golden! :)
September 2, 2014 8:20 p.m.
GlistenerAgent says... #9
I didn't know I was dealing with a bunch of lawyers. Gosh.
September 2, 2014 8:21 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #10
The community probably wouldn't be so defensive about what "combo" means if it weren't used so often and so misleadingly. Standard hasn't seen a true combo deck in quite a while.
September 2, 2014 8:26 p.m.
BorosPlayer says... #11
What you listed is cards doing what they are supposed to do. It is not really a combo, but a kind of synergy.
September 2, 2014 8:27 p.m.
InconspicuousPotato says... #12
@Epochalyptik Splinter Twin wasn't that long ago.
September 2, 2014 8:28 p.m.
GlistenerAgent says... #13
For the record, I was joking. BorosPlayer, you are exactly correct. I'm sorry if I brought any dreams crashing to the ground. :)
September 2, 2014 8:28 p.m.
GlistenerAgent says... #14
I'd argue that Junk Reanimator was a combo deck. It played like a midrange deck, but definitely had the combo aspect.
September 2, 2014 8:29 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #15
Epochalyptik Well, there was the fringe decks that were 3 card combos in standard recently. (Zhur-Taa Druid , Archangel of Thune , and The Chain Veil combo decks) What you say it true for 2 card combos though, it's been since ZEN/NPH for those.
September 2, 2014 8:31 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #16
GlistenerAgent where the wheels fall off is the word "combo" here. A deck is a combo deck when it can go infinite or near infinite and end the game on the spot. An example is Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Restoration Angel . What you are referring to is an interaction.
Even the old Esper Flare decks from NPH/INN weren't combo, I mean yes, you could Unburial Rites a Sun Titan and get back X Phantasmal Image s but that didn't make it a combo deck.
September 2, 2014 8:34 p.m.
GlistenerAgent says... #17
There are multiple working definitions of a combo deck. I personally feel like any deck that can put a seven-mana creature into play as early as turn 3 is worthy of being called a combo deck. The sequence I posted about at the top of the page is not a combo, but I meant that more in jest than anything.
September 2, 2014 8:37 p.m.
Souljacker says... #18
You can play See the Unwritten turn 4 with any 2 mana dorks... so this is more about that card enabling big creatures early. Yes, but you don't need any specific combo whatsoever to make that happen, this is how green ramp works.
September 3, 2014 5 a.m.
Until standard rotates I've been running two Kiora's Follower with one of them equipped with Illusionist's Bracers . Infinite mana. I combo this with Polukranos, Oracle's Insight , Mistcutter Hydra , or Arbiter of the Ideal
September 5, 2014 3:17 p.m.
Oh and for fun I once used it to deck an opponet with Dakra Mystic :)
September 5, 2014 3:20 p.m.
Guys... The whole point of this is that RUG Devotion will be a very powerful deck. This may not be a combo, but it is certainly a strong interaction.
Let's not take away from this the understanding of what a combo deck is, but let's take away from this that RUG Devotion will be a powerful deck.
GoldGhost012 says... #2
That feels like a glass cannon made in Magical Christmas Land.
September 2, 2014 8:03 p.m.