Two really dumb deck ideas
Standard forum
Posted on Jan. 10, 2015, 5:16 a.m. by erabel
Okay, so with Fate Reforged coming in soon, I'm thinking about maybe, finally, building a standard deck. I have two ideas, and both of them are utterly terrible ideas, but I'd like to have y'all's help on making them live up to the best of their potential as terrible ideas.
The first one takes fewer cards from FRF to play properly, so I'll start with that one. There are, currently in Standard, four 1 mana 1/1s with deathtouch: Sedge Scorpion, Pharika's Chosen, Ruthless Ripper, and Typhoid Rats. Throw in the two-mana fight cards (Savage Punch and Setessan Tactics) plus Pharika, God of Affliction to turn all my dead 1/1 deathtouchers into token 1/1 deathtouchers, and you almost have a deck. I'm just kind of lost on what to fill it out with, plus sideboard tech.
The other thing I thought of came to me while I was looking at the new Wheel effect in standard, the mono-black one. One could, theoretically, play Waste Not on turn 2 and follow it up with said wheel on turn 3. Run Black Cat and Brain Maggot as other hand disruptors, maybe Master of the Feast as a way to refuel them so Waste Not gets value, some other discard spells and some decent creature kill, and there's something here, I think. A potential win might be a Nighthowler? This one's more of a "what discard spells would I run, and in what quantities?" than a "what do I run to fill it out?".
I'm much more of an EDH guy, so Standard's a daunting thing to me. Any help y'all are willing to give in this regard would be very much appreciated.
Also Hornet Nest and Frontier Siege turns the tokens into Murder's. Shamanic Revelation let's your refill your hand after flooding the board early. Yay for jank!!!
January 10, 2015 7:22 a.m.
Hjaltrohir says... #4
Yeah, I agree with ChiefBell, the deathtouch idea seems pretty good. Hornet Nest/Hornet Queen as well?
January 10, 2015 7:22 a.m.
FatherLiir says... #6
When it comes to sideboard stuff I think your biggest problem would be burn decks where creatures aren't a major part for your first deck. With that Jeskai "Instant and Sorceries have Lifelink" Grandmaster hitting standard, they can keep gaining 3-5 life a turn while you peck away their life. Maybe sideboard in a few Life giving cards against this.
Eidolon of Blossoms might be a another good source of card draw with Pharika... Sorry this isn't so helpful, but I love this idea :)
As for the discard deck... Yeah I got nothin. Sorry, I always want to LIKE discard ever since I pulled my first planeswalker; Liliana Vess from M15 :) I just can never execute it properly.
January 10, 2015 9:03 a.m.
I had made a deck once, with what you said in number 2!
Take a look! A few cards need to be changed! I didn't know that there was another wheel effect!
ChiefBell says... #2
The first one sounds pretty fantastic. Maybe run Hornet Queen too?
January 10, 2015 6:34 a.m.