MTG Salvation

Kami of the Crescent Moon

Introduction

I've been thinking of making a group hug deck for a while now and realized one day that everyone in our group loves Howling Mine effects. So I thought, why not make a deck with Kami of the Crescent Moon? The goal of the deck is to make everyone happy with free cards and fly under the radar long enough until you can combo out or have enough mana to mill everyone with "draw x" effects.

Please note that this deck is still in the development phase, any feedback would be more than welcome.

Strategy

For the first few turns of the game, our goal is to play effects that make everyone in the table draw cards such as our commander, Temple Bell, Prosperity, etc. This contributes to our game plan in several ways:

1. It helps us dig into our combo pieces
2. It helps burn through our opponents' libraries to make milling them later in the game easier
3. It makes us a less likely target because we are helping the other players
4. It makes us a less likely target because there are more threatening players because of our help
5. It gives us fuel for our free spells such as Force of Will and Mox Diamond

While our opponents are hopefully preoccupied with each other, our next goal is to build up our mana with artifacts such as Gilded Lotus and Gauntlet of Power. At this point, we should also start tutoring for our win conditions using our various transmute cards and our artifact/instant/sorcery tutors.

If we find ourselves under attack, we can use bounce effects such as Capsize and Evacuation, which will not only slow our attackers down, but may also cause them to discard additional cards at the end of their turn, assuming they have full hands because of all our draw effects.

Once we have all the necessary resources and it seems like all the other players have used up most of their spot removal/counters on each other, we can proceed to win the game through the means listed below.

Win Conditions

Mind Over Matter

• Mind Over Matter + Temple Bell
• Mind Over Matter + Otherworld Atlas
• Mind Over Matter + Jace's Archivist

Make everyone draw their libraries if all our opponents have less cards in their library than us. Otherwise, draw into a Feldon's Cane to shuffle our graveyard into our library.

Palinchron

• Palinchron + High Tide
• Palinchron + Caged Sun
• Palinchron + Extraplanar Lens
• Palinchron + Gauntlet of Power
• Palinchron + Phantasmal Image

Generate infinite mana and use it on a "draw x" spell such as Prosperity to draw our entire deck. We can then use cards like Stroke of Genius to finish off any remaining players. Alternatively, if we only have Stroke of Genius or a similar card in our hand, we can use it to draw our entire library and then use Blue Sun's Zenith to kill an opponent, and then any card that makes us draw exactly one card such as Jace Beleren to reuse Blue Sun's Zenith.

Laboratory Maniac

Generate a lot of mana with mana doublers such as Caged Sun and by copying them with cards such as Copy Artifact. We can then use "draw x" spells to draw into Laboratory Maniac and inflate our hands with the help of cards that remove our maximum hand size such as Spellbook. We can then cast Laboratory Maniac and proceed to deck ourselves with more "draw x" spells and/or Windfall.

Psychosis Crawler

Very similar to the strategy above, except that we use Psychosis Crawler instead of Laboratory Maniac. We just need to draw enough cards to kill our opponents. We can also clone Psychosis Crawler with cards like Phantasmal Image to make our opponents lose twice as much life.

Decklist by Type

GravitonGamer's DeckMagic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
Commander 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon Artifact (23) 1x Anvil of Bogardan 1x Caged Sun 1x Chrome Mox 1x Codex Shredder 1x Expedition Map 1x Extraplanar Lens 1x Feldon's Cane 1x Font of Mythos 1x Gauntlet of Power 1x Gilded Lotus 1x Horn of Greed 1x Howling Mine 1x Mana Crypt 1x Mox Diamond 1x Mox Opal 1x Otherworld Atlas 1x Sculpting Steel 1x Scroll Rack 1x Sol Ring 1x Spellbook 1x Temple Bell 1x Thran Dynamo 1x Tormod's Crypt	Enchantment (2) 1x Copy Artifact 1x Mind Over Matter Planeswalker (2) 1x Jace Beleren 1x Tezzeret the Seeker Sorcery (8) 1x Argivian Restoration 1x Fabricate 1x Merchant Scroll 1x Minds Aglow 1x Personal Tutor 1x Prosperity 1x Skyscribing 1x Windfall Instant (17) 1x Blue Sun's Zenith 1x Capsize 1x Commandeer 1x Cyclonic Rift 1x Disrupting Shoal 1x Dizzy Spell 1x Evacuation 1x Foil 1x Force of Will 1x High Tide 1x Intuition 1x Mana Drain 1x Misdirection 1x Muddle the Mixture 1x Mystical Tutor 1x Pact of Negation 1x Stroke of Genius	Creature (11) 1x Archaeomancer 1x Drift of Phantasms 1x Jace's Archivist 1x Laboratory Maniac 1x Palinchron 1x Phantasmal Image 1x Phyrexian Metamorph 1x Psychosis Crawler 1x Snapcaster Mage 1x Trinket Mage 1x Walking Atlas Land (36) 1x Academy Ruins 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea 1x Reliquary Tower 30x Snow-Covered Island 1x Terrain Generator 1x Tolaria West

Decklist by Function

GravitonGamer's DeckMagic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
Commander 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon Group Draw (13) 1x Anvil of Bogardan 1x Font of Mythos 1x Horn of Greed 1x Howling Mine 1x Otherworld Atlas 1x Temple Bell 1x Minds Aglow 1x Prosperity 1x Skyscribing 1x Windfall 1x Jace Beleren 1x Jace's Archivist 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea Mana (13) 1x Caged Sun 1x Chrome Mox 1x Extraplanar Lens 1x Gauntlet of Power 1x Gilded Lotus 1x Mana Crypt 1x Mox Diamond 1x Mox Opal 1x Sol Ring 1x Thran Dynamo 1x High Tide 1x Walking Atlas 1x Terrain Generator	Tutor (12) 1x Expedition Map 1x Fabricate 1x Merchant Scroll 1x Personal Tutor 1x Tezzeret the Seeker 1x Dizzy Spell 1x Intuition 1x Muddle the Mixture 1x Mystical Tutor 1x Drift of Phantasms 1x Trinket Mage 1x Tolaria West Recursion (6) 1x Codex Shredder 1x Feldon's Cane 1x Argivian Restoration 1x Archaeomancer 1x Snapcaster Mage 1x Academy Ruins Copy (4) 1x Sculpting Steel 1x Copy Artifact 1x Phantasmal Image 1x Phyrexian Metamorph Bounce/Removal/Steal (4) 1x Capsize 1x Commandeer 1x Cyclonic Rift 1x Evacuation	Counter (5) 1x Disrupting Shoal 1x Foil 1x Force of Will 1x Mana Drain 1x Pact of Negation Combo/Wincons (6) 1x Mind Over Matter 1x Blue Sun's Zenith 1x Stroke of Genius 1x Laboratory Maniac 1x Palinchron 1x Psychosis Crawler Other (6) 1x Misdirection 1x Scroll Rack 1x Spellbook 1x Tormod's Crypt 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All 1x Reliquary Tower Basic Land (30) 30x Snow-Covered Island

To Follow

• Individual card descriptions
• Pros/cons of playing the deck
• Good/bad matchups
• Notable exclusions
• Meta suggestions

Change Log

07 July 2013

+Scroll Rack
+Commandeer
+Misdirection

-Sensei's Divining Top
-Gilded Drake
-Turnabout

Fantastic, would not want to play against it... but then again... that card draw... makes me want to hug you... very well design concept. However, know that players are not so naive and will attack you once they get a glimpse of what's going on. And most players will guess just from your commander. But keep them drawing cards to aid their own struggles against other players, and they might not care.