MTG Salvation

The Origins, Up To This Point

This deck was something that has been "chewing" on my brain for the past week or so; a Kami deck that has everyone drawing about 1/10th of their deck in one turn, and getting fined for it. Working off that concept, I spent about two or three hours hitting the random button on Gatherer and Magiccards.Info, writing down the cards that looked good, and cutting down that into a (probably crappy) EDH deck.

Gifts of the Crescent Moon focuses off three win-cons:

• You can ping your opponents to death via cards like Iron Maiden or Black Vise.
• You can beat them to death Aggro-style via cards like Aeon Chronicler or Sturmgeist.
• You can psuedo-mill them out via cards like Forced Fruition.

Now, lets get into the deck itself.


Any help or suggestions on the deck, be they card based or not, are wanted.

Reserved.

Bump.

Interesting. Have you tested this much? It seems good against control but I imagine combo and to a lesser extent aggro will be a harsh matchup for you. The main issue is that you are giving opponents fuel but you lack disruption other than a few counterspells. Your deck has a lower density of threats and ramp since it's devoting a lot of slots to draw, so your opponents will be able to cast more spells and more impactful spells than you.

For disruption, I like Foil, Meishin, the Mind Cage, Relic of Progenitus / Tormod's Crypt, Evacuation (goes well with your vise effects). Stasis and/or Winter Orb look excellent in this deck if your playgroup is OK with it.

Also, I understand not wanting to dilute your manabase because of your general but it feels like you could squeeze in a Reliquary Tower and Mikokoro, Center of the Sea.

I also posted a Kami of the Crescent Moon deck recently, maybe we can bounce ideas off each other.

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=514863

Interesting. Have you tested this much? It seems good against control but I imagine combo and to a lesser extent aggro will be a harsh matchup for you. The main issue is that you are giving opponents fuel but you lack disruption other than a few counterspells. Your deck has a lower density of threats and ramp since it's devoting a lot of slots to draw, so your opponents will be able to cast more spells and more impactful spells than you.

For disruption, I like Foil, Meishin, the Mind Cage, Relic of Progenitus / Tormod's Crypt, Evacuation (goes well with your vise effects). Stasis and/or Winter Orb look excellent in this deck if your playgroup is OK with it.

Also, I understand not wanting to dilute your manabase because of your general but it feels like you could squeeze in a Reliquary Tower and Mikokoro, Center of the Sea.

Hey jayr, thanks for responding. Unfortuately, I am jobless at the moment due to age constraints (though that has changed recently, so hopefiully my job-state will soon follow), so I built this w/o testing. I figured I could post the concept, have the rough edges sanded down by the people who call this forum home, and then put it together and test.

As for your reccomendations, they all seem good. Mikokoro, Center of the Sea allows me to draw and get mana out of it, while Tormod's Crypt will help me stop reanimation-based decks, as would Relic of Prognetius. As for Reliquary Tower, I can't believe I forgot about it.

Foil will be a good card for counters without having to use mana, once I get going. As for Meishin, the Mind Cage, that will be useful, since I don't plan to win via beatdown. Evacuation seems good. However, Stasis and Winter Orb don't seem useful in this deck, and would in fact draw hate. However, I may not be looking at it the way you are, so let me know.

I also posted a Kami of the Crescent Moon deck recently, maybe we can bounce ideas off each other.

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=514863

Hey GravitonGamer, that sounds good to me. I saw your deck earlier, when I was putting this together, and took one or two pieces to use in my creation. However, you get ideas, send them on, and I'll do the same.