MTG Salvation

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This deck's theme is the result of a poll and will be my last deck until Journey Into Nyx. I went with a darker interpretation of Carroll's books, similar to American McGee's ALICE. The primary goal of ONE-DOUR-LAND is to ensure your opponents go mad and maybe even lose their heads in the process. Having recently designed another Grixis deck, I wanted to go in a different direction than I did in that deck.

For folks interested in making the deck their own, I've included a short list of other possible flavorful inclusions that didn't remain in the deck, as I did with my DUNE deck(s) featured at SCG. (Visit TappedOut.net for this deck's sample hand generator.)
 
Flavorful Strategy
Madness. It's usually a solitary experience, one suffered in private. Even in communities of the insane, each member is locked in their own personal hell. But, sometimes, an individual's madness leaks from their mind, pours from their mouth. Sometimes, madness is contagious.

Welcome to ONE-DOUR-LAND.

This world's nightmares will test the limits of your sanity. Physical strength will not serve you here. It's not your brawn on trial. Only those willing to brave their inner demons have the smallest hope of release from the insane asylum that is ONE-DOUR-LAND.

ONE-DOUR-LAND
Do you dare cross the threshold
Of the rabbit hole (Possessed Portal)
To begin your gibbering Descent into Madness?

Will your tears pool (Rising Waters)
Your face slack and drool
As you weep in forlorn sadness?

The Caterpillar (Massacre Wurm), he has advice
Truly, his counsel kills (Vampiric Tutor)!
The Cheshire Cat's (Savage Firecat) claws will slice
Blood his only thrill

Sup with the Duchess (Liliana of the Veil)
She'll nurse your fears
AND caress them away!

Or tea with the Hatter (Sire of Insanity)
Complete with 'mouse (Ravenous Rats) chatter
Your mind gone one more day (Time Sieve)!

But beware the Queen (Nin, the Pain Artist)
And her fury mean (Vandalblast)
If you want to keep your head

Escape her wrath (Damnation)
Into Jabberwock's (Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur) path
And you might still end up dead!
Copyright ©2014 Lark Ballinger.

CHANGE LOG

So far, playing this deck has been a maddening good time!

ADDED
Crucible of Worlds
Rings of Brighthearth
Buried Ruin

REMOVED
Fire Diamond
Sky Diamond
Darksteel Citadel

Picked up some new cards and made the following changes:

ADDED
Tangle Wire
Tezzeret the Seeker

REMOVED
Coldsteel Heart
Ghost Quarter

i like it... gonna try it out.

Quote from trancekat

i like it... gonna try it out.

Awesome! How is it working out for you? I've been having a lot of fun with it so far.

So many rage quits against this deck.

Reanimated someone's Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and copied the deck's Caterpillar causing massive life loss for the table. Got me thinking that some folks might want to include Kiki in the deck for hijinks with Evil Twin, Palinchron, or Ravenous Rats.

OMGoddess. This deck would love Dack Fayden…

This deck has a lot of cute cards, and too many high casting cost cards to make true control.

I don't want to dismember this deck apart like I do for most people, so give me a direction you want to go to. I understand you want to keep a flavour, but I'm wrong person for advice if that's your overall goal.

All my decks are built for speed, optimization, utility, survivability, and resiliency.
I tend to play the same cards in all my decks starting with my lands, mana rocks, and utility artifacts like Top, Trading Post, Crucible of Words.

Once you give me an idea of this deck, I can help you out, but for now - nothing.

Quote from BaconofLight

This deck has a lot of cute cards, and too many high casting cost cards to make true control.

I don't want to dismember this deck apart like I do for most people, so give me a direction you want to go to. I understand you want to keep a flavour, but I'm wrong person for advice if that's your overall goal.

All my decks are built for speed, optimization, utility, survivability, and resiliency.
I tend to play the same cards in all my decks starting with my lands, mana rocks, and utility artifacts like Top, Trading Post, Crucible of Words.

Once you give me an idea of this deck, I can help you out, but for now - nothing.

Quote from BaconofLight

4Lark, What is your deck's win conditions? None, Salvaging Station, Planeswalker, Land Destruction, Wurmcoil Engine, Tokens + Swords?

BaconofLight, I have several win conditions:

• Tezzeret the Seeker (24 artifacts, including Thopter Assembly)
• Death Cloud (if I'm ahead on life)
• flying Thopter token equipped with Sword of Feast and Famine
• my opponents' creatures with Body Double, Evil Twin, Reanimate, Animate Dead, or Necromancy
• Nin, the Pain Artist with infinite mana
• Bloodchief Ascension
• infinite turns with Thopter Assembly tokens and Time Sieve
• locking up the board to the point that my opponents concede (most frequent thus far)

My overall goal is to make my opponents go mad. I want their hands empty. I want them to feel despair. I want them to give up all hope. So far, I've been meeting my goal. However, any deck has room for improvement.

The only cards I'm committed to are the creatures, the planeswalkers, and Sword of Feast and Famine. Everything else is up for discussion.

The Vorpal Sword is just too funny with the deck's stax package. What's even funnier is exiling everything with Descent into Madness and stacking lands on top of our library with Ponder and Preordain after everything's been wiped out. This deck recovers quickly.

Somehow forgot to update this list to match the one I play with:

ADDED
Dack Fayden
Teferi, Temporal Archmage
Fabricate
Waste Not

REMOVED
Death Cloud
Ruination
Mystical Tutor
Megrim

I wonder if Shadows of Innistrad will support discard strategies as much as self-mill. The return of Madness is suggestive.