Fade Away. I first saw this card when Zephyr Scarlet mentioned it in his Caw Blade Primer and I've thought about it a bit since then. The one thing that interested me about the card, other than the pseudo-board wipe, was the fact that we can gain a lot of advantage from it depending on the deck it's in. So, I decided to start this thread in hopes to facilitate some deck brewing for the card.
Potential Abuse Strategies:
Obviously the best way to abuse Fade Away is to use permanents that we want to sacrifice. The Wellsprings come to mind. Other cards would be creatures like Oculus, Black Cat and Perilous Myr.
Win Cons:
It goes without saying that we need to run heavy on creatures to get the most out of Fade Away. Since these creatures will be filling up our Graveyard I figured running a Songs of the Damned+Consume Spirit can get us a win. We can also use Haunting Misery to finish off our opponent.
My Deck list:
I decided to go with a BUG build an go with all Creatures for my Sac permanents. I splashed Green to give me access to Viridian Emissary and Yavimaya Elder.
I went with the Zuberas since they can work great in multiples and the different ones still work well together. They can lead to some big Card Advantage swings.
Deja Vu is great for grabbing a Fade Away or getting back a Consume Spirit.
This is just my first take on the idea so I'm open to suggestions and comments.
Do you have any ideas to abuse Fade Away? I'd love to see more thoughts and different deck lists if anyone comes up with something!
All good points and I understood that going in to this thread. My intention here was to try and make it more than a sideboard card or an answer to specific decks and make it into advantage. With the deck I brewed I'm not only looking for it to blowout my opponent's board state, but get me ahead in CA and other resources. This way I can play Fade Away throughout the game for profit no matter if my opponent expects it or not.
Board-wiping yourself doesn't seem like a sound premise for a deck, but maybe something can be done! X(
I would stick to two colours. Three must make things terribly hard for yourself, when the deck must be slow enough as it is.
I wish there was a way to make sure they were tapped out when you played your spell. Are land-tapping cards in order perhaps? Which would be best? Early Frost? Tidal Bore? those are the cheapest ones off the top of my head.
I think I would stick to UG, but include the green Zubera. He makes tokens. Those are sweet.
I thought on the Green Zubera, but the tokens don't do anything when they die. But it could end up giving me more creatures than I had if there are multiple copies.
Tapping lands idea is good, but Tidal Bore only targets creatures.
Gulf Squid If you have the ability to draw the game to the point where this is playable along side Fade Away, unless of course they sac all their lands, and run you over with creatures. You also might run into problems with a creature-less turbo-fog or burn deck.
Wouldn't Crypt Rats give you the same effect without letting them choose the creatures they sac? This seems like a really weak way to use the card unless I'm missing something.
Maybe Cascade is a good direction for abusing Fade Away. Captured Sunlight can cast it, and blowing some permanents + gaining 4 life seems like good value. With the new duals, I think that a UW control shell with a G splash in order to run G fatties and Captured sunlight itself. With the lifegain from the lands, Sunlight and cards like Aven Riftwatcher and the CA generated via Cascade, we compensate for the durdling in the first few turns. Furthermore, we can abuse Wellsprings for added CA and fueling delve cards like the newly spoiled Mandrills for beef or Treasure cruise.
Furthermore, we have access to Mulldrifter as an overall great creature, or Oblivion Ring as a catch all removal that's never a dead cascade card. We even have Rhystic Study which is also cascadeable and plays nicely with Fade Away by taxing.
Potential Abuse Strategies:
Obviously the best way to abuse Fade Away is to use permanents that we want to sacrifice. The Wellsprings come to mind. Other cards would be creatures like Oculus, Black Cat and Perilous Myr.
Win Cons:
It goes without saying that we need to run heavy on creatures to get the most out of Fade Away. Since these creatures will be filling up our Graveyard I figured running a Songs of the Damned+Consume Spirit can get us a win. We can also use Haunting Misery to finish off our opponent.
My Deck list:
I decided to go with a BUG build an go with all Creatures for my Sac permanents. I splashed Green to give me access to Viridian Emissary and Yavimaya Elder.
4 Abyssal Gatekeeper
4 Ashen-Skin Zubera
4 Floating-Dream Zubera
4 Surveilling Sprite
4 Viridian Emissary
3 Yavimaya Elder
2 Consume Spirit
2 Déjà Vu
4 Fade Away
2 Haunting Misery
Instant
3 Songs of the Damned
3 Evolving Wilds
5 Forest
7 Island
9 Swamp
I went with the Zuberas since they can work great in multiples and the different ones still work well together. They can lead to some big Card Advantage swings.
Deja Vu is great for grabbing a Fade Away or getting back a Consume Spirit.
This is just my first take on the idea so I'm open to suggestions and comments.
Do you have any ideas to abuse Fade Away? I'd love to see more thoughts and different deck lists if anyone comes up with something!
I would stick to two colours. Three must make things terribly hard for yourself, when the deck must be slow enough as it is.
I wish there was a way to make sure they were tapped out when you played your spell. Are land-tapping cards in order perhaps? Which would be best? Early Frost? Tidal Bore? those are the cheapest ones off the top of my head.
I think I would stick to UG, but include the green Zubera. He makes tokens. Those are sweet.
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Tapping lands idea is good, but Tidal Bore only targets creatures.
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Furthermore, we have access to Mulldrifter as an overall great creature, or Oblivion Ring as a catch all removal that's never a dead cascade card. We even have Rhystic Study which is also cascadeable and plays nicely with Fade Away by taxing.
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