MTG Salvation

Teferi's Puzzle Box will prevent your opponents from tutoring anything, or having any cards in hand for that matter.

Quote from Albatross

Teferi's Puzzle Box will prevent your opponents from tutoring anything, or having any cards in hand for that matter.

Not if your opponent uses the stack properly so that the puzzle box will resolve prior to Maralen's ability.

EDIT: here is the link to the old thread I started a while back.
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=100093&highlight=maralen

How about Glacial Chasm to prevent all the damage to you? Just drop it the turn you play Sickening Dreams.

Quote from Miscalcul8edRisk

Not if your opponent uses the stack properly so that the puzzle box will resolve prior to Maralen's ability.

EDIT: here is the link to the old thread I started a while back.
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=100093&highlight=maralen

I though I read that the player that controls the effects chooses the order.

http://forums.starcitygames.com/viewtopic.php?p=1008608&sid=72412f455daac5ea8866b153f00cee1a

Creative deck... but fun in EDH? About as fun as losing to ANT.
It's good for a one-shot deal imo.

My 2 cents, you need Vedalken Orrery, or opponents will tutor up just about anything to stop you, be it Duplicant, mana drain, board sweeper, etc.

I've been following this deck for a while, you should use Exsanguinate" target="blank">Exsanguinate at this point. Or at least add it in. I personally like the idea of using Skirge Familar for some major accel, and just pushing your life total to the max. I mean it is combo, you have 37 life to work with, so why not abuse it to its full potential?

It looks good for comboing off, but without tutors in your hand or your mana excel to play maralen any earlier it will take 3 turns for her to come out. Against blue you fetch Boseiju turn 4, and turn 5 you fetch Ad Nauseam. That means that it's only turn 6 that you get all the cards in your hand you should run Reliquary Tower.
I get that this is a fun deck I run one that's almost the same here. The problem i that this deck won't work if someone knows what's going to happen. It's fun to pull off, once.

EDIT: Also I forgot to mention, you should try and keep the combined converted mana cost as low as possible, the more damage you take the more vulnerable you are. You have 40 life to be spent in 6 turns. You shouldn't waste a drop of it

Why not use necropotence instead of Ad Nauseam? You only have to pay one life per card. With spellbook, ivory tower, or reliquary tower, or venser's journal. You can just recoup the life loss next turn. This will allow you to run many other win conditions in your deck. Also, be sure to include a yawgmoth's will to get necro, books, etc back when they get removed.

You can also use temporal extortion to possibly get an extra turn BEFORE casting necro and loading up on cards... or at least do a bunch of damage to someone.

I run the full gambit of black tutors in my maralen deck... often I don't even need to cast her. You can also flash her in with vedalken orrey and then sac her with innocent blood and the like. Mainly I just think she looks cuter than Sheoldred, Whispering One. If anything the 3 dmg ability is nice to whittle down your opponents. They spend all their tutors fetching and then wasting removal on her, only to be faced with a Kuro, Pitlord when she dies and Deathrender's ability resolves ^^

I discovered this deck Idea today but I am building it with lots of tutors + a Lightning Greaves / Swiftfoot boots to setup first.



God Hand: Mana Crypt, Dark Ritual, Swamp, Ad Nauseaum, 3 other.

@aaronc123: Your list has 2 Memnites in it.

OT: I will probably make this for a one-time use. It's a one-trick pony and although it is novel, it is only novel for so long... Either way, it's comical and evil all at once, if it works.

~Lil Kalki