The premise is simple, use the Torpor Orb effects to "Stifle" our Dreadnaught/Horror triggers while Mom and Thoughtseize protect. Bob and E-Tutor glue it all together. The tutors can grab either combo piece, the plan B Jitte, and sideboard goodies as well.
One thing that struck when playing this deck is how good the Torpor Orb effect is against opposing decks in the current meta. Tons of incidental value!
I just pieced this together (6-4 so far), so maybe you guys can think of cards, especially for the sideboard, that might help me out. Not too familiar with the current meta, but I'm learning quick. Thanks.
Collected Company might be useful - I would like more ways to dig through my deck. Could also run Hushwing Gryff to up the number of CoCo combo hits. Four mana is lot in Legacy though.
In my opinion, the main drawback of not running blue is losing access to Ponder and Brainstorm, not so much Stifle and FoW, mtgsalacount. You are correct in the fact that Thoughtseize is a big problem for this deck though. Between discard and counters, opponents have many ways to interact and disrupt the combo. EVERYONE else is running blue too, so they have the card selection advantage and that allows them to find ways interact in almost every game. Our Thoughtseizes and Moms do help protect the combo, but it doesn't change the fact that other Legacy decks have the ability to just dig and keep finding more answers. Dog eat dog world out there, lol.
This deck is a ton of fun to play though! It goldfishes very well and the combo regularly assembles itself if the opponent can't interact. 12 copies of each combo piece (counting E-Tutor) really adds redundancy to the deck, and sometimes you can just fight through the hate. I'll probably stick to playing it in the practice room for now though, seeing as how EVERYONE in the MTGO Leagues are running UBx decks, and those blue cards just let them dig and find as many answers as they need. They're the most popular deck in the practice room too, but at least there's a bit more variety in there, and it's free.
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4 Hunted Horror
4 Tocatli Honor Guard
4 Mother of Runes
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Dark Confidant
4 Enlightened Tutor
4 torpor orb
1 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Thoughtseize
4 swords to plowshares
4 Scrubland
4 Marsh Flats
4 Flooded Strand
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Swamp
1 plains
1 Karakas
1 Savannah
3 Duress
2 Vindicate
1 Pithing Needle
2 Spellskite
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Banishing Light
1 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Rest in Peace
The premise is simple, use the Torpor Orb effects to "Stifle" our Dreadnaught/Horror triggers while Mom and Thoughtseize protect. Bob and E-Tutor glue it all together. The tutors can grab either combo piece, the plan B Jitte, and sideboard goodies as well.
One thing that struck when playing this deck is how good the Torpor Orb effect is against opposing decks in the current meta. Tons of incidental value!
I just pieced this together (6-4 so far), so maybe you guys can think of cards, especially for the sideboard, that might help me out. Not too familiar with the current meta, but I'm learning quick. Thanks.
The deck has been a blast so far!
In my opinion, the main drawback of not running blue is losing access to Ponder and Brainstorm, not so much Stifle and FoW, mtgsalacount. You are correct in the fact that Thoughtseize is a big problem for this deck though. Between discard and counters, opponents have many ways to interact and disrupt the combo. EVERYONE else is running blue too, so they have the card selection advantage and that allows them to find ways interact in almost every game. Our Thoughtseizes and Moms do help protect the combo, but it doesn't change the fact that other Legacy decks have the ability to just dig and keep finding more answers. Dog eat dog world out there, lol.
This deck is a ton of fun to play though! It goldfishes very well and the combo regularly assembles itself if the opponent can't interact. 12 copies of each combo piece (counting E-Tutor) really adds redundancy to the deck, and sometimes you can just fight through the hate. I'll probably stick to playing it in the practice room for now though, seeing as how EVERYONE in the MTGO Leagues are running UBx decks, and those blue cards just let them dig and find as many answers as they need. They're the most popular deck in the practice room too, but at least there's a bit more variety in there, and it's free.