MTG Salvation

It's not necessarily that the deck was so good, just that because it can fizzle sometimes, you have to force the eggs player to keep going. Also you cant demonstrate a loop until the very end so it took forever to combo out. I played eggs for a while (and even sort of a version in standard a while ago) and while i'm sad to see it go because it was a really cool and innovative deck, I completely understand and have to agree with the bannings.

The real problem with second breakfast was simply after cifka's performance at PT-RTR everyone and their brother started playing the deck and most didn't bother to do enough playtesting to play the deck. Having the last 5 turns take nearly an hour wasn't terribly uncommon. . .

There was also the fact that Eggs came about just after old Storm had been nerfed by the Seething Song ban, so a lot of people who like engine combos immediately jumped ship to Eggs without putting in the necessary amount of goldfishing to understand how to combo off in a less than stupid amount of time.

Faced off against Oops all spells last night. A friend threw it together as an April Fools joke.

Deck plays no lands and wins through milling itself and casting laboratory maniac from the graveyard

OK.
at a modern tournament recently, i was playing Tron.

my opponent was playing mono-ramp. i was trying the whole time to figure it out. he was in UGB colours, running explore, Kiora, Kodama's Reach and others.

he left up counter-mana the whole time so i played carefully and didn't run into them. eventually I landed an oblivion stone and forced through an Ugin. his permanents went away and i had emrakul online the following turn.
then he played courser of kruphix. he has about 20 mana online at this point, and reveals the top card of his deck..... villainous wealth!!!! i couldn't believe it.

That sounds super sweeeeeet, I've been wanting to make a wealth deck myself but I can never really figure it out. I was messing around with BUG Tron but that's just waaaay to janky. Honestly hadn't thought of just using normal lands

I generally find myself as the one playing odd decks. Some of my weirder brews have been a deck focused around using Bazaar Trader to give my opponent Rust Elemental. I haven't had a chance to run it yet, but I have a deck using Bloom Tender and Freed from the Real to generate infinite mana with Ambassador Laquatus and Helix Pinnacle as win conditions.

I was playing in an event against some sort of turbo ramp deck that tried to land Myr Superion on turn one by using cards such as Simian Spirit Guide and Chancellor of the Tangle. I was playing Zoo and facing down a 5/6 on turn one was surprising difficult. Another line of play that he did on turn one was Land, Simian Spirit guide Desperate Ritual, Priest of Urabrask, Simian Spirit Guide, and then two Myr Superion. I was like k......................game three lol

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I was playing in an event against some sort of turbo ramp deck that tried to land Myr Superion on turn one by using cards such as Simian Spirit Guide and Chancellor of the Tangle. I was playing Zoo and facing down a 5/6 on turn one was surprising difficult. Another line of play that he did on turn one was Land, Simian Spirit guide Desperate Ritual, Priest of Urabrask, Simian Spirit Guide, and then two Myr Superion. I was like k......................game three lol

This deck doesn't work. Simian Spirit Guide and Chancellor of the Tangle are not creatures when they produce mana, they're creature cards. The only card in that deck that could cast a Superion is the Priest of Urabrask.

Sure, it would work with chancellor and SSG for burning tree emissary which then casts myr superion.

There is a Heartless Summoning/Myr Superion thread floating around somewhere I think...

Anyway, this is an expensive thread to read, since I start thinking of actually building these weird decks myself

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There is a Heartless Summoning/Myr Superion thread floating around somewhere I think...

Anyway, this is an expensive thread to read, since I start thinking of actually building these weird decks myself

That's a nifty combo.

Panoptic Mirror imprinting Time Warp for infinite turns.

Definitely Top Control.
I have only faced it once in all my time and I did win 2-1 but I sure hope I never face it again. It's so annoying. I think the version I played against didn't even have a wincon besides decking people.

If even somebody who likes playing Control thinks you deck is annoying then you know that you have accomplished.
8-Rack is already a deck that tends to get people up in arms but Top Control definitely cranks it up to 11.

I and my friend trolled our FNM with the following last night:


And


We had a blast trolling people, but our matchups were terrible. I played the enchantment prison deck, he played the blood moon deck. So, of course, he played merfolk in round one, I played 5c control. Round 2 he played against burn, and I played against 4c loam. Round three, he played zoo, and I played against cruel control. All in all, hilarious time, but I went 1-2 and he went 0-3, and if our matchups had been swapped it would've been easy pickings. It was good for a night of trolling people, since I'm known to *typically* play Esper control, so people keeping sketchy hands against me and hoping to draw out of mana problems and such were in for rude surprises from curves like suppression field into ghostly prison into auramancy + something else into sphere of safety.

I once lost to some sort of UB Selfmill thing.

He chose to draw. In Turn 1 he doesn't even play a land, then discards a Shadowborn Apostle, pays 2 life and use Surgical Extraction on it. He had a lot of them in his deck.
Turn 2, Shelldock Isle.
Turn 3, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.

I don't know how consistent that deck was, but he managed to do that twice in a row.

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I once lost to some sort of UB Selfmill thing.

He chose to draw. In Turn 1 he doesn't even play a land, then discards a Shadowborn Apostle, pays 2 life and use Surgical Extraction on it. He had a lot of them in his deck.
Turn 2, Shelldock Isle.
Turn 3, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.

I don't know how consistent that deck was, but he managed to do that twice in a row.

That's actually pretty clever. I bet consistent, I wonder how resilient...

I played a Restore Balance deck at one point in time. It was a terrible deck.

I've also played against a guy who liked making unusual tweaks to this decks. He played a Faeries deck that had Izzet Staticaster with Basilisk Collar. He also played Dark Confidant in his Merfolk deck.

I also played against someone with a Possibility Storm combo. He's transmute into his Nivmagus Elemental into Emrakul.

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I once lost to some sort of UB Selfmill thing.

He chose to draw. In Turn 1 he doesn't even play a land, then discards a Shadowborn Apostle, pays 2 life and use Surgical Extraction on it. He had a lot of them in his deck.
Turn 2, Shelldock Isle.
Turn 3, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.

I don't know how consistent that deck was, but he managed to do that twice in a row.

That's hilarious. You can't even be mad when you lose to that.

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I once lost to some sort of UB Selfmill thing.

He chose to draw. In Turn 1 he doesn't even play a land, then discards a Shadowborn Apostle, pays 2 life and use Surgical Extraction on it. He had a lot of them in his deck.
Turn 2, Shelldock Isle.
Turn 3, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.

I don't know how consistent that deck was, but he managed to do that twice in a row.

That's hilarious. You can't even be mad when you lose to that.

I couldn't believe it. It was awesome.

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I once lost to some sort of UB Selfmill thing.

He chose to draw. In Turn 1 he doesn't even play a land, then discards a Shadowborn Apostle, pays 2 life and use Surgical Extraction on it. He had a lot of them in his deck.
Turn 2, Shelldock Isle.
Turn 3, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.

I don't know how consistent that deck was, but he managed to do that twice in a row.

That's hilarious. You can't even be mad when you lose to that.

I couldn't believe it. It was awesome.

This is amazing....I must build.....

I've seen a Torpor Orb/Hidden Horror deck...

It was downright terrible at the time, but it has a few more tools (Hushwing Gryff in particular) that might get it to non-joke level - there's no shortage of creatures with huge effects and huge ETB drawbacks like Eater of Days, Hunted Phantasm etc.

That's called "Torpor Beef" and there's a thread somewhere here. More hilarity.

I played against a deck that put a bunch of the leyline cards on the battlefield from their opening hand, and then played a serra's sanctum, and an opalescence on turn one. He then proceded to kill me with 5 4/4's on turn 1