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It looks like you're running control, one of my favourite creatures for that kind of deck was Mist Dragon. it is damn near unkillable too.
Rainbow Efreet is a less mana-intensive mist dragon.
Iridescent Angel was mentioned above and is a lot of fun.
Masticore is pretty sweet, but he craves more mana than your deck is running. His little brother, Razormane Masticore is a bit less resistant to removal, but he is a more efficient beater, easier on the mana, and available for around a dollar.
Pristine Angel was a classic from mirrodin-kamigawa type 2
Jareth, Leonine Titan was tons of fun back in odyssey-onslaught mono-white control
Sunblast Angel can increase your removal density with a nice fatty body
Frost Titan works if you drafted one, otherwise prolly too expensive
Mageta the Lion is a reusable wrath on fatty stick
Serra Angel... I can't believe you newfangled kids missed this one. Stupid baneslayer...

I had tried gixian shenanigans before (in a proxied test deck--this is my first actual real cheese build) and they just seemed... slow. By this I mean that you made yourself extremely vulnerable for 2 turns on end as you tried to combo off. It felt awkward and had a very high reliance on multi-mana lands (because how else do you get rid of the claws themselves). It seems the all-win deck settled on those cards because neither is dead on its own (tribe is an excellent blocker, and gix lets you pull life from chump-blocks or lets you pull clutch survival) rather than their efficiency.

I liked spite when i was doing the research for this deck, but it leaves me too vulnerable if i ever try to run barren glory (cheese wins as a static effect, barren as a triggered) because they get one last hurrah to try to deal with me.

I settled on apocalypse because it is the only thing that i saw capable of setting up the board state without leaving yourself vulnerable. The worst possible thing that can happen is them disenchanting your O-ring in response to apocalypse or them stifling the o-ring's return clause. Either way, while your win is neutralized, you are in no imminent danger and still stand a chance.

I'm not trying to gun for the win outright (although i'm still debating the morningtide tutor as well as some nice enlightened tutors), I'm expecting to play almost like mono-w control.


how long do you think the enchantress is gonna manage to stay on the board in multiplayer? I'm hopeful that as a 0/2 she'll seem un-imposing enough, but at the same time, i've found (to my dismay) that a simple sensei's divining top at our table makes you the threat (that everyone gangs up on). Will this board-based draw be uneffective or too risky?

training ground + masticore + stuffy doll

Niv Mizzet + Curiosity or Ophidian Eye

I'm still kinda new here, but for awhile i've been thinking of building a Cheese deck. I pulled out my old playset and have been trying to finalize a list. This is essentially my attempt at a "fair combo" for multiplayer (Playing High Tide Mind's Desire to end every game by turn 3 stopped being fun after 2-3 games, and my Enduring Ideal deck isn't much fairer; my playgroup has a soft ban on combos since a game where five people all had combos tuned to win--typically by going infinite--by turn 4. slow combos that give more "fun" decks a chance to interact are open). I also mean for this to be another fun novelty deck deck that i can pull out every once in a while for a change of pace.

I am currently at 67 cards, so i'm looking to cut, but new suggestions are fine. I don't want to shell out more that $5 for any card, and i'm trying to keep the budget tame. I'm running Final Judgment over Wrath for two reasons, mine are tied up elsewhere, and my meta is just discovering 12-post (cloudpost + vesuva +glimmerpost), so people have become very fond of darksteel collosus and and other large difficult to deal with threats. Not to mention that I don't want to kill a sundering titan just so that his goblin welder buddy can drop the next turn.

the intended win condition is hide a cheese behind an o-ring and then blow the board with apocalypse (which conveniently also discards my hand). I hope to play kinda like mono-w control up until then (life gain, removal, etc.).

I have one kinda unusual request, I only want to run cards that play nice under 6th edition rules (ie. pre-M10). In line with this, i would love to replace the journey to nowheres with anything that doesn't say "exile" or "battlefield". I'm very reluctant to shell out to pick up a playset of StPs, but at this point i don't see many other options.

I think people are missing the the strengths of wish. If you are going to move a copy of transguild courier and coalition victory to the sideboard to support it, you will not get the full benefit of that sacrifice unless you run 4. Further, while wishes have some negative stigma, it is a very efficient tutor, it is only 2 mana and puts the card directly into hand. It also allows you to craft your wishboard to give you very strong niche-hate exactly when you want it in each game.

Speaking of hate, I nominate culling sun as a wrath-effect that is runnable in the side or main to be fetched by the demands or wishes.

EDIT: I vote against crystal quarry. how has nobody realized that you can't cast victory off the damned thing? quarry circumvents colour shortages, but victory requires you to have a board state where no colour shortage can exist.

I would suggest 4 Glittering Wish to allow a wishboard and increase combo redundancy.

(edit: still brand new and trying to figure out how to set up the card links, hopefully it worked this time)

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