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Feb 9, 2014Zephynoir posted a message on Launch Giveaway!My favorite magic card is Rith, The Awakener. It was the first rare card I ever opened, and it really influenced me. Opening a Dragon with this seemingly huge ability and costing THREE colors made me really excited, so I started to play with only Red, White, and Green. Nowadays, Green is still my favorite color, and I still play with that copy of Rith.Posted in: Announcements
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Dec 21, 2012Zephynoir posted a message on You know...Whoa, just saw this comment, and it's funny cause I totally use your pauper resource. Thanks =)Posted in: Zephynoir Blog
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I set to work making my own deck for him, but it felt like I wasn't going anywhere. I wanted to try and combo with Chainer and Kokusho, but then came the frustration of Mairsil's "once per turn" claus. I considered just building a flicker deck, but it was slow and clunky and even then could only help me a few times before I was out of gas. In my frustration, I started to google ways to extend Mairsil's combo potential, and was shown this tweet stating that Quicksilver Elemental creates new instances of the abilities, letting Mairsil use them all over again.
Being able to use abilities again for 1 mana meant infinite combos. What better way to go infinite, than with infinite turns?
Artifact
1 Thousand-Year Elixir
1 Sol Ring
1 Mind Stone
1 Obelisk of Grixis
1 Trading Post
1 Clock of Omens
1 Thran Dynamo
1 Rakdos Cluestone
1 Izzet Cluestone
1 Dimir Cluestone
1 Myr Matrix
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Staff of Domination
1 Panharmonicon
1 Time Sieve
Creature
1 Mairsil, the Pretender
1 Aetherling
1 Torchling
1 Morphling
1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
1 Dimir House Guard
1 Chainer, Dementia Master
1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
1 Aphetto Alchemist
1 Disciple of the Ring
1 Deadeye Navigator
1 Arcanis the Omnipotent
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Quicksilver Elemental
1 Sage of Hours
1 Anthroplasm
1 Anger
1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
1 Corpse Connoisseur
1 Thopter Assembly
1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
1 Pili-Pala
1 Walking Ballista
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Dangerous Wager
1 Forbid
1 Illusionist's Stratagem
1 Smelt
1 Chaos Warp
1 Rakdos Charm
1 Terminate
1 Forbidden Alchemy
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Muddle the Mixture
36 Land
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Command Tower
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Mystifying Maze
1 Temple of the False God
8 Island
8 Swamp
7 Mountain
1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
1 Buried Ruin
1 Halimar Depths
1 Inventors' Fair
1 Dimir Guildgate
1 Izzet Guildgate
1 Rakdos Guildgate
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 Dack Fayden
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast
1 Daretti, Scrap Savant
Sorcery
1 Tormenting Voice
1 Wild Guess
1 Read the Bones
1 Faithless Looting
1 Diabolic Tutor
1 Preordain
A lot of the deck is just filling your graveyard and drawing cards to dig for your combos. The main infinites of the deck, and its primary wincons, are:
Gilded Lotus + Staff of Domination / Pili-Pala + Quicksilver Elemental
Tap for mana with the lotus ability, untap with either the staff or Pili-Pala ability, and use Quicksilver to start it all over again. This generates one mana each time and also lets you restart your combo infinitely.
Time Sieve + Thopter Assembly
This one is failry straightforward. When Thopter Assembly makes the 5 tokens, use the Sieve ability, repeat next turn, etc. Myr Matrix can also help us with this with our previously mentioned infinite mana combo.
This can also be achieved with Sage of Hours and Anthroplasm by using your abundant (hopefully infinite) mana to generate counters constantly. Even if you cannot make infinite, generating enough mana for this to be obnoxious should be easy enough.
I'm trying to keep the deck under $300, but didn't put the budget tag on because I feel like that is more for decks under a smaller line. If I need to add it I will tho.
oh gods thank you it has been killing me
Oh! Who did you build and what kind of deck? I've been a weird love affair with red lately as well (Neheb and Pia) so I can empathize.
I have three in there right now that let me crew with just one. Any specific suggestions other than the ones I have? I'll also go look at more besides the Crew 1 options, since I can probably afford Crew 2
May I ask, have you considered:
- By Force to deal with artifacts easily in a pretty dominating way
- Demonfire as a second sort-of-Banefire, with the possibility of being uncounterable
- Berserkers' Onslaught for Double Strike on top of Gratuitous violence maybe? Idk how often you need the extra damage, but in case you do not always draw Gratuitous, or just to hit even harder
- Dictate of the Twin Gods to either replace Gratuitous for mana cost reasons (though that shouldn't matter in mono red), for flash, or just alongside Gratuitous for more chance to draw
I'm gonna go through the list and implement those cuts and try to fill them with more lands and a couple more vehicles. Thank you again, gonna do that tonight!