Mana-Dorks, Cantrip-Dudes, Utility-Sticks, and Lock-Pieces!!!
Why Play Opposition?
If you enjoy locking your opponent out of the game, opposition might be the deck for you. Most games start-out with a fair game start: little creatures and value plays. The fun starts when you get to dominate the entire board with a powerful enchantment and spiral out of control.
History opposition has long been known as a busted cube card for its ability to eliminate your opponent's mana, and slowly remove board state entirely. Opposition has received attention in legacy with its BUG incarnations, but the core of the deck is green creatures and the namesake combo piece, a fairly budget shell by legacy standards. I wondered how effective the deck would work on a budget, and have been impressed with its success.
Your mana dorks and utility critters ramp you to a hopeful turn 3 opposition with plenty of dudes lying around to lock your opponent out. opposition is the key card of this deck which lets you win by tapping your opponent's permanents during their upkeep and slowly chip away their life with spare 1/1's. winter orb is another way to put your opponent behind on mana. Because of your plethora of mana-dorks, you should end up ahead. It combines particularly well with opposition to free-up creatures after keeping all their lands tapped.
The bread and butter of your deck is a bunch of creatures which replace themselves either by drawing or cascading (elvish visionary,coiling oracle, and shardless agent). These make sure you can fill the board without running out of gas. The first two also combine incredibly with wirewood symbiote. Once a turn you can pick them up to draw another card and untap a mana-dork, this slow engine lets you grind or recover in the lategame.
Extra Budget!
~$100 at time of posting. I tried to cut as many cards more than about $5 without sacrificing too much power. This can still be playable in the right meta, but you would be losing several powerful pieces. Super-Budget Decklist
If anyone has suggestions for the decklist or budget alternatives, please flood the comments!
(I have never written a primer or anything like this before so feel free to let me know what I can improve)
Why Play Opposition?
If you enjoy locking your opponent out of the game, opposition might be the deck for you. Most games start-out with a fair game start: little creatures and value plays. The fun starts when you get to dominate the entire board with a powerful enchantment and spiral out of control.
History
opposition has long been known as a busted cube card for its ability to eliminate your opponent's mana, and slowly remove board state entirely. Opposition has received attention in legacy with its BUG incarnations, but the core of the deck is green creatures and the namesake combo piece, a fairly budget shell by legacy standards. I wondered how effective the deck would work on a budget, and have been impressed with its success.
The List
Decklist on MTGGoldfish with up-to-date prices. At the time of posting it is ~$200
Mana-Dorks
Cantrip Dudes
Green Sun's Targets
Payoff
Lands
How it Works
Your mana dorks and utility critters ramp you to a hopeful turn 3 opposition with plenty of dudes lying around to lock your opponent out. opposition is the key card of this deck which lets you win by tapping your opponent's permanents during their upkeep and slowly chip away their life with spare 1/1's. winter orb is another way to put your opponent behind on mana. Because of your plethora of mana-dorks, you should end up ahead. It combines particularly well with opposition to free-up creatures after keeping all their lands tapped.
A key feature of this deck is access to a green sun's zenith package. You can start by ramping with dryad arbor or dorks like llanowar elves. Lets you get search for silver bullets like scavenging ooze or reclamation sage and value-creatures like eternal witness or duskwatch recruiter. In general it lets you clog-up the board with green dudes for opposition. If you need to make tokens in a hurry, kozilek's predator comes with 3 bodies for opposition and imperious perfect can fill your board slowly to lock them down.
The bread and butter of your deck is a bunch of creatures which replace themselves either by drawing or cascading (elvish visionary,coiling oracle, and shardless agent). These make sure you can fill the board without running out of gas. The first two also combine incredibly with wirewood symbiote. Once a turn you can pick them up to draw another card and untap a mana-dork, this slow engine lets you grind or recover in the lategame.
Extra Budget!
~$100 at time of posting. I tried to cut as many cards more than about $5 without sacrificing too much power. This can still be playable in the right meta, but you would be losing several powerful pieces.
Super-Budget Decklist
If anyone has suggestions for the decklist or budget alternatives, please flood the comments!
(I have never written a primer or anything like this before so feel free to let me know what I can improve)
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