This deck is Called honeycombs because of Crookshank Kobolds.
He looks like the mascot.
I took this deck to GP philly and went 5-3 on day 1, didnt make top 8 because I got screwed one game in the beginning (more to that later).
This deck has amazing potential.
Well on to the deck.
Creatures x23 12x Kobolds
0cc creatures that help with Glimpse and basicly turn the engine.
3x Phyrexian Walker 4x Ornithopter 4x Sheild Sphere
0cc creatures that help with glimpse, block lackey all day, but dont help with curio (however you dont need it to win)
Combo x7 3x Cloudstone Curio
Cloudstone Curio, this card is basicly for smoothing out the deck and making it more consistant. You do not need this card to win, but it certainly helps, only 3 because more than one in hand sucks ass. Think of this as Oil/Gas.
3x Glimpse of Nature
Well This is the engine. Play a 0cc creature, draw a card. Basicly this allows you to gain massive card advantage. Well, 1-1 card advantage while cycling through your deck.
1x Brainfreeze
This is your kill, play a bunch of spells and freeze.
Tutors x10
2x Gamble
Alright, I dropped this down from 4 to 2 because, gambling is very good, yet sometimes inconsistant. Bascily this card allows you to fetch one card in your deck, then trading it for one in your hand. 3x Burning Wish
This card helps get Glimpse, hull breach, biorythm, Tendrils, or gaeas blessing. Aka Glimpse tutor 3x Crop rotation
Crop rotation is for generating nuts mana from gaeas cradle and is tech against wastelands. 2x Mystical Tutor
AKA Tutor for Glimpse of nature. Yet, can be used to get Scapegoat in a pinch or something you need to win.
Other x2
2x Scapegoat
This card allows you to basicly go off again even if you fizzle, or if you fizzle while doing this, just play this to contine going. Think of this kinda like the windshield wiper fluid. Lol.
Mana x16
4 City of Brass 2 Forsaken City
These two are only for getting the color of the mana you need when you need it. I chose forsaken city because I didnt think of Gem stone mine. Also, I have tested Glimmervoid, and its bad unless you are going off that turn.
4 Gaea's Cradle
These produce tons of mana think of this as your money that pays for gas. Its just that good. Also, Its kinda like tolarian academy. 4 Lotus Petal
Say what????? FREE MANA! NICEEEEEE 4 Elvish Spirit Guide
Say what????? FREE MANA! NICEEEEEE... WOW AND ITS A CREATURE! This card has actually won me a few games today becuase I ran out of kobolds and needed to keep drawing. I topdecked a scapegoat and proceded to win. Turn 2.
GP Results ------ 5-3 Round 1-Lost- MBC- Did not get pilots name
I faced Mono Black control with discard, hippies, and skittering skurge, also I saw one nantuko shade. Any way I got raped like a skinny white guy in prison. Game 1, I had entire combo in hand, and would have won turn one. But... He won dice roll so heres what happened. He goes Swamp, Dark ritual, Duress (glimpse), Hymn To tourach(gaeas cradle, Curio)... needless to say. I could not recoup. Game 2...
I lose. He goes Swamp, I go first turn cradle, He goes 2nd turn Sinkhole targeting cradle. Then 3rd turn hippe followed by a 4th turn double hymn. My conclusion- Discard rapes Combs. Possible side options, Pure Intentions I dont know... but I figure I can take out 1 byorythm 1 swarm and 1 grid.
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BOTH GAMES--Deck decided to go Hi John go kick your self in the nads cause you suck-- Here is what happened. I mulliganed down to 5 game one with 3 kobolds glimpse and curio in hand. Guess what. NO MANA SOURCE.
Game 2--- mulliganed to 6, 3 kobolds, curio, cradle, elvish spirit guide. Guess what... I did not draw one of the 10 tutors, or 3 glimpse in my deck or 1x brainfreeze for the inf combo. Stupid. Well...
My Conclusion-This just poves that Kobolds is inconsistant, or I am just very unlucky... I would go with my unluckyness.
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Round 3--- RGSA--- Win- Andy Game 1- I win turn 1 going 2nd, {NOTE: I always choose to go 2nd with this deck because going first has no point because you usually don't do anything}
My draw 2 kobolds 1 Thopter, 1 cradle, 1 curio, 1 glimpse, lotus petal, kobold(on draw). Basicly, I drew my deck, he did nothing, freeze for kill.
Game 2- I win turn 2 going 2nd. Forget hand but it was similar to turn 1 I just waited to see if he boarded anything in that was Savage. But no he didnt, this time I used tendrils as kill. Btw... the only way I knew it was rgsa is because he played a bop first turn off taiga, kird ape 2nd turn, followed by survival.
My Conclusion- Decks with creatures don't scare me. Decks with survival (exception- ones w/ FOW) don't scare me.
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Round 4- Affinity- Win- Bobby Game 1--Wow... This was a fun match up, Guess what, I played solitare... again. Naw... well he got me down to 20... lol. Basicly what happened was I stayed with 5 kobolds, spirit guide, glimpse, (on draw I got another kobold). I draw like 14 cards off the 0cc's then Fizzle... BUT WAIT! I play lotus petal, Scapegoat and proceede to win.
Game 2-I stay with a meh hand. I forget what it was exactly but it involved me playing kobolds/0ccs to stay alive. Then..... I draw brainfreeze, followed by curio, followed by kobold. I go infinite storm count then brain freeze.
My Conclusion- HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA, wow... I really didn't even know that people played this jank in Legacy. Also... where are the goblins??? There were 500 or so people here, like 200 of them were goblins, 300 were random ass decks lolz. (btw this is also the round that I find Psyburat facing Iggy pop w/ his aluren, and doing some maddddd stuff off of his ill gotten gains. : ) yum)
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Round 5- Psychatog w/green for life of the loam- Lost- Eric Game 1- He completey shuts me down with couners. I try to go off, leaving no mana open he goes Force spike, I try going off again with mana open, he goes fow I take manaburn. I expeced this game 1. (wins w/ tog)
Game 2-(I play first) Alright I finally get a chance to side in (out go 3 0cc artifacts creatures, 1 burning wish, 1 mystical tutor, 1 crop rotation, 1 burning wish, 1 scapegoat--- In go 4 defense grid, 4 swarm)
Alright, this is what happened. First turn I go Petal remove spirit guide play Defense grid, He has no counters. He goes like delta, some dual. 2nd turn I go xantid swarm. he goes something like bstorm and nothing else. Turn 3-5 I draw and pass waiting to be strong enoguh to go off (btw I needed a glimpse and it was on top when he did what he did) He wen 3-5, 3- intuiton getting 3 deed, 4- play deed, turn 5- pop deed for 2 play tog. I basicly say ****.
My Conclusion- I really don't know, It was a bad match up, followed up with deed. : (
_______________________________________________________________ Round 6- Party like its 1999 (rogue, like 90 cards or so)- Win- Josh or John I cant read my hand writing : ( For this match up please see round 3 and 4. Thank you.
MyConclusion- Decks with creatuers that are not blue dont scare me.
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Round 7- Angel Stompy- Win- Alex Game1- He brings me down to around 5, I go off and win.
Round 8 - Vial Goblins- Win- Craig Berry Game1- I stay with a meh draw, I lose. (it did take him a while cause I held him off with 3 sheild sphere and 2 walkers hahahhaha)
Game 2- I go off turn 2 off of 2 kobolds 1 cradle 1 curio 2 crop rotation 1 glimpse. I draw into nuts stuff like 6 more 0cc's off top play curio draw deck and win.
Game 3- I go off turn 3 this time, basicly I just go off, he sided in pyrostatic pilars but did not get one.
My Conclusion- Artifacts that cost 0 and that are creatures are very very very very good against lackey and his minions of destruction (aka Goblins aka Goblins ruined every format since block)
_______________________________________________________________ Overall- I was very happy with my performance, even though I did not Day 2, I still went 5-3 with kobolds. I found that discard rapes me. Decks with creatures don't scare me and well I love kobolds. : ), also I got some props from other players for going 5-3 with combs.
Things I would change- I would find something to stick in to help against Discard. Discard is stupid and I hate it. It just tears me a new one if you know what I mean (and by what I mean it is new ********)
I would have probally playtest more against random decks such as discard and like weird decks. Instead of just, surivals, goblins, Landstill (u/w/r), Angel stompy, Solidardy, aluren, and a few other decks that randomly popped in our playtesting group.
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Yea, thats what I found too be odd too. I lost to some of the most random decks, which just proves that there is no 1.5 meta. I basicly took the deck and playtested it a lot against the decks I thought would be there, not thinking of discard. Also discard is like
90% lose 10% win match up for kobolds, if you don't beat them turn 1 you lose. Good day sir. The 2nd round I should have just like shuffeled the deck more or something... I dont know. Does any one have any good sb options for discard?
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A use for all those spare Kobolds sitting around the house? Sign me up.
INSANE props for going 5-3 with the absolute lowest mana curve in attendance
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A: and lose to Gavin in round 1 and have to quit magic forever
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Yep, I say that because I truly only expected to play against goblins, Angelstompy, Stax, and survival decks. When I playtested we only playtested against the decks everyone should have played, not the random stuff that they brought... I mean come on the one dude had a 90 card deck, now your going to tell me that he just didnt want to lose to solidary. Lol.
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I really like the deck, and once I dig out a set of Kobolds, I'll start tinkering with it a bit.
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Seeing as you only need two creatures and Curio to go off, why not play Gifts Ungiven and Eladamri's call? Brainstorm would be good, too. It seems like 23 creatures is excessive when you could play just play one of each...building up the draw and search effects would allow you to be more consistent and less easily disrupted, plus blue means you can play FoW.
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Also stax is really brutal when they go first turn trinsphere... Its kinda like I just got kicked in the nads.
Strictly looking at the matchup on paper, they have 3 turn 1 plays that just ballkick you:
2 Sphere
3 Sphere
Chalice
However, no one in Texas plays Stax but me, so I feel the need to build this.
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Yea stax kicks my ass, that white deck with like stax stuff in it kicks my ass, stuff with counters kick my ass, discard kicks my ass, random ass jank kicks my ass. So yea...
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yeah - obviously I disagree with you, John. Spam Warning!.....Amazing - even in a forum where posts don't count, there's spam. That proves that getting rid of the post-count won't help getting rid of spam! Thans for this excellent example! - Craven
Also stax is really brutal when they go first turn trinsphere... Its kinda like I just got kicked in the nads.
Using search resulted in a very different deck than yours...it seems to play more like High Tide than what you have, which feels more like Charbelcher. Turn three goldfish seemed consistent:
4 Glimpse
4 Curio
4 Cloud of Faeries
3 each Kobold
4 Brainstorm
4 Impulse
4 FoW
3 Cunning Wish
3 Crop Rotation
1 Brain Freeze
3 Land Grant
4 Lotus Petal
4 Tropical Island
3 Island
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
3 Gaea's Cradle
1 Winding Canyons
(Sideboard would include Brain Freeze, Crop Rotation, Naturalize, Stroke of Genius, bounce, more search, a counterspell, etc.)
I have no idea whether this is any improvement or if it's just different...or absolutely horrible. However, it seemed like replacing Ornithopter, Walker and Sphere with cards like Cloud of Faeries, Brainstorm and others made sense...and would make the deck more consistent, which you said was a problem.
(Gifts was way too slow and creature tutors weren't necessary.)
O man completly forgot about cloud of faires could be an infinate mana loop with that cradle and a kobold with curio. great call forgot about that. Also the dazes are excellent I find the deck to be much more consitant. Also I am going to include 1 stroke of genius in the SB as an decking option vs high tide and such with the infi mana loop but may drop it later.
@ trojan hows all the draw working for you? I would think of dropping the impulses for dazes I tell u there really good at stopping firts turn trin and hyppies and such.
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Edited the deck with the changes I made implemented a few of Trojans Ideas and it seems to MWS a lot more consistant and the cloud of faires with the curio i perfect.
I think Part the Veil may cost a little much try scapegoat as it seems to work much better for just a single W also I have tested and THe faires are not that good they are once you get the combo online but just seem to reach plus they take out the sheild spheres which are vital for blocking first turn lackey.
-TotT
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my list is working great ill post some results soon but im using my earlier list except i took out the faires for sheild spheres as lacky 1st turn is a huge problem.
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An affordable combodeck that rulz and doesn't cost a thousand dollars. Had I known about this I would have played at the GP. Quick question. What does Scapegoat do? The links aren't working.
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So how did the deck work for you john? I have been having fairly good results and really the only time I don't win is vs hand control first turn hyppie or duress or even hymn can really suck. I wsh there was a way around that I mean the Counters work well enough but even then the occasional spell gets through. Its about 50-50 dependant on draw.
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4 City of Brass
2 Forsaken City
4 Gaea's Cradle
4 Lotus Petal
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
Creatures x23
12x Kobolds
3x Phyrexian Walker
4x Ornithopter
4x Sheild Sphere
Combo x7
3x Cloudstone Curio
3x Glimpse of Nature
1x Brainfreeze
Tutors x10
2x Gamble
3x Burning Wish
3x Crop rotation
2x Mystical Tutor
Other x2
2x Scapegoat
SB: x15
1x Hull Breach
1x Biorythm
1x Glimpse of Nature
1x Tendrils of Agony
1x Gaeas Blessing
2x Naturalize
4x Xantid Swarm
4x Defense Grid
This deck is Called honeycombs because of Crookshank Kobolds.
He looks like the mascot.
I took this deck to GP philly and went 5-3 on day 1, didnt make top 8 because I got screwed one game in the beginning (more to that later).
This deck has amazing potential.
Well on to the deck.
Creatures x23
12x Kobolds
0cc creatures that help with Glimpse and basicly turn the engine.
3x Phyrexian Walker
4x Ornithopter
4x Sheild Sphere
0cc creatures that help with glimpse, block lackey all day, but dont help with curio (however you dont need it to win)
Combo x7
3x Cloudstone Curio
Cloudstone Curio, this card is basicly for smoothing out the deck and making it more consistant. You do not need this card to win, but it certainly helps, only 3 because more than one in hand sucks ass. Think of this as Oil/Gas.
3x Glimpse of Nature
Well This is the engine. Play a 0cc creature, draw a card. Basicly this allows you to gain massive card advantage. Well, 1-1 card advantage while cycling through your deck.
1x Brainfreeze
This is your kill, play a bunch of spells and freeze.
Tutors x10
2x Gamble
Alright, I dropped this down from 4 to 2 because, gambling is very good, yet sometimes inconsistant. Bascily this card allows you to fetch one card in your deck, then trading it for one in your hand.
3x Burning Wish
This card helps get Glimpse, hull breach, biorythm, Tendrils, or gaeas blessing. Aka Glimpse tutor
3x Crop rotation
Crop rotation is for generating nuts mana from gaeas cradle and is tech against wastelands.
2x Mystical Tutor
AKA Tutor for Glimpse of nature. Yet, can be used to get Scapegoat in a pinch or something you need to win.
Other x2
2x Scapegoat
This card allows you to basicly go off again even if you fizzle, or if you fizzle while doing this, just play this to contine going. Think of this kinda like the windshield wiper fluid. Lol.
Mana x16
4 City of Brass
2 Forsaken City
These two are only for getting the color of the mana you need when you need it. I chose forsaken city because I didnt think of Gem stone mine. Also, I have tested Glimmervoid, and its bad unless you are going off that turn.
4 Gaea's Cradle
These produce tons of mana think of this as your money that pays for gas. Its just that good. Also, Its kinda like tolarian academy.
4 Lotus Petal
Say what????? FREE MANA! NICEEEEEE
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
Say what????? FREE MANA! NICEEEEEE... WOW AND ITS A CREATURE! This card has actually won me a few games today becuase I ran out of kobolds and needed to keep drawing. I topdecked a scapegoat and proceded to win. Turn 2.
GP Results ------ 5-3
Round 1-Lost- MBC- Did not get pilots name
I faced Mono Black control with discard, hippies, and skittering skurge, also I saw one nantuko shade. Any way I got raped like a skinny white guy in prison.
Game 1, I had entire combo in hand, and would have won turn one. But... He won dice roll so heres what happened. He goes Swamp, Dark ritual, Duress (glimpse), Hymn To tourach(gaeas cradle, Curio)... needless to say. I could not recoup.
Game 2...
I lose. He goes Swamp, I go first turn cradle, He goes 2nd turn Sinkhole targeting cradle. Then 3rd turn hippe followed by a 4th turn double hymn.
My conclusion- Discard rapes Combs. Possible side options, Pure Intentions I dont know... but I figure I can take out 1 byorythm 1 swarm and 1 grid.
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Round 2-Lost- Andy Berger He called it 3 duce. I really dont think it was 3 duce though. It ran critters and swords.
BOTH GAMES--Deck decided to go Hi John go kick your self in the nads cause you suck-- Here is what happened. I mulliganed down to 5 game one with 3 kobolds glimpse and curio in hand. Guess what. NO MANA SOURCE.
Game 2--- mulliganed to 6, 3 kobolds, curio, cradle, elvish spirit guide. Guess what... I did not draw one of the 10 tutors, or 3 glimpse in my deck or 1x brainfreeze for the inf combo. Stupid. Well...
My Conclusion-This just poves that Kobolds is inconsistant, or I am just very unlucky... I would go with my unluckyness.
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Round 3--- RGSA--- Win- Andy
Game 1- I win turn 1 going 2nd, {NOTE: I always choose to go 2nd with this deck because going first has no point because you usually don't do anything}
My draw 2 kobolds 1 Thopter, 1 cradle, 1 curio, 1 glimpse, lotus petal, kobold(on draw). Basicly, I drew my deck, he did nothing, freeze for kill.
Game 2- I win turn 2 going 2nd. Forget hand but it was similar to turn 1 I just waited to see if he boarded anything in that was Savage. But no he didnt, this time I used tendrils as kill. Btw... the only way I knew it was rgsa is because he played a bop first turn off taiga, kird ape 2nd turn, followed by survival.
My Conclusion- Decks with creatures don't scare me. Decks with survival (exception- ones w/ FOW) don't scare me.
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Round 4- Affinity- Win- Bobby
Game 1--Wow... This was a fun match up, Guess what, I played solitare... again. Naw... well he got me down to 20... lol. Basicly what happened was I stayed with 5 kobolds, spirit guide, glimpse, (on draw I got another kobold). I draw like 14 cards off the 0cc's then Fizzle... BUT WAIT! I play lotus petal, Scapegoat and proceede to win.
Game 2-I stay with a meh hand. I forget what it was exactly but it involved me playing kobolds/0ccs to stay alive. Then..... I draw brainfreeze, followed by curio, followed by kobold. I go infinite storm count then brain freeze.
My Conclusion- HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA, wow... I really didn't even know that people played this jank in Legacy. Also... where are the goblins??? There were 500 or so people here, like 200 of them were goblins, 300 were random ass decks lolz. (btw this is also the round that I find Psyburat facing Iggy pop w/ his aluren, and doing some maddddd stuff off of his ill gotten gains. : ) yum)
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Round 5- Psychatog w/green for life of the loam- Lost- Eric
Game 1- He completey shuts me down with couners. I try to go off, leaving no mana open he goes Force spike, I try going off again with mana open, he goes fow I take manaburn. I expeced this game 1. (wins w/ tog)
Game 2-(I play first) Alright I finally get a chance to side in (out go 3 0cc artifacts creatures, 1 burning wish, 1 mystical tutor, 1 crop rotation, 1 burning wish, 1 scapegoat--- In go 4 defense grid, 4 swarm)
Alright, this is what happened. First turn I go Petal remove spirit guide play Defense grid, He has no counters. He goes like delta, some dual. 2nd turn I go xantid swarm. he goes something like bstorm and nothing else. Turn 3-5 I draw and pass waiting to be strong enoguh to go off (btw I needed a glimpse and it was on top when he did what he did) He wen 3-5, 3- intuiton getting 3 deed, 4- play deed, turn 5- pop deed for 2 play tog. I basicly say ****.
My Conclusion- I really don't know, It was a bad match up, followed up with deed. : (
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Round 6- Party like its 1999 (rogue, like 90 cards or so)- Win- Josh or John I cant read my hand writing : (
For this match up please see round 3 and 4. Thank you.
MyConclusion- Decks with creatuers that are not blue dont scare me.
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Round 7- Angel Stompy- Win- Alex
Game1- He brings me down to around 5, I go off and win.
Game 2- I go off turn 3, I win.
My Conclusion- Favorable Match up.
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Round 8 - Vial Goblins- Win- Craig Berry
Game1- I stay with a meh draw, I lose. (it did take him a while cause I held him off with 3 sheild sphere and 2 walkers hahahhaha)
Game 2- I go off turn 2 off of 2 kobolds 1 cradle 1 curio 2 crop rotation 1 glimpse. I draw into nuts stuff like 6 more 0cc's off top play curio draw deck and win.
Game 3- I go off turn 3 this time, basicly I just go off, he sided in pyrostatic pilars but did not get one.
My Conclusion- Artifacts that cost 0 and that are creatures are very very very very good against lackey and his minions of destruction (aka Goblins aka Goblins ruined every format since block)
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Overall- I was very happy with my performance, even though I did not Day 2, I still went 5-3 with kobolds. I found that discard rapes me. Decks with creatures don't scare me and well I love kobolds. : ), also I got some props from other players for going 5-3 with combs.
Things I would change- I would find something to stick in to help against Discard. Discard is stupid and I hate it. It just tears me a new one if you know what I mean (and by what I mean it is new ********)
I would have probally playtest more against random decks such as discard and like weird decks. Instead of just, surivals, goblins, Landstill (u/w/r), Angel stompy, Solidardy, aluren, and a few other decks that randomly popped in our playtesting group.
Well, Discuss.
90% lose 10% win match up for kobolds, if you don't beat them turn 1 you lose. Good day sir. The 2nd round I should have just like shuffeled the deck more or something... I dont know. Does any one have any good sb options for discard?
INSANE props for going 5-3 with the absolute lowest mana curve in attendance
You say that as if Kobolds aren't jank.
Yep, I say that because I truly only expected to play against goblins, Angelstompy, Stax, and survival decks. When I playtested we only playtested against the decks everyone should have played, not the random stuff that they brought... I mean come on the one dude had a 90 card deck, now your going to tell me that he just didnt want to lose to solidary. Lol.
BTW Kobolds is not Jank, because Kobolds are fun.
Chalice for 0 is some savagery
I really like the deck, and once I dig out a set of Kobolds, I'll start tinkering with it a bit.
Also stax is really brutal when they go first turn trinsphere... Its kinda like I just got kicked in the nads.
Strictly looking at the matchup on paper, they have 3 turn 1 plays that just ballkick you:
2 Sphere
3 Sphere
Chalice
However, no one in Texas plays Stax but me, so I feel the need to build this.
4x Shield Sphere
3x Scapegoat
3x Cloudstone Curio
3x Glimpse of Nature
1x Brainfreeze
3x Crop Rotation
3x Mystical Tutor
3x Brainstorm
2x Cunning Wish
2x Burning Wish
3x Daze
4x Gaea's Cradle
4x Lotus Petal
4x Tropical Island
3x Volcanic Island
4x Elvish Spirit Guide
Side(using yours i dont have a set one yet)
4x Xantid Swarm
4x Defense Grid
2x Naturalize
1x Gaea's Blessing
1x Tendrils of Agony
1x Glimpse of Nature
1x Hull Breach
1x Biorythm
Using search resulted in a very different deck than yours...it seems to play more like High Tide than what you have, which feels more like Charbelcher. Turn three goldfish seemed consistent:
4 Glimpse
4 Curio
4 Cloud of Faeries
3 each Kobold
4 Brainstorm
4 Impulse
4 FoW
3 Cunning Wish
3 Crop Rotation
1 Brain Freeze
3 Land Grant
4 Lotus Petal
4 Tropical Island
3 Island
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
3 Gaea's Cradle
1 Winding Canyons
(Sideboard would include Brain Freeze, Crop Rotation, Naturalize, Stroke of Genius, bounce, more search, a counterspell, etc.)
I have no idea whether this is any improvement or if it's just different...or absolutely horrible. However, it seemed like replacing Ornithopter, Walker and Sphere with cards like Cloud of Faeries, Brainstorm and others made sense...and would make the deck more consistent, which you said was a problem.
(Gifts was way too slow and creature tutors weren't necessary.)
@ trojan hows all the draw working for you? I would think of dropping the impulses for dazes I tell u there really good at stopping firts turn trin and hyppies and such.
-TotT
Edited the deck with the changes I made implemented a few of Trojans Ideas and it seems to MWS a lot more consistant and the cloud of faires with the curio i perfect.
Now this deck has turned into a U/G/w/r. So how about Part the Veil?
to add to the combo?
Also with the addition of Cloud of Faeries to the deck it make sence to add a random XR, burn spell for a kill condition
JohnJones just made me a fan of this deck
-TotT
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At the time you play scape goat sacrifice a creature, Return all creatures you control to you hand.