D2I is a deck that I came up with while dealing with insomnia and listening to Monster Magnet's album Dopes to Infinity. I originally concepted it as a Legacy deck and the evolution of the deck is viewable in the Legacy Budget forum. I've been thinking about turning it into a Vintage deck to improve on the power level of the deck as a whole.
The basis of the deck is a simple combo of Phyrexian Altar and Gravecrawler. With a vintage list there is access to power and better tutors to make the deck more consistant. The deck can also become more explosive and faster than the legacy list.
Here goes for the first vintage iteration of my brainchild:
How the combo works:
Have Phyrexian altar and a zombie in play. Play a Gravecrawler and sac to Altar to replay it from the yard. Repeat an arbitrary number of times and use a storm spell (basic win-con is grapeshot) to win.
The combo is cheap and fairly quick. This is my first serious Eternal format deck as well as my first true combo deck.
For Lists, Click Here EDH: GW: Selvala, Let us help YOU. UB: Mirko Vosk, when outmatched cheat BW: Vish Kal, The Arbiter of Reanimation UG: Prime Speaker Zegana, the science of sorcery RB: Malfegor, Traitor's Haven UW: Daxos, Control-Fort-Tron BG: Pharika, Goddess of Stax RW: Gisela, Boros Control RG: Ruric Thar, a Primal Surge deck RU: Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Spellslinger?!?! B:(Pauper) Mikaeus the Unhallowed R: Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient: The Power of Engineering
D2I is a deck that I came up with while dealing with insomnia and listening to Monster Magnet's album Dopes to Infinity. I originally concepted it as a Legacy deck and the evolution of the deck is viewable in the Legacy Budget forum. I've been thinking about turning it into a Vintage deck to improve on the power level of the deck as a whole.
The basis of the deck is a simple combo of Phyrexian Altar and Gravecrawler. With a vintage list there is access to power and better tutors to make the deck more consistant. The deck can also become more explosive and faster than the legacy list.
Here goes for the first vintage iteration of my brainchild:
How the combo works:
Have Phyrexian altar and a zombie in play. Play a Gravecrawler and sac to Altar to replay it from the yard. Repeat an arbitrary number of times and use a storm spell (basic win-con is grapeshot) to win.
The combo is cheap and fairly quick. This is my first serious Eternal format deck as well as my first true combo deck.
Half the credit goes to Thomas204 for making the competative list and helping flesh out the idea.
No offense, but what makes this any better than other combo decks out there?
It needs FOUR pieces to win, is susceptible to storm hate, is susceptible to graveyard hate, and has no protection beyond 3 FoW and 4 Cabal Therapies. And I see nothing that makes it better than decks without those drawbacks.
The basis of the deck is a simple combo of Phyrexian Altar and Gravecrawler. With a vintage list there is access to power and better tutors to make the deck more consistant. The deck can also become more explosive and faster than the legacy list.
Here goes for the first vintage iteration of my brainchild:
4 Polluted Delta
4 Badlands
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Underground Sea
Creature:
3 Putrid Imp
3 Gravecrawler
Fast Mana:
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
4 Dark Ritual
Engine:
4 Bridge from Below
2 Phyrexian Altar
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Force of Will
Draw/Tutor
1 Entomb
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Enlightened Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Time Twister
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Necropotence
Wincons:
1 Grapeshot
1 Tendrils of Agony
Alt-Wincon:
1 Tinker
1 Inkwell Leviathan
3 Chain of Vapor
2 Leyline of the Void
2 Extirpate
1 Grapeshot
1 Gravecrawler
3 Pithing Needle
1 Mind's Desire
2 Null Rod
How the combo works:
Have Phyrexian altar and a zombie in play. Play a Gravecrawler and sac to Altar to replay it from the yard. Repeat an arbitrary number of times and use a storm spell (basic win-con is grapeshot) to win.
The combo is cheap and fairly quick. This is my first serious Eternal format deck as well as my first true combo deck.
The Legacy development thread: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=401523
Half the credit goes to Thomas204 for making the competative list and helping flesh out the idea.
For Lists, Click Here
EDH:
GW: Selvala, Let us help YOU.
UB: Mirko Vosk, when outmatched cheat
BW: Vish Kal, The Arbiter of Reanimation
UG: Prime Speaker Zegana, the science of sorcery
RB: Malfegor, Traitor's Haven
UW: Daxos, Control-Fort-Tron
BG: Pharika, Goddess of Stax
RW: Gisela, Boros Control
RG: Ruric Thar, a Primal Surge deck
RU: Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Spellslinger?!?!
B:(Pauper) Mikaeus the Unhallowed
R: Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient: The Power of Engineering
No offense, but what makes this any better than other combo decks out there?
It needs FOUR pieces to win, is susceptible to storm hate, is susceptible to graveyard hate, and has no protection beyond 3 FoW and 4 Cabal Therapies. And I see nothing that makes it better than decks without those drawbacks.
Legacy: Strawberry Shortcake, Aggro Loam, DnT+b
Modern: Devoted Karn
Vintage: Survival