MTG Salvation

Quote from Nagoragama

Deep Analysis, Cabal Therapy (wishful thinking, I know, but cabals do make sense in the flavor of Innistrad), Catalyst Stone, Moment's Peace, Parallel Evolution, Hidden Horror (with the 10th edition art), the aforementioned Mindslicer, Shambling Swarm

Quote from 42Osiris

So I was talking with a friend of mine last week and an idea was presented about a new possible standard combo involving Jace's Archivist, Consecrated Sphinx and Laboratory Maniac.

In a nutshell the deck would run lots of card drawing durdles/bounces. The "ideal" play would be a t4-6 win playing out thusly;

t2 Heartless Summoning
t3 Jaces Archivist
t4 Cons. Sphinx

This is where the combo comes in. Obviously you want to have your opponent holding a few cards or for you to be at 5-6 cards yourself.

Activate Archivist EoT. Assuming a player had 6 cards: You draw 6 they draw 6 - Sphinx triggers - you draw an additional 12 cards.
t5 18 cards in hand (hopefully you drew a lab maniac since you've already almost gone through half your deck) Activate Archivist. Each player draws 16 triggering a 32 card (MAY) draw off of cons sphinx. Assuming you were able to successfully drop a maniac (for ) you have 4 mana left on the board - this allows you to protect your combo with counters or durdle for the final card draw to win yourself the game.

It could be played without :symb:, it just slows down the combo and makes the deck more bounce dependent. You can also play the deck with spellskites. A 0/3 body for that redirects threats to the combo is golden. If the lab maniac combo gets threatened you can always play maindeck elixir of immortality and EASILY mill out your opponent.

Thoughts?

Quote from Dreamy

Clearly you never played against r/b bloodthirst with Tormented Soul, Goblin Fireslinger, Blood Ogre, Gorehorn Minotaurs, etc...