Library Grinder BU

[Resonantg]

No witty name this time, but the deck works pretty darn good. We love Library destruction here. I particularly like the card Mind Funeral. I've actually seen it do a 40 card discard out of a 60 card deck. That was fun. This is the first deck I've gone into the multi colored cards heavy.

1 Black Lotus
2 Gilded Lotus
4 Howling Mine
4 Millstone
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

5 Island
5 Swamp
4 Underground Sea
4 Sunken Ruins

4 Lurking Informant
4 Nemesis of Reason
3 Dimir Cutpurse

1 Jace Beleren
1 Liliana Vess

4 Memory Erosion
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Glimpse the Unthinkable
2 Haunting Echoes
4 Lobotomy
4 Mind Funeral
4 Tome Scour
2 Traumatize

[zerker2000]

Mind Funeral is given unfair advantage against an AI whose land stacking has been ground off the top of the library. Main point: do not cast it too early .

[Resonantg]

True. I've been burned that way before. But that 40 card grind was a turn 1 play. Got lucky with a pair of moxes and land out. So you're right, but you never know.

[zerker2000]

Ah, so you test your decks without AI land stacking?

[Resonantg]

I never understood what land stacking was.

[DennisBergkamp]

Land stacking is an option that will make the library of the AI look like this:

non-land card
non-land card
non-land card
non-land card
non-land card
non-land card
non-land card
land card
land card
land card
land card
land card
non-land card
land card
non-land card
non-land card
land card
...
rest of non-land cards
...
rest of land cards

So without some way of shuffling the AIs library, the AI will only draw 7 land cards... Unless the game lasts till there's only ~13 or so cards left. But it's a big advantage for the AI, since it gets to draw a lot of spells and usually just enough land cards.

And actually yes, a turn one Mind Funeral would be the worst result aimed at an AI's land stacked deck (since the next 5 cards are lands).

[zerker2000]

However a turn one Tome Scour followed by turn 2 Mind Funeral is epic (That IS a ~40 mill).

EDIT:Even nastier: turn 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable, develop field while computer helpless, Mind Funeral, NOW you start milling.

[Resonantg]

So this is a vote of "Woot!" for this deck huh?

And yes, I've done the turn 1 double Tome Scour and turn 2 Mind Funeral.

[zerker2000]

With stacking? If so, why double ?

[Resonantg]

Cause I could at the time.

Been testing it against decks I've made with mixed results after stacking was turned off. My "AntMob" deck I'm working on is turning out to be very vicious.

Nothing like a Scute Mob, Ant Queen, Carrion Ants set with ways to push out more land through Kodama's Reach and the Sakura Tribe Elder... Whooo boy... it can fly. Nothing like generating 3 insect tokens and then attacking with a 5/5 Ant Queen in turn 3 to wreck someone's day.