aww1979 wrote:What Hand... (unlocks
Brain Freeze)
-your draw phase is skipped for all 10 matches
.1902 4
Oath of Druids.62 1
Demonic Tutor.711 4
Serum Powder.1893 4
Forbidden Orchard.17 1
Black Lotus.165 1
Mox Emerald.166 1
Mox Jet.167 1
Mox Pearl.168 1
Mox Ruby.169 1
Mox Sapphire.1897 4
Land Grant.12 4
Bayou.327 4
Grim Tutor.55 4
Dark Ritual.390 4
Crop Rotation.1424 1
Lotus Petal.328 4
Idyllic Tutor.212 4
Savannah.1308 4
Platinum Angel.1890 1
Demonic Consultation.1708 4
Gamble.241 3
TaigaThe strategies I tried here were 1) tons of card drawing, 2) landless
Goblin Charbelcher, 3) Oath. Belcher was funny when it worked (black lotus + channel + belcher + no land = lol); it plays similar to this deck, only Oath costs far less mana and needs far fewer cards to put together the combo, so it was more reliable.
My original oath deck had
Progenitus instead of
Platinum Angel, but funny enough a turn 2 progenitus was too slow in some games! Anyway, basic idea is drop an Oath asap, mulligan when needed, and start oathing your angels into play. It only loses sometimes against the burn deck or if it mulligans itself away. Turbofog will lose because it cannot possibly win, ever, in this challenge, and it is possible to beat turbofog even if you mull to 0 and let it try to goldfish you.
This deck is simple to play; the only thinking required is when you stare at your opening hand and count whether you've got the mana and oath/ways to get an oath or not.
*Be warned* that serum powder sometimes causes an autoloss during the next upkeep; I think it happens when you mix serum mulligans with regular ones, but I'm not sure. It also sometimes causes the AI to play its first turn with some other random deck's opening hand.
I used to have duress and thoughtseize, but I tossed them for gamble/taiga (which I never used). Also note that enlightened tutor and other topdecking tutors will fail, because you never draw the card, unless you were to also include card draw for that. That's why
Idyllic Tutor,
Grim Tutor, etc, are used instead, even though they cost 3.