3 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Copy Artifact
4 Counterspell
2 Energy Field
4 Impulse
4 Isochron Scepter
4 Memory Lapse
3 Prismatic Lace
4 Psychic Allergy
2 Shifting Sky
3 Time and Tide
24 Island |
 Allergic
to Lace.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Y’know what would be awfully cool? A deck revolving around a rare
centerpiece from The Dark. I think everyone would really appreciate
that. The card in question is the mondo bizarro Psychic Allergy. It’s
your typical blue damage-dealing enchantment that requires hefty land
sacrifices to keep it on the board. All that talk of the Color Pie that
Rosewater does in his column? It’s to prevent eye-popping head-scratchers
like this from showing up again.
How can you induce the biggest Allergic reaction from your opponent? The
easy combo is Shifting Sky. Choose the same color for both enchantments
and you’re set—if your opponent has enough nonland permanents. If not?
Then you’re in trouble. If only there were a way to change all those
bland, colorless lands your opponent’s got into vibrant Technicolor
vistas. It’s tough to do; Magic doesn’t tolerate colored lands very
well. Prismatic Lace will do it… once. Luckily there’s now a way to turn
instants into recurring effects. I think by now you’re all familiar with
Isochron Scepter.
I know from the mail I’ve received that you folks love your Scepters
nearly as much as British royalty does. But most of the suggestions have
been pretty tame. Isochron Scepter plus Boomerang? Way too obvious for
my tastes. Isochron Scepter plus Time and Tide? Now that’s more my
speed. You’ve got to buy to time while changing all your opponent’s
lands red (or white, green, or anything else), and phasing out all
creatures turn after turn is a deliciously annoying way to do it. You
could use Fog or Holy Day or any of a raft of other options to negate
the combat step, but this method is monoblue, eradicates tokens, and
makes people look up the phasing rules. (You still have the Comp Rules
from the token deck, right?) Now that Mirage block is banished from
Extended, it just couldn’t be Type 1 week without phasing.
Want more? As long as you’re stalling, searching for combo pieces, and
wielding Isochron Scepters, you could do worse than to include Impulse
and Counterspell in your deck. Myself, I like Memory Lapse in the
Scepter. I forget why. (That was a joke about *gasp* a memory lapse! Get
it?) Lapse in the Scepter gets surprisingly close to Time Walk if your
opponent does something foolish like cast spells. I also like Blue
Elemental Blast. With the Blast in one Scepter and the Lace in another,
you can get the guns blazing away to destroy any permanent you don’t
like. You won’t win with Psychic Allergy that way. Instead, you’d have
to take the excruciating tactic of slowly decking your opponent without
the help of any milling cards whatsoever. You’d probably have to Memory
Lapse your own spells to prevent yourself from running out of cards
first. But what’s your landless, creatureless opponent going to do about
it?
Hold on a sec, though. How many Isochron Scepters do I have in this
deck? Seven? Well, yeah. Four of the real thing and three Copy Artifacts
(or Sculpting Steels, but that’s so much less Type 1-ish). Since your
intent is to only play copies of instants, and hopefully not any
instants themselves, Energy Field is a fine way to keep yourself alive
until you can slap down some Allergies to deal, say, 7 damage a turn.
Psychic Allergy will break the Field one way or another, but hopefully
by then things will be well in hand.
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