4 Brainstorm
4 Intuition
3 Cunning Wish
4 Serum Visions
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Magma Jet
4 Fireblast
4 Memory Lapse
3 Bosium Strip
3 Force of Will
5 Island
6 Mountain
4 Volcanic Island
4 Tundra
4 Plateau |
   Bösium
Strip, BOOM!Description of deck by its author (quoted):
Bösium Strip acts like a more limited cross between
Yawgmoth's Will and Future Sight. The basic idea of the card is quite
simple. For three mana, until the rest of your turn pretend that the
instants and sorceries on the top of your graveyard are in your hand. When
the card was initially printed, there were a ton of decks that were made
that attempted to exploit the card. Sure there were inherent limitations
to the card, but there was something else going on. Essentially, they all
suffered from one huge setback: the rules. Before we changed to useful
ideas like “the stack”, you had to know you wanted to use the Strip way
before you were going to use it. If someone did something, you couldn't
respond by activating the Strip and then responding. Now, thanks to the
stack, you can.
Of course, Bösium Strip is no Yawgmoth's Will. First of all, you can only
recast the top card. Secondly, it better not be something that stays in
play, it can only be an instant or a sorcery. In order to make the most of
the card, we really want to have our deck be mostly these kinds of cards.
If it's not one of these card types, we better have a pretty good reason
for playing it. Land is an obvious non-sorcery/instant we'll need to play.
Another limiting factor is that Bösium Strip isn't free. It does cost 3
mana to get going…
Thankfully, there are a lot of great cards that you're going to fit into
the mold here. Efficiency is going to be the key. Another key is utility.
Any really narrow card can just clog up the works. Wrath of God, for
example, is a great card. If it is on top of your graveyard, though, it
can really gum up the works until you spend the 7 mana to recast it and
remove it from the game. |
SIDEBOARD:
1 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
1 Tithe
1 Argivian Find
3 Abeyance
1 Cave-In
3 Starstorm
3 Rack and Ruin
1 Honor the Fallen |
