  Cloudstone
Curio.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
In actuality, I had another combo that
involves my new pet card from Ravnica: Cloudstone Curio. Notice how the
Curio specifically says non-artifact - because if it didn't, we would
see something like...
Mishra's Workshop to play Cloudstone Curio, play a Mox
of some sort, tap the Mox, Black Lotus (returning Mox), Mox (return Lotus,
tap Mox), enter infinite loop, sacrifice Lotus for three black mana,
Tendrils of Agony.
Now there are two main ways to go with this: the first
would be to use "comes into play" abilities over and over, and the second
is to use it to build up a storm count for a combo deck. Seeing that I
like storm combos, that is the route I'll be taking. How can we break
Cloudstone Curio without artifacts? Oh where oh where are we going to find
zero mana-cost creatures like Ornithopter, or cards with a free Mechanic?
Heh. As if you didn't know where
this was going.
Cloud of Faeries and Kobolds can find yet another deck
they can fuel some combo in. In fact, right now I would like to make my
plea that their names should be changed to Combo of Faeries and Com-bolds
respectively.
In case you were wondering what to do just simply play
free creatures back and forth using the Curio, and after building a very
large storm count, use a storm spell to finish them off.
Since this combo is colorless (yes, I know, Kobolds are
technically Red) you can pretty much make the deck as you please. Since I
like being unorthodox (and I know many a mage is going to go out and build
the deck abusing Tendrils of Agony or Brain Freeze), I decided that I
would build mine around Hunting Pack.
The object to the deck is to find the combo with the aid
of Primordial Sage, and Glimpse of Nature, and then to just go crazy with
a huge Hunting Pack. The deck doesn't win often, but I was going for
uniqueness - not a super-streamlined-machine-of-death style deck. (You'd
probably want to go blue/black for that - The Ferrett)
On a competitive side note I think that this combo might
actually be able to make a slight splash in Legacy, but is probably
nothing more than a tier 2 (or jank) deck in the making. The only reason
that I think this might have any impact is that Vintage once had a similar
combo that was featured in a deck known as Sensei Sensei. If someone can
prove me wrong and figure out how to make this work let me know (I'm too
busy trying to port Sensei Sensei to Legacy). |
