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8 Swamp
6 Island
4 Tainted Isle
4 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Unholy Grotto

Eidol Hands.

Description of deck by it's author (quoted):
Since I had a lot of free time at Grand Prix--Toronto, I got to see firsthand how good the Eidolon-cycle could be in Limited. On several occasions, I watched a player play an Izzet Chronarch and basically return their entire graveyard to their hand. Having an Eidolon in hand also makes the turn 2 Karoo-discard play a little more tolerable, and gives you some resilience against cards like Shrieking Grotesque or Strands of Undeath. At the same time, they can be used proactively, giving you a pretty pain-free way of fueling such cards as Kindle the Carnage and Stormscale Anarch. As long as you're playing with multicoloured spells, the Eidolons are essentially “free cards” and everyone loves free cards, even casual players.

In Constructed Magic, you can use the Eidolons to power-up a card like Odyssey Block staple Zombie Infestation. Discard two Eidolons, make a Zombie, play a gold spell, return the Eidolons, make another Zombie. You have the makings of an engine right there. All you need is a steady stream of multicoloured spells. To accomplish this, I turned to the steadiest stream of all, Planeshift's Cavern Harpy. If you have a pair of Eidolons in your graveyard, and a Harpy in hand, Zombie Infestation basically reads:

UB: Put a 2/2 black Zombie token into play.

If you have four Eidolons in your graveyard, you get:

UB: Put two 2/2 black Zombie tokens into play.

With six Eidolons, you can make three Zombies for each UB you spend, and with eight Eidolons you can make four. As you can probably imagine, it gets out of control quickly.

Since both combo pieces (Cavern Harpy and Zombie Infestation) cost two mana apiece, I decided to use Dimir Infiltrator to find them. To get the Eidolons where they need to be, I included Compulsion and Stinkweed Imp to complement the Infestation. Combined with Compulsion, you can use the Imp to put five cards into your graveyard each time you spend 1U. Ol' Stinky is also a staunch defender, keeping all kinds of troublesome monsters from pestering you. Clutch of the Undercity is a fine gold spell, but its main appeal is its Transmute ability. You can use it fetch extra Eidolons, or to enhance your Zombie army with either Wonder or Undead Warchief, or you can use it to find Marsh Crocodile. With Eidolons in the ‘yard, the Croc does a passable Disrupting Scepter impression, but it can also be used as a pricier Cavern Harpy substitute if need be.

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by Chris Millar @ www.wizards.com

COMBO: Zombie Infestation - Eidolons [LITE]