2 Rimefeather Owl
4 Boomerang
4 Compulsive Research
4 Hinder
4 Mana Leak
4 Rune Snag
4 Spell Snare
2 Telling Time
4 Counterbalance
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Mouth of Ronom
4 Scrying Sheets
16 Snow-Covered Island
Sideboard
4 Twincast
4 Threads of Disloyalty
3 Pithing Needle
4 Ghost Quarter |
 Formica.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Counterbalance. What an awesome card. It's a
Seal of Counterspell that doesn't get used up. Repeatable counterspells
are often a lot of good - putting a Counterspell on an Isochron Scepter
can really screw people up. But Counterbalance isn't only repeatable,
but it's free to use. Every spell they cast means a chance for you to
Counterbalance it, even if you wouldn't normally "waste" a counterspell
on that specific spell. Add in the joy that is Sensei's Divining Top,
and suddenly your opponent is going to have a really hard time trying to
do anything at all. Even if you don't have the Top out, just one lucky
reveal means that you got a free counterspell out of the deal.
With counterspells costing 1UU or more to hard-counter something,
Counterbalance is a steal.
Now combine this with another positively amazing
Coldsnap card: Scrying Sheets. Scrying Sheets grabs us snow permanents, so
we'll make things easy and make all the lands snow. Since this is a
control deck, we'll have about 40% of the deck be lands - all of them snow
- which gives us a fairly decent chance of pulling a snow permanent which
each activation. Combine this with the already useful Sensei's Divining
Top, and you've suddenly got yourself a little Snow Library of Alexandria.
This is uncounterable draw which doesn't take up any spell slots (since,
woo-hoo, Scrying Sheets also taps for mana). What deck wouldn't love that?
Oh, and since we're running all this snow stuff, we
might as well just throw in a playset of Mouth of Ronom, the any-color
Char-land. People are probably going to get angry at Wizards for letting
Blue have Char back, but since it's here I just have to use it!
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