Lands:
1 Academy Ruins
7 Island
6 Mountain
4 Shivan Reef
2 Tolaria West
4 Vivid Creek
Creatures:
3 Intet, the Dreamer
1 Triskelavus
Other Spells:
4 Broken Ambitions
4 Foresee
4 Lash Out
3 Molten Disaster
4 Ponder
4 Prismatic Lens
3 Scattering Stroke
3 Time Stretch
3 Whirlpool Whelm |
   Harmful
Intet.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
...In Standard alone there are several
different ways to manipulate or simply look at the top card of your
library. Perhaps the most obvious way is by scrying, courtesy of Future
Sight cards such as Foresee, Cryptic Annelid, and Mystic Speculation.
Then we've got cards like Sage Owl, Inkfathom Divers, Discombobulate,
and Ponder, which allow you to reorganize the top three or four cards of
our library. Aven Windreader and Magus of the Future let you see what
you've got on top, while cards like Academy Ruins, Reclaim, and
Footbottom Feast can stack the top of your library with cards from your
graveyard. There are a few ways beyond the ones I've listed, but I will
get to those later.
As I combed over the Lorwyn spoiler, one subset of
clash cards stood out immediately: the blue and red ones. They're
predominantly control cards. You've got removal (Lash Out, and to a
lesser extent, Whirlpool Whelm) and a pair of counterspells (Broken
Ambitions and Scattering Stroke). Combine that with Ponder and Foresee
and you've got the beginnings of a counter-burn style deck. Molten
Disaster is a powerful sweeper and an alternate win condition, as well
as a mana sink for successfully clashed Scattering Strokes.
As a finisher, I wanted to use another card that reaps
the benefits of all the library manipulation: Intet, the Dreamer. Like
all the gold Dragons from Planar Chaos (and the Invasion Dragons before
them), Intet has a nifty ability that triggers when she deals combat
damage to an opponent. In Intet's case, you get to pay and remove the
top card of your library from the game. You can play this card without
paying its mana cost as long as Intet is in play. This way, you can get
a "free" card whenever you attack. You might say she's a flyer full of
discounts. He doesn't work all that well with Molten Disaster, though
(or any X spell, for that matter—X will always be zero for cards removed
this way), and she requires a large investment considering you can get a
similar deal from, say, Thieving Magpie. However, the main appeal of
Intet—the hook, the dream, if you will—is the potential to get huge
savings on some high-powered spell. You know, like Time Stretch. If you
can pull this off, you can take your two extra turns with your 6/6
flyer, connecting each time (I presume, if you hit the first time), for
a total of 18 damage. All you have to do is figure out some way to do
the final 2, with Lash Out, Molten Disaster, and Triskelavus being the
likeliest (only) candidates for this job.
Of course, if you leave Standard, you gain access to
all sorts of goodies: Brainstorm, Scroll Rack, Sylvan Library, and
Mystical Tutor, to name just a few. |
