Lands:
16 Island
4 Seat of the Synod
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
1 Riptide Laboratory
Creatures:
4 Vedalken Plotter
3 Vedalken Mastermind
3 Vedalken Dismisser
4 Trinket Mage
3 Temporal Adept
3 Aven Fogbringer
Other Spells:
4 Tel-Jilad Stylus
2 Aether Spellbomb
1 Avarice Totem
4 Eye of Nowhere
4 Mana Leak
3 Shifting Borders
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Plotter.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a Terraformer
deck that made use of powerful spells that had effects normally
unavailable to Blue decks. Spells like Beacon of Creation and Mind
Sludge. In response to that article, I got an email from Miguel (of
indeterminate surname) who had built a mono-Blue “land destruction”
deck. Miguel's deck used a combination of Vedalken Plotter and Shifting
Borders to trade lands with his opponent, only to bounce them with
Temporal Adept or Eye of Nowhere. Since these effects return the land to
its owner's hand, Miguel gets his land back while his opponent probably
goes home and bawls his eyes out. Literally! Or figuratively, I guess.
At the time, I was working on a similar deck, so I decided to merge the
two. My version of the deck played this card:
Scourge of the Casual Room - 1
Artifact
T: Destroy target land.
Seems a little overpowered, no? Of course, that card doesn't really
exist. Or does it? In conjunction with Vedalken Plotter, that's exactly
what Tel-Jilad Stylus does. Except, instead of destroying an opponent's
land, you get to put it into your library instead. This is similar to
the old Avarice Totem + Tel-Jilad Stylus trick, where you'd exchange the
Totem for some permanent of your opponents and then use the Stylus to
put the Totem on the bottom of its owner's library, which just so
happens to be your library. At this point, Trinket Mage seemed a logical
inclusion. Since I was going to include Trinket Mages, I made a few
other changes to Miguel's deck, swapping out the Blue Enchantments
(Annex, Dream Leash, and Confiscate) and the copies of Keiga, the Tide
Star for more Wizards. Vedalken Mastermind works very well with both
Vedalken Plotter and Trinket Mage. Vedalken Dismisser and Aven
Fogbringer are also Wizards with good comes-into-play abilities
(abusable with the Mastermind or Riptide Laboratory). The rest of the
deck is made up of Trinket Mage targets (AEther Spellbombs, Avarice
Totem, a full set of Tel-Jilad Stylus') and mana.
If you've got some, it might be worth trying Spawnbroker in the deck,
too. I just couldn't find room.
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