3 Brain Freeze
4 Brainstorm
3 Cunning Wish
4 Force of Will
4 High Tide
4 Impulse
3 Meditate
3 Mystical Tutor
4 Peer Through Depths
4 Reset
1 Stroke of Genius
3 Turnabout
1 Twincast
2 Words of Wisdom4 Flooded Strand
9 Island
4 Polluted Delta
SIDEBOARD:
1 Brain Freeze
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Echoing Truth
1 Evacuation
1 Foil
1 Hydroblast
1 Meditate
1 Misdirection
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Rebuild
1 Stifle
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Turnabout
1 Twincast
1 Words of Wisdom |
 Instant
Winner.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Back in the days of Urza block, High Tide
decks were all the rage as people used the Fallen Empires common to
generate ridiculous amounts of mana that fueled huge Strokes of Genius.
Of course, back then broken cards like Time Spiral and Mind Over Matter
were still playable in fours, but the strategy is once again viable with
the relatively recent changes to the Legacy format. Kill card Stroke and
search maestro Mystical Tutor are back, plus a few important cards have
come around in the last couple of years that make the deck work well
again.
The basic premise of the Instant Winner deck is to spend
your early turns dropping lands and setting up your hand so it can go off
at a moment’s notice. With a High Tide or two in hand, you work your way
up the mana chain with land untappers Reset and Turnabout. Once you get to
absurd mana levels, you’ll be able to draw up most or all of your deck,
playing enough spells in the meantime to generate a huge Brain Freeze or
simply aiming a winning Stroke of Genius at your opponent’s library.
You’ve got a ton of utility spells to help assemble the
key cards. Brainstorm and Mystical Tutor are great early on, helping you
filter through the deck quickly. You’ll generally follow them up right
away with Impulse, Peer Through Depths or Words of Wisdom to get more of
your business cards into hand, though it’s sometimes best to save Words
for a finisher. In addition to the Tides and untappers, save your
Meditates for the coup de grace since you never have to worry about
skipping a turn if you’ve already won.
The key trick with this deck is to start up the combo on
your opponent’s turn after his upkeep, since you can only play Reset then.
You usually want to go off during the combat phase when he’s most
vulnerable. Even if he’s packing problem cards like Gaea’s Blessing, you
can still respond to the triggers by working through your combo again and
finishing him off with Stroke or Words of Wisdom; notice that the draws
from both are mandatory. Twincast also comes in handy here, as it can copy
any spell still on the stack and avert counters, and Force of Will lets
you protect key cards.
Cunning Wish gives you access to 15 different cards,
including several that are fourth copies of main-deck staples like Brain
Freeze and Meditate, so you can go snag them when needed. The rest are
silver bullets against specific opposing strategies. Chain of Vapor rids
the board of annoying stuff like Platinum Angle and Chains of
Mephistopheles, while Hydroblast and Misdirection are great against
goblins and burn. Echoing Truth, Evacuation, Rebuild and Stifle all have
plenty of Legacy targets, too. |
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