4 Proteus Machine
4 Mistform Ultimus
4 Eater of Days
4 Sky Swallower
4 Leviathan
4 Grozoth
4 Izzet Signet
2 Fellwar Stone
3 Cryptic Gateway
3 Grab the Reins
1 Searing Wind
17 Island
4 Steam Vents
2 Mountain |
  Leviathans.
Description of deck by it's author
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Unlike previous weeks, I haven't forgotten
about our mutual friend, Mistform Ultimus. Not only is he/she/it a
Legendary Illusion who's had more jobs than Barbie, but he/she/it is
also a Leviathan. With the printing of Sky Swallower, this means that
there are now enough Leviathans for Tribal Wars. Eater of Days, Sky
Swallower, and ol' Misty are joined by Ravnica's Grozoth as well as the
original Leviathan, Grozoth's nine-mana tag-team partner. As a result,
every Leviathan ever printed is included, except the Segovian Leviathan
who isn't actually a Leviathan. I think the story goes that he was
abandoned by his birth parents (two upper-class Leviathans from
Manhattan) and raised by a working-class family of Serpents in Brooklyn.
Hence the creature-type. I could be mistaken, or making that up.
The deck is rougher than sandpaper wrestling, and its
mana-curve balloons in the middle like, uh, I do. After a balloon-eating
contest.
The idea is to use your smaller Leviathans – Mistform
Ultimus and the Leviathan-by-choice Proteus Machine – to accelerate out
your bigger Leviathans by using Cryptic Gateway. Once that happens, you
can either attack with your big monsters (never a bad plan), or Grab their
respective Reins and fling a Timmy-load of damage straight at your
opponent's head. (Note: a “Timmy-load” is eight to ten. For example, you
would say that a baseball team has a Timmy-load of players. At least, I
would.)
There are a ton of other things you can do with Sky
Swallower, most of which involve floating some amount of mana to cast a
brutal spell like Balancing Act, or maybe even Acidic Soil. Enjoy those
lands I just gave you! They have acid in them. Oh, those Red mages and
their practical jokes.
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