3 Graceful Adept
4 Jushi Apprentice
4 Maro
4 Phantom Warrior
3 Empyrial Plate
4 Moonring Mirror
2 Talisman of Progress
2 Talisman of Unity
4 Teferi's Puzzle Box
4 Turbulent Dreams
2 Words of Wind
8 Forest
11 Island
2 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
3 Mirrodin's Core |
  Moonachie.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Moonring Mirror and Teferi's Puzzle Box. Let's
say you have N cards in your hand at the start of your turn with both of
these permanents in play. You draw a card, so you're at N+1. One card
goes under the Mirror. Then the Puzzle Box takes you for a whirl. You
still have N+1 cards, but they're all different, and now there are N+2
cards under the Mirror. Next turn, you swap hands with the Mirror and
do-si-do. Bow to your newly drawn card and you have N+3 while the Mirror
has N+2, then do the Puzzle Box promenade until the Mirror has 2N+5
cards. Next turn, that number of cards plus one more will be in your
hand and the Mirror will have 3N+10. This is, of course, a fantastic way
to deck yourself. It's also just a theoretical number; play or discard
some cards and you'll keep your library shredding somewhat in check. Oh,
and to put 3N+10 in perspective, say N is 4. Reasonable number of cards
to start out with in hand, right? If so, there are now 22 cards—more
than a third of your deck—being hoarded by Moonring Mirror on turn 3 of
this action, while you're holding 14 yourself.
RML's quandary was what to do next: “I don't really know
what to do with all these cards. I mean, sure, you could just play them,
but there's got to be something more. Maro maybe?” So I forwarded the
email to Mark Rosewater, and… ooohhh, he meant the card! Right-o. When I
have a ridiculous amount of cards in my hand, I somehow always think of
Turbulent Dreams first. Jushi Apprentice came to mind as both a way to get
more cards and a way to take advantage of the bounty. Maro and its friend
Empyrial Plate are fine choices. I tried combining this deck with Tor-Erik
Hokstad's Zur's Weirding-Honden of Cleansing Fire suggestion, and while I
was able to achieve a lock in a couple of games, it was pretty clunky and
expensive to put them together. I thought Hisoka, Minamo Sensei might do
something with a swelled hand, but it didn't seem that useful. In the end,
here's what I wound up with. |
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