Lands:
4 Temple Garden
2 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Treva's Ruins
1 Island
4 Plains
6 Forest
Creatures:
4 Erhnam Djinn
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Vine Trellis
4 Yavimaya Elder
2 Tradewind Rider
1 Genesis
4 Anurid Brushhopper
3 Lhurgoyf
1 Forgotten Ancient
2 Exalted Angel
1 Pristine Angel
1 Glory
Other Spells:
4 Wave of Reckoning
3 Armageddon
2 Serenity |
   Nagle's
Reset Buttons.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
Many creatures in a midrange deck are potent
enough to kill an opponent by themselves. One strategy a midrange deck
can employ is to play just one large threat, then force the opponent to
deal with that threat or die. Usually, the threat is either neutralized
or matched in board presence. If the opponent committed lots of
resources to the board, this becomes a great opportunity for the
Midrange deck to equalize the table with a reset button such as
Pernicious Deed or Akroma's Vengeance.
This strategy when executed correctly is one of the very
best against aggro decks. The aggro player is constantly wrecked by the
dilemma of attacking through a large blocker or being decimated by a reset
button. In addition, a large creature can quickly finish off a crippled
aggro player and prevent them from topdecking a lucky streak of threats or
burn. Oftentimes control decks in tournaments will sideboard into this
kind of strategy to have a better matchup against aggro decks.
This is an area where midrange blends into control.
However, control is more likely to finish the opponent with what I call a
perpetual threat – mana-intensive cards such as Firemane Angel, Eternal
Dragon, Genesis, Urza's Factory, or Haakon, Stromgald Scourge. A midrange
deck normally uses a reset for the tempo with the intention of coming out
even or ahead.
The reset buttons midrange enjoys most are potentially
asymmetrical ones like Pernicious Deed and Wildfire that are friendly
toward large creatures. These cards can often be played proactively,
leaving the opponent crippled and ripe for fatty beatdown. Sometimes, the
creatures even have some kind of synergy with resetting the board, such as
the Kamigawa Dragons.
This is a midrange deck that plays 3 different reset
buttons in Wave of Reckoning, Armageddon, and Serenity, and usually comes
out way ahead on each of them. Many decks are seriously crippled by at
least one of those three board-wrecking cards. |
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