4
Twisted Abomination
2 Clutch of Undeath
2 Crown of Suspicion
4 Hammer of Bogardan
2 Infectious Rage
4 Lethal Vapors
4 Lingering Death
4 Patriarch's Desire
1 Planar Chaos
4 Skull of Orm
1
Sulfuric Vortex
1 Traveling Plague
3 Uncontrolled Infestation
13 Swamp
2 Mountain
4 Tainted Peak
1 Temple of the
False God
4 Urborg Volcano |
  Orm
Harm.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
Nah, none of that's true. (I specify this because I've received some
scary email recently. Some people foolishly have their sarcasm detectors
set to "low" when reading this column.) I wanted to write about Skull of
Orm for two reasons: 1) Some people are decrying it as the worst card in
Eighth Edition, and 2) It makes a pretty cool combo with Lethal Vapors.
That combo's not foolproof, of course. At some point, if your opponent
ever wants to play creatures, he or she will give up a future turn to
drop as many creatures onto the table at once as is possible. Then you
have two turns to deal with them. If they're small, Ormable enchantments
like Crown of Suspicion and Infectious Rage can sweep them away. If
they're a little bigger, enchantments such as Patriarch's Desire and
Clutch of Undeath do the trick. And perhaps my favorite bit of recursion
is to bring back Lingering Death over and over. I know what you're
thinking. The two-card combo of Skull of Orm plus Lingering Death does
in two turns what the single card Predator, Flagship does in one. That's
true. But Predator doesn't have cool mini-tusk things, now does it?
As long as we're recurring enchantments, Planar Chaos and Uncontrolled
Infestation seem like fine goofy additions to the deck. All this
malarkey pretty much adds up to an oddball way to replace Ensnaring
Bridge in a Hammer of Bogardan deck - which is really strange, because
Ensnaring Bridge reappears in Eighth Edition. Hey, if my top priority
was to make sense, would I be making Skull of Orm decks?
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