Lands:
1 Forest
4 Swamp
3 Desert
4 Gilt-leaf Palace
4 Llanowar Wastes
3 Reflecting Pool
3 Treetop Village
1 Pendelhaven
1 Urborg, Tomb Of Yawgmoth
Creatures:
3 Chameleon Colossus
4 Dusk Urchins
1 Garza's Assassin
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Murderous Redcap
4 Scarblade Elite
4 Tarmogoyf
Other Spells:
3 Edge Of Autumn
2 Primal Command
3 Profane Command
4 Nameless Inversion
Sideboard:
1 Chameleon Colossus
2 Cloudthresher
2 Faerie Macabre
3 Krosan Grip
3 Damnation
1 Primal Command
3 Thoughtseize |
  Ouphes
& Assassins.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
...Let me also attest to the ridiculousness of
Dusk Urchins with Scarscale Ritual; the Urchins are fantastic by
themselves, but in conjunction with the Ritual you draw a ridiculous
number of cards. In fact, watching Jay keep his hand flush from the
Urchins during the Grinder inspired me to retool my Assassins deck.
Here’s what I ended up pulling together [see decklist].
I ran a few games with it and it seemed to play much
smoother - the Urchins really kicked the deck up a notch by keeping the
cards flowing and giving you a solid chump blocker early on. Profane
Command is awesome, of course - it gives the deck that extra reach that
it was sorely lacking to punch through at the end. The one glaring
mistake I didn’t notice at the time was running 3 Colossus but 4 Redcap
- what was I thinking? I like the Redcaps, but they don’t hold a candle
to Colossus and they’re both assassins; if I’m going to cut one down to
three in the four slot, I made the wrong call here.
By the time I got this deck fixed it was too late to
try another Grinder, so I decide to run the clock out by playing this
deck some more.
Then Pete comes up to me with a playset of the
annoyingly hard-to-find Green sorcery* and now I can build the thing -
argh! I throw it together and run it a few times, but I don’t get a good
feeling from it. I have to admit I don’t give it much of a chance, but
the time is running short. I decide to go with Assassins.
However, on the drive home, I start to second guess
myself. Can the Assassin deck lay the wood to Public Enemy #1, the
Faerie Menace? Can that hard-to-find Green sorcery deck beat Faeries?
Cripes, why aren’t my two finalist deck choices no-brainers to beat
Faeries? |
