1 Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper
4 Saffi Eriksdotter
4 Dark Confidant
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Soul Warden
2 Elves of Deep Shadow
3 Crypt Champion
4 Wall of Roots
2 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
1 Nekrataal
4 Loxodon Hierarch
4 Chord of Calling
1 Congregation at Dawn
2 Mortify
1 Golgari Rot Farm
3 Forest
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Brushland
4 Temple Garden
3 Godless Shrine
4 Overgrown Tomb
2 Gemstone Mine
1 Pendelhaven
1 Llanowar Wastes
SIDEBOARD:
1 Nightmare Void
2 Persecute
1 Harmonic Sliver
4 Castigate
2 Spike Feeder
2 Carven Caryatid
3 Deathmark |
   Project
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Description of deck by
Brian David-Marshall
(quoted):
The deck revolves around the Saffi/Crypt
Champion combo which "does nothing by itself," laughed Levy.
The way the 'do-nothing' engine works is that you play
an unenhanced (meaning you cast it without playing red) Crypt Champion
with Saffi in play. With his come-into-play triggers on the stack, you
sacrifice Saffi targeting the in-play Champion. When the Champion gets to
return a creature to play, you choose the freshly binned Saffi and
continue this process ad infinitum when the Crypt Champion returns thanks
to Saffi's ability.
If you want the engine to actually go somewhere and not
just rev noisily in the street, you need to shift it into gear with
something like Soul Warden to gain infinite life, Teysa, Orzhov Scion to
make infinite tokens, or - impossibly enough - Sek'Kuar Deathkeeper to
make infinite hasty tokens. Sek'Kuar is not just there as a combo piece
though, it also serves as a silver bullet for the Chord of Calling.
If you are playing against a control deck and they Wrath
you, explained the deck's designer Geoffrey Siron, "they just lose if you
Chord for Deathkeeper."
I think the deck can be reeeeally good, offered Levy as
if saying it is currently not so. "I think it needed a couple more weeks
of playtesting."
The deck came from an idea by Vincent Lemoine, which was
promptly turned into a MTGO decklist by Siron. He was able to test the
deck in the casual rooms but the deck was not a possibility for the 8-man
queues or the PEs by any stretch of the imagination.
You don't have enough time to play the deck in
tournament, Siron explained although that was an attraction for the
players who chose the deck. So many of the decks that players were testing
in MTGO tournaments were weakened by exposure but almost no one had seen
this monster lumber into action.
Interestingly, Levy felt that the deck had a puncher's
chance at beating Boros should he run the table with a still
as-of-yet-unsettled Extended deck and end up in the Top 8. The Hierarchs,
Wall of Roots, and Soul Warden all give the deck time to set up its combo
with Spike Feeders and Caryatids coming in from the board for good
measure. If you are looking for something fun and different to combat the
oncoming swarm of Boros decks, this may be something you want to tinker
with for the next couple of weeks.
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