4 Dimir Infiltrator
1 Jushi Apprentice
1 Floating-Dream Zubera
4 Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch
4 Drift of Phantasms
1 Vedalken Plotter
2 Dimir House Guard
2 Petrahydrox
1 Stratozeppelid
1 Netherborn Phalanx
1 Zephyr Spirit
1 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
4 Now I Know My ABC's
3 Mizzium Transreliquat
2 Bloodletter Quill
1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
1 Annex
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Loxodon Warhammer
1 Genju of the Spires
2 Underground River
2 Sulfurous Springs
2 Mountain
2 Swamp
2 Shivan Reef
4 Steam Vents
2 Izzet Boilerworks
4 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Quicksand
1 Nivix, Aerie of the Firemind
1 Duskmantle, House of Shadow |
   Quetzalcoatl's
Jungle-Based Tax Haven.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
 There is one situation where Zephyr Spirit
shines brighter than the Conclave's Blessing. No, not in your fireplace.
In a deck with Unhinged's Now I Know My ABC's! This card reads: At the
beginning of your upkeep, if you control permanents with names that
include all twenty-six letters of the English alphabet, you win the
game. Unfortunately for Conclave's Blessing, too many of its letters
overlap with the letters of Now I Know My ABC's itself. The difference
between Conclave's Blessing and Zephyr Spirit boils down to this: LVEG
vs. ZEPHRT.
I'll take ZEPHRT every time.
Now I Know My ABC's is a card that got a pair of big boosts from two
Ravnica block Guilds - the gizmometers of the Izzet League and the
shadowy plotters of House Dimir. The Izzet cards all have names that'd
make a Scrabble player weep with joy. Petrahydrox, Stratozeppelid,
Mizzium Transreliquat, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind. The Dimir, on the other
hand, provide you with the tutoring power of the Transmute cards. Drift
of Phantasms fetches Now I Know My ABC's. If you need a “Q”, Transmute
for Bloodletter Quill. Need a “Z” and a “V”? Fetch Vedalken Plotter and
trade a Swamp for your opponent's Orzhov Basilica. Kamigawa block also
has some great cards for Now I Know My ABC's deck. Kaijin of the
Vanishing Touch contains over half the alphabet – literally!
I made the deck using the Standard card pool as a bit of an extra
challenge. Feel free to use whatever cards you have available, including
other Unhinged cards like the Man With No Name and the Big Long Name
Elemental.
There are a number of game-winning scenarios that include four cards
plus Now I Know My ABC's. Too many to list. After doing some figuring, I
found a couple of three-card plus Now I Know My ABC's combos.
Now I Know My ABC's + Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch + Mizzium
Transreliquat + Petrahydrox.
Now I Know My ABC's + Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch + Bloodletter Quill
+ Teferi's Puzzle Box.
The only three-card plus Now I Know My ABC's combo, where one of the
three cards is a land, is Now I Know My ABC's + Mizzium Transreliquat +
Genju of the Spires + Nivix, Aerie of the Firemind. Unfortunately, due
to the nature of the deck, Nivix has no functionality beyond adding
colourless mana. There just isn't any room for a bunch of instants and
sorceries. Still, I included a single copy, just for fun.
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