4
Hidden Horror
4 Nether Spirit
4 Rootwater Thief
4 Unmask
4 Lobotomy
4 Parallax Nexus
4 Recoil
4 Undermine
4 Memory Lapse
1
Spreading Plague
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Dark Ritual
4 Underground River
1 Dust Bowl
6 Islands
7 Swamps |
  Rogue
Discard.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
The concept for the deck starts out with utilizing black better in
the Type 2 environment. Black has always been a great creature removal
color, but I wanted to focus on its discard advantages to take care of
the hard to deal with Blastoderm. Taking the control angle of discard
led me to consider blue as a secondary color since there is so much
color hosing going on in sideboards and the need to have bounce and
counterspell answers to make the deck more robust.
With the choice of colors made, the time to choose cards had arrived. My
first instincts were to build an interesting deck around library
manipulation. The concept was to use Memory Lapse, Painful Memories,
Agonizing Memories and some card that penalizes the user for drawing
cards. This was an interesting idea that removed threats from my
opponents hand while keeping them to the same 8-10 cards for much of the
game. The cards used for this are a bit slow, so the idea didn't pan out
that well.
My next plan was to consider Lobotomy. This card is a bit expensive, but
can be gold when played at the right time and can even be cast turn two
with the help of a dark ritual. The obvious benefit of Lobotomy is to
remove the big stuff from their hand AND deck (Wrath, Rout, Blastoderm,
Linn Sivvi, Fires of Yavimaya, Nether Spirit etc...). The fact that this
card can remove all copies of the card from the game is pretty big since
so many decks, although technically not combo decks, do rely heavily on
one kill card and most decks run four of any given card.
So far the deck has Lobotomy, and I kept Memory lapse as an interesting
counterspell because of the draw slowing abilities and only 1 blue mana
requirement. Undermine is an obvious choice to round out the
counterspell aspect of the deck and to keep your opponents life total
quickly plummeting. Now on to creatures. To continue with the idea of
removing key cards from the users library, I added in Rootwater Thief as
a blue creature, potential flyer, 1/2 (avoids plague spitter), and
built-in deck ruiner. Looking through the pool of often-overlooked sixth
edition cards, Hidden Horror emerged as an awesome creature especially
when combined with Nether Spirit. Turn 1 dark ritual, Hidden Horror and
discard Nether Spirit. Turn 2 you have 5 damage targeting your
opponent's unprotected head and still have open mana to Dark Ritual -
Lobotomy or Memory Lapse their next spell.
To round out the discard pressure I added in Unmask and Parallax Nexus.
Unmask is a great turn one play to see what your opponent has in store
for you and get rid of the card threatening a rainy day on your parade.
Parallax Nexus gives you discard and time advantage and also works well
with Recoil. You can use the Nexus to remove those last 2 cards from
your opponents hand and recoil their dragon and make them discard it.
This gives you a lot of flexibility and also gives you time to fill your
hand with what you need to counter your opponents threats.
2 final cards were added to complete the deck. Vampiric Tutor for
searching and a Spreading Plague to keep creature heavy decks stalled.
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Sideboard
2 Cursed Totem
2 Counterspell
2 Massacre
4 Perish
4 Washout |
