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Eater of Days
1 Leveler
3 Phage the Untouchable
4 Summoner's Egg
3 Viashino Sandstalker
4 Confusion in the Ranks
4 Diabolic Tutor
3 Night's Whisper
3 Nuisance Engine
4 Shatter
3 Slice and Dice
3 Talisman of Indulgence
7 Swamp
7 Mountain
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Great Furnace
4 Urborg Volcano
2 Vault of Whispers |
  Rotten
Eggs.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
The combo was sent in by Matthew Savige. He suggests hatching Phage
out of Summoner's Egg! I certainly hadn't thought of that; as far as I
was concerned, Summoner's Egg was a way to get a Darksteel Colossus or a
Sundering Titan into play on your own side. Diabolical! Matthew's
suggested method of delivery (Fractured Loyalty) didn't work; I didn't
want to have to rely on my opponent targeting my Phage-packed Egg with
something to pass it over. And once my opponent got it, targeting the
unsavory Egg with Shatter or Echoing Ruin would just send it screaming
back to my side of the table before it blew up! Instead, my first
thought was to swap out Fractured Loyalty for Custody Battle. But
enchanting my own Egg with Custody Battle would look awfully suspicious,
and my opponent would get a whole turn to crack it while I was waiting
for my upkeep to hand it over. Finally I hit on my old standby:
Confusion in the Ranks.
With Confusion in the Ranks on the board, your opponent thinks you're
playing a wacky deck. It's fantastic psychological camouflage. When the
time is right, play Summoner's Egg. The Egg's imprint ability triggers
and the Confusion's exchange ability triggers. Exchange the Egg first!
Once it's safely on your opponent's side, imprint Phage face-down, then
immediately blow up the Egg with Shatter. I suppose if you're some sort
of sadistic daredevil you could wait to crack the Egg. Time is on your
side. Just try not to pop with gleeful anticipation. When you do smash
the Egg into a million pieces, the priceless part is written right there
on the card itself: its controller (your opponent) must “turn the
imprinted face-down card face up.” That moment of revelation, that
“what-did-I-get-for-Christmas-oh-no-it's-not-Christmas-it's-Mud-Day
experience”, is what dreams are made of. Evil dreams, but dreams
nonetheless. Sure, your opponent knows he's getting something bad at
this point, but listen closely for the sound of his spirit snapping
anyway. After he puts Phage into play, the Confusion will force an
exchange, so Phage winds up on your side—but since your opponent put it
into play, he controls its comes-into-play ability, and he will lose
when that ability resolves no matter where Phage is by then. It's a
wacky deck packing a dagger-to-the-heart instant win combo.
The Leveler (also suggested by Matthew) and the Eater of Days are there
so your opponent doesn't really know what he's getting out of the Egg.
Neither of them are an instant win like Phage is, but they can be just
as fun. I especially like the idea of busting open the Egg you gave your
opponent to make him put Eater of Days into play. He loses two turns,
and the 9/8 trampling flyer immediately gets exchanged back to your side
of the table!
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