4
Academy Rector
4 Skirge Familiar
4 Grim Monolith
3 Voltaic Key
3 Tooth of Ramos
4 Soul Feast
4 Vampiric Tutor
2 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Dark Ritual
3 Yawgmoth's Bargain
3 Renounce
5
Plains
4 Peat Bog
4 Phyrexian Tower
3 Remote Farm
6 Swamp
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  Sabre
Bargain.
Description of deck by Aaron
Forsythe @ www.wizards.com
(quoted):
 Ah,
the dreaded Bargain deck.
Where it's legal: Yawgmoth's Bargain is currently banned in
Extended, banned in Type 1.5, and restricted in Type 1. Feel free to
play with Skirge Familiar in any of those formats, although I wouldn't
expect anything exciting. All jokes aside, when this combo was legal in
Standard back in 1999, it was a force to be reckoned with.
How it works: The Bargain lets you pay one life to draw one card.
The Skirge lets you discard one card to get one black mana. Simple. One
life = one black mana. Harkens back to Channel. No, it isn't infinite,
but it generates enough mana to kill the opponent in one turn.
What to do with the mana: The worst card in the prototypical
Bargain deck is also the "kill card": Soul Feast. It works well because
it hits the opponent for four life, and nets you four life, which
translates into cards and mana thanks to the engine. The ultra-powerful
Yawgmoth's Will allows reuse of Soul Feasts, Dark Rituals, and other
goodies for even more card advantage.
Here is the "Sabre Bargain" deck played by Jon Finkel in the Magic
Invitational in Kuala Lumpur in 1999. Academy Rector helps get the
Bargain in play, and Renounce can turn excess permanents into life to
fuel more cards and mana.
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SIDEBOARD
4 Duress
4 Phyrexian Negator
3 Perish
2 Disenchant
1 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Massacre |
