4
Phage the Untouchable
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Chainer's Edict
4 Diabolic Tutor
4 Endless Whispers
4 Innocent Blood
2 Insidious Dreams
4 Mutilate
2 Talisman of Dominance
2 Talisman of Indulgence
22 Swamp
4 Cabal Coffers |
 Self-Phagellation.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Some of you figured this out the second you saw the card. That's
because some of you look at every single card you find and ask “Is
this the one that finally pulls off the Phage combo?” One of the
recent Holy Grails of combo Magic has been finding the way to win the
game by forcing your opponent to put Phage the Untouchable into play in
some unorthodox manner. It was tried with Confusion in the Ranks and
Animate Dead, but that didn't work. It was tried with Mind Theft, but
that card was an April Fool's Day joke. Over the past two weeks, I've
received a bunch of emails advising me to put a copy of Phage into my
creatureless (and thus Bribery-proof) Magic Online Prismatic deck. “It's
nice to have them play Bribery and miss,” they said, “but it's even
better when the only creature for them to take is Phage—so they lose!”
That doesn't work either, because the person playing Bribery can choose
to not find a creature at all no matter how many creatures are actually
in your deck. (Check out the glossary entry for “Search” in the Comp
Rules.) Endless Whispers, however, is the card that achieves the dream.
You still have to hardcast Phage, and
do it while Endless Whispers is in play. After that, you can pretty much
do anything you want. The quick win is to sacrifice Phage immediately to
Spawning Pit or Cabal Therapy or anything else. High Market! Marjhan!
Thelonite Druid! Viscerid Drone! But more likely Spawning Pit or Cabal
Therapy. The best part is that you don't necessarily need that third
piece of the puzzle. Just attack with Phage. Your opponent can't leave
it unblocked or he'll lose. He can't block and kill it or he'll lose. So
he's got to chump-block Phage forever, and at the end of every turn, you
get to bring the speed bump back into play on your side. How long can
anyone keep that up? This tactic will be used by people who think making
your opponent squirm is even better than making your opponent lose. |
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