Lands:
4 Temple of the False God
4 Flooded Strand
8 Plains
10 Island
Creatures:
4 Leonin Abunas
Other Spells:
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Concentrate
4 Wrath of God
4 Discombobulate
4 Panoptic Mirror
4 Talisman of Progress
2 Oblivion Stone
4 Decree of Justice
2 Pulse of the Fields
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Years Bad Luck.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
My ideal turn sequence would go a little something like this:
Turn one: Land, Chrome Mox, and Vedalken Engineer
Turn two: Land, make five mana, and play Panoptic Mirror
Turn three: Stack Mirror and imprint Plow Under, Plow you Under
Turn four: Do a little dance
Unfortunately, if I was on the play I would need seven of my first nine
cards to line up perfectly in order to pull that draw off and it doesn't
get significantly easier at seven of ten on the draw. Still, I am drawn
to shiny objects and what is shiner than the Panoptic Mirror? We may not
have Ancestral Recall and Accumulated Knowledge to work with but there
is still abundant abuseable card drawing to work with.
Thirst for Knowledge and Concentrate are both going into any deck I
design with the Mirror. I am tempted to get greedy and include Rush of
Knowledge. Who doesn't want to draw five cards a turn? I will content
myself with topping out at three—that feels just greedy enough. A
renewable Wrath of God seems like a natural addition—especially in the
face of Skullclamps and Oversold Cemeteries.
One of the things holding many artifacts back in the new Standard is the
abundant hatred running around the format in anticipation of Skullclamps
and Ravager-Affinity decks. Now stepping up to the plate…Leonin Abunas.
The deck I designed does not have the explosiveness of a deck with
Standard's answer to Mishra's Workshop but the Talismans allow you to
play out a turn three hard-to-kill Abunas and follow it with a
harder-to-kill Panoptic Mirror.
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