Lands:
4 Island
7 Mountain
5 Swamp
4 Terramorphic Expanse
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Urza's Factory
Creatures:
3 Bonesplitter Sliver
3 Homing Sliver
4 Mishra, Artificer Prodigy
1 Psionic Sliver
4 Sedge Sliver
1 Shadow Sliver
4 Sliversmith
4 Two-Headed Sliver
4 Venser's Sliver
Other Spells:
3 Coat of Arms
2 Conspiracy
4 Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII |
   Slivercycling
Mishra.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
One thing I like to do is riff on existing
deck ideas, or merge two deck ideas into one. I guess that's two things.
Well, last week I built a deck that used Cloud Key to reduce the cost of
your other artifacts, like Coalition Relic and Gauntlet of Power. The
deck could generate a ton of mana, which it could use to play even more
artifacts or play and replay Clockspinning. I mentioned that I had
Mishra, Artificer Prodigy in the deck for a while, because, hey, he
seems like a good card to include in an artifact-heavy deck. Ultimately,
I cut him because I wanted to make the most of Gauntlet of Power and a
three-colour creature didn't seem to fit in with that plan. I wasn't
entirely satisfied, however, because it seemed like a waste to have all
those Gauntlets of Power but so few blue creatures. Only later did I
realize that I could have had my cake and ate it, too. Which card in
Time Spiral block is an artifact and (sort of) a blue creature? Other
than Chronatog Totem? Why, Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII, of course. Okay,
it's not really a blue creature, but it can make blue creatures.
To make up for their exclusion from last week's decks,
I'm going to use both Mishra and Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII in the same
deck this week. Since Slivers are just about the hottest things going
right now, I think I'll use some of them, too. The main reasons to add
Mishra to a Sliver deck are Sliversmith, Venser's Sliver, and Coat of
Arms. Venser's Sliver isn't terribly exciting, but it gets much better
when you get two of them for the price of one. Admittedly, this isn't
saying much.
With Mishra slated for inclusion, the deck is going to
be blue, black, and red. That gives us plenty of Sliver options. The red
Slivers seemed to offer the best options (and the nicest mana curve), so
I went with Two-Headed, Sedge, Homing, and Bonesplitter Slivers, with a
single Shadow Sliver and Psionic Sliver as a slivercycling target.
Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII works well with Coat of
Arms, obviously, but it also lets you pump out Sliver tokens if you have
a Conspiracy in play. Hivestone is a more mana-efficient way to turn
your non-Slivers into Slivers, but Conspiracy lets you tutor for Mishra
with a Homing Sliver, which I happen to think is pretty cool. |
