Lands:
3 Academy Ruins
4 Arcane Sanctum
5 Island
4 Seat of the Synod
7 Swamp
4 Vault of Whispers
Creatures:
4 Trinket Mage
Other Spells:
1 Chalice of the Void
4 Compulsive Research
3 Darkblast
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Executioner's Capsule
4 Raven's Crime
1 Sigil of Distinction
3 Spellweaver Helix
4 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Time Stretch
4 Wretched Banquet |
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Armstrong.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
 Ready to take infinite turns? The deck is, at
its core, a blue-black control deck. It plays removal spells, various
ways to control the board, and a healthy dose of card draw. What makes
this deck very different is its late game plan. Once you draw a second
Raven's Crime, you play a Spellweaver Helix, imprinting Raven's Crime
and Time Stretch. You can then play the second Raven's Crime and take an
additional two turns. Every land you draw or have in hand becomes a Time
Stretch. Eventually you draw an Academy Ruins and use it to put artifact
lands on the top of your library. Hence, you have an unlimited number of
turns to find a way to win.
The combo here is Time Stretch, Spellweaver Helix, and
Raven's Crime.
I decided that the deck should play a full playset of
each of the on-color artifact lands. They make our Thirst for Knowledge
much better, and they maximize our chances of having one to use with
Raven's Crime and Academy Ruins once we combo.
The deck plays Arcane Sanctum because it fixes our
mana and allows us to set an Explosives off for 3, this is surprisingly
important. The white mana also gives us more sideboard options.
Academy Ruins is working extra hard here. I wanted to
play enough copies of Academy Ruins to fight through other blue decks
copies. Drawing a second copy isn't the end of the world because it can
be easily discarded to your Compulsive Research.
The deck is surprisingly elegant. It doesn't play a
single two-drop, so in most matches you want to be setting your Chalice
of the Void at two counters. This isn't new tech; Kenny Öberg played a
Chalice of the Void deck that lacked two-drops and Top 8ed a Pro Tour
and a Grand Prix with it. It won't come as a surprise to most people
that Chalice for 2 is very powerful against most decks in Extended. |
