3 Garza Zol, Plague Queen
4 Rune Snag
4 Aether Burst
4 Flame Burst
4 Surging Dementia
4 Surging Flame
4 Surging Aether
4 Insidious Dreams
4 Deep Analysis
1 Reito Lantern
5 Swamp
6 Mountain
6 Island
3 Dimir Aqueduct
2 Rakdos Carnarium
2 Izzet Boilerworks |
   Surge
Protector.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
 One of the neat things about Coldsnap is that
it was designed with Limited in mind. Among the special features are the
“Collect Me” cards, also known as the “Kindle” cards, also known as the
“Plague Rat” cards, also known as Jim. These include the five Ripple
spells. In Triple-Coldsnap booster draft, it's possible, if unlikely, to
get nine or ten of these cards, which will dramatically increase their
power. Of course, in Constructed you'll never have more than four copies
of any of these cards and your deck will, by nature, be significantly
larger. This seriously limits the effectiveness of the Ripple spells by
significantly reducing the odds that there will be a Ripple spell among
the top four cards in your library.
A few weeks ago, I paired Surging Sentinels with the
library-stacking Congregation at Dawn, which made the odds of hitting more
Sentinels with your Ripples a little more likely (say, 100% likely).
Believe it or not, Ripley, you can actually pull off a very similar trick
with the other Surging cards. How? I'm looking at you, Insidious Dreams
from Torment. Like a super-powered Vampiric Tutor, you can, for example,
put all of your Surging Flames on top of your library. All it will cost
you is your hand. To lessen the severity of this, I've turned to another
set of would-be “Collect Me's”, the Bursts from Odyssey. Flame Burst and
Aether Burst join Coldsnap's Rune Snag to form a trio of controllish
spells that, like Haakon, don't really mind being in the graveyard. That
just means that the next one that comes along will be even better! To
replenish your hand, Deep Analysis seemed ideal, since it also works well,
almost twice as well, in your graveyard. Reito Lantern, meanwhile, allows
you to restock your library with your Surging spells, which means that you
can pull off the Insidious Dreams trick multiple times in a single game.
Garza Zol, Plague Queen is a fine finisher and fits the colour scheme, but
mostly I used her because she's new. If you give this deck a whirl, feel
free to swap her out for some other creature, like Crosis, the Purger or
even Cognivore. |
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