4 Boros Swiftblade
3 Veteran Armorer
1 Kitsune Loreweaver
4 Tallowisp
4 Kabuto Moth
4 Mannichi, the Fevered Dream
3 Moonlit Strider
4 Strange Inversion
3 Conclave's Blessing
2 Pacifism
1 Galvanic Arc
1 Indomitable Will
3 Promise of Bunrei
9 Plains
8 Mountain
4 Sacred Foundry
2 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion |
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Doublingers.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Conclave's Blessing is my choice for the title
of Worst Card in Ravnica. I don't think it's even close. It's late in
the fourth quarter, folks, and Conclave's Blessing is running up the
score. So of course I'm going to build a deck around it. A four-mana
enchantment that might do absolutely nothing? That seems breakable. What
could be better than a creature with a really high toughness?
“Playing videogames?”
“Winning the lottery?”
“Having a girlfriend?”
No, you imaginary question-answering people: a creature with a really
high power!
I started with the power-toughness swapping package of Mannichi, the
Fevered Dream and Strange Inversion. This led me to Tallowisp, whose
spiritcraft trigger conveniently lets me fetch Conclave's Blessing (as
well as some good enchantments). It's the task it was born to perform!
Kabuto Moth and Moonlit Strider were natural inclusions after that,
since they are Spirits and have high toughness and/or the ability to
protect my guys. Boros Swiftblade is the creature whose power and
toughness I was most interested in switching. He hates it when I do
that, so I do it just to bug him. Really, though, it's the Double Strike
that gets me really excited. If you can get him up to a 1/10 and then
switch him, all it takes is one hit to knock your opponent from twenty
to zero.
I really wanted Kitsune Loreweaver to be good in this deck.
Unfortunately, it's just too mana-intensive. I'm sorry, I meant,
waaaaaay too mana intensive. And even if you have the mana, you have to
have a full hand, too. This situation almost never arose, even when the
deck sported a full set of Boros “Mr.” Garrisons and Gift of Estates. It
can still be randomly good (I had him up to 2/17 once), but in the end I
cut most of them in favour of Veteran Armorers. Promise of Bunrei,
meanwhile, helps you recover from mass removal while powering up your
Conclave's Blessings. As if they needed it!
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