  The
Round Table.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Ted played this clever version of a new
Sleight Knight deck type, substituting Distorting Lens for the Sleight
of Mind. What is Sleight Knight?
Ted is playing a variant of Sleight Knight that allows
him to ignore Blue in favor of adding Black. Black gives many more options
for color changing fun, and the Distorting Lens works really well. Against
him, I saw a lot of cards, and afterwards, I spoke with him about his
deck, which he calls The Round Table. Here are the cards that I know he is
running:
Distorting Lens
Silver Knight
Terror
Western Paladin
White Knight
Lightning Greaves
Dakmor Lancer
Eastern Paladin
Rend Flesh
That's a lot of cards. As you can see, he uses a lot of
different color hosers and then adds the Distorting Lens. Against me, for
example, he used the Distorting Lens to turn my newly played Thornscape
Battlemage Red so that his Silver Knight would not die to the damage it
dealt.
If there is one issue I see here, it's that there aren't
many White cards. Ted admitted that he didn't have any of the White
paladins to add, but we have no limitations here, so let's start there.
A nice breakdown gives me 32 cards, so I don't have that
much room for other options.
It seems to me that this deck is essentially an aggro
deck with a twist. As such, I want to find some nice, cheap one-drops. I
want to keep the deck popping and playing cards regularly.
If this deck used actual Sleight of Mind to work, then
it could not run cards like Empty-Shrine Kannushi. The text does not
mention a specific color, so Sleight of Mind could not change it. However,
with Distorting Lens, you are just changing the color of an opposing
creature or other permanent so it works. As such, I throw in a full set of
Kannushis.
Here we have a modified version of Ted_OBedlam's deck.
It should play like an aggro deck with Lightning Greaves to accelerate
your attacks and protect your creatures, while you are more likely to get
hits in with the aggro creatures due to protection and the Distorting
Lens.
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