2
Cephalid Retainer
2 Childhood Horror
1 Grinning Demon
1 Mirror Wall
2 Painbringer
3 Psychatog
2 Razortooth Rats
1 Wormfang Drake
2 Careful Study
2 Crown of Suspicion
1 Decree of Pain
1 Divert
2 Ensnaring Bridge
1
Extract
1 Head Games
2 Innocent Blood
1 Mistform Mask
2 Peek
1 Skulltap
1 Throne of Bone
2 Toxic Stench
1 Unhinge
2 Words of Wisdom
12 Island
12 Swamp |
  Tooth
Decay.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
 The first deck was a blue-black construction that focused on
Psychatog. I didn't automatically resort to our toothy little friend,
but it just fit so perfectly with a deck that had a lot of cheap
instants and sorceries to fill the graveyard. It also goes particularly
well with Ensnaring Bridge. (Bridge! Get it? Ah, ask your parents.)
Tenuous connections, you say? Explaining them during a game is part of
the fun! Crown of Suspicion is there for “crown,” Divert made it in on
the basis of its flavor text (“What's the fun of being a dentist if you
can't mess with people's heads?”), Mistform Mask is a pretty good
parallel for the nitrous oxide mask, Throne of Bone is the dentist's
chair, Toxic Stench and Unhinge are art-based inclusions, and Words of
Wisdom is clearly about wisdom teeth. Dentists often use retainers and
mirrors, cause many childhood horrors, and the bad ones are aptly
described as painbringers. (I hope my dentist isn't reading this!) When
building this deck, flavor often trumped design, as I was more concerned
with including as many thematic cards as possible than I was about
building a killer deck. Where you strike that balance depends on how
cutthroat your play group is.
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