3
Krosan Tusker
4 Eternal Witness
2 Eternal Dragon
4 Astral Slide
4 Wrath of God
4 Oxidize
2 Scrabbling Claws
3 Renewed Faith
3 Decree of Justice
3 Gilded Light
2 Akroma's Vengeance
4 Secluded Steppe
4 Tranquil Thicket
7 Forest
7 Plains
4 Temple of the False God |
  Witness
Protection Program.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
With Astral Slide and Eternal Witness you can basically trade in any
cycling card in your hand for any card in your graveyard or even the
cycling card itself. There is no need to pay five for your just-cycled
Eternal Dragon, just wait until your Eternal Witness comes back and
retrieve it to use again. I was especially excited about the prospect of
playing her in deck with my favorite cycling card of all time, Krosan
Tusker. If you can cycle a Tusker to target your Eternal Witness with
Astral Slide—say after blocking and putting damage on the stack—it
is essentially a green Ancestral Recall.
It is especially exciting with utility
cards like Wrath of God. You can cycle a card to remove your Eternal
Witness from the game and cast Wrath of God. At the end of the turn when
the Eternal Witness returns you get to pick up the Wrath of God. The
same is true of Oxidize in the artifact matchup (and eventually true of
Akroma's Vengeance) and Scabbling Claws in the Goblin Bidding and mirror
match.
Here is the build I am currently
testing. I experimented with Break Asunder at first since I could cycle
it and get it back but with crazy artifact decks running around you need
to have Oxidize. You probably want Shamans in the sideboard as well.
Gilded Light may also be just the ticket against the Krark-Clan
Ironworks deck. This build currently has twenty-four cards that cycle
and three cards that draw you a card. Of course, with an Eternal Witness
and an Astral Slide you can cycle/play them all as many times as you
want each game. Over the next week or so as the meta-game for the
post-Fifth Dawn (post-Skullclamp) Standard evolves I will be tinkering
with the numbers and looking for the right blend of cycling and
non-cycling cards and seeing if it has what it takes to keep up with the
new bully on the block. |
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