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Lands:
1 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
2 Underground River
4 Underground Sea
2 Undiscovered Paradise
3 Volcanic Island

Creatures:
1 Aerial Caravan
2 Worldgorger Dragon

Other Spells:
1 Abeyance
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Animate Dead
1 Black Lotus
3 Buried Alive
3 Cunning Wish
4 Dance of the Dead
2 Defense Grid
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Entomb
3 Force of Will
3 Intuition
1 Mana Crypt
3 Mana Leak
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Twister
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Wheel of Fortune

SIDEBOARD:
1 Abeyance
2 Defense Grid
1 Misdirection
3 Pernicious Deed
4 Red Elemental Blast
1 Rushing River
1 Stroke of Genius
2 Verdant Force

Worldgorger Dragon Combo.

Description of deck by Aaron Forsythe @ www.wizards.com (quoted):
First the Worldgorger Dragon needs to be in your graveyard (via Careful Study, Entomb, Buried Alive, or other such cards). Play Animate Dead, which turns into a local enchantment that pulls target creature out of any graveyard into play (meaning the Dragon). The Dragon comes into play, and summarily removes all of your other permanents from the game, including the Animate Dead and whatever lands (or Moxes) you have in play.

When Animate Dead leaves play, however, the creature it was enchanting is destroyed. The Dragon dies. And when the Dragon leaves play, all the permanents it had removed come back into play, including your lands (untapped), and the Animate Dead. Animate Dead pulls the Dragon back out of the graveyard, its comes-into-play ability triggers--at which point you can tap your lands for mana and then everything but the Dragon is removed from the game… again. Repeat. You net an amount of mana per cycle equal to what your mana sources can produce.

What to do with the mana: If you have no way of stopping the cycle, it will continue indefinitely, ending the game in a draw. Fortunately there are several easy ways to stop it. One is to have an instant-speed kill card in your hand, such as Ghitu Fire or Stroke of Genius. That way you can respond to any of the numerous triggers that occur during the combo with the spell once you accumulate 30+ mana, and win the game. Another option is to have an instant-speed tutor effect in your hand that can find your kill card. Cunning Wish, Intuition, and Whispers of the Muse (reusable for 5U with buyback) can all get what you need to win. The final option is to have a different target in the graveyard available for the Animate Dead once you have gone through the cycle enough times. Bringing out Ambassador Laquatus with 500 mana in your pool is a good way to eliminate your opponent's library. Many players like the Mercadian Masques card Aerial Caravan, which allows you to remove cards off the top of your library until you find the kill card.

Here is a deck from the forums of themanadrain.com, a popular Type 1 website. Note that this deck is stocked to the gills with power cards; a Worldgorger Dragon deck doesn’t necessarily need all these restricted cards, but this build has a reasonable chance of winning on the first or second turn.

 

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by dicemanX, found on www.magicthegathering.com

INFINITY: Worldgorger Dragon / Animate Dead

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