You have a mountain, a swamp and a forbidden orchird in play, and a glacial ray in your graveyard. Play Toshi, giving your oponent a 1/1 spirit.
Next turn: Play a mountain. Play the glacial ray (making sure to cast it with the forbidden orchird), and kill the 1/1 created last turn. Return the other glacial ray to your hand, and then deal two damage to a creature of player. It's basically an automatic 2 damage per turn starting on turn four.
WOW!
Oh, wait, I can Magmajet each turn starting turn 3 (2 with chrome mox) thanks to sceptor. Next?
Gifts ungiven brokenness depends on black and blue's efficient cheap instants, and seems dirrectly inferior to B/R splicing with glacial ray.
Step 1: Draw Toshi, play him.
Step 2: Draw Glacial ray.
Step 3: Draw a lava spike or something, spike your opponent spliced with the ray; if you have 3 left, do it again.
Black shoals almost garentee you'll be able to use his ability pretty quickly and effectively, even game-endingly. 5 mana, you have toshi, a shoal, and a glacial ray with a lava spike in the graveyard, that's 7 damage to their head and a fattie killed. Even better if you have 7 mana available, as you can do 5 to the head, and then later cast the shoal again to kill another creature.
Biggest problem: The deck relies on a legend, who though easy to kill in the mirror, is easily killed in the mirror (glacial rays, you never play a toshi to kill a toshi).
come on, stop thinking inside the box everyone. Trying to force this guy into MBC or some such is like trying to force Kiki-Jiki ingto Big Red. This guys deserves his own style deck.
Or MBC could be edited to work with this guy. In T2, MBC runs lots of removal, and with a few more instants, this guy is an several times eternal witness. And he has three toughness on defense or when blocked. MBC w/Deathcloud may not run him, but MBC will see him...
I don't know if ravager would be in very good shape if you e-bolt 2 of thier guys with 1 e-bolt, then flash back an echoing decay.
On turn 4. Even if you've gone first, and moxed it out 2nd turn, it's still third turn. Which, while solid, is pretty crappy against most other decks. Big Red would eat you alive, while Pyrite spellbombs in affinity make you afraid to play Toshi...
4x Consuming Vortex
4x Dampen Thought
4x Reach Through Mists
4x Thief of Hope
4x Nezumi Shortfang
3x Black Shoal
2x Blue Genju
2x Kokusho
3x Big Black Hand Denial Arcane demon
4x Toshiro
2x Eerie Procession
4x Waterveil Cavern
2x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
2x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
9 Swamp
7 Island
Hey, the splice deck may very well be twice as fast as a millstone deck, but when black's got very efficient discard, as well as cranial extraction, you're screwed.
WOW!
Oh, wait, I can Magmajet each turn starting turn 3 (2 with chrome mox) thanks to sceptor. Next?
Step 1: Draw Toshi, play him.
Step 2: Draw Glacial ray.
Step 3: Draw a lava spike or something, spike your opponent spliced with the ray; if you have 3 left, do it again.
Black shoals almost garentee you'll be able to use his ability pretty quickly and effectively, even game-endingly. 5 mana, you have toshi, a shoal, and a glacial ray with a lava spike in the graveyard, that's 7 damage to their head and a fattie killed. Even better if you have 7 mana available, as you can do 5 to the head, and then later cast the shoal again to kill another creature.
Biggest problem: The deck relies on a legend, who though easy to kill in the mirror, is easily killed in the mirror (glacial rays, you never play a toshi to kill a toshi).
Or MBC could be edited to work with this guy. In T2, MBC runs lots of removal, and with a few more instants, this guy is an several times eternal witness. And he has three toughness on defense or when blocked. MBC w/Deathcloud may not run him, but MBC will see him...
They've got the new +0,+1 equipment on it punk.:biggrin3:
On turn 4. Even if you've gone first, and moxed it out 2nd turn, it's still third turn. Which, while solid, is pretty crappy against most other decks. Big Red would eat you alive, while Pyrite spellbombs in affinity make you afraid to play Toshi...
Hey, the splice deck may very well be twice as fast as a millstone deck, but when black's got very efficient discard, as well as cranial extraction, you're screwed.
4 X Toshiro
4X samurai killing rats
4X soulless revival
4X glacial Ray
4X lava spike
4 X Rend Flesh
1-2 mountain genju
1-2 swamp genju