Hey everyone! This is an original deck idea (as far as I know anyway), and was built by a friend of mine who has since exited the game. This is the deck list and it is correct to the best of my knowledge and memory:
The plan is overwhelm your opponent with mana advantage immediately and Unleash as many Bombs as possible. You kill your opponent with, Pox, Small Pox, and using cards such as Wheel, Balance and Twister to abuse Liliana's Caress. Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas is a back up win. Balance, Small Pox, and Pox also serve as disruption through discard, creature removal and land destruction. This list can also combo out T1 despite an opposing force of will, as it has so much mana a 0 cost and multiple bombs are usually present. I have seen an entire table full of people lose 76 life on the first turn to this combo.
I would like to hear the communities thoughts as to the validity of this decklist. What decks would this have poor and good matchups with and possibly some card suggestions to make it more meta (bounce, basic lands etc.)? And finally could it be a tournament worthy deck post revisions?
Cool idea; Crucible of Worlds seems good in this kind of deck, allowing you to get value out of sacrificed lands. I'd probably cut Liliana's Caress and find a stronger win condition like Tinker
I feel like Sol Ring belongs here because of all the colorless mana requirements on your key cards.
Yeah there's no Mana Crypt either(which I would probably put in first). I think he was going for all colored mana sources / all moxen and loti only(for flavor/theme).
Also, I'm concerned as to whether there are enough lands to support 4x Mox Diamond.
Good point and thought the same thing. Generally 20+ lands would be necessary to support 4x Diamond? I have play tested the list and while it's not perfect, it's much better than you'd think it would be. All of the draw 7's and land destruction make it less of an issue. Whether 4x Diamond would be better than 1x Mana Crypt
1x Sol Ring 2x Cabal Ritual is questionable.
Cool idea; Crucible of Worlds seems good in this kind of deck, allowing you to get value out of sacrificed lands. I'd probably cut Liliana's Caress and find a stronger win condition like Tinker.
Thank you.
Unfortunately the combo doesn't REALLY work all that well without Liliana's Caress since now you have to Pox your opponent to death without it, or rely on tezzelnutz; which is working too hard to win the game imho. So taking those out would be affecting the combo heavily.
You could easily take out something like Tezzeret and put a robot in if you wanted to. This was just his vintage "Johnny combo" deck, hence no Blightsteel Colossus, Tendrils of Agony, Time Vault etc. No doubt it's one of the best win cons going right now.
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1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
4 Chrome Mox
4 Mox Diamond
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Opal
1 Lotus Petal
1 Memory Jar
Sorcery:18
1 Mind's Desire
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Timetwister
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Tinker
1 Windfall
1 Time Walk
1 Regrowth
1 Balance
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Pox
4 Small Pox
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Gifts Ungiven
4 Dark Ritual
Enchantment:4
4 Liliana's Caress
Planeswalker:1
1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
Land:12
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Underground Sea
1 Tundra
1 Tropical Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Scrubland
1 Bayou
1 Badlands
1 Polluted Delta
1 Marsh Flats
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Bloodstained Mire
The plan is overwhelm your opponent with mana advantage immediately and Unleash as many Bombs as possible. You kill your opponent with, Pox, Small Pox, and using cards such as Wheel, Balance and Twister to abuse Liliana's Caress. Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas is a back up win. Balance, Small Pox, and Pox also serve as disruption through discard, creature removal and land destruction. This list can also combo out T1 despite an opposing force of will, as it has so much mana a 0 cost and multiple bombs are usually present. I have seen an entire table full of people lose 76 life on the first turn to this combo.
I would like to hear the communities thoughts as to the validity of this decklist. What decks would this have poor and good matchups with and possibly some card suggestions to make it more meta (bounce, basic lands etc.)? And finally could it be a tournament worthy deck post revisions?
Yup. Being on the play against Stax looks rough too.
Also, I'm concerned as to whether there are enough lands to support 4x Mox Diamond.
Yeah there's no Mana Crypt either(which I would probably put in first). I think he was going for all colored mana sources / all moxen and loti only(for flavor/theme).
Good point and thought the same thing. Generally 20+ lands would be necessary to support 4x Diamond? I have play tested the list and while it's not perfect, it's much better than you'd think it would be. All of the draw 7's and land destruction make it less of an issue. Whether 4x Diamond would be better than 1x Mana Crypt
1x Sol Ring 2x Cabal Ritual is questionable.
Thank you.
Unfortunately the combo doesn't REALLY work all that well without Liliana's Caress since now you have to Pox your opponent to death without it, or rely on tezzelnutz; which is working too hard to win the game imho. So taking those out would be affecting the combo heavily.
You could easily take out something like Tezzeret and put a robot in if you wanted to. This was just his vintage "Johnny combo" deck, hence no Blightsteel Colossus, Tendrils of Agony, Time Vault etc. No doubt it's one of the best win cons going right now.