Guli?

13 Assassins rivals Seven Samurai for me. So. Fucking. Good.

Ankh of Mishra. Soooo many fetches and gushing these days.

Current decklist: It's pretty awesome, but I may put some draw in there. I was shuffling though our EDH box and realized she didn't have Necropotence in there. We'll see what happens over the next week or so.

Cards that have been amazing:

Asceticism is a bomb. Like, good luck stopping the zombie elemental onslaught.
Zombie Trailblazer has had more assists than any other card in the deck.
Phyrexian Tower Saves the day. I went to dump 8 -1/-1 counters on him and he just went to the general zone, still full. Asshole.

//General (1)

Skullbriar

//Plague Carriers (8)

Llanowar Dead
Elves of Deep Shadow
Garruk, Wildspeaker
Fertilid
Kodama's Reach
Harrow
Explosive Vegetation
Sol Ring

//Dark Pacts (4)

Demonic Tutor
Regrowth
Noxious Revival
Liliana Vess

//Zombies! (14)

Coffin Queen
Grave Titan
Corpse Harvester
Creakwood Ghoul
Noxious Ghoul
Unbreathing Horde
Vulturous Zombie
Zombie Master
Zombie Trailblazer
Army of the Damned
Moan of the Unhallowed
Endless Ranks of the Dead
Zombie Infestation
Vengeful Dead

//Lords of Death (5)

Cemetery Reaper
Death Baron
Lord of the Undead
Undead Warchief
Creakwood Leige

//Spirits of the Forest (11)

Deadwood Treefolk
Ebony Treefolk
Lumberknot
Woodfall Primus
Tarmogoyf
Mortivore
Consumptive Goo
Spiritmonger
Avenger of Zendikar
Vigor
Vengevine

//Reanimation (5)

Grimiore of the Dead
Necromancy
Life/Death
Patriarch's Bidding
Oversold Cemetery

//”Strength of Undeath!” (10)

Hatred
Strength of Night
Triumph of the Hordes
Overrrun
Bad Moon
Parallel Lives
Doubling Season
Asceticism
Rite of Passage
Primal Rage

//Death and Destruction (5)

Call to the Grave
Pernicious Deed
Putrefy
Gravepact
Go for the Throat

//Decomposition (4)

Necrogenesis
Contagion Engine
Contagion Clasp
Dark Heart of the Wood

//Unconsecrated Ground (33)

Shizo, Death's Storehouse
Phyrexian Tower
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
Strip Mine
Ghost Quarter
Golgari Rot Farm
Llanowar Reborn
Unholy Grotto
Barren Moor
Tranquil Thicket
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Llanowar Wastes
Twilight Mire
Verdant Catacombs
Overgrown Tomb
Wooded Cemetary
Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
9 Swamp
7 Forest

Do it up!

They were good games, but burninator can run into some dead draws. I may have to put in some Magma Jets. That's the fun of burninator, though; you can get turn one double Ankh of Mishra or a hand full of Stingscourgers.

Great games.

Setting up the room.

TIVIDAR VS MON, password 12345

Transmute and Reshape need to be there, good call!

I've been playing a little bit with it on a cockatrice and it is AWESOME. You pretty play exactly like a mad scientist. You have a bunch of dudes who eventually make a big monster and you don't know if you'll rampage or have it blow up in your face. So awesome. Especially the Leveler/Maniac combo. Dangerous.

I played DubDub's reanimator build from the Reanimator thread. I went 0-2.

Game one, I hesitated on MMing a Sol Ring that led to Bob which led to a Jace which lead to me falling behind and losing.

Game two, I mull to five but fetch ancestral and Misd his to get back in but run into zero animate targets. Eventually, he tinkers and I steel sabotage, preventing me from using my newly drawn Show and Tell to get my It that Betrays into play. I have an opportunity for a HUGE will and DT for it then realize the deck doesn't run it. I lose the next turn to his Will giving him infinite turns.

The deck was fun to play but felt clunky. I disliked relying solely on Bazaar and Emrakul taunted me a lot. I think I'm going to fiddle with it, adding an Inkwell and Tinker and dropping the spaghetti monster for Will.

My sideboard was shit. Needed more Iona.

DUCK DEATH MATCH IS GO.

Thursday. High Noon-ish. GI and I will trade blows. More details to come.

Ruboonia and I will be battling this evening at 9. Any spectators, the room is DUCK DEATH MATCH, password 12345

EDIT: Looks like it will between 10-11 EST. I'll post when it starts.


EDIT: PART2: 20 more minutes and this will need to be rescheduled. Long wait.

Banned

I've always loved mad scientists and I've been stuck in a lab all semester, so I decided to make an EDH deck about them. It's way more theme than function, especially considering the only mad scientist general is Mishra...

Here's what I came up with. I think its evocative and flavorful, leaving the scientists to create and their creations to destroy. Some concessions to function entered (like top and some of the lands), but for the most part it is pretty pure, even leaving out things like Demonic Tutor because I wanted to avoid the whole demon thing

Enough back-patting. I made this list, so why am I posting it for you guys? Well, like all good scientists, I wanted to put this up for peer review. I'm sure in my relentless gatherer searches I missed something cooler than something in the deck or there is a better version of an interaction I have. In short, I'd really appreciate you guys taking a look at this and pointing out anything that I may have overlooked before I sleeve it up and get crushed while exclaiming, "You'll rue the day you made a mockery of me and my work!".


Here's the list. Thanks for taking the time to look at it. (asterisks are cards I do not yet own)

Weird Science!
Mishra, Master Artificer*

Draw/Discard/Tutor (13)
Forbidden Alchemy
Fact or Fiction
Brainstorm
Frantic Search
Stroke of Genius*
Thirst For Knowledge
Compulsive Research
Deep Analysis
Careful Consideration
Desperate Ravings
Fabricate
Long Term Plans*
Doomsday*

Counters (4)
Circular Logic
Complicate*
Force of Will
Miscalculation*

Scientists and Assistants! (15)
Deranged Assistant
Goblin Flectomancer*
Izzet Chronarch
Laboratory Maniac
Civilized Scholar
Bonded Fetch
Soldevi Machinist*
Treasure Mage
Trinket Mage
Goblin Welder
Grand Architect*
Master Transmuter*
Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
Vedalken Engineer*
Stitchers Apprentice

THEY LIVE! (4)
Frankenstien’s Monster*
Skaab Ruinator
Skaab Goliath
Ludevic's Test Subject

ROBOTS! (9)
Clockwork Dragon*
Wurmcoil Engine*
Inkwell Leviathan
Leveler
Memnarch*
Pentavus
Steel Hellkite
Sundering Titan

Contraptions (12)
Sensei’s Divining Top
Voltaic Key
Contagion Engine*
Engineered Explosives
Nihil Spellbomb
Mindslaver
Mizzet Transreliquat*
Armageddon Clock
Temporal Aperture*
Blasting Station*
Grinding Station*
Summoning Station*
Salvaging Station*
Mind Control (Eh, no idea where else to put this)

Power Sources (9)
Sol Ring
Thran Dynamo*
Mana Vault
Darksteel Ingot
Fellwar Stone
Izzet Signet
Rakdos Signet
Dimir Signet
Mind Stone

Land (33)
Riptide Laboratory*
Academy Ruins
Mishra's Factory
Urza's Factory
Tolaria West
Teramorphic Expanse
Volcanic Island
Scalding Tarn
Graven Cairn
Sulfurous Springs
Steam Vents
River of Tears
Sulfur Falls
7 Island
6 Mountain
6 Swamp


I'm thinking of finding room for impulse, Serum Visions, and Tunnel Vision to add to the Leveler and Doomsday that combo with Laboratory Maniac, my favorite card pretty much ever. Also, pretty much the only way this deck will ever win.

I won't lie, the interaction MM gives me on their turn made me start to think about blue. The manabase is rough as is, though. Plus, I'm a dork and miss suicide black and this is as close as you can get now.

How has Hex Parasite been working for you? Its on my radar, but I've never actually fit it into my 75.

The missteps have been fucking AWESOME for me. They really increased the enjoyment of playing the deck. Same with Liliana.

So, this doesn't seem relevant to the tournament. PM time, guys?

I am interested.

Inquisitor, prepare to board in those claims to hit your own moxen, because if you can't stand the heat, then... I don't know. Tinker or something.

I wish. This was 15 minutes of hard thought solo. My testing was how many hands opened with Ankh. I got like 5/8, so I figured I'd play it.

With you two about to determine who I play, I should probably be sporting and post my list.

Here's what I will be using:

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday Sunday Burninator

4 Lightning Bolt
4 Incinerate
4 Chain Lightning
2 Shrapnel Blast
4 Lava Spike
2 Fireblast
2 Price of Progress
4 Ankh of Mishra
4 Magus of the Moon
2 Blood Moon
1 Dead // Gone
1 Stingscourger
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
2 Great Furnace
14 Mountain

SB: 4 Ravenous Trap
SB: 1 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 2 Engineered Explosives
SB: 2 Pulverize
SB: 2 Shattering Spree
SB: 1 Stingscourger
SB: 3 Greater Gargadon

I would find a way to play 8 of this.

Yup.

The group I'm part of is great about self limiting. The game can certainly be what Sheldon wants if it's what you want.

No.

Yes.

Yes.

As much as I love Mind Harness, I'd rather kill a Goyf than control one for a turn or two and then have to deal with it again.

lolololololollololololloollol ololololololololololololollol

I don't understand this deck. I don't understand all the images. I don't understand the special fonts.

However, I do like the Ooze. He's definitely underplayed, especially as a GSZ target (I guess? I don't fucking know. Does GSZ see play?). I, too, question the necessity of 3(!) Dryad Arbors.

I agree about rise from the grave. Definitely the one to cut. Inkmoth is a great idea. It would slip right in under the radar.