Death By SHAPESHIFTER

[yespuhyren]

this is a fun deck that kills with a phageish shapeshifter

4x volrath's shapeshifter
4x survival of the fittest
4x tortured existence
4x intuition
4x vampiric tutor
2x phage
2x akroma
2x phantom warrior
2x darksteel gargoyle
4x squee
4x ?

4x taiga
3x wasteland
4x underground sea
4x bayou
4x tropical island
1x strip mine
4x tundra


swing with shapeshifter with phantom in grave, pitch phage and win, putting akroma in grave makes him unstoppable, trample, and haste, and the gargoyle makes him indestructible.  Fun strategy that only gets better with bazaars

[Zherbus]

Moved to Casual. Keyword is 'fun' here.

[Kowal]

If you're looking for competitive, you can try Ninja Mask.  It recently took 2nd and 8th in Hadley.  The list (they both played an identical maindeck) can be found on morphling.de, but if you're lazy, here's what it looks like.

4x Survival of the Fittest
4x Illusionary Mask
4x Volrath's Shapeshifter
4x Phyrexian Dreadnought

1x Psychatog
1x Phage the Untouchable
1x Squee, Goblin Nabob
1x Gigapede

3x Quirion Ranger
3x Birds of Paradise
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Jet

4x Brainstorm
4x Force of Will
4x Duress
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Time Walk

2x Windswept Heath
4x Wooded Foothills
2x Forest
4x Bayou
4x Tropical Island

the sideboards were different, but the one I built and thus recommend would be

4x Xantid Swarm
3x Root Maze
3x Ground Seal
2x Gilded Drake
2x Troll Ascetic
1x Nantuko Vigilante

Though, I'm thinking about cutting a Xantid Swarm for a Vampiric Tutor, to find hate cards post board as well as find Time Walk, because that card is better than Ancestral Recall in this deck.

[yespuhyren]

yes, but illusionary masks and the other half of the deck now don't constitute budget, and the deck is AMAZING in melee.  Razvan won the midnight melee with this deck, killing one player at a time once he set up the combo.  BTW this used to be in the budget forum