[Deck Discussion] Rector Trix, is it time?

[d4ddy]

With the recent placement of a Trix deck in the top 8 at Waterbury, i have been playing around with the deck with left over cards (i currently have slaver, TPS, R/g, WW, Fish, Oath all built, so i'm running out of the good cards) and tested it against slaver, granted i am not a very good slaver player as i found out at YMG last saturday, but even so, it won 75-80% of the time, i dont have the exact build with me, but it used the standard engine of getting either Cabal Therapy or P. Tower and then playing and killing Rector, bringing out Bargain, drawing out cards and playing illusions, drawing more cards, then donate and Chain of Vapor for the kill. I think i was using Impulse as a draw engine, cuz i couldnt find Brainstorm, as soon as i get home tonight i'll post the actual build.

My point is that this was a mediocre build and it was beating Slaver 75-80% of the time. i tried out TPS and it was much less resiliant. I think that Trix's multiple paths to victory might bring this deck back to the forefront.

Now i stopped playing magic for a while and i'm not sure about the history of Trix, but why did it drop out of favor? Was there a card restriction? Are there any new cards that might bring it back? maybe Gift's Ungiven, or Diabolic Tutor, which i have long been wanting to put in the deck.

Thoughts? Ideas?

[Purple Hat]

for the most part trix was a victim of it's own inconsistency.  combo players would just rather play something that didn't rely on casting a 4 cc white creature and then killing it.  First rector tendrils, then Long, then dragon, then TPS, deathlong and belcher made trix obsolite.  People would rather play decks that do something most of the time.  also losing to REB sucks.  :lol:

If you were getting trix to beat CS 70-80% of the time I'd sooner believe that your testing was biased in some way than that trix is that good against CS.

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