ICBM Oath (on a budget)

[Byron]

This is my attempt to build ICBM Oath w/out the overpriced cards.

lands:

4 tropical island
4 undergroud sea
4 flooded strand
4 polluted delta
4 forbidden orchard
1 island
1 strip mine (could previously intuition for this + the 2 wastelands when i ran intuition.)
2 wasteland (don't know what the right number of these is b/c i took out the intuition)

enchantments

4 oath of druids

creatures:

1 akroma
1 razia

sorceries

4 duress (should i cut 1 to make space for maindeck darkblast? i don't know if i'd ever tutor for it)
1 demonic tutor
2 gaea's blessing (i hate just having one b/c I once had a creature + my single blessing in hand & no brainstorm and oath'ed up a creature at the bottom of my deck. i know it probably won't happen all the time but i hate the idea of losing to myself.)
4 compulsive research (substitutes for thirst for knowledge)

instants:

4 mana drain
4 force of will
4 brainstorm
4 impulse
1 fact or fiction (kind of high cc but oh well)
1 rushing river (what is this for anyways? i only have 1 b/c it somewhat combo's w/duress and it's blue for force of will)
1 vamparic tutor

SB:

don't know yet

[houseplant]

You'll probably need to add more content or the thread might get closed.

1 rushing river (what is this for anyways? i only have 1 b/c it somewhat combo's w/duress and it's blue for force of will)

I'm assuming its main purpose is its a bounce spell, which you should be running anyway to get rid of something nasty, but its also 3 mana so you can get rid of chalice for 2, which anyone with chalices will desperately try and put down as fast as possible, and next would be 1, so you need the 3 CC for the bounce.

[Byron]

More content... Okay what's the lone Crop Rotation for? Finding a Orchard when you have Oath out or fetching that Wasteland/Strip Mine? Seems kinda of jankey to me. And what about that single maindeck Darkblast that Ben Carp played? Would you honestly tutor for it? Here's his deck:

Artifacts
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice Of The Void
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Null Rod

Enchantments
4 Oath Of Druids

Instants
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Brainstorm
1 Crop Rotation
1 Darkblast
4 Force Of Will
4 Mana Drain
1 Rushing River
3 Thirst For Knowledge
1 Vampiric Tutor

Legendary Creatures
1 Akroma, Angel Of Wrath
1 Razia, Boros Archangel

Sorceries
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Duress
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Time Walk

Lands
2 Flooded Strand
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Wasteland

[ramon]

I'm playing now this deck (ben Carp) and it works very very well

Now I'm playing with three creatures (the two angels and spirit of the night) but I'm not able to say if it works better or not. Now I have more possibilities to draw a creature card but I have two more creatures to play. If you play with only two creatures and you draw one of them, you need to have a brainstorm/tok/fetch to play it, and usually you don't have time to do it.

[Moxlotus]

Crop Rotation is one of the best cards in the deck.  It saves your lands from strips, it finds Orchard, and it finds your own strips.  The card is amazing and should be in every Oath deck.

I hate Darkblast, but it is played to Oath away, then kill a Welder or something.  You can also kill Meddling Mages with it.

[Tha Gunslinga]

Darkblast is a metagame call.  In an environment that has a lot of Dark Confidants, Fish, and Welders, you can maindeck up to 2 of them.  Otherwise you can just replace it with a Duress or Null Rod.

Here's the latest version:

Maindeck:
        4 Forbidden Orchard
        1 Strip Mine
        2 Wasteland
        3 Underground Sea
        2 Tropical Island
        1 Island
        2 Polluted Delta
        2 Flooded Strand
        1 Vampiric Tutor
        1 Demonic Tutor
        1 Crop Rotation
        1 Rushing River
        1 Time Walk
        1 Ancestral Recall
        1 Black Lotus
        1 Mox Sapphire
        1 Mox Ruby
        1 Mox Jet
        1 Mox Pearl
        1 Mox Emerald
        2 Null Rod
        3 Thirst for Knowledge
        4 Brainstorm
        4 Chalice of the Void
        4 Mana Drain
        4 Force of Will
        3 Duress
        1 Razia, Boros Archangel
        1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
        4 Oath of Druids
        1 Gaea's Blessing


Sideboard:
2 Oxidize
1 Tinker
1 Darksteel Colossus
2 Pyroclasm
2 Simic Sky Swallower
2 Pithing Needle
2 Energy Flux
1 Duress

[Byron]

What should I cut for the Crop Rotation? A Compulsive Research, the lone Fact or Fiction, a Duress or an Impulse?

[kombat]

More content... Okay what's the lone Crop Rotation for? Finding a Orchard when you have Oath out or fetching that Wasteland/Strip Mine? Seems kinda of jankey to me.

I've played Crop Rotation in my Oath deck for quite a while, and I find it works very well.  I play a version with more of a "combo" flavor, running 2 Muddle the Mixtures that I can transmute into Oath, Time Walk, Echoing Truth, Demonic Tutor, or Mana Drain.  This gives me myriad ways of finding Oath fast.  However, it can be frustrating to sit there with Oath on the board, and not being able to find a Forbidden Orchard.  Crop Rotation solves that.

Also, as you mentioned, you can rotate into Strip Mine if an opportunity to mana-screw your opponent arises.  While these don't seem to be enough reasons for you, you appear to have neglected to notice that Crop Rotation also protects you from Strip Mine and Wasteland.  There have been several occasions where my opponent has Wastelanded my Forbidden Orchard, and I've responded by Crop Rotating the Forbidden Orchard into another Forbidden Orchard.  It's quite useful as a one-of.

[Byron]

Right now, I have two variants running around in my head and I was wondering which one you guys preferred:

NEWER CARDS VARIANT:

lands:

4 tropical island
4 underground sea
4 flooded strand
4 polluted delta
4 forbidden orchard
1 island
1 strip mine
2 wasteland

enchantments

4 oath of druids

creatures:

1 akroma
1 razia

sorceries

4 duress
1 demonic tutor
2 gaea's blessing
3 compulsive research

instants:

4 mana drain
4 force of will
4 brainstorm
4 muddle the mixture (either fetches oath or protects it)
1 fact or fiction
1 boomerang (replaces rushing river b/c of the synergy w/muddle the mixture but then again is rushing river only for chalice of the void?)
1 vamparic tutor
1 crop rotation

blue cards to pitch to force of will: 21

ways to directly get oath: 10

control cards: 18

OLDER CARDS VARIANT:

lands:

4 tropical island
4 underground sea
4 flooded strand
4 polluted delta
4 forbidden orchard
1 island
1 strip mine
2 wasteland

enchantments

4 oath of druids

creatures:

1 akroma
1 razia

sorceries

4 merchant scroll
1 demonic tutor
2 gaea's blessing

instants:

4 mana drain
4 force of will
4 brainstorm
4 intuition
4 accumulated knowledge
1 fact or fiction
1 rushing river
1 vamparic tutor

blue cards to pitch to force of will: 26

ways to directly get oath: 6/14 (merchant scroll/intuition)

control cards: 14/18 (intuition)