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« on: March 27, 2009, 12:07:27 am » |
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Recently I have gotten back into Magic. I did a draft with some friends and realized how much fun I used to have playing. Having said that, my first passion was always T1. And I always loved goofy cards. Enter: Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar. I searched for a way to use this card. It seems so strong. My initial list is something like this:
Mana and mana getters:
4x Forbidden Orchard
3x Flooded Strand
2x Polluted Delta
2x Underground Sea
2x Tropical Island
1x Volcanic Island
1x Forest
1x Island
1x Swamp
1x Mountain
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mana Vault
1x Grim Monolith
1x Mox Diamond
1x Black Lotus
1x Lion's Eye Diamond
1x Lotus Petal
1x Sol Ring
Search:
1x Imperial Seal
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
Win:
1x Tendrils of Agony
Broken:
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Windfall
1x Time Spiral
1x Timetwister
1x Wheel of Fortune
1x Ancestral Recall
Other deck manipulation:
1x Cunning Wish
1x Burning Wish
3x Tolarian Winds
1x Lat-Nam's Legacy
Other cards:
1x Crucible of Worlds
1x Fastbond
1x Hurkyl's Recall
4x Oath of Druids
4x Force of Will
2x Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
How it Works:
The deck plays like an Oath deck the first turn or two, trying to get out an Oath with FoW protection. When that happens, simply Oath up Azami's Familiar, and start filling your hand with the best cards available. With all of the mana and mana accelerants, working just as Long would, it is very easy to sift through your whole deck and find the winning combo. Imagine, Ancestral Recall reaches nine cards deep; Time Spiral (and other Draw7s) reach 21 cards deep. Oath also helps along Yawgmoth's Will as a graveyard filler.
Odd Choices:
No Brainstorm or Ponder? I chose not to include these two because they are very weak on a turn where you are trying to go off. The other draw available allows you to sift deeper through your deck.
Burning and Cunning? Obviously, if your kill condition is removed, it is necessary to get it back. Or, if you are low on library size, it would be necessary to grab Gaea's Blessing from the sideboard. With Lat-Nam's Legacy, you can put it back in the deck and Oath into the next turn.
Tolarian Winds? This card is amazing here. After filling up your hand, sifting through cards, and still not having enough gas or the kill, two mana basically refills your hands with a chance at 21+ extra cards (if you had a full grip).
Why play this deck over something else?
To be honest, I cannot play this deck much around here. There are not many T1 tournaments (or players for that matter) in Northwest Florida. Here, all I see is budget Fish and Bazaar-less Ichorid, so my sample size is not huge.
Having said all of that, what would you--collectively, the community of Magic--suggest in fixing this list? Goldfishing returns strong results, but any deck looks good against a wall, right?
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