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mistervader
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« on: April 30, 2010, 11:29:38 pm » |
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I had very fond memories of the Null Brooch/Ensnaring Bridge decks back in the day. During Tempest block, these decks were just poetry in motion, although they had to contend with a lot of annoying come-into-play abilities that hit their stuff.
With a new cardpool to work with, can I take this classic deck and modernize it? I know it won't win tournaments, but I find the near hard lock the deck executes very enjoyable to pull off. At this point, I'm just looking at pushing the deck as far as it can go, and calling it a day after.
My first version was UB. I thought it was terrible, because Brainstorm had terrible synergy with Null Brooch. Sensei's Divining Top was almost strictly better. This meant that the only 6 blue cards I ran were 4 BS and 2 Jace TMS. This was bad. The minute I cut BS, there was zero reason to run Jace except as a janky kill condition. Since I had no intentions of running FOW, Blue had to go. (Unless you think a build running Arcane Lab and B2B would be better, I guess. But lemme know what you think.)
This led me to my next splash, which was for W. Now, I'll admit that I'm put off with the prospect of buying a set of Scrublands (My only full set of duals were Underground Seas.), but it seems to me that Enlightened Tutor and Swords To Plowshares were two cards this deck needed to set up the lock and protect itself while waiting for lock pieces. I'll show you the decklist, and I'd love to hear thoughts on stuff I could tweak in the deck, especially with the manabase, because if it's not a storm deck or an Oath deck, I have ZERO idea how to construct a manabase for a deck.
Given the lock I am executing, I figured that Obeyline was my best kill condition. It was originally just Jace, but not only is that too fragile, it's also too slow and assumes a hard lock.
So lemme show you the list, and I'll explain my card choices here one by one...
3 Bottomless Pit
4 Dark Ritual
4 Thoughtseize
2 Inquisition Of Kozilek
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Helm Of Obedience
3 Enlightened Tutor
3 Swords To Plowshares
4 Null Brooch
3 Bottled Cloister
3 Sensei's Diving Top
4 Ensnaring Bridge
4 Lotus Petal
2 Chrome Mox
4 Scrubland
4 Ancient Tomb
4 B/W Fetchland
3 Swamp
1 Plains
Thoughtseize - Creatures are a problem until I find Ensnaring Bridge and manage to protect him. This is why I'd rather run this over Duress.
Inquisition Of Kozilek - It hits creatures, and the most relevant ones I worry about normally cost 2.
Bottomless Pit - Helps in locking the opponent out and keeping your hand down for E. Bridge.
Bottled Cloister - Combos excellently with the Bridge.
Ensnaring Bridge - Saves you from the most common way of killing players in Legacy: creature beats.
Obeyline - I needed a kill condition, and I wanted one that also had incidental hate against Ichorid and Animator.
Null Brooch - The third component of the deck's hard lock: Brooch, Bridge, and Pit.
Enlightened Tutor - Helps me find lock pieces.
Swords To Plowshares - Buys me time against creatures.
Sensei's Divining Top - Helps me find the cards I need by digging 3 deep while dodging Bottomless Pit and Brooch.
Dark Ritual, Lotus Petal, Chrome Mox - Fast mana to power out my expensive artifacts on turn 1.
Ancient Tomb - 2 Colorless mana from a land drop is very useful.
Scrubland - Being able to cast Thoughtseize or STP from the same land is mighty good
Fetchlands - A given with the Tops. Would love to have more, if I could figure out what to cut.
Basics - Just so I don't die to Wasteland.
As of now, I don't have a sideboard. I want to fix the mainboard issues first before I think of how to make a sideboard.
Again, I'm not out to win tournaments with this deck. Despite that, I do believe that there is still a way to push even a casual deck to its limits where it should have a respectable showing against obviously superior decks.
I'd be happy to hear any thoughts from you guys.
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