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Author Topic: [deck] Swans Oath (Combo Mambo)  (Read 2689 times)
Lurker101
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« on: June 03, 2011, 12:23:45 pm »

I was thinking how neat it would be to see a swans deck succeed in vintage, I decided to put the swans combo (Swans of Bryn Argoll + Chain of Plasma) in to an Oath Shell. I know oathing up a swan isn't that impressive but I don't know of a better way to do it. Also this deck isn't complete by any means. I haven't come up with a solid mana base (I'll need help on that). I pretty much just have the combos. Also the original swans deck killed with Conflagrate. I think this is too fragile a kill for vintage so I replaced Conflagrate with Niv-Mizzet who can be oathed up and kills the same way. I also have a larger amount of Oath creatures (Kozilek + Emrakul + 2X BSC + Niv-Mizzet + Swans of Bryn Argoll) this is to prevent decking out by going into the swans combo with not enough cards left in the library. However this means LOTS of dead cards. This is a problem, should I just run Gaea's Blessing and cut the number of Oath targets? Also, please bear with me as I haven't built a deck or posted a deck here in a long time. Anyway, here's the shell.

Lands:?
4 X Forbidden Orchard

Creatures: 6
1x Swans of Bryn Argoll
1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
1x Emrakul
1 x Kozilek
2 x BSC

Other Spells: 32
5 Moxen
Black Lotus
Lotus Petal
2 X Mana Drain
1x Tinker
4x Force of Will
2x Jace, the Mindsculptor
4x Oath of Druids
4x Spell Pierce
1x Brainstorm
1x Ponder
4x Chain of Plasma
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Regrowth
2 x Show and Tell
4 x Preordain

So that's the shell.
I also don't know what to put for the sideboard (I don't really get a chance to play vintage magic where I live so I have no meta). I guess the sidebaord is meta dependent. Any feedback helps! Thanks.
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« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2011, 06:12:50 pm »

I love swans such an awesome card but if i was to try and build a vintage deck i would just play it in a blue red control deck since its only 4 mana and it is a 4/3 flier which isnt a bad clock at all.
 
As far as your oath version goes you have way too many oath targets if your plan is to oath into swans have swans, niv-mizzet, and maybe 1 bsc as your only oath targets, other oath builds only run 2 or 3 targets your running 6 giving you 3 or 4 extra dead cards in your hand.  Im also counting 37 non creature spells with no vampiric tutor, no time walk, and no ancestral recall.  If you want to play this as oath i would advise going to morphling.de and using an oath list to get u started cutting a few cards for the combo pieces.
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« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2011, 06:33:52 pm »

I love swans such an awesome card but if i was to try and build a vintage deck i would just play it in a blue red control deck since its only 4 mana and it is a 4/3 flier which isnt a bad clock at all.
 
As far as your oath version goes you have way too many oath targets if your plan is to oath into swans have swans, niv-mizzet, and maybe 1 bsc as your only oath targets, other oath builds only run 2 or 3 targets your running 6 giving you 3 or 4 extra dead cards in your hand.  Im also counting 37 non creature spells with no vampiric tutor, no time walk, and no ancestral recall.  If you want to play this as oath i would advise going to morphling.de and using an oath list to get u started cutting a few cards for the combo pieces.
Oh damn, I forgot about Vamp and power blue! I guess that just goes to show how long it's been since I last built anything. I'll knock out Kozilek and Emrakul. However, just Niv feels subpar. Maybe just a blue green shell would be best. I'll try that out.
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