Oath/Slaver, Attempting to Fuse Oath with Brokenness

[JamesPr]

One of my qualms with Oath has been the fact that it just doesn’t play enough broken plays.  It just seems like mono blue with a sometimes fast kill condition.  So, I went and teched with Oath while attempting to put in the broken cards that make a deck like Control Slaver tick, and this is what I came up with. 

(I’d like to add that since the closest tournament setting that I’m aware of that is even remotely accessible to me is in Kalamazoo, an hour and a half from my location.  Therefore, I haven’t been able to test this deck in tournament settings as much as I would like.  However, I have tested it for a while at the local place I play with fellow type one players, and have had somewhat encouraging results.  Furthermore, I’m not really advocating this build, because, I know there is probably a better one out there, I’m advocating the idea of playing the so called “brokenâ€? cards of vintage in Oath, when there surely is a way to do it.)


Welding Oath

4x Oath of Druids
2x Goblin Welder
1x Platinum Angel
1x Mindslaver

1x Ancestral Recall
1x Tinker
1x Yawgmoth’s Will
1x Time Walk
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Engineered Explosives

4x Mana Drain
4x Force of Will
4x Brainstorm
4x Thirst for Knowledge
2x Phyrexian Furnace (-1 Phyrexian Furnace, +1 Vedalken Shackles if you want another win condition)

1x Echoing Truth

5x Moxen
1x Black Lotus
1x Sol Ring
1x Mana Crypt
4x Blue Fetch
4x Forbidden Orchard
1x Volcanic Island
1x Tropical Island
1x Underground Sea
3x Island
1x Strip Mine
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Library of Alexandria

This deck is basically built upon a Welder/Slaver skeleton, with Oath thrown in for faster kills, and all purpose graveyard building for a massive game ending Yawgmoth’s Will. 

At first glance the synergies don’t seem to obvious, like without blessing what happens if you deck?  The answer to this question is you usually get a Platinum Angel before you deck, so, even with no cards to draw you cannot lose.  Also, Platinum Angel is a decent Tinker target, a savage beater, some normal Oath lists without Tinker use it, which should say something.

This is a Slaver deck, it can’t slaver for an entire game, but it can slaver enough (especially against decks that can’t really screw their own gameplan over) to be able to pull the win out with a Platinum Angel. 

Thirst for Knowledge is amazing in this deck.  It totters on the level of broken when the card/cards you discard you actually want to discard.  An extremely strong card drawer.

Other than those cards though, this is pretty similar to almost every other control build out there.  4x Mana Drain, 4x Force of Will, 4x Brainstorm are in about every control deck, and for good reason.

[49 Cents]

You should really take a look at this:

http://www.morphling.de/top8decks.php?id=263

It's Oath, but with Bringers and Slavers to put the opponent in a lock..

Greetz,

Hugo

[zulander]

How is Oath in here for a faster kill? Platinum Angel by itself is a five turn clock. I just don't see what Oath brings to the table.

[JamesPr]

49_Cents, I saw that list it was interesting, however, drawing into mindslaver is a complete annoyance, considering you have barely any way to hardcast it.  My list, can, and does have ways to bring slaver into play easily.

Zulander, this isn't an Oath deck as much as it is a slaver deck with the Oath component.  It makes the Slaver lock faster by allowing a quick easy outlet for dumping Slaver and other Welder toys in the graveyard, and getting a Welder in play.

This Topic is also about opening people's eyes to the fact that Oath is a very flexible card, and maybe we're not utilizing it to the best of it's ability.  Team White Lotus certainly showed new tech with Yawgmoth's Will in Oath, which can be extremely powerful. 

In retrospect, I shouldn't of opened this topic with a list, I should of opened it with the premise that Oath is a very interesting card, and maybe more people should be working on lists that utilize it with the power cards of vintage.  Maybe a moderator can close this so I can get my act together, and post this topic with that premise?