Mind of The Seeker

Hi guys, it's time for me to put ahead the result of my Tezzeret testing!!

The decklist that you are about to see was made by two of my teammates Ugo Rivard & Ian Sauvé Team CRET, Montreal. Some of you might remember Ugo for stealing the top prices at the SCG: Rochester tourneys (more than once!!!) The first time would be when we quebecers brought to the world the name deck "Bomberman"... But for you to know, Ugo wasn't playing "Bomberman", he was playing CONTROL SLAVER.

He's doing very very well with this deck from there 'till now. Winning a couple of tournament around Quebec, making a lot of top 4/top 8 appearances, Ugo has a certain fervor for the deck!!! Every now and then the decklist of Control Slaver changed a bit but those were minor modification/tweaking from the original decklist. The shell of the deck will never go away... The deck is doing well in the new "Magic" environment (restriction and all new decks) but needed maybe a new twist to be more consistent. When I showed up with Tezzeret at a Poker/Ante night, it all gotten started. We talked for hours about how Wizards could remove/make an errata on Time Vault and releasing Tezzeret at the same time!?!? A one card combo, that pitch to Force of Will and Misdirection. Conclusion, we had to play it.

Ok, now we can go back to the deck. This isn't a Tezzeret decklist with Welders in it... don't get me wrong... it's a CONTROL SLAVER decklist with Tezzeret combo in it. (!?!?!?!?) Same thing, no! Look alike, yes! The approach is totally different if you're playing Tezz or Slaver... you probably won't make the same decisions from one deck to the other because of the card pool/backup plans you have and number of kills.

Basically, we took out the combo pieces from Control Slaver and replaces them for Tezzeret combo.

And that the result is called:
MIND OF THE SEEKER.

creature [5]

2 Goblin Welder

1 Gorilla Shaman

1 Platinum Angel

1 Triskelion

instant [21]

1 Ancestral Recall

1 Brainstorm

1 Echoing Truth

1 Fire / Ice

4 Force of Will

4 Mana Drain

3 Misdirection

1 Mystical Tutor

4 Thirst for Knowledge

1 Vampiric Tutor

sorcery [6]

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Imperial Seal

1 Merchant Scroll

1 Time Walk

1 Tinker

1 Yawgmoth's Will

artifact [11]

1 Black Lotus

1 Mana Crypt

1 Mana Vault

1 Mindslaver

1 Mox Emerald

1 Mox Jet

1 Mox Pearl

1 Mox Ruby

1 Mox Sapphire

1 Sol Ring

1 Time Vault

land [15]

2 Flooded Strand

3 Island

1 Library of Alexandria

3 Polluted Delta

1 Tolarian Academy

2 Underground Sea

3 Volcanic Island

planeswalker [2]

2 Tezzeret the Seeker

60 cards
Sideboard:

3 Ingot Chewer

1 Sundering Titan

1 Pyroblast

2 Red Elemental Blast

1 Gaea's Blessing

2 Pyroclasm

2 Blood Moon

3 Threads of Disloyalty

15 cards

I tried so hard to make them include 1x Voltaic Key but I failed the mission.
They told me over and over that the Key IS a dead card in your hand 97% of the time. So her inclusion would be card disadvantage and card advantage is probably the Key of this deck!!! (No dead cards in hand)
That's why we play 2x Ancestral Recall (meaning 1x Ancestral Recall main deck and the one in YOUR deck with 3x Misdirection!!) Wink

So that's the idea we had behind our heads when building this deck...

Thanks,

Lil Joe