Happy M13 everyone! With a new core set, players will quickly find the deck type they are comfortable with and start to beat face the best way they know how.
When the spoiler list was release there were a few cards that caught my eye, one being Jace’s Phantasm, a one blue casting 1/1 Flyer with a condition, if your opponent has more than ten cards in there graveyard, it gets a +4/+4!
WHAAAT?! Are you nuts!
WoTC have developed a creature that is not format breaking but if you show it a bit of TLC you will be rewarded with a big flyer.
One of the things that give it a good boost is the color, blue is all about screwing with different zones, one being counter magic to protect the Phantasm and the other is Milling your opponents library.
Yeah I said it, that dirty four letter word, Mill, if you haven’t got it now this is what I’m writing about, a Mill deck with a nasty surprise.
For the last few years WoTC has made a game that is very creature centric. Players love to cast creatures and run them into the red zone. This is what I am counting on. I want people to have truck loads of creatures in there library so I can mill them to the graveyard. In M13 they kept in a card that has not being used a lot but will be perfect for this deck.
Rise from the grave is a great card to get that killer creature in your opponents graveyard and allow you to beat face with it, at the same time your activating your Phantasm’s for more fun! All of this and you milling away your opponents options keeping your board state safe and giving you more options.
So how do I get the cards into the graveyard? There are a few options available, Mind Sculpt, Thought Scouwer, and Jace memory adept, also Trepidation blade. Also in the land department, there is Nephilia Drownyards. So many options!
So here is my list I will be playing at our FNM
Miller Time!
4x Jaces Phantasm
3x Vault Skurge
2x Wurmcoil Engine
2x Lilliana of the Veil
2x Jace Memory Adept
1x Nicol Bolas
3x Trepidation Blade
4x Mind Sculpt
3x Go for the throat
3x Vapor Snag
1x Disperse
3x Thought Scour
2x Galvanic Blast
1x Red Sun Zenith/Devils Play
2x Rise from the grave
2x Evolving Wilds
3x Nephilia Drown yards
2x Black Cleave Cliffs
3x Dark Slick Shores
4x Drowned Catacomb
2x Dragon Skull Summit
2x Mountains
3x Islands
3x Swamps
So what do you think?
I think you should play 4 thought scour, 4 snapcaster and 4 delver. and personally, I would play 4 surgical extractions main because you can get rid of his win condition in the 2. turn or so with mind sculpt and extraction. I would also try 1 increasing confusion main. Just a thought
Gret ideas! I played the list and I found that as well, I realy needed to get the threats out of the game and running surgical extractions will do that.
I’ll run with the changes and see how it works out.
Thanks Andy!