wrongwaygoback: G/B Rock in Zen Standard

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G/B Rock in Zen Standard

NOTE: This post is undergoing various changes on the fly.

Here's a sketch of a decklist for G/B rock in post-Zendikar extended.

4 Duress

4 Lotus Cobra
2 Doom Blade
4 Putrid Leech
2 Sign in Blood

4 Harrow
4 Maelstrom Pulse

4 Garruk Wildspeaker

4 Bordeland Ranger & 4 Ob Nixilis OR
4 Lord of Extinction & 4 Mind Shatter

4 Terramophic Expanse
4 G/B Fetch
8 Forest
8 Swamp

God draw:

Turn 1 Swamp, Duress, stripping removal
Turn 2 Forest, Lotus Cobra
Turn 3 G/B Sac (1m floating), crack Sac for Forest (2m floating), tap Swamp (3 floating), Harrow saccing tapped Swamp, fetching Swamp and Forest (2m floating, now 1 Swamp and 3 Forest available), tap two Forest (4 mana floating), Garruk, untap two lands. So four lands in play, all mana open, a Lotus Cobra and Garruk on the field.

Other possible cards:

Mind Rot
Sceptre of Fugue
Deathmark
Infest
Mind Shatter
Great Sable Stag

3 Comments:

So what do you do when you don't live the dream?

By Matt, at 29 September 2009 12:14 PM

You lose, natch.

By wrongwaygoback, at 29 September 2009 8:10 PM

I like it, although I'm more partial to a more consistent, non-Cobra list. I might try something like this with landfall and Ob Nixilis, using Borderland Ranger and Harrow. Ob-DICULOUS! I'm thinking Grim Discovery might be useful to get back a fetch and an Ob or something in the late game. Malakir Bloodwitch could also go in, as it is safe from most spot removal (sans Terminate and Pulse).

By J. Americ Pasco, at 29 September 2009 8:26 PM

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