Weekend Magic: Terrible Casual Combo In Extended

Dear lord, I love trying out some janky, terrible decks in the casual room on MtGO. It's someowhat of a Sunday-morning hobby of mine while the kids are busy destroying each other.

As such I thought I'd post on a Monday whatever terrible brew I'd been giggling about over the weekend, starting with today's deck, one that abuses the Best-Worst Casual Combo in Extended.

Here's the deck:

// 24 Creatures

4 x Merrow Witsniper
4 x Silvergill Adept
4 x Stonybrook Banneret
4 x Lord of Atlantis
4 x Merrow Reejeray
4 x Merfolk Sovereign

// 8 Spells

4 x Spell Snare
4 x Sage's Dousing

// 4 Artifacts

4 x Cloudstone Curio

// 24 Lands

4 x Izzet Boilerworks
4 x Misty Rainforest
4 x Scalding Tarn
4 x Mutavault
8 x Island

Here's the combo: With a Cloudstone Curio and a Merrow Reejeray in play you can effectively keep replaying two Witsnipers over and over again, using the Reejeray to untap the land you paid for mana and the Cloudstone Curio to rebounce the Witsniper. In this way you get to mill your opponent one card at a time. What a terrible, horrible, and hilarious way to kill your opponent.

Here's the problem: I very, very rarely got the combo online. Not because it was impossible or imporobable to do so, but more often than not having multiple Lords on the battlefield meant the deck was beating down far more effectively than 'going off'.

Which is sort of a shame, because there's little more satisfying than killing your opponent with a Witsniper.

Labels: deckbuilding