Morphing (Not the Mechanic), Pt. 1!

What began as a UB Turbo FactOrFiction deck is now UW Multiplayer Control. Here's the morphing, with approximate deck lists at each stage!

It all began when I was reading some Vintage articles, and BBS was brought up. For those of you who don't know what it is, BBS stands for Blue Bull Shit. It was basically Counter the Important stuff, and Back to Basics kept your opponents duals tapped down until Morphling came in and kicked some ass. Well, the particular article was based on a tournament of hypothetical decks with one key feature: their strongest card and, effectively, the key card, was all unrestricted. There was Burning Wish Long (which went undefeated, IIRC), The Balance Deck (Sucked), Trix with 4 Necro, etc. Well, one deck was BBS with 4 Fact or Fiction. As the win con. Sorta.

The tutorability and the CA crushed decks. EOTFOFYL finally made since in my eyes when Tog wasn't involved. I mean, I knew it was good, but I never cared to whip it up.

In the mean time, another vintage article talks about the return of BBS as a way to dodge the ever present Magus of the Moon, among things. This, coupled with some videos and decks I've seen, mentioned how Meloku was Blue's new It! creature, replacing Morphling. Also, during this time, I reexamined the Accumulated Knowledge draw engine. I always edged it out of decks to something that I felt showed immediate results with no set up, like Thirst for Knowledge. I did that this time, with FoF. This also came around a time that I felt instant speed mass removal was the bees knees. Evacuation and Decree of Pain for the win!

So I set out and made a list. Something like:

3 x Meloku
3 x Psychatog
2 x Tombstalker

1 x Damnation
3 x Evacuation
2 x Decree of Pain
4 x Fact or Fiction
4 x Sudden Death
3 x Wipe Away
4 x Mind Stone
4 x Dimir Signet
4 x Dark Ritual

Yeah. It conflicted with itself, I don't need to hear that... Anyways, that was the frame work that I set out with. I liked the card advantage factor that FOF presented, and I dreamed about filling my hand with Decree of Pain and then Togging for the win. Whatever. The deck is stuck on the back burner. It could hold its own in multiplayer with the split second and mass removal. Not too bad.

The Morningtide release comes around, and this deck has seem various faces with different win con configurations. Nothing too wild. Some have Snap and Propoganda and are more multiplayer friendly, some sport Wishes and Fact or Fictions and Thoughseizes to nuke a single player. Anyways, I open/win 2 Countryside Crushers and a Mutavault. This catches Matt's interest... and his Damnations catch mine. Hmm. Big Black control? Oh wait, isn't there that BU deck you have... yeah. Big Blue(black). Is it time for Big Black(blue)?

Thoughts flew everywhere.

And so does the time. Clock me out.