Monday, March 3, 2008

A Very Nice Record

Alright, the UBR deck went through some slight changes to be finalized.

20 x Lands

3 x Aeon Chronicler

1 x Chandra Nalaar

2 x Urza's Rage
2 x Terminate
4 x Recoil
4 x Fire // Ice
3 x Duress
2 x Thoughseize
2 x Mind Twist
4 x Accumulated Knowledge
3 x Deep Analysis
3 x Damnation
1 x Demonic Tutor

1 x Sol Ring
3 x Prismatic Lens
2 x Coalition Relic

And it's pretty good. Out of ~8 games, it only lost twice. Once was to Merfolk, where I got Mana Screwed, and the next was from a nuts draw where I got Duress'd, losing a Fire // Ice, and got promptly stomped by 2 Dark Confidants with Jitte's. Change's I'd make after testing would include adding another Aeon Chronicler some how, probably taking out a Duress.

Accumulated Knowledge is so swingy. Cycling the first one off smooths a hand, the second one builds tempo, and all of them after that leave your opponent in the dust. After a really cool play where I swung with an Aeon Chronicler and, before damage stacked, triple Accumulated Knowledge'd (for 2, 3, and 4), I was inspired to think up Aeon Chronicler.dec. It could abuse Merchant Scroll easily, methinks. A skeleton:

4 x Aeon Chronicler
4 x Fathom Seer

4 x Accumulated Knowledge
4 x Gush
3 x Merchant Scroll
3 x Firestorm

Counters, Burn, Howling Mine, and Tidings? Sure.

Fathom Seer and Gush give Aeon Choniclers +4/+4 or +3/+3, respectively, and after swinging for a dozen, I can Firestorm for the win. Kinda inspired/similar by/to Ben Bleiweiss' Aeon in Flux.

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