4 Krosan Tusker
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Triskelion
3 Mindslaver
3 Moment's Peace
3 Oblivion Stone
4 Reap and Sow
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Sylvan Scrying
2 Spell Burst
2 Wurmcalling
4 Cloudpost
13 Forest
3 Island
1 Academy Ruins
1 Dark Depths
4 Vesuva |
  Eight-Post.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
When Time Spiral was first released, there was
a card that I immediately wanted to play with. This card is not the most
flashy of cards, or the most desirable (good for the budget!), but it
works well with a card from Magic's past. That card?
Vesuva.
Its partner?
Cloudpost.
Back in the day, the French developed a Tooth and Nail
deck revolving around Cloudposts. They would use Sylvan Scrying plus Reap
and Sow to get multiple Cloudposts into play, and use them to fuel an
entwined Tooth and Nail. They named this deck Twelve-Post, although they
could only actually have 4 Cloudpost out at a time.
Enough of the history lesson! Vesuva allows you to copy
any land, and that includes Cloudpost. This means that if you play with
four Cloudposts and four Vesuvas, you have access to a potential eight
Cloudpost! What does this mean for your mana?
One Cloudpost = 1 Mana
Two Cloudpost = 4 Mana
Three Cloudpost = 9 Mana
Four Cloudpost = 16 Mana
Five Cloudpost = 25 Mana
Six Cloudpost = 36 Mana
Seven Cloudpost = 49 Mana
Eight Cloudpost = 64 Mana
Nine Cloudpost = Either you're playing the mirror match, or you're a dirty
cheater!
Compare this to the Urzatron, and you'll see that a
focus on the locus comes out way ahead! If you're playing Urza's Mine,
Urza's Power Plant, and Urza's Tower, you need to get three different
lands out at once, and then they produce seven mana. You only need one
Cloudpost to get things going, since any combination of Cloudposts and
Vesuvas past the first will act identically to one another. Three
Cloudposts equals nine mana - outpacing Urza lands by two mana.
Now, let's say you build a deck around Cloudpost and
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