Lands: (22)
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Lonely Sandbar
4 Arcane Sanctum
4 Nimbus Maze
4 Secluded Steppe
2 Springjack PastureCreatures: (8)
4 Cursecatcher
4 Stormscape Apprentice
Other Spells: (30)
4 Head to Head
4 Censorship
4 Force Spike
4 Spell Snare
4 Path to Exile
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Mystical Tutor
2 Enlightened Tutor |
   Is
it a Bicycle?
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
 This is an original combo deck designed around a fun [UN] pair of
cards. The cards are: Censorship and Head to Head.
Let me explain the combo: First, play Censorship and choose "No" as the
word. Then play Head to Head, which involves asking your opponent
a series of questions about the top card of their library. If you guess
the name of the card after six questions, you get to prevent the damage
a source would deal to you. Here's the trick: Don't ask any
questions in which you want to determine the name of the card.
Instead, just ask questions your opponent can only answer with "no".
If you do it right, that'll be 12 damage for every Head to Head you
play.
Is your card a bicycle? No (2 damage)
Is the converted mancost of your card above 20? NO (2 Damage)
Is your card a bicycle now? NOOO!!! (2 Damage)...
You get the idea. Since the major players (Head to
Head, Censorship, Enlightened Tutor, Mystical Tutor) cost only one mana,
I thought to use Chalice of the Void in combination with a series of
cheap counterspells to lock down the board and buy me time to get the
combo pieces in play.
Path to Exile can be substituted with Rebuff the
Wicked or Mana Tithe. Stormscape Apprentice was a last minute
addition (as was Arcane Sanctum) to gives you some options to deal the
last few points of damage. Or you can use him to tap down
opponent's creatures... the ones that get through. There are more
Mystical Tutors than Enlightened Tutors because it's more important to
draw a second Head to Head than it is to tutor for a second Censorship.
There are also cyling lands in the mana base to help speed up the deck
(card wise). Mana wise you don't need to speed up the deck much
because almost everything costs one mana in the deck! |
