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Lands:
2 Cabal Coffers
20 Swamp

Creatures:
4 Abyssal Gatekeeper
4 Phyrexian Rager

Other Spells:
4 Barter in Blood
3 Consume Spirit
3 Delirium Skeins
3 Genju of the Fens
2 Infest
4 Megrim
1 Sickening Dreams
2 Skeletal Scrying
4 Smallpox
4 Syphon Mind

The Abyss for Beginners.

Description of deck by its author (quoted):
This deck is all about making everyone mad. Really, it is. Most of the cards are fairly inexpensive and offer you the ability to disrupt everyone at the table.

If Smallpox goes off when you have an Abyssal Gatekeeper on the board, everyone else loses four cards -- one from hand, a land and two creatures. If Delirium Skeins resolves at the right time, everyone's stuck playing off the top of their deck. Syphon Mind gains you a pretty substantial amount of card advantage and chips away at everyone else's options.

Yeah, you'll be public enemy number-one, but what are they gonna do about it? While you're a little light on win conditions, you do have some useful soldiers: Rager nets you an extra card, Gatekeeper keeps the board clear of any threats and Genju of the Fens is the poor man's Nantuko Shade, which makes it an ideal finisher for this deck.

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by Thorin McGee @ Inquest Gamer Magazine Issue #145

GROUP: Discard - Abyssal Gatekeeper / Barter in Blood / Delirium Skeins

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