2
Chromatic Sphere
4 Howling Mine
4 Mind's Eye
4 Teferi's Puzzle Box
1 Words of War
1 Words of Wind
1 Words of Worship
2 Naturalize
4 Razor Barrier
4 Pyroclasm
2 Reminisce
4 Wrath of God
2 Forest
1 Mountain
4 Plains
4 City of Brass
4 Grand Coliseum
4 Urza's Mine
4 Urza's Power Plant
4 Urza's Tower |
    Words.Description of deck by its author (quoted):
What a cool deck. Teferi's Puzzle Box has always been one of my
favorite rares. Breaking symmetrical cards is always tricky, and
unfortunately the Puzzle Box is particularly tricky because your
opponent gets a new hand first. That, in turn, means that if she's
already got a Shatter or Disenchant she'll kill the Box (possibly
waiting until its ability is on the stack if her hand is bad) and if she
doesn't you're giving her a new hand of cards to try to find one.
Alan breaks the symmetry very nicely
here with Mind's Eye and lands that produce lots of mana. Now the Puzzle
Box doesn't just help both players zoom through their decks – it gives
Alan an insane number of draws and lets him gain insane amounts of life
with Words of Worship, blow his opponent up with Words of War, or reset
the board with Words of Wind. “Tournament staples” like Reminisce
and Razor Barrier protect his key permanents and let him keep playing
Wrath of God if necessary.
So what are the problems? Well, the
first is that the deck isn't quite as good as it was when Alan first
made it. “This deck was created for the Future Future League like the
first or second week I was here at WotC,” Alan recalls. “Back then,
Mind's Eye didn't cost 1 to activate. This deck changed that.” |
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