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Thursday, July 22, 2010

too sad it won't work




I can't make Lord Voldemort work. Yes. This post is about Magic, but why not include a few fantastic elements. Here's the list:

VOLDY.DECK (v1.3)

Lands (24)
4 Marsh Flats
4 Mystifying Maze
15 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs

Creatures (14)
3 Fleshbag Marauder
4 Gatekeeper of Malakir
3 Grave Titan
4 Phylactery Lich (aka Lord Voldemort)

Other Spells (22)
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Crystal Ball (aka, errr... Crystal Ball?)
4 Diabolic Tutor (aka Accio )
3 Everflowing Chalice
4 Mind Sludge
4 Sign in Blood
1 Sword of Vengeance (aka Elder Wand?)
4 Tendrils of Corruption

Sideboard
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Dragon's Claw
4 Duress
3 Pithing Needle


Introducing Lord Voldemort...creature type errata: Zombie Wizard

Well, the goal of the deck is to get Voldy out and put his soul in any of the artifacts, preferably on the sword or the collar, and beat up the opponent with either an indestructible, trampling, first striking 7/5 or a lifelinking, deathtouching, indestructible 5/5. The deck started as a black splashing white for Stoneforge Mystic, but eventually, I got tired of the Kor equipper and opted for a more consistent, indestructible, mono-black.

Indestructible. Even Voldy is not immortal.

He could easily be banished away via an O-ring, or a Journey to Nowhere, not to mention being exiled and condemned. Such a sad fate. In many games I was two-for-oned by my opponent when he ringed my colalr or my sword. Much like what happened when Harry revealed that the true master of the Elder Wand was not Voldy, but himself. Thus, Expilliarmus defeated Aveda Kedavra.

In the end, the star of the deck, in the few moments that it shone is a turn 4 Mind Sludge for 5 followed by a turn 6 Grave Titan. With the chalices out, sometimes, these happen a turn or two earlier.

I have matched up against a Time Warp deck and a Pyromancer Ascension deck; both of which gets murdered by game 2 leylines.

All in all, I think the deck is a fail. Voldy, no matter how flavorful he is, is very much "destructible" and can be disposed of quite easily. He is not the sort of card you would wanna build around. I think this would be better converted into a mono-black control deck...what do you think?

Voldy is fail.

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