I don't know. Someday I'm going to cast a turn 5 Combustible Gearhulk, my opponent is going to take the damage and then I'm going to flip Draco + Autochthon Wurm + Progenitus.. That feels like a war crime to me. XDTheAmericanSpirit wrote: ↑11 months ago@materpillar we mostly do, no doubt. But man, have I mulled building a copy of your high cmc deck more than once. I'm afraid my meta is just a little too cutthroat to have much opportunity to play it, but every time I sit down across a bunch of precons and have to borrow a deck in order to play nice, I think of that glorious insane pile of yours.
We're not so different, you and I. We both like winning with handicaps. My rules just allow for more war crimes in service of a glorious combat victory than yours might.
My high CMC pile is likely more lethal than you give it credit. It preys pretty hard on other battlecruiser decks. It can goldfish kill the table by turn 7 if it spikes hard enough. The deck has a lot of ways to turn mana into damage. Mindshrieker is statistically expected to 40-0 someone with 7 activations. Pyromancy is likely to be lethal with around 5. With everyone doing more fair combat damage oriented things, and chunking the table down naturally it isn't hard to burn people out at all. As such Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge into unanswered T4 Mirari's Wake will get people dead extremely fast. Similarly, if Cabal Coffers ever comes online, the deck will start pumping out damage.
But it basically has no instant speed interaction to disrupt combos and folds hard to control decks that are chock full of card advantage and low to the ground interaction. I'd classify it as noticeably stronger than precons. It can fit pretty comfortably into metas where the average game length is 8-10. It'll struggle in the 5-6 turn length for sure though. It'll murder the poor 15+ turn precon slugfest decks.
I didn't have too many thoughts about it. My high CMC deck plays more like a burn deck with Keen Duelist effects. Your wife's looks to be more of a reanimator deck. I don't think my experience will translate super well. I would recommend Skull Storm though. Grozoth into next turn Blasphemous Act + Skull Storm will put the entire table to about 5 life. I only cut it from my deck because it basically requires a counterspell to stop and I dislike that.Dragonlover wrote: ↑11 months ago@materpillar what did you think of my wifes Grozoth deck in the end? You know, once I'd remembered to actually send you the link like a normal human.
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