My first of two cheeseball synergies uses Dark Depths and Vampire Hexmage. Dark Depths was a dollar-bin jank card until the hexmage came out and at one point the card inflated to 100 dollars a copy. Yikes! Yes, it's cheeseball. I put this deck together to be a Vintage answer to a kid that briefly joined our group and infamously only played with a single, very-tuned tournament deck. It was so tuned it was tough to overcome in our casual group, and he seemed clueless about that. Yes, there is some seriously un-fun stuff here, and that's kind of the point. Even though he left the group before I could drop this on his head, I made a few changes and here is what remains. Yes, if it's not a specter, they are all shamans (cultists). At some point, I may add Thespian's Stage in to trip Dark Depths, but that's another day. My friend's son nailed me with his own depths deck the other day, and I gotta admit, that worked pretty seamlessly (and shamelessly).
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The second cheeseball synergy is Sword of the Meek and Thopter Foundry. The deck itself can roll just fine with this as a major go-wide effort underpinned with Master of Etherium, and my friends never cease to remind me of the cheeseball synergy. However, the deck itself also has a much, much more devious long-term gameplan. Using the Esper shard offerings full-force, it uses the graveyard as a second, unlimited-size hand, and cycles stuff in and out with Sanctum Gargoyle, Master Transmuter, Sphinx Summoner, and Sharuum the Hegemon to do what I want, repeatedly, with etb effects, including sweepers and targeted removal of anything that isn't an indestructible enchantment/non-creature artifact...which means there isn't much that can't be dealt with. Of the forty-some 60-format decks I own, if I'm going to take a non-FFA deck and go FFA, this is the one, mainly because the Esper synergies and the cheeseball go-wide part seamlessly work together.
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One deck is hopelessly all about the cheeseball synergy as THE win condition, the other wraps it into a large whole. What are the cheeseball synergies you use, how do they fit into the larger whole (or is it the entire deck basis), and will you kindly post the decklist here? Thanks!
