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The basic strategy is to play evasive creatures with nice CIP abilities, then bounce them with ninja to replay them again, gaining tons of card advantage. Save the instant counters for things you can't handle, like high cost spells that Spellstutter Sprite can't hit, or board-wiping spells. The deck has lots of disruption and can usually play pretty aggressively. Nearly every spell can potentially 2-for-1 the opponent, giving me control of the game thanks to my strong card advantage. It's a very cheap deck to build due to being made entirely of commons, yet I find that it's still a solid deck to play in other casual formats as well. Its biggest weaknesses appear to be board-sweeping spells and pingers, so my sideboard is built to accomidate either of those threats. Peppersmoke handles most pingers and can decimate casual aggro decks. Remove Soul is also good against aggro, while Negate is for control decks that have been popular lately. Echoing Truth is to stop pauper storm decks based on Empty the Warrens, and the Mistblade Shinobi is for keeping midrange creature decks off balance.
Mirrinus' Pauper Mono White Control
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Deck: Sarutabaruta (or just call it Pauper Mono-W Control)
Format: MTGO Pauper Classic
(Note: the circles of protection were common when printed in 7th edition, so they're legal for pauper.)
Anyway, I realized that most decks for pauper are creature-heavy, due to the lack of mass removal. So I built a deck designed to crush aggro strategies. I run a wealth of removal spells, some of which can earn card advantage. My creatures are few, but are versatile and are great both early and late game, oftentimes utilizing my excess mana to the fullest. The Kami of Ancient Law in the sideboard is mostly to switch in against creature-light decks as an early beater, or to replace Holy Light against white decks. I figure that if a deck is playing white, it's likely to be playing white enchantment-based removal like Oblivion Ring or Temporal Isolation, so the Kami would be great at keeping my other creatures clear of these answers.
What I'm still considering, though, is the removal suite. I like Fire at Will for its potential for card advantage, particularly against weenie swarms like Slivers. Unmake is also great simply for the lack of the attack/blocker clause. The Dawn Charms are there mostly for versatility, as I can usually think of a good use for it. I'm not sure if I should be maindecking the Holy Lights, though. So far, they've only been useful against pinger decks, Empty the Warrens, and certain elf builds. However, given that Storm may be one of the best pauper builds, Holy Light affords me with my best chance of trumping Empty the Warrens. But most of all, I'm debating Judge Unworthy. On one hand, having 8 removal spells that require attacking/blocking is kind of restrictive; on the other hand, it's my cheapest removal spell, and my only removal option for turn 2. The Scry is oftentimes a toss-up; getting rid of excess land is great, but I've had instances where I needed to draw another land, but can't put a land on top of my deck with Scry if I want to kill a creature. I guess Temporal Isolation is a possible substitute, but it's pretty lousy in the Silvers matchup, which is perhaps the most common deck played in the pauper casual room as of late.
I'm still debating whether Relic of Progenitus should be in the sideboard; perhaps I could use more aggro options to switch in against creature-light decks, even though those tend to be fewer in number for this format.
Countersliver is a classic and effective Magic deck archetype that seeks to win by playing a few cheap, efficient threats to take the early game lead, then using permission and light removal elements to prevent the late-game from coming as you press your advantage. The archetype is named after the original version, which played Crystalline Sliver as its flagship creature.
Countersliver is a good example of an effective aggro-control deck. Your creatures are weaker than your opponent's best aggro creatures, and your removal and card advantage suite isn't nearly as strong as a dedicated control player's. What you do have, though, is tempo. You have superior early-game creatures to all but the best aggro decks, and you'll be shaving pieces off your opponent's life very quickly while trying to maintain your board advantage. Countersliver especially likes to prey on slower decks. Compare a Countersliver deck to a normal permission control deck. Against a mid-range deck, both are able to stall for several turns with their counterspells. However, while the permission deck is just buying time to play a big finisher, Countersliver will have a guy in play by turn 2, and attacking the opponent relentlessly while stalling for time. In other words, it has a tangible clock in play, which will likely win before the late-game hits.
Countersliver is normally weak against fast aggro decks with superior creatures. However, my personal build contains a few elements that help that matchup. First is the high number of first-striking creatures. Bant Sureblade and Deft Duelist make formidable blockers, easily dispatching lots of popular aggro creatures with high power but low toughness. Deft Duelist is also impossible to burn out of the way, making it a particularly impressive defender. Of course, both are also rather nasty on offense as well. Another nice card in the aggro matchup is Ethercaste Knight. 3 toughness means it can handle many early-game opposing creatures with ease, and it can lend power to my offense without ever having to tap. My favorite starting plays with this deck involve Esper Stormblade on turn 2, followed by Ethercaste Knight on turn 3 with one land up for Mana Tithe. I get to swing for 4 points of flying starting on turn 3, which can lead to a turn 7 win. With Ethercaste Knight blocking on the ground and a slew of countermagic and removal, I'm likely to win a damage race with just those two creatures.
The key to playing this deck is to not overextend with your creatures, and to keep mana open for counters available as often as possible, even if you aren't actually holding a counter. Exalted lets you finish games quickly without having to play many additional creatures. I prefer my fliers for attacking while keeping the first strikers back for defense to win the damage race against aggro. Of course, if you have a clear creature advantage, by all means attack en masse! Just be sure to have countermagic on hand in case they drop a big creature or removal spell. The good thing about this deck is that practically every single spell costs just 2 mana or less (I don't count the borderposts, as I usually pay their alternate cost), which means by turn 4 you can feasibly drop another threat and still have Mana Leak or Remove Soul ready. The deck desperately wants to hit UW by turn 2 (an opening hand that can't do this should be mulliganed), but with 4 Terramorphic Expanses and 4 Borderposts, that shouldn't be too hard to do, at least in my testing thus far.
If you want a sideboard, I would recommend trying out Steel of the Godhead. Against decks light on removal but heavy on aggro, this card is a total beating that almost ensures victory in the damage race. Just keep in mind that you can't enchant your Azorius First-wings or Deft Duelists. In such a matchups where I'd want Steel of the Godhead, such as against aggressive red decks, I'd probably swap out the griffins for Vedalken Outlander.
To start off with this deck, you want to either strip their hand away with Gerrard's Veridct or search for something good with Demonic Tutor. Once you have Graveborn muse in play, just start accumalating card advantage. If they try to attack, prevent the damage with Oriss, or block with Forbidding Watchtower. Finish off the game with Liliana Vess or Divinity of Pride. Above all, though, don't be afraid to Wrath often. With 4 wrath effects and 6 tutors, you can always get more.
Lastly, there is a soft lock in this deck. See if you can find what it is.
The basic premise of the deck is to use the triggered come into play or leaves play effects on creatures, repeatedly, in order to bring about an effective soft lock on the game through denial. This is achieved through taking two keywords abilities (Evoke and Persist)... and breaking them soundly over your knee.
The core of the deck is the interaction between Cauldron of Souls (the only card in the deck that gives creatures Persist) and Elemental creatures with Evoke alternative casting costs. In response to the Evoke's triggered effect, you tap Cauldron of Souls to give the Evoked creature Persist. It leaves play, then returns to play, causing its triggered come into play ability to go on the stack a second time, for no additional mana cost.
Example: If I evoke a Mulldrifter for 2U, when it comes into play, I draw two cards. Since I paid the Evoke cost, the triggered effect goes on the stack. I give it Persist via Cauldron of Souls, and when it comes into play a second time, I draw two more cards.
Example 2: The interaction between Spitebellows and Cauldron of Souls is fundamentally the same, except that the creature's ability triggers when it leaves play, rather than comes into play. However, when Persist brings Spitebellows back into play, it has a zero toughness courtesy of its -1/-1 counter from Persist, sending it cheerfully back to the graveyard a second time, allowing for either 12 damage to be done to one creature, or 6 damage to be done to two separate creatures.
The typical play of the deck leaves it feeling like its ramping a little slowly. Turns 1-5, you'll probably only have played an Armillary Sphere, Cloudstone Curio, Cauldron of Souls, and land. ***NOTE*** This deck likes its mana, and digging up lands with the Armillary Sphere is crucial.
Once turn 6 hits, however, you'll be causing some serious hurt, having surprisingly rapid, effective tools at your disposal during your turn. Mournwhelk empties your opponent's hand, Shriekmaw and Spitebellows tear down your opponent's creatures, while Stingscourger stalls out their creatures. Supreme Exemplar is the only huge beater in the deck, though clearing the opposing board, casting a Spitebellows (not Evoking), and then giving it +2/+0 and Haste via Inner-Flame Acolyte (if not +4/+0) can give you a suitable beater as well. Otherwise, your damage comes from lightweight, evasive creatures like Shriekmaw and Mulldrifter.
This deck isn't especially meant to play against terribly competitive players, but it *can* perform against moderately fast decks. The difference is that it moves slightly slower, and loses out on creatures, because instead of holding on to your Evoke creatures, you'll be playing them in to deal with threats on board. I've got a list of cards that I personally intend to use to tinker with the deck even further, but I'll leave the deck *as is* for the purpose of posting it. I want people to be able to tinker with it, and the deck *does* work well in its current form.
The deck also has a number of specific weaknesses, none of which should be terribly worried about. It's meant to be a fun deck... for you. It won't be fun for them.
Maho-Tsukai's The Black Plague, a deck for multiplayer
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This is one deck that will make you absolutely hated in multiplayer. It's a mono-black deck that focuses on using the combination of Pestilence + Circle of Affliction (set to Black) to lock down the game by wiping the board every turn and kill your opponent(s) all at the same time.
This deck acts very similar to the old school W/B decks that pared Pestilence with Circle of Protection: Black and Pro Black creatures like White Knight. However, due to the printing of cards like Reassembling Skeleton, Stuffy Doll and Circle of Affliction white this deck no longer needs white to run properly. Mono Black now has enough cards to emulate the white cards that this kind of deck used to rely on and by using only black you have more mana to pour into your main win condition, pestilence
As for how the deck should be played, it's really a combination of combo and control, leaning heavily towards combo. As stated before, pestilence is your main wincon, as it can burn all players for damage continually. However, to prevent your own death, circle of affliction(set to black) is used in tandem with pestilence, the one life gained offsetting the burn from pestilence, while burning your opponent more in the process. As a result you goal should be to assemble this combo as soon as possible, using your defensively-minded creatures and removal from pestilence itself and twin consume spirits to stall out while you use your various tutors to assemble all the cards you need.
The real beauty of this deck, though, is that pestilence also hits all creatures, meaning that each time you burn your opponent your also wiping his board clean of threats, essentially locking down any deck that tries to win with creatures. However, pestilence dies when you have no creatures, so you have to play creatures that can survive the enchantment. Cemetery Gate has protection from black. Reassembling Skeleton can revive himself after pestilence wipes him off the board. Stuffy Doll is indestructible....and as mentioned before all of them are strong defensive walls that can stall for time if you don't have a pestilence in play.
As for the rest of the cards, most of them are devoted to gaining tons of black mana that can be poured into pestilence. One thing this deck tries to do is maximizing Pestilence by providing lots of ways to gain extra mana to pour into it. Dark Ritual is an old standby that's great for this kind of deck while bubbling muck essentially doubles your mana for a turn. This deck features the infamous all-star of black mana gain, Cabal Coffers which can make ridiculous amounts of mana, and Urborg makes this even more ridiculous. Culling the Weak is like a stronger dark ritual with a drawback....that happens to play well with Reassembling Skeleton.
Consume Spirit provides a "finisher" as well as a way to pad your life from the times you may have had to use pestilence to wipe the board without a circle of affliction to prevent it's self-burn. It can also double as removal in a pinch, too. Also, if you find that you just need something really big and scary to beat face with, Pestilence demon comes ready to serve you, and can double as pestilence #5-6 too.
The main thing you should remember in this deck is that while the combo is nice, you should not be a slave to it. If you have a pestilence in play but no circle you should not be afraid to wipe the board and eat some damage yourself. Losing a bit of life to end the thread of a creature hoard coming your way is a worthwhile trade, and one that could save your life in the long run.
Please include lots of info on how to play the deck so that others can partake in the fun that is whatever deck you have destroyed the Multiverse with.
Also, it should be noted that this list was maintained by Squark, tgva (that me!) and Johnny Blade before Shas.
Also, if anyone wants to drop/update any of these decks, let me know.
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List of MtG-related websites put together by Johnny Blades and others:
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The official site. From here you can reach:
The page for Magic Online, if you want to give it a try. Note that, while you have to pay/trade for cards, there are bots who give them away for free. I don't have any experience with this, but there are people posting in this thread that do. The DCI, for organized play. Gatherer, WotC's card search.
magiccards.info, another place to waste lots of time browsing through cards. It doesn't have the user ratings and comments of Gatherer, but lists the prices of several online vendors and, surprisingly, has more card images. The interface is also better in my opinion.
MTGSalvation. That place has a lot of stuff, including a wiki, a huge forum, and many articles of varying quality. They also spoil all the cards of the next set well in advance, so this is where we'll usually get future cards from.
StarCityGames - they make you pay for much of their newer content, but what you can get for free is certainly good enough.
ChannelFireball.com, where you can hear LSV and Conley Woods (among others) discuss Magic. Many articles and draft videos from the pros are posted here for free. You can also buy cards from this website.
Elder Dragon Highlander, the official page. Always up to date and it has a forum about this popular variant multiplayer format as well. If you want to learn even more about the format, go here!
Le Bestiaire, an online draft simulator. It gives you some pretty odd ratings sometimes, but at least there is actual feedback.
Magic Workstation, a program for...a lot of things, including collection management and online play. Supports more TCGs than just Magic. There's a freeware version available.
Cockatrice, an other program for over-the-web Magic playing for no cost. Also has card images built in. Generally updates pretty frequently.
TC Decks, where you can see which decks have tournament success. The decks are essentially named by the people who play them, and if you're looking for, say, Legacy decks, you'll soon find out that not all tournaments are really at Pro Tour level, but this is still an invaluable site for anyone who wants to keep up with the tournament scene.
The Mana Drain, more forums, this time for people looking into Vintage.
Tapped Out, a deck building and critique community. Build any number of decks and put them up for review/critique/comment/display. Or, keep them private. They also have pretty graphic representations of your mana curve, colour costs and colour generation.
http://www.highlandermagic.info/ The site for German Rules highlander. It's a 100-card singleton format, but the rules are rather different from EDH. They're more in line with the normal rules, and the banlist is made with a more competitive mindset in mind.
http://deckstats.net/ Calculates mana curve, compares color spread to manabase colors, calculates prices for the deck as well as some other functions. It can handle MWSDeck files and can also save decks pasted into it in the format.
Requested: A short commentary on sorting your deck, by tgva8889:
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When building a deck, sorting your cards is very important. While the following advice applies mainly to Highlander formats (specifically Commander), you may find it useful in other formats.
The largest problem Ive observed in deckbuilding is cutting cards. We all know that you have the best odds when you play the smallest number of cards. The difference may seem small, but every difference matters. When youre trying to remove cards from your deck, you are trying to find the cards you dont need. However, if your methods of sorting are inefficient, its very hard to see what exactly you dont need in your list. I mean, looking at a random pile of 80 cards, which 20 cards dont you need? You couldnt know without knowing some aspect of those cards. Sorting allows you to classify your cards by some useful characteristic, so that you can tell whether or not you do have parts that are in excess of what you need or cards that you actually just dont need.
While there are many methods of sorting, I think the first method of sorting everyone is most familiar with is Type Sorting. This is where you sort your deck list by whatever card types you happen to have. The most common is Land, Creatures, and Non-Creatures. While it is a useful rudimentary step, this form of sorting is fundamentally flawed. Most of the time, this doesnt help you. For example, lets take two cards that share a type: Sakura-Tribe Elder and Woodfall Primus. Now, obviously these are both Green creatures. But thats where the similarity ends. One of these cards is a land-accelerator only pretending to be a creature for long enough to block, while the other is a huge 6/6 that eats a permanent. These things are not very similar. However, a sort by Card Type puts these cards in the same classification category. On the other side, Flame Slash and Flametongue Kavu dont share a card type, but its hard to deny you wouldnt use both to kill creatures given the option. These cards would be in totally different parts of your list, though!
It is much easier to see a flaw if cards are sorted in a different manner. The manner that I suggest is the Function Sort. Sort all your cards by their intended function in your deck. For example, Sakura-Tribe Elder is a card you play for Mana Acceleration, so I sort it into the Mana Acceleration section. Woodfall Primus ends up in my Kills Non-Creatures secton. Both Flame Slash and Flametongue Kavu end up in my Kills Creatures section. This method allows you to see the cards by the purpose they serve in your deck, rather than by an arbitrary category. (You could sort your Lands this way, too, but I consider Land to be a Function, as lands are very special cards.) Some example categories pretty much every deck should be considering:
Win Conditions
Mana Acceleration/Fixing
Card Drawing
Library Manipulation
Kills Creatures
Kills Non-Creatures
Kills Lots of Stuff (Wraths)
Now, you can also condense those categories if you want. For example, Kills Creatures and Kills Non-Creatures could just be listed as Kills Stuff if its not really significant that you have a certain spread.
(Ill add an example, but this is the bare-bones of the suggestion.)
I apologize for any one who doesn't want spoilers.
Also, please let us know if you want something in the first post added, edited or removed.
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Will need revision when Innistrad comes out, tell me how terrible this truly is, on a scale from awful to bad:
4 Cancel
4 Grindclock
4 Memnite
4 Curse of the Bloody Tome
2 Mana Leak
2 Chancellor of the Spires
2 Mental Misstep
2 Mindcrank
4 Screeching Silcaw
4 Sword of Body and Mind
4 Hovermyr
2 Mindshrieker
22 Islands
Well, your land balance is a bit off. 22 Islands usually won't cut it. It feels to me that you'd be much better off with more of a proliferate/Grindclock theme if you're set on playing artifacts. Perhaps cut the Hovermyr, the Mindshriekers, Memnites, the Curses, and the Chancellors for Shriekhorns, Tumble Magnets, Contagion Clasps, and Tezzeret's Gambits?
I'd also echo what tgva said, and suggest that Mill probably isn't going to work well with a graveyard-cetric Standard environment.
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There seems to be a blue trend in Innistrad involving dumping cards into your own graveyard, but that's not something a typical Mill deck would do. There's also the risk of it being very advantageous for an opponent (*cough* Boneyard Wurm *cough*)
To be honest, unless there is some amazing contribution to the strategy in Innistrad, I don't really see Mill working very well in Standard right now.
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The committee did not agree on the title. "Vote Nicol Bolas for President 2012!" had more votes than this one. By one.
Whatever committee you were on didn't post a thread when we were on 50 pages.
Edit: Also, I just counted, 5 people voted for the current title. More people voted for Mythic Rare is an Orzhov Pyramid Scheme than the title you proposed at the end of the thread.
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Whatever committee you were on didn't post a thread when we were on 50 pages.
I was holding off on doing that because the last time I started a new thread in a series, people (complained) because I went with the title that sounded best when we were on 50 pages, and I wanted to avoid another incident like that...
EDIT to EDIT: Touche. I was trying to sneak that under the radar. And wait, what? I see only 2...
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The Next Round: Hundreds of the Guardians of Time show up and one of them screams out, "THIS IS AN UNSANCTIONED VIOLATION OF SPACE-TIME."
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If it's that big a deal I'll change it. I just counted, this one had 5 votes and none other had more than that.
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Somehow I feel there's a good title to be had in Planeswalker Points. Maybe like "+3: Attend an FNM near you!"
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FNM gives a minimum of +3 (for participation), but will usually be higher. Someone whose first sanctioned matches are at a 20-person FNM and who goes 3-0 (or 3-1) exits with 33 planeswalker points and gets to skip Prodigy completely.
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Well, we can't do +33 or the joke is totally lost.
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Ew, Grand Arbiter Augustin? I know you want to win, but seriously, that's the kind of deck that makes you the enemy, not the hero.
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Curse of Stalked Prey is AWESOME, I love it. Imagine it in Proliferate-style aggro decks! Amazing. If only it did something if you had no creatures. It seems like a high-value opportunity, but it's only that: an opportunity. It could turn out to be absolutely, abysmally poor. I do absolutely love what it does in multiplayer, though. Imagine the politics!
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Ew, Grand Arbiter Augustin? I know you want to win, but seriously, that's the kind of deck that makes you the enemy, not the hero.
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Curse of Stalked Prey is AWESOME, I love it. Imagine it in Proliferate-style aggro decks! Amazing. If only it did something if you had no creatures. It seems like a high-value opportunity, but it's only that: an opportunity. It could turn out to be absolutely, abysmally poor. I do absolutely love what it does in multiplayer, though. Imagine the politics!
Yeah, this deck does REALLY piss my friends off, but with the things the people at this cardstore run, it's kind of really necessary. It disrupts them, and helps me ramp up to what I need.
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What are they doing? I mean, Gaddock Teeg is perfectly viable as a General.
(Note I use "viable" to mean "legal and not a bad card" not "a good choice.")
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So, what do you think? It's really good at what it's made to do: defend itself.
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Azorius Signet - I don't like the Signets in EDH, especially in 2 color decks. They're too fragile for not enough benefit. Coalition Relic provides a much more powerful effect while Darksteel Ingot doesn't die to the first Disk/O Stone.
Magus of the Future - Generally Future Sight is just going to be better if you can get a hold of it. The body isn't relevant and Enchantments are much more resilient than creatures.
Truth or Tale - Impulse is strictly better if you can get one.
Howling Mine - There are better options for card draw in U that don't involve giving everyone else cards.
Spellbook - This effect isn't worth a card. I'd run Reliquary Tower instead so it takes up a land slot, or Venser's Journal for a stronger effect.
Solar Tide - Austere Command is strictly better.
Swift Silence - Unless Storm combo sees play in your area the "Counter all other spells" usually isn't relevant, and Overwhelming Intellect is a better mass draw counter.
Mischevious Quanar - I don't like only running one Morph creature in a deck, especially when it's a trick. Maybe add a Willbender so that this is less predictable.
Power Sink/Mana Leak - Due to the huge amounts of ramping, "Counter unless pay X" counterspells tend not to be too good in EDH. I'd look at replacing them with harder counters like Hinder, Dismiss, or Forbid.
Isochron Scepter - You don't really have enough targets to make this work.
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There are some "Counter unless you pay X" spells that are pretty playable, specifically Overrule because you can use it to gain a ton of life.
Signet is more viable when you're ramping to a turn 3 Grand Arbiter.
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Mimic Vat, Prototype Portal, Shrapnel Blast, Pyrite Spellbomb, Lightning Helix, Lightning Bolt, Feedback Bolt, Flayer Husk (maybe Sickleslicer), and then some cheap artifact creatures with into play or leave play abilities?
Phyrexian Metamorph might work too.
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Mimic Vat, Prototype Portal, Shrapnel Blast, Pyrite Spellbomb, Lightning Helix, Lightning Bolt, Feedback Bolt, Flayer Husk (maybe Sickleslicer), and then some cheap artifact creatures with into play or leave play abilities?
Phyrexian Metamorph might work too.
Only two, arguably three, of these cards are relevant to a Isochron Scepter deck. What does Mimic Vat have to do with Scepter?
Extinguisher: Lightning Helix is fantastic on a stick. I personally like Fire//Ice. Chant is classic, of course. Galvanic Blast might be amusing. Really, anything that is just aggravating to use every single turn. Something like Agony Warp really hampers aggro, though there's likely better options for that (again, Helix). I really wish Intimidation Bolt was legal on a stick.
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