Saturday, October 10, 2009

Amsterdam Snake Oil

The Little Engine that Could(10):
4x Lotus Cobra
4x Harrow
2x Khalni Heart Expedition

Every train needs a track(19):
4x Ponder
3x Ior Ruin Expedition
4x Negate
4x Gift of the Gargantuan
4x Day of Judgement

The Finish Line(6):
3x Bogardan Hellkite
3x Thraximundar


The Scenary (14 Fetches) (25 total):
3 gb fetch
4 gu fetch
1 bw fetch
4 ur fetch
2 rw fetch

3 forest
3 islands
2 plains
2 mountain
1 swamp

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OK, This is looking close to final pre actual testing.... Goldfishing was interesting, more will be written up later.

Goldfish examples:

HAND
3 basic lands - Harrow - Ior Ruin Expidition - Bogardan Hellkite - Fetch
GOLDFISH PLAY
t1 Land go -
t2 draw basic - land - Ior Ruin Expition
t3 draw lotus - play basic land
t4 draw lotus - play lotus play fetch
t5 draw fetch - play lotus 2 - play fetch (2) crack both fetches (2+4=6) tap both cracked lands (6+2=8) Play Harrow saccing a tapped land - put in 2 more basic lands (8+4=12) sac Ior Ruin Epedition to draw 2 (gift of the Gargantuan and a fetch land) - cast Gift of the Gargantuan (8-3 =5)see 2 fetches and a hellkite, so get 1 fetch and hellkite in hand. tapp 3 of 4 untapped lands (5+3=8) and cast a Hellkite.

This could have potentially gone of on turn 4, but I felt I didnt have the backup at the time, so I wanted to see if it would come, and it sort of did.

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THE HAND
Lotus Cobra - Khalni Heart Espedition - Harrow - Ponder - Ior Ruin Expedition 2 fetch
THE PLAY
t1 - play fetch sac for island ponder (forest, Fetch, Negate)
t2 - draw fetch, play forest, play Ior Ruin
t3 - draw negate - play Expedition, play fetch
t4 - draw harrow - play fetch
t5 - draw ponder play ponder (fetch gift fetch) play fetch - crack Ior Ruin (Drawing Gift + fetch) crack fetch play cobra - crack Khalni Heart Expo (2) crack 1 fetch (3) cast Gift of Gargantuan(Thraximundar and 3 noncreature spells!)
t6 - I could cast thraxi without using tricks, I have 2 harrows still in hand and a fetch that I can play this turn.

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THE HAND
2 fetch, 2 basic, harrow, ponder, hellkite
THE PLAY
t1- Fetch crack, for island, ponder (fetch, thraxi, harrow, shuffle, draw fetch)
t2- draw khalni heart expo - play forest, expedition
t3- draw gift - play basic land, play gift(reveal fetch, Thraxi, gift, negate keep thrax and fetch)
t4 draw mountain, play fetch eot crack fetch and expedition
t5 draw cobra - play cobra, play fetch - eot crack fetch (1) tap new land (2) tap other land (3) Harrow (3-3+2=2) tap new lands (2+2=4) tap other 4 lands in play(4+4=8) Hellkite
T6 draw fetch play fetch and play thraximundar swing for 11 or 12 (if they have a creature)

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I REALLY REALLY like this deck. consistent explosions turn 5/6 (and yes those 3 goldfishes were back to back to back)

6 comments:

Sean said...

Looks good! the expedition made me stop for a second cause it is so slow...and then i realized it actually isn't slow in this deck, it is a really amazing rampant growth for two mana for untapped lands. looks like you'll get your ramp off consistently on turn four or five with this baby. I like it a lot

DRokRoss said...

I ran out of basic lands on turn 5

DRokRoss said...

Its even possible to hit turn 4 bombs (had it happen in a goldfish that I wasnt posting :()

Sean said...

wow, nice.

we'll have to do some trading to get some of this stuff (i'm ok with trading fetch for fetch, but the u/g one is worth 20, the others are 15-17, so might be able to get a something else out of that. and the 4 day of judgement might be hard to get. i have the hellkites, i don't have the thraximundar. i have the day of judgment but you already talked me into using it over martial coup.

DRokRoss said...

I do have a box of zendikar coming to me pretty soon. you will be invited to the draft i ohld using the box and it will give more trade bait and such.

Sean said...

I got you 2 ur fetch, 3 thraximundar, 1 day of judgment.

i have 1 gb fetch and 4 bw fetch in my trade binder, so we can use those to trade for other fetch lands you need.

I have the ior ruin expeditions, i don't have the gift of the gargantuan (probably find those in the shards commons at the shop). I have 4 hellkites in my tradebinder.

I saw several landfall aggro/combo decks. They all were pretty mediocore. Steppe Lynx and Rampaging Baloth. Lots of them were running the grazing gladeheart or whatever the gain 2 life guy is, and i noticed that he is pretty good vs aggro, might be a sideboard option for you vs vampires.