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Deck Garage Today marks our final winner in the Five Colors, Six Choices contest, and we’re going out with a bang. Three people have done their best to make Progenitus their kill card of choice, and we get to appreciate the fruits of their labor! Now, in higher-level tournaments people have already made attempts to cheat out Progenitus, mostly with Dramatic Entrance and Polymorph. Unfortunately for our contestants, both of those cards are monocolored and therefore banned. Fortunately for us, that means we get to watch them squirm as they try and figure out other ways of squeezing this card out, including—gasp!—coming up with the mana to pay for it. Our first contestant is C. Riggs. Land: x4 Jungle Shrine x2 Highland Weald x4 Naya Panorama x2 Frost Marsh x2 Artic Flats x2 Boreal Shelf x1 Dark Depths x2 Tresserhorn Sinks x2 An-Havva Township x1 Skarrg, the rage pits
Creatures: x4 Progenitus x4 Angus Mackenzie x4 Autochthon Wurm x2 Borborygmos x4 Wolly Thoctar
Non-Creature Spells: x2 Fist of Suns x2 AEther Mutation x4 AEther Rift x4 AEthermage's Touch x4 Alter of Bone x4 Armadillo Cloak
The idea here is to amass an army of big nasty creatures, with Progenitus at the helm. With the right synergy you should have your opponent flatlining and ready to be put down by the time you can get your first or second on the field.
Second, we have Morten. -----
Progentius is cool however he/she does require an absurd
manacost of 10 shuffled mana. Lets play it in a 2 color deck
in shall
we ? :D --------------- And last, but not least, we have St4rwind. Or, at least that’s what I gathered from his/her E-mail address.
If I can get Dragon Arch/Mindwrack Liege out, Progenitus technically has flash and can’t be countered, and with a single two Knights out I can swing for 20 in one turn, which would be awesome. The two Mox should provide enough acceleration for me to play what I need early, and since the deck is mostly blue/red, mana shouldn’t ever be an issue.
Here's the List
Creatures (11): Progenitus x4 Knight of New Alara x3 Mindwrack Liege x2 Jhoira of the Ghitu x2
Artifacts (10): Dragon Arch x4 Mox Ruby x3 Mox Sapphire x3
Spells (23): Invoke the Firemind x2 Suffocating Blast x4 Double Negative x4 Voidslime x4 Electrolyze x3 Snakeform x3 Firespout x3
Lands (16): Tropical Island x4 Volcanic Island x4 Pillar of the Paruns x4 City of Brass x4
And there you have it.
1: How does each deck win? Riggs wants to use Aethermage’s Touch, Aether Rift, and Fist of Suns (among others) to put Progenitus (among others) into play from just about every zone there is. The Touch will pull it out of your deck, let you swing with it, then bouce it to your hand, where the Rift can make your opponent pay 5 more life to keep it off the field or Fist of Suns can cut its mana cost in half. Morten wants to use Mindwrack Liege to put it into play for four mana, or Jhoira of the Ghitu to put it into play for two mana and four turns. St4rwind uses the same tricks as Morten, plus Dragon Arch to put it down for two mana now. 2: What is each deck’s flaw? Riggs’s biggest mistake? Two words: Angus Mackenzie. As hilarious as it is that he tried to find a deck for it, this deck isn’t it. Also, in an unfortunate slip-up, he has 4 Naya Panorama in his deck and no lands with basic land subtypes for him to search for. Morten’s biggest problem is that he put in Izzet Guildmage as a two-drop and has no instants or sorceries he can copy with it except Swerve, which is useless to copy unless your opponent is playing Grapeshot Storm. St4rwind’s biggest problem is his bizzare choice of color distribution. He’s playing red and blue as his bases, with a few green spells (Voidslime and the flying damage of Firespout) and one white card (Knight of New Alara). And to support this, he has a total of 22 mana sources counting the Moxen. This just looks incredibly weird on paper. 3: What does each deck do if it doesn’t draw Progenitus? Riggs uses Borborygmos or Autochthon Wurm instead and proceeds as planned. Morten has Prophetic Bolt, Spellbound Dragon, and the cantrip on Electrolyze to dig for the legendary Hydra, but even if he draws it with the Dragon, he’s probably better off discarding it for the +10/+0 and winning right then and there. St4rwind can hold an opponent off with countermagic and burn until he or she can fire off an Invoke the Firemind big enough to either kill the opponent or dig Progenitus out of his or her deck. Well, decision time. Riggs’s inclusion of Borborygmos and Autochthon Wurm renders Progenitus little more than Random Huge Creature. Since this is the Progenitus Contest, that hurts him a lot. Which narrows it down to the two Jhoira/Mindwrack Liege decks. And even though St4rwind found a third way to cheat the big guy out, Morten just plain built a better deck. It has focus, it has a good mana base, and it has a good chance of both getting Progenitus out and of winning without it. Congratulations, Morten! Now, my turn. I have to admit, this one really had me puzzled. My first thought was to fill the deck with Ravnica signets to create a massive store of mana, but then how to search for Progenitus? For that matter, how to make sure you draw anything other than another mana rock, turn after turn? Creatures: 4 Progenitus 4 Mishra, Artificier Prodigy Spells: 4 Boros Signet 4 Orzhov Signet 4 Golgari Signet 4 Simic Signet 4 Izzet Signet 4 Vigean Intuition 4 Time Sieve 4 Razia’s Purification Lands: 4 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea 4 Tree of Tales 4 Great Furnace 4 Seat of the Synod 4 Vault of Whispers
The plan here is to use Mishra to double your artifact spells, thus turning every signet into a landcycle of sorts. Once you’ve pulled enough signets out of your library, with Mishra or with Vigean Intuition, you should be able to hardcast Progenitus and then win on the spot by taking extra turns with Time Sieve.
And that concludes the Five Colors, Six Choices contest! I hope you all had as much fun with it as I did, and to our six winners: if you haven’t sent me your address yet, get it to me so you can get your prizes! Next week, we’ll be back to me fixing your decks. I’m sure at least a few of you out there are glad all this silliness is finally over. ~BMoor
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