Hi all,
This is my second deck list post today, It's a one card combo deck. I was going to call it Egan Druid ala Brian Kelly but I'll just keep it to the more elegant name.
Druid is a deck that wins in the 3 minutes of sideboarding between games 1 & 2.
Without further a do here's the list. I'll talk about it a little afterwards.
Spells:
Artifacts
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Saphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
Enchantments
1 Sylvan Library
Planeswalkers
1 Jace, The Mind Scuptor
Instants
4 Force of Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
2 Mental Misstep
1 Vampiric Tutor
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Dig Through Time
1 Gush
Sorceries
1 Time Walk
1 Ponder
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Gitaxian Probe
3 Preordain
3 Thoughtseize
3 Cabal Therapy
1 Demonic Tutor
The Combo
4 Hermit Druid
2 Bridge from Below
1 Dread Return
2 Narcomoeba
1 Deep Analysis
1 Laboratory Maniac
Lands
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Tropical Island
4 Underground Sea
2 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Scalding Tarn
Sideboard
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
3 Omniscience
4 Show and Tell
3 Griselbrand
4 Hurkyl's Recall
It's a list that in theory has been around for years but haven't seen any body make it.
Here hows it works, Activate Hermit druid,mill your deck, Dread return the Maniac, protecting it with Cabal Therapies and cast a cantrip or flash back deep Analysis and win.
My first build of this list was a crazy turn 1 win with Angers and and a Flame-Kin win but it had about 15 combo cards and was terrible if the opponent had a force. I've managed to get the combo part down to the least number of cards possible to still have a resilient win if you draw some of the pieces, (you can cabal them into the graveyard if needed).
The real fun starts in game 2, your opponent will bring in all their dredge hate and you completely transform out of the Druid plan into Show & Tell which makes their 7/8 hate cards dead, affects their mulligan decisions and lets them waste time playing their graveyard hate that does nothing.
I played against one Stax opponont who game 2 went hellbent playing out all this graveyard hate after a mull to six which did nothing.
I am going to go out on a limb and say I think this is just a better deck than Oath of Druids, very similar in that you both want to resolve a 1G spell, but this is a one card combo that is able to transform away from any hate.
One note in playing the deck, you HAVE to transform game 2 unless you think the Druid strategy is better and you lost game one without them seeing the combo but ideally you transform.
I was playing against a Blood Moon deck where they had a Null Rod and Blood Moon in play game one so I had a zero win percentage, however i played on for a few turns and discarded some of the combo to handsize to make sure the opponent saw it so for game 2 they'd bring in their hate.
So in some ways this is a sideboard deck and you do win a lot of matches in the 3 minutes of sideboarding between games.
I'm again really interested in your feedback good or bad. Somebody said to me yesterday that they don't play Vintage because it's a stale, with all the cards in the history of the game at your disposal, it's never stale.
I'm glad I finally got to post my 2 pet projects up here, would have preferred to play them at a tournament first but unfortunately that's not going to happen.
Any Questions let me know.
All the best
John Egan