LD/Mana Denial, thoughts and Discussion
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When the card Assassin's Trophy was first spoiled, my first thoughts was "An instant Sinkhole!", and since then I have wanted to make a Mana Denial deck, the core of the deck being:
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Sinkhole
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Assassin's Trophy
4 Null Rod
5 Strip/WastelandFrom there, where would you go? Blue for stifle, power, counters, and leovold? White for Thalia, and Stony Silence, Swords? Should it include Chains of Mepho? Or would you go a different route with this set core? Just spitballing ideas I've had and seeing where other's would go with it.
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If you want to deploy a mana denial strategy, land destruction is outclassed by taxing effects. The reason being that destroying a land takes away 1 and only 1 mana, while a taxing effect takes away n mana, where n is the number of spells cast.
So basically Sphere effects are better than Sinkhole effects. If you want more Wasteland effects, I would turn towards Ghost Quarter rather than Assassin's Trophy.