A new hare-brained scheme! 'TrudeBrood

Hey you hip MTG people!

While other folks have been net-decking, I've put together a brand new combo deck.

Call it rUbe GoldBrood or Blue GoldBrood or 'TrudeBrood. I prefer the punny name, though if this deck gets anywhere, the 'TrudeBrood moniker is more likely to stick. Besides, many decks are named by key cards (such as Kikipod). It's easier to remember that way.

The most current version of the deck is here: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/trudebrood-formerly-blue-goldbrood/

For those who don't want to click the link, here's a list:

Creatures

4x Ornithopter

3x Memnite

4x Mirran Spy

3x Trinket Mage

4x Grimoire Thief

Sorcery

4x Gitaxian Probe

Instant

3x Banishing Knack

4x Retraction Helix

Artifact

4x Altar of the Brood

Enchantment

4x Artificer's Intuition

4x Intruder Alarm

Land

4x Flooded Strand

15x Island

"'TrudeBrood" = Intruder Alarm + Altar of the Brood

The aim of this deck is simple (though unnecessarily complicated, much like Rube Goldberg machines): Use Banishing Knack or Retraction Helix with Mirran Spy or Intruder Alarm to bounce and recast a zero-mana creature enough times to mill out an opponent with Altar of the Brood. The Altar or 0-creatures can be tutored up with Artificer's Intuition.

Plausible? Maybe. Easy to hate out of the metagame? Most likely. Appealing to the Johnny in me? Absolutely.

I am enjoying the cathartic joy of an inventor who doesn't take the constrictions of the real world into account. Like Nikola Tesla running mental simulations, I'm planning out the deck in my head with complete disregard for potential problems. The fictional world of MTG in my head contains no disruption to my combo as I cackle in my laboratory tower!

Whether or not this deck is plausible (even with a few tweaks I can already see, such as replacing a couple lands with zero-cost artifacts), it encapsulates one of the things I love about Magic: The Gathering. The environment of MTG is a more perfect world than our own (in a way), as perpetual action is possible. An action, with the correct combination of cards, can be taken Ad Infinitum, even picking up gains at each iteration.

My admiration for the world of combos and its disregard (protection from the world) of physics pegs me as a Johnny player. Being a “Spike” is too mainstream. Like direct current. And radio waves traveling through the air.

Let the records show that if the sub-dollar rare Artificer's Intuition raises in price, 'TrudeBrood affected it! I'm going to take this deck to an FNM and get CRUSHED.

Take your dollah rare and make it a hollah rare!

Later, hip Magic players!

-planeswalkster

Winning is too mainstream. . .

There's more to the hipster lifestyle than carrying around an iPhone. A few pillars of the hipster culture include:
 -Avoiding the mainstream (and scoffing at it)
 -Behaving ironically
and, of course,
-Enjoying things before they're cool.

 Now, I wish I could claim that third pillar in regards to my enjoyment of the collectible card game Magic: the Gathering (MTG), but I can't. The game was cool before I received my first Unglued card back in 2001. The game will continue to be cool long after I've sold my collection and retired to a nice place you've probably never heard of. . .

Often, when someone asks me what I've been up to or why I didn't get back to them all weekend, I'll say,
"I was playing Magic."
They'll reply, "What is that?"

That's how I know I'm still safely out of the mainstream. For now.


I hate counterspells. They really ruin everyone's fun. The blueballs of blue. I sometimes use counterspells, though.
Ironically.