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
