Weird!

by captn-blackhat on 08 March 2012

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Deck Description

Well, the name is exactly what you'll think when you first look at this deck. Weid, just weird. No creatures, no spells for damage, is this guy completely mad or just a retard? Neither nor. Ok, a bit mad maybe for constructing this deck, because it's really expensive and hard to build, but i can garuantee that you will like it, even love it when you have it and play it. It became one of my most beloved decks over the time and I wanted to share it with you guys.
It's slow and quite sedate and most of the time you'll win with 2 or 3 livepoints left, but you'll win never the less and the fun and kind of mean part is that you'll win without your opponent even noticing it. Intrigued? Thaught so.
But how does this work? Well, the basic combo is the combination of Zur's Weirding (hence the official name "weird!") and Words of Worship. Zur lets every player pay 2 lifes to let an opponent discard a card he or she draws. How does this plays to your advantage? Combined with Words of Worship you can pay 1 mana to get 5 lifes instead of drawing a card. Savey? Not yet? Ok, you play these two cards. Now you pay 2 lifes to let your opponent discard the card he or she would draw in his drawstep. No card for him. Now your turn beginns and of course your opponent would like to let you discard your card too. To bad you have Words of Worship. 1 mana in your upkeep, no card but 5 lifes for you, enough to spend 2 on your opponents cards. And so on. Your opponent draws every card directly into his graveyard thus loosing by drawing his entire deck while you just get life instead of cards.
So all you have to do is to live long enough to get your combo into play. Well, almost. This deck needs patience. Don't play the combo to fast or you'll loose none the less. Eliminate every threat your opponent has in play, build up a controll-structure to deal with possibilities he or she has still in his or her hand and then you close the trap.
So the deck has the two combo cards and the rest is support, controll and destruction. Playing Counterspell and Force of Will, for countering. Disenchant, Swords to Plowshares, Wrath of God and Powder Keg to deal with creatures and artifacts. Boomerang and Orims Chant to slow the opponent down. And Impulse and Brainstorm for drawing cards or using 3 Mana to convert Brainstorm to 15 lifes via Words of Worship.
Then it plays the Isocron Scepter which is a really mean one in this deck. What would you like? Neverending Counterspell? Each turn an Orim's Chant for your opponent? Drawing cards over and over with Brainstorm? Removing all his creatures from the game with Swords to Plowshares? The possibilities are endless and each one is powerfull.
The rest consists of mana-supporting artefacts like, Sol Ring, Mana Vault, Grim Monolith, Lotus Petal, Chrome Mox and Mox Diamond.
What makes this deck expensive besides the Force of Will are the 4 Tundras. I guess you could play it with 3 Islands and 1 Plain instead, but it looses a lot of speed and strenght, so I would stil recommend the Tundras even if they are hard to get.
As said before this deck depens on the player at least as much as on the cards you play. Patience, "nerves of steel" and being willing to take risks are essential for playing it. You'll loose at least as often as you'll win, but when you win it tastes all the sweeter, when you see the realisation of what just happend on your opponents face.
Have fun with it. ;)

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Not Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Weird!

interestingly twisted, this is very much my style of play. I guess the only thing you would have to deal with is a much deserved revenge killing on another deck.

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Posted 08 March 2012 at 12:11

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Yeah, you could say that.
I mean it's no use against fast beat-down or straight damage decks, so don't even try to play it against Goblins or a RDW. But it still is suprisingly succesfull most of the time.

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Posted 08 March 2012 at 12:18

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