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After looking thru the spoiler list at all of the bad-assery in the upcoming exspansion, a card was stuck in the back of my head. Blighted Agent. Ever since Scars, I have been trying to figure out creative ways to get those amazing 10 little poison counters accross the board. When I saw him, it was like one of those cliche sitcom moments where the main character realizes something amazing and is hit with bright lights and you hear singing in the background. It was sorta like that.

Seriously Wizards? A 1/1 with infect that is also unblockable for one and a blue ? I will be honest, I wanna break the crap out of this guy. Now I know what will be doing my killing, the trick to figure out now is how. At first, I thought about running U/W so that I could use Stoneforge Mystic to get Batterskull and Graple Hook out and use either Brass Squire or Puresteel Palidin to get equipment on the Blighted Agent. Then he is sneaking over there a 5/5 swinging with double strike. The problem I had with that is I felt like it took too many peices to get running. And I know at this point, you are probably thinking that I should just take a caw blade deck, tweak it and be done with it. Your would be right, I should, however, I lack some of the more vital parts to make a strong caw blade deck. On top of that, I don't want to do the same thing that has been done to death already.

So, long story short, with the cards availible to me and the rarity of the cards from New Phyrexia, I feel that I could do something like what I have listed below. I decided to run U/B so that I could use my 4 copies of Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas to do some shenanigans with the Blighted Agent. Using something that I don't see alot of, I want to get a Silverskin Armor on a Blighted Agent, which would allow Tezzeret to -1 him to a 5/5. Well, 6/6 if you count the +1/+1 from the equipment. After that, removal aside, your opponent can not stop him. To make sure that no one can mess with him, you pack the rest of the deck with control.

After all of my ramblings, here is my list.

----==== Blighted Tezzeret ====----


4x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
4x Everflowing Chalice
3x Surge Node
4x Blighted Agent
4x Silverskin Armor
4x Stoic Rebuttal
4x Inquisition of Kozilek
3x Mana Leak / Spell Pierce
4x Preodain
3x See Beyond

4x Inkmoth Nexus
4x Darkslick Shores
4x Drowned Catacombs
2x Tectonic Edge
6x Island
3x Swamp


Here is how I see a great hand open up...

Turn 1 : Land, play Surge Node
Turn 2 : Land, play Everflowing Chalice kicked once, tap E.C. to activate S.N. and add a counter to E.C.
Turn 3 : Land, play Blighted Agent and Silverskin Armor, use last mana to activate S.N. again
Turn 4 : Land, equip S.A. to B.A., cast Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas, use T,A.o.B.'s -1 on B.A., swing w/ B.A.
Turn 5 : Land, swing w/ B.A. and end the game.

Now the question is "What would you guys do to make this better?"