Cipher Madness

by Jthevenot on 02 July 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Land (15)

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Deck Description

First Attempt at a Cipher Deck

How to Play

Use unblockable creatures to trigger cipher.

Deck Tags

  • Cipher
  • Unblockable
  • Blue
  • Black
  • BlueBlack
  • Island
  • Swamp
  • cipher deck

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Cipher Madness

Why put Go for the Throat in to make it illegal? Maybe replace with murder to legalize it?

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Posted 02 July 2013 at 15:34

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Unblockable + Cipher? That's cool... I guess. Why not try other ways to have those ciphers trigger? When you don't give them a choice to block your creature or not as to change how your opponent plays against you. When you give them the option to block your creatures, it can seriously change the way this deck plays out. What am I talking about? Well, have you considered ciphering on to a deathtouch? OR even first strike or double strike?

Perhaps you even add in some other cards that penalize your opponents for blocking. Rakdos has plenty of support for this (seeing as it works well with the unleashed mechanic).

The idea is to control the way your opponent plays by giving them no easy way out. Block a cipher to prevent a deathtouch creature from going through, and lose a creature from it, OR let a cipher trigger. Stack up the rakdos blocking penalties you'd get with Carnage Skeleton and Rix Madix guildmage, it can be a cruel ultimatum.

Then with ciphers like midnight recovery, you could conceivably grab some bloodrush creatures. Some of the mono-red bloodrush would be perfect for a u/b/r deck, and have interesting effects with cipher.

Then you could add a void walk in the deck, and use sepulchral primordial etb over and over.

Essentially, I'd drop whispering madness and paranoid delusions, the mill wont be enough to deck them out.

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Posted 02 July 2013 at 16:13

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