U/W halfdeck: Combo

by Muktol on 24 July 2015

Main Deck (30 cards)

Creatures (8)


Artifacts (4)


Land (10)

Sideboard (0 cards)

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Deck Description

Searching for challenges I stumbled upon wickeddarman's idea of halfdecks.
The idea behind this is to built small decks (30 cards) and fuse them with other such decks. It's important that each halfdeck could work on it's own and that you tag your deck as 'halfdeck' so that others may find proper halves to combine it with.
Basically I have seen 2 ways of building such a deck:

1.) Take a 60 card deck and split it into 2 halves of 30 cards each.
2.) Take a 60 card deck and try to filter 30 essential cards out of this deck.

Personally I like the second way better than the first because it allows you to make a good and working half and forget about the second half. It also enables you to add a small, 7 cards, sideboard.


After working on two decks that used the "Midnight Guard"/ "Retraction Helix" combo, I wanted to see if it was possible to fit this into a halfdeck.
As all of these cards are common I made this a pauper halfdeck. Possible cards to make this a non-pauper deck: Door of Destinies, Altar of the Brood, Painsmith (black)


This deck exists only on this site and has never been played against another deck. Regardless I'm open to all suggestions and ideas that may help to improve this deck.

How to Play

This halfdeck can is best combined with something that gives a little protection and/ or ramp to increase it's speed.
The basic idea behind this is to play "Midnight Guard" and "Retraction Helix". Now you can play "Ornithopter" an infinite number of times and abuse cards with 'Enter the Battlefield' or 'whenever a spell is cast' effects.
"Golem Foundry" for example allows you to produce infinite 3/3 golems. "Door of Destinies" allows you to put infinite counters on this artifact and thus strengthen your creatures. "Altar of the Brood" would allow for mill, and so on.

Deck Tags

  • halfdeck
  • Combo
  • Untested

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

84000

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for U/W halfdeck: Combo

Nice, I didn't follow up on this, as it was a "nostalgic page"
I remember there was a lot more interest in this back then.
I even made a Facebook group for it.

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Posted 26 June 2020 at 23:55

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Yes, but you should also make a separate half deck in the sideboard/command zone

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Posted 27 June 2020 at 01:18

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Not all people preferred that. Sometimes they just had one half that they wanted to showcase :)

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Posted 27 June 2020 at 17:59

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Yes, but this is great, and I want to see what else they come up with

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Posted 27 June 2020 at 19:00

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Yeah I get it you can showcase the very essence of the idea on one page.
People can visually imagine what deck halves they'd like to see interact.

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Posted 27 June 2020 at 19:04

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