神河当時 - 反転オーラデッキ

Flip Your Wig
How to flip Kitsune Mystic seems pretty obvious. The trick to the Mystic isn’t what to do with it before the flip, it’s how to use it well once it’s been flipped into Autumn-Tail, Kitsune Sage.

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Still, Kitsune Mystic gets lonely without his buddy. More on that in a bit.

Like Peter Pan, Student of Elements just wants to fly. That’s reasonably simple. Lots of effects (um, Flight? And Dragon Wings, Wings of Hope, Shimmering Wings, etc.) can do this. The problem is that most of them don’t do too much beyond that, and that effect generally isn’t worth a deck slot. But there are some creature enchantments that go above and beyond. Pemmin’s Aura has a flying effect buried somewhere in there. Serra’s Embrace tacks on +2/+2 and vigilance. (Hmmm, now you have a 5/5 vigilant flying Tobita, Master of Winds.) And Aboshan’s Desire has an untargetability clause that, if you have both threshold and Autumn-Tail, can make any of your creatures untargetable for . Just remember: If you’ve got a flipped Student of Elements out, don’t play another one! It’ll flip automatically and both will fly away into your graveyard.

Like any fledgling mobster, Bushi Tenderfoot needs to get one clean hit under its belt before it can be a made man. It isn’t going to pull this off in combat without some help. One method is to give it some extra muscle and run it out onto the battlefield. A better plan is to give it a machine gun. Mobsters love machine guns. Suit it up with Psionic Gift and it can take down an enemy 1-toughness stoolie to earn its bones. None of those around? Let it take a potshot at someone wearing Frozen Solid. Still no targets? Take a cue from The Sopranos: Sometimes you’ve gotta take out one of your own for the good of the family. Bushi Tenderfoot doesn’t say it has to deal combat damage and it doesn’t say it has to whack one of your opponent’s creatures. In fact, the best possible use for Bushi Tenderfoot #2 is to let Bushi Tenderfoot #1 feed it the golden cannoli, if you know what I’m sayin’. You’re not going to flip the second one, and Kenzo the Hardhearted—a 3/4 double striker with bushido 2—is a godfather-sized menace. Rockshard Elemental wishes it were that formidable, and that thing costs 7 mana. Bada-bing, bada-boom.

All three of these flippers can happily coexist in one deck, but the Mystic’s buddy is still missing. Nomad Mythmaker is a no-brainer for a creature-enchantment based deck. Thought Courier and Hapless Researcher serve a dual purpose here: They’re cheap critters ready to be enchantmentally enhanced, and they filter through your deck tossing out excess flippers (because you don’t want them) and mondo creature enchantments (because the Mythmaker can fish them out of your graveyard). Don’t hesitate to use the Mythmaker to put Persuasion on one of your own creatures; Autumn-Tail can move it to one of your opponent’s creatures from there.

Creature (19)
4 Kitsune Mystic
2 Student of Elements
2 Bushi Tenderfoot
3 Hapless Researcher
4 Nomad Mythmaker
4 Thought Courier

Enchantment (18)
2 Aboshan’s Desire
3 Frozen Solid
1 Mythic Proportions
2 Pemmin’s Aura
2 Persuasion
4 Psionic Gift
2 Serra’s Embrace
2 Unquestioned Authority

Land (23)
6 Plains
9 Island
2 Adarkar Wastes
2 Coastal Tower
4 Flooded Strand
60 Cards

引用元
FLIPPING IN Posted in Feature on September 23, 2004
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/flipping-2004-09-23

反転カードを使ったデッキを紹介する記事です。これ以外にもデッキが２つ紹介されていますが、それは置いておきます。

このデッキでは、反転カードを３つも投入しています。しかも、土地とクリーチャー以外はオーラのみ、というかなり思い切った構成です。

３つの反転カードの反転条件である、「オーラが複数ついている」「クリーチャーを倒す」「飛行を持つ」という点を満たす方法として、強化オーラを大量投入する、という狙いです。

実用性のほどは不明ですが、反転をテーマとしたデッキとしては完成度が高いと言えます。




追記
ウェブアーカイブに、日本語訳の記事があるのを発見しました。

反転飯店 ――マジックの"英雄"たちの底力
https://web.archive.org/web/20041112102123/http://www.hobbyjapan.co.jp/magic/articles/files/20041006_01.html