Doomsday
Today’s last deck is a Shared Fate-Leveler deck from Boris Zinshteyn. I get sent Shared Fate decks all the time, and I never post them. I don’t like the card. I’ve seen the Shared Fate-with-no-victory-conditions deck way too often, and it bores me. It doesn’t have the panache, the verve, the élan, the other fancy words that I usually strive for in a deck. The thought of a Shared Fate mirror match, where neither deck has any victory conditions at all, seems so horribly unpleasant I don’t want to contemplate it. And I’ve seen the Shared Fate-Leveler combo a million times by now, so it’s old news to me. That could be because I’ve already written about it. In fact, I was one of the first people to ever come up with the combo, posting it back on October 2 of last year, right around the time Leveler (and the rest of Mirrodin) was released. No one ever checks the archives. Back to my whiny point: I don’t post Shared Fate-Leveler decks.
But Boris has a different approach.
Boris takes two cards—two popular cards (no, I’m not talking about either Shared Fate or Leveler)—and uses them in such a subversive, unintended, wrong manner that is nothing short of genius. His real combo is Cranial Extraction + Relentless Rats. He stuffs his deck full of at least 20 Relentless Rats, then uses Cranial Extraction on himself to remove them all! He’s left with a lean, mean, much smaller and more focused deck. After that, it doesn’t much matter what the victory condition is. He chose Shared Fate and Leveler, but he also noted that you can use anything else. (Well, maybe not Battle of Wits.)RAT EXTRACTION
Creature (21)
1 Leveler
20 Relentless Rats
Sorcery (12)
4 Cranial Extraction
4 Diabolic Tutor
4 Lobotomy
Instant (4)
4 Gifts Ungiven
Enchantment (1)
1 Shared Fate
Land (22)
4 Island
10 Swamp
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Polluted Delta
60 Cards
引用元
ANTI-GRAVITY Posted in Feature on October 21, 2004
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/anti-gravity-2004-10-21
《地ならし屋/Leveler》で自分のライブラリーをゼロにした状態で《分かち合う運命/Shared Fate》を唱えると、相手が実質的にドローができなくなるロックデッキの亜種です。
《頭蓋の摘出/Cranial Extraction》を自分にうって、《執拗なネズミ/Relentless Rats》20枚を追放することで、ライブラリーから勝ち手段をゼロにし、《地ならし屋/Leveler》に代わるアプローチとしています。これにより、ネズミをそのまま並べてビートダウンするサブプランも出来ました。
ネズミや摘出の使い方としてはかなり独創的でしょう。
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