QUENTIN MARTIN
Sorcery (3)
3 Counsel of the Soratami
Instant (18)
1 Candles’ Glow
2 Ethereal Haze
2 Consuming Vortex
3 Dampen Thought
1 Hisoka’s Defiance
2 Peer Through Depths
2 Psychic Puppetry
4 Reach Through Mists
1 Sift Through Sands
Artifact (1)
1 Long-Forgotten Gohei
Land (18)
13 Island
5 Plains
40 Cards
The deck relies on splicing Dampen Thoughts onto the various and sundry arcane spells to deplete the opponent’s deck. Cards such as Peer Through Depths and Reach through Mists not only provide splice vehicles but help the deck find the next splice device as well. Ethereal Haze, Psychic Puppetry, and Candles’ Glow keep you alive long enough to win.
In general, the deck needs to use Dampen Thoughts six or seven times in order to win. Quentin needed to go 3-0 in his final pod to make Top 8 but lost in the thirteenth round and just missed the cut. At 12-3, his 11th-place finish was behind ten other players with 12-2-1 records or better.
This was not an entirely unexpected deck, as the deck has been growing in popularity on MTGO for the past few weeks. As with any successful archetype, as the deck becomes more well known its potency decreases as players learn to counter the deck’s strategy. Take Grand Prix-Yokohama and Masahiko Morita’s Top 8 draft deck as a case in point.
引用元
OLD DOGS, NEW TRICKS Posted in The Week That Was on December 2, 2004
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/week-was/old-dogs-new-tricks-2004-12-02
リミテッドの記事にて、《思考の鈍化/Dampen Thought》デッキが取り上げられていました。
ひたすら秘儀を詰め込んで《思考の鈍化/Dampen Thought》を連繋することで相手のライブラリーを削り切るデッキです。ここでは特に、クリーチャーが1枚もないほどに特化したデッキが紹介されています。
クリーチャーが主役になるリミテッドでこうしたデッキが成立することは中々ありません。
その特異さゆえに一定の人気を得たようで、横道戦略人気ランキングでもランクインしたり（※１）、『Modern Masters』のような特殊セットで再登場したり（※２）しています。
※１
神河資料 - ドラフトの横道戦略
https://researchofkamigawa.diarynote.jp/202001062027493778/
※２
神河資料 - リミテッドの《思考の鈍化/Dampen Thought》デッキ
https://researchofkamigawa.diarynote.jp/202001271810278517/
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