神河当時 - 安価レアデッキ特集

Pondering the Patrons
The card: Patron of the Moon
Rejected because: Who plays Moonfolk decks? Oh, and too costly to cast.
Betrayers has supplied us all with an entire cycle of yummy tribal fatties in the Patrons. Generally speaking, none of the Patrons are chase rares from the set, but some -- especially Patron of the Moon, Patron of the Nezumi, and Patron of the Kitsune -- are usually left alone for constructed purposes. The problem with budget decks around Patron of the Kitsune is that two of the best Kitsune -- Eight-and-a-Half-Tails and Sensei Golden-Tail -- are also rare. Patron of the Nezumi has better odds of making it into a fun budget deck, except that Rat’s Nest is a potential winner of the next preconstructed experiment so I want to leave it alone. That leaves Patron of the Moon, probably the most maligned of the Patrons.

Why is it maligned? Well, first of all because Moonfolk are not what you would call a powerful tribe. At all. Meloku the Clouded Mirror is obviously faboo and Soratami Cloudskater is a solid quick flier, but after that quality tails off significantly. Making a Moonfolk tribal deck is just plain difficult, at least if you want to win more than one game in 10.

Secondly, there is already a legendary creature that can do pretty much the same thing for a lot less mana in Azusa, Lost But Seeking. Why pay seven mana when you can pay three (especially when you have a beefy flier in the same set for ... zing!). Any deck that truly wants to use Patron of the Moon’s ability will be more reliable if it switches over the green and uses Azusa, Lost But Seeking.

Alas, poor Patron of the Moon. I tried the Moonfolk tribal deck and didn’t like the results. Those Soratami are too pricey and blue has too little mana acceleration to support them for my tastes. I tried splashing green for mana acceleration, but that just made the exclusion of Azusa all the more apparent.

MOONING YOU
Creature (22)
4 Soratami Cloudskater
4 Mistform Wall
4 Patron of the Moon
3 Riptide Shapeshifter
3 Spire Golem
2 Shoreline Ranger
1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
1 Darksteel Gargoyle

Sorcery (7)
4 Rush of Knowledge
3 Fireball

Artifact (4)
4 Wayfarer’s Bauble

Enchantment (3)
3 Confiscate

Land (24)
22 Island
2 Mountain

60 Cards

引用元
INTERLUDE: HIDDEN GEMS IN BETRAYERS Posted in Building on a Budget on April 11, 2005
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/building-budget/interlude-hidden-gems-betrayers-2005-04-11

安価なレアを使ったデッキの特集です。３つ紹介されている中で、《月の守護神/Patron of the Moon》デッキ、というよりカード単体が気になりました。手札から土地を出すのは、当時であればムーンフォークの起動型能力のコストを軽減できます。しかし、今であれば、上陸を何度も誘発させる、という新たな役割も生まれています。それゆえに、当時よりも面白いコンボの可能性が広がっていると思います。