Brain Trauma

[Exaulted_Leader]

I'm just in a real deck-building mood tonight. Slapped this thing together, and had some good times on Apprentice:

Brain Trauma

Brain Damage

4x Hymn to Tourach
4x Cabal Therapy
4x Duress
4x Lobotomy
4x Traumatize
4x Haunting Echoes

Disability

4x Force of Will
4x Eradicate

Root Causes

4x Dark Ritual
4x Priest of Gix


I just whipped it up on impulse. Always wondered how fun it'd be to tear someone's deck to pieces rather than their life total.

It's loads. Trust me.


This is a little 'trickier' to play with than the decks I most prefer to play, but I think the vicious aggressiveness is still there (if in a different form of sorts). A well-timed Lobotomy will tear the win condition right out from under an opponent, and some strategic Duress, Therapy and Hymn work can buy you all sorts of fun and advantage in the early game.

In the end, a Traumatize followed by a Haunting Echoes will leave your adversary with a pile of land to draw from.

 

[Oversoul]

Looks like it would have mana problems. Kind of hard to cast a Dark Ritual when you don't have any mana to do it...

 

[train]

I'd suggest 4 Lake of the Dead, 10 swamps, and 8 Islands... to start...

Mind Twist maybe?



The deck would play faster - much faster with dream Halls and some meditates for you...

Especially with something like Amnesia!... (though Traumatize does very well...)

 

[Oversoul]

If you use Dream Halls, remember that...

Opportunity > Ancestral Recall

 

[Istanbul]

Originally posted by train
I'd suggest 4 Lake of the Dead, 10 swamps, and 8 Islands... to start...

Train just recommended Islands to someone.

And so the universe spins a little closer to oblivion as one more sign of the coming Apocalypse comes to pass.

 

[Oversoul]

He's recommended blue cards before, but he destroys the evidence. Just watch...

 

[train]

And so the universe spins a little closer to oblivion as one more sign of the coming Apocalypse comes to pass.

unfortunately for the world, I control when the apocalypse comes...

I don't mind helping with deck builds, and mentioning the land is something that's necessary, even if it turns my stomach... I even mentioned dream halls...

But... my chances of ever facing this deck are also really slim...

If I were to build the deck - It would be similar to this:

Brain Damage
4x Ravenous Rats
4x Mindstab Thrull
4x Mindslicer

4x Hymn to Tourach
4x Cabal Therapy
4x Duress
4x Addle
4x Haunting Echoes

Disability

2x Millstone
2x Grindstone
4x Eradicate

Root Causes
4x Dark Ritual

4x Lake of the dead
15x Swamps

 

[Oversoul]

I've never found 15 Swamps to be enough to fuel Lakes well, but then again, you're using a lot of one-drops, so I'm not too sure...

 

[train]

Here's the ideal...

First turn swamp, rit, duress, hymn
Second trun Swamp, Choose one (Addle, therapy, duress, rats...)
third Turn, lake, Haunting Echoes...