Slivers vs Spirit Mirror
What kind of battle is this you ask? What is this all about? What is the meaning of life? Limited recently tweaked his sliver deck from a casual fun deck to a pure aggro-control killer (Crystaline Sliver, Synapse Sliver, Forbid, etc). Last week I played an evil deck (for casual standards) that uses Spirit Mirror and Unnatural Selection as removal and also includes flagbearers and Wishmonger.
Probably out of pure frustration after loosing to my deck once to often (twice, lol) he challenged me to play my deck against his restyled Sliver deck. Being a person who likes a challenge, I foolishly agreed.
Strategy, Schmategy
Both decks are famous (in our playgroup) for removing a lot of the usual interaction beween players that makes Magic such a cool game. In Limited's U/W Sliver-Forbd deck his slivers can become untargetable, unblockable and create enough card drawing for a Forbid counter-lock. My advice is to battle such deck only with the most brutal tournament worthy deck you can scrape together with your card collection. As you may already concluded, I ignored this very piece of self-wisdom by agreeing to it. The fact that this slaughter will take place at a public forum, probably means that Limited also has the advantage in the mental department....
My deck removes interaction by forcing opponents to target a flagbearer with all their removal, combat tricks and enchantment boosts. That means the situation would be resolved fast, right? No, with a Wishmonger in play, you can protect you flagbearer from any kind of targeted effect you don't like (e.g. Eradicate, Sword to Plowshares). And what's even way more amusing: use Unnatural Selection to change Standard Bearer's creature type into anything else and make an opponent's creature a flagbearer. Yes, the spell will divert to the new idiot waving with it's flag. Cool huh?!
The duel at hand
It is clear that my deck is a better example of creativity (let's ignore the fact that I copied this whole deck-idea from Limited to start with). As the self-proclaimed underdog of the fight I hope I can count on the support of any reader stumbling into this thread. I'll need it. Hard.
Even though Limited is playing with Magic's most evil tribe (Demons can't hold a candle to these brutal killers), as a true example of sportsmanship, I'll wish Limited good luck!
Let's roll the dice: 42! Uhm, I mean 14. Ok, I'll start first.
I have drawn my starting 7 cards and I do not mulligan.
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