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Gizmo
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This is a casual/competitive deck I keep built up all time to pull out because I enjoy playing it, now reworked for Ravnica and Guildpact cards. I would say it's a mixture of casual and competitive, because obviously being Highlander it's casual, but within the rules of Highlander I pull out the stops to make it as strong as I can with the cards I own (ie, no Ancestral Recall or Thawing Glaciers).
---CREATURES (1)---
Avatar Of Fury
(or Djinn Illuminatus, but a 6/6 flyer for RR is pretty strong in a counter deck wanting to leave lands untapped. Shame I can't Muddle for it)
---ARTIFACTS (5)---
Journeyer's Kite (aka Thawing Glaciers: The Artifact Years)
Scroll Rack
Bosium Strip
Shell Of The Last Kappa
Nevinyrral's Disk
---BLUE SPELLS (19)---
Arcane Denial
Memory Lapse
Mana Leak
Power Sink
Muddle The Mixture (Transmute 2 is awesome, took out Merchant Scroll for it)
Counterspell
Forbid
Dissipate
Hinder
Rewind
Jilt
Repeal (replaced Repulse for flexibility)
Capsize
Legacy's Allure
Dominate
Treachery
Peer Throught Depths
Impulse
Fact Or Fiction
---RED SPELLS (8)---
Lightning Bolt
Shock
Firebolt
Incinerate
Pyroclasm
Earthquake
Fault Line
Volcanic Geyser (>Ghitu Fire cos I can Muddle for it)
---GOLD SPELLS (2)---
Electrolyse
Prophetic Bolt
---LAND (25)---
Dust Bowl
Wasteland
Quicksand
Shivan Reef
Steam Vents
Izzet Boilerworks
Faerie Conclave
Mountain x6
Island x12
I love this build - partially because it is very solid with banks of standard effects (eg 10x Counterspells, 12x burn) meaning it's quite consistent for a Highlander deck. But also in there is a ton of search and card advantage that makes it really hard to break down - it finds what it needs when it needs it. The mana curve is extremely low as well, so it's strong from turn 2 onwards, and its practically completely instants. The addition of Muddle The Mixture if very strong as I can search out diverse effects like Counterspell, Incinerate, Pyroclasm, or other card search like Scroll Rack and Journeyer's Kite - it's just a shame I dont own a Powder Keg!
Some cards in there may seem a little strange, like the Shell, but don't forget that once that's in play I get free countermagic on anything targetting me. I dont have to sacrifice it, I can just leave it as a shield against all future nastiness and that's it's main use. Also this deck can really abuse Bosium Strip. I dropped the Djinn Illuminatus out because, simply, I feel like I wont need the card advantage it can give me and would rather have the mana untapped for other spells and abilities after casting a 6/6 Firebreathing win condition.
Still tempted to put an Aether Flash in there. I took it out because people were refusing to play against me, but I think in the token-generating environment after Rav/Pact I might need to be able to end the Saproling threat conclusively.
---CREATURES (1)---
Avatar Of Fury
(or Djinn Illuminatus, but a 6/6 flyer for RR is pretty strong in a counter deck wanting to leave lands untapped. Shame I can't Muddle for it)
---ARTIFACTS (5)---
Journeyer's Kite (aka Thawing Glaciers: The Artifact Years)
Scroll Rack
Bosium Strip
Shell Of The Last Kappa
Nevinyrral's Disk
---BLUE SPELLS (19)---
Arcane Denial
Memory Lapse
Mana Leak
Power Sink
Muddle The Mixture (Transmute 2 is awesome, took out Merchant Scroll for it)
Counterspell
Forbid
Dissipate
Hinder
Rewind
Jilt
Repeal (replaced Repulse for flexibility)
Capsize
Legacy's Allure
Dominate
Treachery
Peer Throught Depths
Impulse
Fact Or Fiction
---RED SPELLS (8)---
Lightning Bolt
Shock
Firebolt
Incinerate
Pyroclasm
Earthquake
Fault Line
Volcanic Geyser (>Ghitu Fire cos I can Muddle for it)
---GOLD SPELLS (2)---
Electrolyse
Prophetic Bolt
---LAND (25)---
Dust Bowl
Wasteland
Quicksand
Shivan Reef
Steam Vents
Izzet Boilerworks
Faerie Conclave
Mountain x6
Island x12
I love this build - partially because it is very solid with banks of standard effects (eg 10x Counterspells, 12x burn) meaning it's quite consistent for a Highlander deck. But also in there is a ton of search and card advantage that makes it really hard to break down - it finds what it needs when it needs it. The mana curve is extremely low as well, so it's strong from turn 2 onwards, and its practically completely instants. The addition of Muddle The Mixture if very strong as I can search out diverse effects like Counterspell, Incinerate, Pyroclasm, or other card search like Scroll Rack and Journeyer's Kite - it's just a shame I dont own a Powder Keg!
Some cards in there may seem a little strange, like the Shell, but don't forget that once that's in play I get free countermagic on anything targetting me. I dont have to sacrifice it, I can just leave it as a shield against all future nastiness and that's it's main use. Also this deck can really abuse Bosium Strip. I dropped the Djinn Illuminatus out because, simply, I feel like I wont need the card advantage it can give me and would rather have the mana untapped for other spells and abilities after casting a 6/6 Firebreathing win condition.
Still tempted to put an Aether Flash in there. I took it out because people were refusing to play against me, but I think in the token-generating environment after Rav/Pact I might need to be able to end the Saproling threat conclusively.
