Sunday, October 3, 2010

Post Rotation Decks Episode 7: Next Level Levelers

Another day hour another deck. I talked previously about a level up deck that I made and how it has turned out to be a very fun deck with the potetential to win as fast as turn 4 or to have the durability to fight a longer game AS LONG AS IT GETS VENERATED TEACHER. Nothing is more embarassing then never drawing the teacher and getting overrun because your 1/1 dudes for 1 or 2 mana are simply sitting there awkwardly and not actually helping you get anywhere. Your opponent doesn't even need to worry about removal to keep them in check because he can just wait until you level up one of them and kill that one. However, Scars brings us the proliferate mechanic, which is insane in this deck! Venerated teacher costs 2U. Steady progress costs 2U. Venerated teacher gives you 2 lever counters each and leaves you a 2/2 dude. Steady progress gives you 1 level counter, but also draws you a card. Yes, Venerated Teacher is still better, but Steady Progress does as good job of being another 4 weak Venerated Teachers. Here's the new list:

4x Skywatcher Adept
4x Halimar Wavewatch
4x Guul Draz Assassin
4x Zulaport Enforcer
4x Null Champion
4x Venerated Teacher

4x Spreading Seas
4x Steady Progress
2x Doom Blade
2x Contagion Clasp
4x Preordain

4x Darkslick Shores
4x Misty Rainforest
5x Island
3x Verdant Catacombs
4x Swamp

Yes, the highest converted mana cost is 3, and the biggest creature is a 6/6 islandwalk. Yes, levers are awesome! One other thing that is really cool about this deck besides how it can have some insane blowout draws and how no one is expecting it is how little it costs. First, there are no Mythics on the list. Here's how the percentages break out in terms of rarity:

Common: 34/60 = 56.7%
Uncommon: 2/60 = 3.3%
Rare: 15/60 = 25% (Excluding lands 4/60 = 6.7%)
Mythic: 0/60 = 0%
(last 15% is basic lands)

Aside from the lands, there are a grand total of 6 cards you must change if you want to bring this to a pauper event. If you can't think of anything, just bring a suite of counterspells! I feel this version of the deck with proliferate should be much more consistant with 10 ways to get lots of level counters cheap compared to the previous 4. I already had this deck built, but I will definitely update and let you knwo how it goes!

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