Objective
Make an extremely cheap combo deck that wins semi-consistently. All cards in this deck are under $1 yet it can probably beat more casual decks quite easily! In play testing I could win around turn 7 or 8. The absolute fastest it can win is turn 4 if you draw perfectly and the opponent has no interaction.
Combo
The combo has 3 pieces:
Obelisk Spider
,
Leech Bonder
and
Song of Freyalise
or
Karametra's Favor
.
Song of Freyalise
allows
Leech Bonder
to tap for the blue mana needed to activate it untap ability, granting you the ability to infinitely move counters around. I choose the payoff to this to be
Obelisk Spider
who will infinitely drain your opponents so long as you keep shifting
Leech Bonder
's -1/-1 counters around without killing anything.
Strategy
On most of your turns, you're going to want to hold 2 mana open. This allows you to play counterspells like
Mana Leak
and
Dimir Charm
as well as protection like
Plaxmanta
. Keeping this mana open is easy with stuff like
Vessel of Nascency
which comes down early and lets you crack it at instant speed to look at the top 4 for any important cards.
Sinister Concoction
is a similar idea except with creature removal.
Den Protector
costs 3 to morph so its not the greatest, but it plays into the graveyard theme you might be seeing emerge here.
Using
Unearth
to get our two combo creatures out of the graveyard is much better than playing them normally because it lets us hold up protection. This means we want to be discarding combo pieces if we have
Unearth
or a way to get
Unearth
.
This is where
Disciple of Deceit
comes in. She is very versatile in this deck which makes up for how she takes a turn to get going and is vulnerable to removal (good thing we're packing protection for that anyway for our combo pieces). Because both our combo creatures are 3 mana, you'll often want to discard one of them to get the other one. This puts one in the graveyard for
Unearth
, which you can get by discarding any 1 cost card with
Disciple of Deceit
. There are also plenty of 2 cost cards to fetch
Song of Freyalise
or
Karametra's Favor
. One reason I favor
Karametra's Favor
slightly over
Song of Freyalise
is its ability to come down earlier, draw a card and help
Disciple of Deceit
untap without attacking into danger.
Speaking of
Karametra's Favor
and
Song of Freyalise
, always play
Leech Bonder
first and let his summoning sickness go away before playing either of those cards. In some cases, you'll also want to wait to play
Obelisk Spider
as well so long as you have enough mana for all that and a counterspell. In dire situations,
Leech Bonder
can also use 1 counter for removal.
Plaxmanta
unfortunately prevents you from combing off because it gives shroud not hexproof. I included it in this deck because 1. its a creature and so it can be fetched with
Vessel of Nascency
and 2. because I just like the card okay? Super underrated in my option.
Gotta Go Fast
There are a few ways to achieve a turn 4 win with this deck:
Turn 1:
Sinister Concoction
or
Vessel of Nascency
Turn 2: Pop the enchantment you played and put
Obelisk Spider
into the graveyard. (Popping
Vessel of Nascency
now can fetch
Leech Bonder
or
Karametra's Favor
)
Turn 3: Play
Leech Bonder
. Gotta play it now so its summoning sickness wears off.
Turn 4:
Unearth
Obelisk Spider
and play
Karametra's Favor
or
Song of Freyalise
.
