A deck completely based on taking your opponents creatures and wrecking face with them. Why build some crazy expensive deck when you can just borrow those cards from your enemy?
Greater Gargadon
turn 1 or 2 is the preferred opening play. Turn 2 get
Lightning Greaves
,
Skullclamp
, or
Bazaar Trader
out there. Turn 3, start taking creatures with spells to stall your opponent. Use
Bazaar Trader
to keep the creatures you steal or gargadon to sac them in a pinch.
If you really want to grief your opponent steal their creature then play
Crack the Earth
. They lose two permanents to your zero.
Oracle of Bones
,
Taurean Mauler
is early attack.
AEther Membrane
is early protection, though most of your protection comes with stealing opponents creatures. Other cool interactions involve
Bazaar Trader
and handing creatures you steal to your teammate. If your opponent casts a creature, you take it the next turn, attack with it, then give it to your teammate, it untaps on their turn, and your ally attacks with it again. Pretty brutal. Deck has efficient removal for permanents that would otherwise stall games, such as enchantments - even though there are no destroy enchantment cards. Several steal cards, such as
Dominus of Fealty
,
Zealous Conscripts
, and
Word of Seizing
target permanents, use them to take the problem card, then play
Crack the Earth
or use
Greater Gargadon
to get rid of it. All three of these steal cards are resistant/immune to counterspells, as Fealty and Conscripts are abilities of the creature, and
Word of Seizing
is a split second spell.
Another cool interaction is the
Fling
,
Greater Gargadon
combo. In desperate times hold on to your flings, then sac whatever you can to get Gargadon on the battlefield. Attack + fling for 18 potential damage. Mid game this can usually end it.
Playtests really well. Let me know what you think.
