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Lol. If only

February 24, 2011 7:12 a.m.

ROFL. I would be so pissed.

February 24, 2011 7:19 a.m.

omfg haha very funny love the deck

February 24, 2011 11:38 p.m.

That is hilariously amazing.

February 25, 2011 2:58 a.m.

The best part? This deck actually works. What happens is, once you hit layer 9, your opponent doesn't have enough cards in their deck to draw their initial 7, and they lose turn 0. Then you go back up to layer 8, and they lose 10 health. After 5 castings of Shahrazad in layer 8 (which should take 5 turns tops), they hit 0 health, and you move up to layer 7. Lather, rinse, repeat, until you make it back up to layer 1 and finish the resolution of that final Shahrazad.

February 25, 2011 3:05 a.m.

How much time passes at layer 9 for every five minutes in layer 1?

February 25, 2011 3:09 a.m.

Exactly enough to get you DQ'd for stalling.

February 25, 2011 3:15 a.m.

Once you reach layer 9 and the opponent dies can they still fall back to layer 8 or do they fall into limbo? Lost forever in the void of MTG.

I wonder if anyone is already down there? Creating their own Magic world.

February 25, 2011 3:29 a.m.

Mark Rosewater is stuck in MTG Limbo; I hear the magic world he is creating is full of riggers and contraptions. His mind is truly lost.

February 25, 2011 3:46 a.m.

Would you really get DQ'd for stalling? D:

Also, lol @ price.

February 25, 2011 11:56 a.m.

probably not, however games within games are too unstable, so i wouldnt recommend running this deck without some HEAVY sedatives

February 25, 2011 3:01 p.m.

Priceless.

Years ago, there's was an interview on DailyMTG where Richard Garfield even gives props to this deck. Worth readin': http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/78

February 26, 2011 4 p.m.

that is a great article.

johnny's all just got super boners.

February 26, 2011 4:41 p.m.

the price is without the mox pearl wich is 600 dollar each. this is just 100 time sharazard at 45 dollar.

so that would count up to 64,500 dollar.

and this deck isn't legal in anny format.(except roflcopter leage)

but yeah good fun.

February 26, 2011 5:41 p.m.

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

February 26, 2011 9:39 p.m.

you sir are my hero.

February 27, 2011 12:23 a.m.

you sir, are my hero.

February 27, 2011 12:23 a.m.

i see what you did there. cool story bro...YOUR Friggin WINNING!!! oh man, this made me laugh tits out of my mouth

February 27, 2011 2:09 a.m.

i tried playtesting this deck against my ramping death...its been..so long..cant...win..

February 27, 2011 2:10 a.m.

I think you might want to consider making this deck 60 cards as you will have a better chance of pulling your combo.

=)

February 27, 2011 9:01 a.m.

nah stay this size otherwise you would lose because your own tactique

February 27, 2011 9:20 a.m.

Check out my Shahrazad deck, deck:because-i-can-there-is-no-other-reason

February 27, 2011 11:57 a.m.

Why did you have to divide by zero?!?

February 27, 2011 10:52 p.m.

Nice.

February 28, 2011 4:08 a.m.

This is my favourite deck on TO.

February 28, 2011 10:09 a.m.

See above.

February 28, 2011 10:52 a.m.

u'd lose, but yeah lolz

February 28, 2011 5:54 p.m.

u'd lose, but yeah lolz

February 28, 2011 5:54 p.m.

The only flaw with this brilliance would be the "halving his/her life points, rounded down" because you would never be able to drop opponent's life below 1...no matter how many subgames they should lose. Half of 1 rounded down will always be zero.

February 28, 2011 10:13 p.m.

@Geniusholmes13: Hur... dur.... derp.

February 28, 2011 11:30 p.m.

Dude...

If I had the money for 100 Mox Pearls and 100 Shahrazads, I would build this deck.

Funniest.

Deck.

Ever.

March 1, 2011 2:06 a.m.

@Geniusholmes13: ?

From the Oracle text: "Players play a MAGIC subgame, using their libraries as their decks. Each player who doesn't win the subgame loses half his or her life, rounded up"

The original wording of the card set your life to "half of 1, rounded down", which is 0. They changed it to read "Loses half rounded up" in Oracle because the original wording was somewhat confusing.

The deck works fine. Or am I misreading what you said?

March 1, 2011 4:26 a.m.

THIS IS EPIC!!! love the idea of inception as well, hilarious!!

March 1, 2011 7:18 p.m.

Wheres the Kick? XD jk

March 1, 2011 7:40 p.m.

There can't be a kick. EVERYONE'S dreaming, so there's no one op a level to do a kick.

March 1, 2011 8:11 p.m.

There can't be a kick. EVERYONE'S dreaming, so there's no one op a level to do a kick.

March 1, 2011 8:11 p.m.

the kick is a Sunlance

March 1, 2011 11:57 p.m.

omit last comment i failed i thought it could be done to player too.

March 1, 2011 11:58 p.m.

the kick should be card:Harm's Way

March 2, 2011 12:07 a.m.

it needs more relentless rats!

March 2, 2011 3:28 p.m.

oh no!!!! Am I in a dream or not??

I need to use my totem card:Sensei's Divining Top

March 3, 2011 12:04 p.m.

why not 50 Shahrazad

March 3, 2011 4:39 p.m.

why not 50 Shahrazad

March 3, 2011 4:40 p.m.

why not 50 Shahrazad

March 3, 2011 4:40 p.m.

why not 50 Shahrazad

March 3, 2011 4:43 p.m.

oh jeeze... theburchman is definitely dreaming.. he's leaving a comment for every layer

March 3, 2011 6:36 p.m.

The card must have errata text, that was fixed in oracle. The card I have says "loser of subgame halving his or her remaining life points, rounding down."

So if they fixed the text on that, I withdraw my previous comment.

March 3, 2011 6:59 p.m.

Awesome. +1.

http://inception.davepedu.com/

March 4, 2011 2:42 a.m.

This wouldn't work... What if someone had training, from the military to counter your Shahrazad and spawn imaginary armies-orsomething.

AND even without doing that! You still couldn't control Leo's mind. His mental creations of his dead wife would manifest themselves in the layers and bone you over at every turn-forsomereason.

March 4, 2011 7:45 a.m.

a game, within a game, within a game, within a game...

March 4, 2011 9:15 p.m.

I am become INCEPTION

March 4, 2011 11:28 p.m.

This is a masterpiece. kudos+

March 6, 2011 4:07 a.m.

I have the weirdest boner...

March 6, 2011 7:05 a.m.

Surf Le Soldier by Thefinnguy

March 6, 2011 6:26 p.m.

Surf Le Soldier by Thefinnguy

March 6, 2011 6:26 p.m.

Surf Le Soldier by Thefinnguy

March 6, 2011 6:26 p.m.

Surf Le Soldier by Thefinnguy

March 6, 2011 6:26 p.m.

Surf Le Soldier

March 6, 2011 6:27 p.m.

Epic Win!

March 7, 2011 12:18 p.m.

you made me lol. A lot.

March 7, 2011 3:21 p.m.

The reason this won't work is because Hulk Flash is only restricted, but can still beat this impossible deck

March 8, 2011 4:56 p.m.

ok now thats a piss of deck.lol

March 9, 2011 10:57 p.m.

ok now thats a piss of deck.lol

March 9, 2011 10:57 p.m.

i think my brain just imploded...

March 10, 2011 12:03 a.m.

Hey yo dawg! I heard you like playing Magic The Gathering, so we got you this deck! Now you can play Magic The Gathering while you play Magic The Gathering!

Sorry, I just had to say it.

March 10, 2011 11:07 p.m.

I'm definitely dreaming.... I just rolled a D20 to decide who goes first, and it's not stopping on a number...

March 27, 2011 7:06 p.m.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I love itMfw you draw only opals or shahrazad :D

May 18, 2011 7:46 p.m.

still can't get over this deck

May 19, 2011 9:25 a.m.

Only one word can describe this deck... Booya!

Well, if you were the opponent, there might be some other choice words, but I'm not going to bother saying them as they are not appropriate :P. +1!

August 21, 2011 10:17 a.m.

I can think of some words an opponent could say: Force of Will , Surgical Extraction .

August 21, 2011 11:07 a.m.

so you would lose just that subgame doinitwrong.

September 22, 2011 8:41 p.m.

Oh, and for those concerned with drawing only Shahrazad s or Mox Opal s (just that one guy), you can still mulligan. Hell, you can mulligan all the way down to 3 cards and still draw the combo. The odds of needing to do that are ridiculously slim, though. And yes, it is true, even if somebody pulled off a hulk-flash and owned your face, it would only matter if you were in the first layer. Otherwise you would just lose that subgame, start a new one, and continue on your way. Also, having a spell countered wouldn't really hurt so much if you had 99 more copies of it to cast.

This is all hypothetical, of course...

September 23, 2011 2:18 a.m.

Hypothetical or not, that is correct.

September 23, 2011 6:34 p.m.

Technically, you could play a 65 card deck, ensuring you will still win. It's only $32919.37 from starcity!

January 21, 2012 6:52 p.m.

But what if your opponent mulls down to 0?

February 29, 2012 12:25 p.m.

Loses every single time to Banned in Freeform.

August 18, 2012 9:24 p.m.

lol @ you sir.

August 22, 2012 4:41 a.m.

lol. glad i looked at this

August 31, 2012 10:58 p.m.

so funny, I really needed that

November 10, 2012 9:15 p.m.

Would you care for a duel within a duel within a duel within a duel? And more duels?

December 9, 2012 12:30 a.m.