Yep. You read it right.
Two rules:
-No inclusion of other colors in any way.
-No colorless creatures!
Dreams of the Dead
+
Alter Reality
. Change the color word to blue. Bring back some
Stormtide Leviathan
s.
Note that
Dreams of the Dead
's ability is not limited to sorcery speed.
Dig through the deck like crazy.
Dreamscape Artist
helps quite a bit by thinning the deck out of islands. With the discard I can pitch cards I don't need at the time, but mostly I will be discarding
Stormtide Leviathan
and
Alter Reality
. Optionally
Think Twice
, and maybe an
Accumulated Knowledge
. The Artist is also excellent with High Tide; cast
High Tide
, float four mana, get two more islands into play untapped.
In this deck,
Dreamscape Artist
is almost always usable; the two lands coming into play can cast 70% of the spells in the deck. Also not limited to sorcery speed.
The great thing about
Alter Reality
is that it is completely disposable. It also still works at instant speed while it's in the yard.
Muddle the Mixture gets me whatever I need with the transmute ability. It also works as a counter against board wipes and on most spot removal against the scepters, as well as counter control. This card won me a game against a
Biovisionary
deck by countering Rite of Replication.
Isochron Scepter works best with
Accumulated Knowledge
, but I will almost certainly need a
High Tide
on a stick later in the game to pay for the Cumulative Upkeep cost.
Dampen Thought
works extremely well with Isochron Scepter; put a
Dampen Thought
on the stick, then splice one from my hand onto it each time for 8 mill on myself. For those of you who don't know, Splice means that you get the effect while the card that was spliced stays in your hand upon resolution. Kind of like buyback. However, I decided to replace the
Dampen Thought
s with
Impulse
s.
I can also hard cast a
Stormtide Leviathan
with
High Tide
as early as turn 4, but what's the fun in that?
This is how:
Turn 1: Land Drop
Turn 2: Land Drop,
Dreamscape Artist
Turn 3: Land Drop, Activate the Artist
Turn 4: Land Drop(5 land total), High Tide, 8 Mana:
Stormtide Leviathan
.
Okay, well maybe it's a LITTLE fun...
A funny side note: Without the Isochron Scepters, this could be a budget deck; $17 total, including lands.
I love the fact that this deck has the worst curve I've ever seen.
The idea for changing the color word on Dreams of the Dead and "Mono blue Reanimator" goes out to Jeff Weissburg, a local EDH player in Portland, Oregon.
