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Phenax ASSault (Help Make this Standard)

Standard* Budget BUG (Sultai) Casual Enchantment Mill Theme/Gimmick

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HELP ME MAKE THIS STANDARD

Hey guys (and us gals that make up 5% of the MTG world). I recently got into Magic a few months ago, which means Im pretty much a noob. Anyways, I saw a card, Assault Formation, and thought that it would make a cool/gimmicky deck. Though, this deck wont be only focused on making our creatures into powerhouses, oh no, were going to also mill them out with the help of Phenax, God of Deception.

-Disciple of Deceit- This. This card will help us out in looking for our Assault Formations. And if we already have an Assault Formation on the field, then we can go digging for other cards with the same CMC of the card we discarded. With the help of Assault Formation, this card will become a 3/3 not too shabby, eh?

- Disowned Ancestor - Not that much to say here Other than the fact that it could become a 4/4 1 drop if Assault Formation is down. It can also become bigger throughout the game if you choose to use its Outlast ability.

-Dragon's Eye Savants- All the yes to this. This becomes a 2 CMC 6/6! Yes, you heard (read) right. This is a bomb and will smoosh anything opposing it. >:D It also has a second ability where you can morph it, and when its turned face up, you can look at your opponents hand. Boom.

- Hover Barrier - This card was added in for evasion. A flying 6/6? The horror! This will devastate your opponent's field if they dont have any removal or creatures to deal with this thing.

-Phenax, God of Deception- Alright guys, this is our second win condition. Its indestructible and helps mill out our opponents deck. How? Well, it gives our creatures an ability that says Creatures you control have " (Tap) target player puts top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is that creature's toughness" Yes, you read right, if we by some reason cannot get an Assault Formation out, this will turn our creatures with huge ass toughnesses (is that even a word?) into a threat instead of sitting ducks.

- Profaner of the Dead - This essentially stalls our opponent and is a board wipe, which helps with those pesky aggro decks and maybe some other decks. It bounces all creatures into their hands (that have a toughness lower than the creature we exploited) and helps clearing the way for our creatures to swing in and demolish.

-Sidisi's Faithful- Basically the same as Profaner of the Dead but on a smaller scale.

INSTANTS:

-Anticipate- Helps us in digging for what we need.

-Mana Leak- Counters whatever our opponent throws at us.

- Shape the Sands - Turns our bombs into even bigger bombs.

- Triton Tactics - Can be used to pump up our creatures and is a free untap aaaand taps our opponents creatures that defended that turn. More stalling :D

-Ultimate Price- Basic Removal. nough said.

SORCERYS:

-Taigam's Scheming- Helps us look for cards we need.

ENCHANTMENTS:

Finally, the core of this deck! -Assault Formation- This baby right here, allows us to turn our small CMC creatures with big toughnesses into giant threats. I suppose this deck can be considered a little aggro in this aspect.

Well, Im still a little shaky on my mana base. Help anyone? :)
1. Get Assault Formation out as soon as possible by using our cards (Anticipate, Taigam's Scheming, and Disciple of Deceit) to dig through our deck.
  1. Begin dropping our bombs

  2. Opponent destroyed our Assault Formation? Thats okay, bring out Phenax, God of Deception and mill their hearts out!

  3. Game. Set. Match. ;)

-So with the release of Battle for Zendikar, there are a bunch of cards that I want to add to my deck. Such as Benthic Infiltrator , which is essentially a 4/4 unblockable creature. I suppose I could replace Hover Barrier for this card Another card is Tide Drifter this little drone can help pump up the Benthic Infiltrator into an unblockable 5/5 (yasss!) Im having trouble finding which cards to sub these in for, as I do want my mana curve to be on the lower side I guess i can switch out my Disowned Ancestor for the Tide Drifters

-So as much of you know, the BFZ set includes a bunch of colorless creatures. So I probably should switch Ultimate Price for Murderous Cut.

-Thank you for taking the time to read my ramblings! Please comment and suggestions are greatly welcomed!

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Date added 8 years
Last updated 8 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 0 Mythic Rares

6 - 0 Rares

17 - 0 Uncommons

18 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.03
Tokens Morph 2/2 C
Folders deck i like :)
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