Sensei taught me the secrets of divination

Modern Combo Control Mono-Blue

RussischerZar

Instant (11)

• 4x Condescend
• 4x Negate
• 3x Telling Time

Sorcery (9)

• 3x Mystic Speculation
• 4x Serum Visions
• 2x Time Stretch

Artifact (6)

• 4x Everflowing Chalice
• 2x Sphinx-Bone Wand

Creature (10)

• 4x Delver of Secrets  ^Flip
• 3x Djinn of Wishes
• 3x Snapcaster Mage

Land (24)

• 4x Halimar Depths
• 20x Island

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Sideboard

Instant (11)

• 3x Commandeer
• 3x Dissipate
• 2x Echoing Truth
• 3x Surgical Extraction

Artifact (3)

• 3x Pithing Needle

Creature (1)

• 1x Snapcaster Mage

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Featured in Apprentice's Workshop episode 13.

A deck that revolves around scrying and Djinn of Wishes . :)
This deck was formerly a Enter the Infinite + Laboratory Maniac deck, but I found that rather boring so I scrapped that play.

State: Finished by KrazyCaley - see Apprentice's Workshop episode 13.

The old decklist can be found here: Old Sensei's Divinations.

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The Plan:

Turn 4: Scry Time Stretch into the 2nd from top.
Turn 5: Play Djinn of Wishes .
Turn 6: Use the Djinn of Wishes to cast Time Stretch in the upkeep. Use the extra time to kill with Djinns and Delvers or Sphinx-Bone Wand .

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Synergies for the Djinn of Wishes :

• Delver of Secrets  : The Djinn's partner in crime. Easy combo: look at the top card of your library at the start of your upkeep. If it's a powerful card that's otherwise too expensive, put it back and simply cast it between upkeep and draw with your Djinn of Wishes . Obviously only works if the Delver hasn't mutated yet. Note that it's yours to decide if you want to flip him or not!

• Telling Time is nice for both spending unused mana at the end of your opponent's turn and putting a card up on the library for the Djinn to cast or even Delver to transform.

• Mystic Speculation lets you dig for the cool cards for only 3 mana and has infinite use - well, as long as you have 3 mana and the opponent doesn't counter it.

• Halimar Depths basically a U: Scry 3 + Island in one card. Nice.

• Sphinx-Bone Wand as an alternate win condition.

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Ideal starting hand:

Consists of a Delver of Secrets  , at least one Mystic Speculation, maybe a Djinn of Wishes and none(!) of the win conditions (Time Stretch & Sphinx-Bone Wand ).

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Other things to note:

Even though I could use the Djinn to cast Emrakul, the Aeons Torn or something similar, I won't since Eldrazi spells are banned in our casual group for which this deck is mainly for.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 1 Mythic Rares 7 - 9 Rares 22 - 3 Uncommons 8 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.33
Folders	Awesome Decks