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SQUAD $HIT ~~Turn 2 Ugin and Nicol Bolas~~ (Banned

Legacy Combo Competitive Control Show and Tell Superfriends

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Do you ever get bored of Delver vs. Stoneblade? Do you wish there were more than the regular 10-15 decks of the format? Have you tried all the 'sweet' decks already like Storm, Belcher and Lands but are searching for something Sweeter?

Well that was me

And I have created the solution.


Why this Deck is Better then Sneak and Show

I will not tell a lie, this deck is less competitive than Sneak and Show, but there are some advantages nonetheless.

  1. This deck is far more fun and if that is what you're looking for in magic then this is the deck for you.
  2. The format has adapted to Sneak and Show and many decks have sideboard cards to stop the combo, these cards include:Karakas, Grafdigger's Cage, Humility, Containment Priest, Ensnaring Bridge and even Maze of Ith. **What do these cards do against planeswalkers? Nothing.
  3. This deck can look more cards to set up a better "Go off" hand. Although it takes more turns that Sneak and Show to go off ussually, it wins the counterwar over the combo far more often with the supperior filtering power, and mana advantage from Noble Hierarch.
  4. This deck is made to make people think you are playing Infect. That is why besides the Misty Rainforests all the fetches are green while the majority of the spells in the deck cost blue. Turn one Wooded Foothills into Tropical Island into Noble Hierarch your opponent will instantly put you on Infect which can give you a HUGE advantage when they aren't expecting to have to leave up a bunch of counterspells against an 'Infect' opponent with no infect creature in play.

Introduction

Sneak and Show originally seemed fairly sweet to me, you get to sneak massive creatures into play very explosively. But after playing the deck I found emrakul, the eon's torn very lame, it does not have haste, you do not cast it and it doesn't always kill in one attack. Griselbrand on the other hand is very sweet but you only get 4 of those and drawing a lot of cards only sets up an emraukl, the aeons torn kill which is also fairly lame.

So I was thinking; what else can I put into play thats huge and sweet. I then stumbled upon a Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker from my old Unexpected Results standard deck... and had a brilliant idea. Putting Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker into play of Eureka isn't new but it is one of my favorite cards so I tried it out. The original Eureka deck was just 4 Eureka some amount of Show and Tell and big things but I wanted to be a blue based deck and have access to lots of counterspells to push my combo through and slow my opponent down.


The Beginning (Pre-Fate Reforged)

This is the original deck: deck:Nicoal Shoalas (Pre-Fate Reforged)!.

I tried this deck out and tested it for a while, with a bit of spice: Disrupting Shoal straight out of modern shout out Travis Woo could exile Dig Through Time and Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker to counter opposing Treasure Cruises and Dig Through Times. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker could also be exiled to Force of Will which was also very sweet.


The Problem

It did somewhat well but often lost to decks with a lot of board prescence as Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker can only take one creature the turn it comes and and against decks like Death and Taxes, Elves and even some Tarmogoyf decks, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker would die the turn it came in.


The Solution

Then R&D decided to print the most powerful planeswalker of all time, not in terms of efficiency or manacost to impact ration but in terms of raw power, ignoring mana cost; Ugin, the Spirit Dragon.

I had a eureka moment; ugin, the spirit draon is the solution to this deck not being able to catch up. It can sweep boards, Lightning Bolt single threats or opposing Jace, the Mindsculptors and it does not just destroy, but exiles. (It can also kill True-Name Nemesis and it avoids Pyroblast / Red Elemental Blast which are not huge parts of the format anymore but I have lost many a Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker to.)

This is also the second big card for this deck which really needed another threat to make the deck more consistent.


Simplified Gameplan (Still Working on Writing this Part)

  1. Use cantrips such as Ponder, Preordain, Brainstorm and Gitaxian Probe to find combo pieces as well as set up super cheap Dig Through Times (I've done very extensive testing with this deck and 3 is not too many, it is by far the best card in the deck).

  2. Cast Eureka , use Gitaxian Probe s and counterspells to find a spot and push it through and then put either a Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker or Ugin, the Spirit Dragon into play (or both!).

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Date added 9 years
Last updated 8 years
Legality

This deck is not Legacy legal.

Rarity (main - side)

10 - 8 Mythic Rares

28 - 3 Rares

19 - 3 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.07
Folders Good Idea's, Legacy, A voir
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