THE KITCHEN TABLE COLLECTION
Each deck in this series was built on this single concept: starting with bottom barrel cards that could be sourced from CardKingdom.com in order to build a deck worthy of champions. In order to keep cost to minimum, none of the decks were built with a sideboard, and were all streamlined for a singular yet balanced strategy in order to be effective against a wide range of other deck types.
Backstory:
When I first started playing MTG (back in the Tempest Block), the "Sideboard" was all the rage in tournaments. The idea that could could rotate out 25% of your deck with special-purpose cards to fight different decks made deck-building that much more interesting. Over the years, a number of cards routinely made it onto the Sideboards of champions - typically these cards were utility artifacts like Nevinyrral's Disk that could give colors like Red, Black, and Blue a chance to fight White and Blue control decks, or Cursed Scroll which could give colors like White, Blue, and Green a chance to dish out targeted damage. Modern sideboards are no different. People are reaching for Introduction to Annihilation or other Lessons to give their decks more balance. That being said, many years ago (during the Urza Block) it occurred to me: why not make a "Sideboard Deck"? Rather than focusing on a particular strategy or card combo or color mix, why not make a deck full of artifacts that are really useful to you and really annoying for the other guy? Over the years, my "Sideboard Deck" has shifted. For a while I even splashed in some Blue and Black to give it more of a control element. However, I thought that kinda went against the purpose of the original thought. Now, as part of the Kitchen Table Collection, I present to you "Sideboard Deck" in its current form: "The Kitchen Sink."
THE KITCHEN SINK
This deck is a hodge podge of cards you might find in the sideboards of other decks, but rolled into a single package in order to bring a versatile threats to your opponent. Apart from countering, milling, and exiling, there is very little this deck CAN'T do. Let's start with the lands. Between Sunscorched Desert and Piranha Marsh, you can widdle down your opponent. What's fun about these lands is that you can bounce them back to your hand with Guildless Commons in order to get a second drop. Another classic land is the venerable Desert which is one of the best lands in all of Magic, why? Because it's a weenie killer that works on flyers too. As for threat removal, there is very little that should escape the reach of Ratchet Bomb and Nevinyrral's Disk, and for stuff that does the classic Icy Manipulator can have it doing a tap dance. This deck brings the beatdown in the form of the Steel Hellkite, which is possible to drop on Turn 3 if both the Sol Ring and Palladium Myr drop. Even then, all the excess mana can help fuel the Titan Forge just in case you need to stomp your way to victory. All in all, the Kitchen Sink has no real strategy other than to throw a bunch of annoying artifacts at your opponent. If you're playing a deck with heavy removal or wind up Bombing or Disking yourself, then Elixir of Immortality can recycle your graveyard and get you back in the game.
EVERY OTHER DECK IN THIS COLLECTION:
BLACK PEPPER
WHITE MIGHT
BLUE WAVE
RED STORM
GREEN EXTREME
