3 Card Deck. What Would You Choose?
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Posted on May 17, 2016, 1:43 p.m. by ChiefBell
3 Card Blind is a type of magic where each player starts the game with 3 cards in hand and no other cards at all. Each player plays open handed and the game is not lost if you try to draw a card and fail (due to the fact that there is no library). Matches consist of 1 player going first in the first game, and then the other player going first in the next game. There is no third game - only two games!
Bare in mind Black Lotus is legal.
Some examples, as given by MTGS:
Black Lotus, Black Lotus, Visara the Dreadful
Black Lotus, Treasure Hunter, Aura of Silence
Golgari Rot Farm, Treetop Village, Putrefy
What would you pick? See if your choice of 3 beats my choice which is below:
My pick Show
There are actually loads of interesting combinations.
Yeah I wasn't sure whether Laboratory Maniac was legal or not in the format. It appears to be according to the banlist but does seem a little ridiculous. I think the format was invented in 2005, like waaaay before Maniac haha.
May 17, 2016 1:58 p.m.
To be fair your hand does win of you go first as I'm assuming you don't draw naturally.
May 17, 2016 2:03 p.m.
Yeah you just start with all 3 in hand and play open handed. It's a weird format but there's a lot you can do.
One of my other friends suggested:
Black Lotus, Black Lotus, Elspeth, Sun's Champion which seems great.
May 17, 2016 2:07 p.m.
Discard is really good in this format which make me think that your second pile is one of the better ones.
May 17, 2016 2:11 p.m.
ninjaclevs13 says... #7
Island + Island + Storm Crow
For a slightly less unbeatable hand, I would chooseBlack Lotus + Black Lotus + Wurmcoil Engine
May 17, 2016 2:14 p.m.
Black Lotus, Sphere of Resistance, Goblin Guide.
It'll take me 10 turns to kill ya, but I'll get there.
May 17, 2016 2:23 p.m.
Black Lotus, Black Lotus, and Barren Glory? Insta-wins are broken in this format.
May 17, 2016 2:23 p.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #11
Too bad Misthollow Griffin doesn't cost 3. Then it + Force of Will + Black Lotus would be great.
May 17, 2016 2:26 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #14
May 17, 2016 2:42 p.m.
Rhadamanthus Pretty good, but I think Dryad Arbor is a better choice than Memnite. Also, it would lose to sirbar's Black Lotus, Laboratory Maniac, Gitaxian Probe or something else that could burn that first spell and keep playing.
May 17, 2016 3:19 p.m.
Titilanious says... #16
May 17, 2016 3:36 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #18
May 17, 2016 5:40 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #19
If we had the capacity to draw cards, this would be a pretty good one:
Academy Ruins, Dimir Aqueduct, Bottle Gnomes
Otherwise i'd have to go with that laboratory maniac one. Seems duper good.
May 17, 2016 8:12 p.m. Edited.
What about the Hearthstone version, where each player has a full deck made up of two cards, repeated over and over? What would you choose?
May 17, 2016 10 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #21
The way it was explained there seems to still be a draw step, it is just that the SBA that you lose the game from attempting to draw from an empty library is ignored. As such Academy Ruins, Dimir Aqueduct, Bottle Gnomes would work. Leyline of Anticipation, Black Lotus, Laboratory Maniac would also be a decent combination if this is the case.
May 18, 2016 4:47 a.m.
Baz-Turadan says... #22
Black Lotus and Comparative Analysis. You force the opponent to draw two cards that aren't there. And you have room for another card, a recycler perhaps? or maybe a backup plan.
May 24, 2016 12:41 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #23
the game is not lost if you try to draw a card and fail
Otherwise it would just be "can the player on the draw win on their upkeep"
May 24, 2016 2:07 p.m.
Baz-Turadan says... #24
Ahh. ok. That makes this significantly more difficult. I have no idea what I would do then.
May 25, 2016 9:26 p.m.
mtmlsandman says... #25
I would make infinite goblins Krenko, Mob Boss + Intruder Alarm +Skirk Fire Marshal and tap them and deal a butt load of damage!
May 26, 2016 1:14 a.m.
Baz-Turadan says... #27
I feel like Leyline of Anticipation is an absolute must. You could win so fast in this format that you need some sort of heads up on your opponent.
May 26, 2016 11:19 a.m.
MaybeLeyline of Sanctity (Or something better Maybe Chancellor of the Annex)Black LotusPrimordial HydraUse hydra to stall for power then win?
Leyline of the MeekBlack LotusAjani, Caller of the Pride / Brimaz, King of Oreskos
Black LotusDack FaydenMemnite / Chancellor of the Forge
Black LotusBlack LotusAna Battlemage
Anurid ScavengerBlack Lotus(Almost anything can go here, Armor Thrull, Aven Riftwatcher, Ball Lightning, Arc Lightning, etc)
Dryad ArborMox SapphireResearchYou now have 4 turns to kill me, cause you know these 4 cards are going to hurt. Maybe something fun with Cackling Counterpart, Mirror Mockery, Biovisionary or Progenitor Mimic
Elixir of Immortality could create some fun sets.
another good disrupter could be Chancellor of the Annex
When all is said and done, we all need to aknowledge the best card for this: Labratory Maniac... and Cheatyface
sirbar says... #2
Mine pick: Black Lotus, Laboratory Maniac, Gitaxian Probe.
May 17, 2016 1:53 p.m.