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Wistful Thinking
Sorcery
Target player draws two cards, then discards four cards.
Maaloufler on
Nekusar's Pain Train
2 years ago
If you're gonna run Niv-Mizzet I would add Curiosity. This allows you to draw "infinitely". I'd also suggest Tainted Strike. Giving Nekusar or Niv-Mizzet infect can shorten the game and forces your opponents to react or die. Burning Inquiry is a great card for destroying hands and in my experience is a great first turn play after everyone decided their starting hand. Wistful Thinking also has potential to muck up someone's day.
Pieguy396 on
wheel see about it
5 years ago
Wistful Thinking is hilarious in a deck like this. The Megrims might be too much though; you might want to consider splashing Red and playing Burning Inquiry.
Epicpotato on
$70 Braids EDH
5 years ago
Well. In the case of budget battle cruisers I feel like Show and Tell effects would be lots of fun. Also, running hand attack and bounce spells would be fun, in order to maximize the upside for "symmetrical" effects on your side.
Blink of an Eye, Boomerang, Capsize, Clutch of Currents, Compelling Deterrence, Consign to Dream, Cryptic Command, Cyclonic Rift, Equilibrium, Expel from Orazca, Man-o'-War and then I got tired of looking at all possible bounce spells but there are some good ones.
Piracy Charm, Wistful Thinking, Sword of Feast and Famine, and Amnesia are the only blue discard things that I can find, so maybe not that line.
CorrosiveKnifer on
Dread Dimir
5 years ago
I'd think the idea of making your opponent draw could be useful. Problem is that in multiplayer you have to discard a card per player to keep the hand control.
Adding: - Psychic Possession: To make it so their draw is your draw. - Compulsive Research: To make them draw/discard more like Wistful Thinking - Abyssal Nocturnus: To benefit from them discarding, Where casting Wistful Thinking gives it a +8/+8 or Compulsive Research a +4/+4. because of its per card. - Abyssal Specter: To add more board presence and discard. - Devastation Tide/Displacement Wave/Evacuation: To gain control of the board to flow back into discarding. - Waste Not: Win condition with discard. - Megrim: Bonus damage per discard. - Shrieking Affliction: WIN CONDITION!
Duke.Fleed on
Rats-Discard-Draw-Mill-Kill-Repeat
6 years ago
There is a very interesting thing that you can do with Waste Not and all the forced mass discard. Since roughly 30-40% of a deck is lands, often you will make mana when you cause someone to randomly discard with cards like Burning Inquiry or when you make them mass discard with cards like Dark Deal and Reforge the Soul. With all this extra mana you can keep casting discard spells and keep making mana and eventually win with Grapeshot. One of the key cards in that combo is Dream Salvage which will draw you a butt ton of cars. Another key group of cards are Past in Flames + Desperate Ritual/Pyretic Ritual + Manamorphose. Though it isn't truly mill, since you kill with Grapeshot, it does utilize discard in a very interesting way.
If you dislike the storm aspect of it, there is also a Liliana's Caress version of this deck that utilizes the damage from that as well as the value from Waste Not to make cards like Wistful Thinking extra powerful.
ShiningSpear on
Nekusar the mind-wheeler
6 years ago
Wistful Thinking seems like it would be solid here. Maybe Vision Skeins as well?