Fateful Hour + Spatial Binding: A Near-Death Experience
Are you tired of winning by conventional means? Do you want to live on the edge and make your opponents sweat? Then this deck is for you!
This deck is all about getting your life total as low as possible, to trigger "fateful hour", and then using enchantments like Near-Death Experience, Phyrexian Unlife, and Worship to stay alive and win the game.
Near-Death Experience is the main win condition of the deck. If you have exactly 1 life at the beginning of your upkeep, you win the game. Simple as that. But how do you get to 1 life without dying?
That’s where Spatial Binding comes in. This enchantment lets you pay 1 life to prevent a permanent from phasing out until your next upkeep. Pretty useless, but we're triggering it repletely to lower your life total by 1 each time. This way, you can control your descent to the “fateful hour” and trigger Near-Death Experience.
But what if your opponent tries to kill you before you can win? That’s where Phyrexian Unlife and Worship come in. These enchantments prevent you from losing the game for having 0 or less life or for taking lethal damage. Instead, you take damage as poison counters or stay at 1 life as long as you control a creature. This means you can safely go below 0 life and still trigger Near-Death Experience, or survive any attack with Worship.
Death's Shadow is a creature that gets -X/-X, where X is your life total. This means that the lower your life is, the bigger it gets. It can easily become a huge threat that can kill your opponent in one or two swings.
The rest of the deck is filled with cards that help you find and play your enchantments, such as Idyllic Tutor, Temple of Enlightenment and Temple of Silence, and cards that explode when cast during the "fateful hour" for maximum value such as Gather the Townsfolk, Break of Day, Faith's Shield, Gavony Ironwright and Thraben Doomsayer.
This deck is not for the faint of heart, but it can be very rewarding and fun to play. If you like living dangerously and pulling off crazy combos, give it a try!
