Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Magic: The Gathering - Time for a little Randomness


Good Afternoon Magic Peeps

I have seen on the Wizard's Daily MTG page some of there writers will create a deck around one random card. So I thought to myself why not take it to the next level, go 2 random Cards.


Rules for the 2 Cards:
  1. Has to be a legal Legacy Format card.
  2. No Basic lands or Promo cards
  3. All cards in the in the deck have to link to both of the cards in some way, no using the top combo in the game in every deck.

*Roll the random button*



Armageddon Clockhttp://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=2824&type=card


Card Name: Argothian Pixies
Mana Cost: 1Green
Converted Mana Cost: 2

Types: Creature — Faerie
Card Text: Argothian Pixies can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Pixies by artifact creatures.
Flavor Text:
After the rape of Argoth Forest during the rule of the artificers, the Pixies of Argoth bent their magic to more practical ends.
P/T:
2 / 1



Card Name: Armageddon Clock
Mana Cost: 6
Converted Mana Cost: 6
Types: Artifact
Card Text: At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on Armageddon Clock.
At the beginning of your draw step, Armageddon Clock deals damage equal to the number of doom counters on it to each player.
4: Remove a doom counter from Armageddon Clock. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.



 So from the cards picked, Looks like a Green/Artifact global nuke style deck. A rough sketch of a deck that goes with the play style.
http://www.mtgdeckbuilder.net - Full Deck Info
  60 Cards
16   Forest
4   Tree of Tales

20   Lands


4   Argothian Pixies
2   Argothian Treefolk
2   Argothian Wurm
4   Volatile Rig
2   Glissa, the Traitor
4   Junk Diver

18   Creatures
4   Armageddon Clock
4   Time Bomb
4   Harrow
4   Ashnod's Transmogrant
4   Horizon Spellbomb
2   Trading Post

22   Other Spells


Sideboard

0   Sideboard Cards

 A few key notes:

  • Glissa, Junk Diver & Trading Post for Graveyard recursion, Junk Diver & Trading Post go quite nice together, block with Junk Diver, then sacrifice it with the Post, return 2 artifacts to hand.
  • Spellbombs and Harrows to speed up mana curve. 
  • Treefolk & Worm as they are from the same forest
  • Transmogrant to turn annoying attacking creatures into artifacts, Pixies & Treefolk both stop Artifact damage.
  • Volatile rig, I have one sitting on my night stand, been trying to think of a deck to put it in

Thoughts?
Suggestions?
Any two cards you can think of  to try to stump me?

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