Apr 14

UW Blightsteel

dastels @ 2:08 am

As soon as Blightsteel Colossus was spoiled, I knew I had to build a deck around it. If there’s one thing I love about Scars of Mirrodin block, it’s infect, especially its poison aspect. I was a huge fan of Virulent Sliver back in Time Spiral block and the first deck I made when Scars came out was BG Infect.

Obviously I had no plans of hard casting the Colossus: so the search was on for ways to cheat it into play. Two cards immediately came to mind: Mass Polymorph and Shape Anew. Mass Polymorph requires creatures to sacrifice and Shape Anew requires artifacts. Handily, Mirrodin Beseiged supplies us with Master’s Call which puts artifact creatures into play, fueling both sacrifice cards. Mirrodin Beseiged also provides White Sun’s Zenith that puts cats into play, giving us something to sac for Mass Polymorph. From Scars of Mirrodin we have Elspeth Tirel, which supplies us with soldiers to morph. Elspeth also provides a potential board sweeper that all creatures in the deck are immune to.

Two copies of Blightsteel Colossus seem adequate since we’ll essentially be tutoring for them. They are the only artifacts and only creatures in the deck. Playing either of the sac/morph spells are guaranteed to hit Blightsteel Colossus.

Now, it’s all for naught if both of them are in your hand, so we run a play set of Jace, the Mind Sculpter to let us push them back into our library. Jace also let’s us dig for the combo pieces we need as well as bounce potential blockers or attackers.

Since this deck is effectively a one trick pony, we need to protect ourselves while we get things happening. The rest of the deck is loaded with counterspells of various sorts. Much of the sideboard has more specialized counters. To deal with agro decks, there some board sweepers (which by the way, are laughed at by Blighty.

Finally, there’s a mix of Plains and Islands, as well as some dual color lands. I put in a couple Celestial Colonnades as a backup plan (and they’re a couple more creatures to morph, even if rather expensive). One recent addition is a couple copies of Inkmoth Nexus. These provide a infecting fliers, that can pick away at the opponent, as well as be a cheap artifact creature for use with Mass Polymorph and Shape Anew. I only added two copies so as not to dilute the color pool too much. This is a fairly color hungry deck.

So here’s the current state of the list. I played a few games in paper that were either blowouts or dismal failures. What I learned from that is that you need a decent opening hand. Online play proved the deck to be fairly decent as well, although it got me ridiculed as a “noob” in the *casual* room. That when I got a Colossus into play, so I just laughed.

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