By Kevin Graybeal (Firekraag on MTGO)
I’ve decided to take up posting a new rogue type 2 deck of the month. At the moment it appears as if our cube action is dwindling down a bit and I like to see new content posted on our site.
First a quick word on MTGO. Magic the Gathering Online is one of the best directions wizards has taken magic. With Magic Online, gone are the days of lugging around boxes and binders of cards around from place to place. You no longer need to drive through the traffic to get to a card shop to play competitive magic nor do you have to align your schedule with a friend or acquaintance just to get a quick game in.
With that being said, I think anyone who likes to play magic can get access to being able to play anytime vs a wide variety of players. One of the best parts is that the costs of most of the virtual cards are cheaper than their paper counterparts and are not subject to losing value over time via card condition deterioration. All organized and easily accessed via the internet day or night.
So this next deck takes some of my favorite cards with “Enter the battlefield” effects and combines it with some heavy removal and creature lock-down to power out some overwhelming board advantage.
Artifacts (9) Creatures (10) Instants (1) | Sorceries (3) Enchantments (8) Planeswalkers (3) Land (25) |
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This deck is a controlling build focused on neutralizing their creatures while you ascend the board with card advantage and token makers.
Luminarch Ascension – This card is pretty good against green ramp decks and u/w u/b control decks. Against aggro decks this card will come out a lot, but given that theres contagion clasp and lots of removal in the main deck its not incredibly difficult to get this online.
Day of Judgement – A lot of aggro decks just lose to this card. They load the board up with all their cheap creatures and you end up 4 for 1ing them or something ridiculous and they get setback too far to catch up.
Skin Render – This guy is at his best in the early to mid game when he almost takes an enemy creature out with it. Even if he does hit a titan, its weakened to the point of near death and will trade with the Skin render if attacked into.
Glimmerpoint Stag – I must say at first I wasn’t sure about this card, but I have been impressed. Not only does it disrupt the opponents game plan, but with skin render and tumble magnet you can really give your opponents headaches. This guy even kept a Koth from going ultimate on me one game via reseting his counters. Not a permanent answer to everything, but a decent body thats very versatile playing defense well while offering a smidgen of offense.
Mimic Vat – Putting a Skin Render or a Glimmerpoint Stag into this is ridiculous. When a mimic vat gets loaded up with a sweet creature, opponents usually will have to deal with the vat before they can win.
Sun Titan – Opponent destroys your mimic vat fun time ? No problem, drop a sun titan and your right back in business.
Gideon Jura – This planeswalker goes very well with luminarch ascension, using his +2 counter ability to prevent damage and is of destroying tapped guys you tumble magnet. Being a 6/6 that can’t die very easily rounds out his role as a finisher and all around powerful asset.
Tumble Magnet – This card is the bane of eldrazis and titans, shutting them down and keeping them out of the red zone until you use a removal spell to end them for good.
Journey to Nowhere – Indestructible ? np. Lots of toughness ? didn’t think so. This removal spell is the answer to so many creatures. Sure an opponent can destroy an enchantment occasionally, but with a sun titan you can recycle ! re-use ! reduce !
Contagion Clasp – Early game defense and the ability to power up ascensions, magnets, and planeswalkers all while shrinking opponents creatures with counters on them.
Baneslayer Angel – This lady rules the skies and can turn the tide of battle on her own.
White weenie quest decks and vampire weenie aggro decks are pretty popular online lately. The sideboard has some more mass removal in the form of Consume the Meek and instant spot removal as well as a stocked revoke existance set. Valakut is very popular now and the White Leyline of Sanctity does a nice job at protecting you from their burn. With black being able to dip into hand discard spells I think this deck has access to all the tools needed to survive the meta game and be contender in the near future.









