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Caretaker Gifts

  • 01-11-2005 12:05pm
    #1
    MatthewVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭


    4x overgrown Tomb
    4x Watery Grave
    4x Yavimaya Coast
    4x Tendo Ice bridge
    6x Forest
    2x Swamp

    4x Sakura-Tribe Elder
    4x Thought Courier
    3x Hell's Caretaker
    1x Kokusho
    1x Keiga
    1x Blazing Archon
    1x Meloku the Clouded Mirror

    1x Vigor Mortis
    1x Zombify
    1x Goryo's Vengeance
    1x recollect
    3x Compulsive Research
    4x Gifts Ungiven
    3x Kodama's Reach
    3x sensei's divining top
    4x putrefy

    I got this deck idea from a guy who was playing a deck loosely based around the same idea (he had surveilling sprites and no gifts in his). the basic idea of this deck is somewhat similar to a reanimator deck. thought courier and compulsive research cycle through your deck and dunk your reanimation targets in the graveyard. Gifts ungiven fetches you your combo (usually kokusho, keiga, meloku and caretaker, but if you have a caretaker in hand you go for blazing archon). once set up, caretaker can keep cycling your dragons, allowing you to alternately drain for 5 and take control of a creature. meloku has nice synergy with caretaker if you want to go in for a big swing by sacrificing tokens to return your big beaters to the field. Blazing archon is mainly anti-aggro tech. If your caretaker dies, gifts for caretaker, zombify, vigor mortis and recollect. putrefy is to deal with threats like jitte and such. any thoughts?


Comments

  • #2
    M@lice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭M@lice


    Looks very nice. I'm just not sold on caretaker's anymore. Nice if you can pull it off but a single pinger will ruin your day.


  • #3
    Farcear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Farcear


    yeah, a nice idea but really, really fragile. It all hinges on the caretaker and as said a single pinger *cough* Jitte *cough* will ruin your day. As would a Needle in game 2, or any sort of burn, removal, Fetters....

    I will say that i don't like the Courrier there at all. Too weak to chump block and very slow at getting stuff into your grave, even if you combo with the top.

    Looks to have a horrible match up against regular gifts.

    Have you play tested it yet? what's your sb like?

    I might try it out tonight...


  • #4
    MatthewVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭MatthewVII


    No playtesting as of yet, i was thinking of a sideboard like the following:

    4x Naturalize
    3x Dosan, the Falling leaf
    4x Necroplasm
    4x Pithing Needle

    Obviously very sketchy, but its all i can think of at the moment


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