For my second article I had an epiffiny (or so I hope). With a retarded lock down play. It requires alot of cards which means it probably wont work but I'm up for a challange. The mission... Get a vial out, play Eon Hub (everyone skips their upkeep) play orb of dreams (permanents come in tapped) answer the opponents creatures (bounce) and then vial in Hokori for complete land lock.
That seems like a stupid and impossible play but wait. First you don't have to do it in that order. Hokori should be last but if you have pentad prisems and a charge counter producer you can drop hokori earlier. Also (trumpets are sounding for) Fabricate. Sorry, gone fishing. So your saying there is a chance? Well thats a start.
Now onto the must haves for this deck. CHROME FREAKIN MOX. me likey long time. With moxes, you have mana coming back. And remember if someone else is playing them you have bounce ie Echoing Truth. Please, allow me. This deck will have alot of 4's because it just has to have some things.
12 Island
6 Plains
18 Land ---------------------------
4 Chrome Mox
3 Eon Hub
4 Fabricate
4 Echoing Truth
4 Aether Spellbomb
4 Pentad Prisem
4 Aether Vial
2 Toils of Night and Day
3 Orb of Dreams
32 Spells ---------------------------
4 Hokori Dust Drinker
4 Coretapper
2 Keiga the Tide Star
10 Creatures ---------------------------
That is version one. Not gonna be the finished product but still, interesting. Keiga is just their for beats if your in a standstill. And only 18 land because of Moxes and you don't want to draw too much when they become useless. This is a total board advantage deck but I like it's potential against Ponza. Just gotta screw over their Moxes. Spellbombs are great for creatures screwing them so I'm hoping to take some damage off the start but not too much that I can't stableize with bounce.
We'll see. My v 1.1 will probably up the land count by 2-4 and drop some coretappers and/or toils. I like toils to tap down their last two land before you drop Hokori. Anyway a deck for building on a budget except for moxes.