My Opponent Thought They Could Play Magic the Gathering | Brewer's Kitchen
Well, hello there! Brewer’s Kitchen here and today we’re gonna completely stop our opponent from playing the game.
The Gameplan
Ok to be fair, compared to my other videos, this deck is pretty close to what you would consider a normal deck. While the premise is hard locking the opponent, the way to get there is a midrange planeswalker control deck.
Since we’re playing Timeless, we can play the most brutal ones of them all. Oko, Thief of Crowns and Teferi, Time Raveler. Both are notorious for their oppressive play patterns and especially brutal when they come down on turn two off a Deathrite Shaman.
On the higher end of the curve, we got Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Teferi, Hero of Dominaria and our “win condition” Jace, Unraveler of Secrets.
The latter has an ultimate creating an emblem that counters the first spell every opponent casts every turn. Combine this with Archon of Emeria to only allow everybody to cast one spell each turn and we pretty much hard lock our opponent out of ever casting a spell again.
To get to the ultimate, we run three copies of Atraxa, Praetors' Voice and a Planewide Celebration to proliferate loyalty counters.
The rest of the deck is pretty much just powerful cards to stall out the game until we assemble our lock. Orcish Bowmasters creates an Army token that can be buffed by Oko turning it into an Elk or proliferating the +1/+1 counters.
Thoughtseize and Swords to Plowshares stops early aggression and combos. And Mana Drain is just an absurd counter spell that also ramps us into our top end.
Wrap up
As mentioned in the beginning, the deck is very normal compared to the decks of other videos in this series, but sometimes it’s just fun to throw together powerful cards and play some grindy midrange games. It’s good to see that Timeless still allows for decks like this. Since we play a lot of interaction we can stop degenerate combo decks like show and tell and curving Bowmasters into Oko can be enough to beat some aggro decks. That being said, the win condition is a little more disrespectful then powerful, but that’s part of the fun.
If you have questions or ideas for this or any other deck, you can reach me on Twitter @Brewers_Kitchen or at brewerskitchen@mtggoldfish.com.
