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Felipe Musco
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:56 am
Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 2434 Location: Florianópolis, SC, Brasil
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Build up a huge storm count and throw down a swarm of... Goblins?!?
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MAIN DECK
8 Island
4 Shivan Reef
4 Steam Vents
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Seething Song
4 Rite of Flame
2 Locket of Yesterdays
4 Hatching Plans
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Empty the Warrens
3 Ignite Memories
3 Claws of Gix
3 Remand
3 Chromatic Star
2 Repeal
4 Perilous Research

SIDEBOARD
4 Dodecapod
3 Blood Moon
2 Shadow of Doubt
3 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Ignorant Bliss

This deck is popularly called "crapstorm" due to the fact that it incorporates the main pieces of the Dragonstorm combo (mana rituals and Lotus Bloom), but instead use them to storm out a bunch of Goblin tokens or a powerful Ignite Memories. It runs on very cheap spells to accelerate, and has a VERY tight manabase (the lowest one in Standard), since it aims to win the game quickly with a swarm or a juicy amount of burn. The coolest interactions are those involving the crap rare Hatching Plans (another reason to the popular name), which is AMAZING in this deck, since you can sac it to Perilous Research or Claws of Gix (the same goes for Chromatic Star, remember that), allowing for easy card-drawing. Locket of Yesterdays also falls right in place since it reduces the cost of your main cards, allowing for even more devastating storms. The greates thing about this deck is that, because of the abundant card-drawing, you can storm not only out of mana rituals, but ALSO out of drawing spells, making for a bigger chain. I’ve seen this deck pull of crazy combos like making 10 goblins on turn 1, or 42 at turn 4.
Sideboard is mainly to hose down Angelfire (dangerous control for this deck to face), Black Rack and other discards (discard is painful when your manabase is this tight and you’re playing combo), as well as other combo decks (Tormod’s Crypt is mainly against Dredge the Bridge, for instance), so you can outrun them.

Brewing Cost: U$ 186.95

Adding Future Sight to the mix:
Unfortunately, this deck is so tight I don’t see a lot of room for Future Sight cards to come in...

How to stop it:
This deck can be easily beaten by heavy discard (pre-side, watch out for those Dodecapods), as well as mass removal like Wrath of God and Damnation, but of course Pyroclasm or Rough//Tumble will also do the trick (alçthough that won’t stop Ignite Memories from frying you to death). Trickbind is also a very good option, as is Voidslime, in case you face off against one of these. LD’ing, if you’re lucky enough, can probably give you an edge, too. Cards like Angel’s Grace and Honorable Passage can give you an edge, specially the latter, if you’re playing something like Boros.
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