Alright magic the gathering people, we have excitement ahead. There are several changes which have been made in the last year or so with Magic the Gathering, the biggest of which was likely my last post, cutting up Extended. So what we have are deck mechanically similar to the last few years.
So here is a deck list I propose, it is a Five Color Cascade deck
(5cc)
Lands
Vivid (U) 3
Vivid (B) 2
Vivid (W) 1
Vivid (G) 1
Vivid (R) 2
Reflecting Pool 4 13 (all filter lands can be replaced with pain lands)
Graven Cairns 2
Cascade Bluffs 2
Fetid Heath 1
Flooded Grove 2
Twilight Mire 1
Mystic Gate 1
Sunken Ruins 2
Island 2
Swamp 2
Mountain 1
(27 lands)
Tarmogoyf 4 (can be replaced with Putrid Leach in this deck)
Kitchen Finks 4
Anathamancer 4 (could be replaced by any awesome 3 drop but there could be a lot of non basics)
Bloodbraid Elf 4
Broodmate Dragon 2 (because he dodges spot removal)
(18 creatures)
Maelstrom Pulse 4
Wrath of God or Damnation 2
Cryptic Command 4
Bituminous Blast 3
Cruel Ultimatum 2
(15 spells)
This deck needs a whole lot of land, Can’t miss any of the first 6 land drops. It is very slow, but Kitchen Finks helps a whole lot, and Bloodbraid, with this deck, will almost always put you back in winning position. In the sideboard I suggest either Pyroclasm or Jund Charm depending on the meta.
For those of you who have forgotten, Cryptic Command was a $20 counterspell in standard, in fact, you might want to get your hands on a play set now before the price goes back up (which it will with the new extended lineup) if you plan on playing blue, or are even just considering blue.
Alright, here is how the deck works. Basically you take your beatings for the first few turns, playing Tarmogoyf, Kitchen Finks or Putrid Leach if that’s what you have . Bloodbraid should keep you going, hitting solid removal or a solid creature. The point is to stay live until you can play either Broodmate Dragon or Cruel Ultimatum. The deck is more a better build than skill, it takes learning the hands to keep and the hands to pitch. I played the deck when it was all standard legal (aside from Ghoyf) and had no bad match ups, my least good match up was Esper Reveillark, because of Captain of the Watch.
This deck will destroy against casual players and infuriate them, as it’s bread and butter it to turn the tides of a game with Cascade, and limited options. There were many games I played a late Bituminous Blast to kill a manland, cascaded into Anathemancer and won outright.
Long story short, build the deck if you have the cards, if not, proxy the deck, play it with your friends and see how it works, It never seemed to randomly win or lose games, this one is all about proper timing of cascade spells.
