Budget B/U Warrior Mockery

by Nathangw on 19 May 2015

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Enchantments (5)

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Deck Description

Goal 1: Make a Standard deck for under $20 (mid) using only Tarkir block so that nothing rotates out soon.
Goal 2: Use Mirror Mockery to make a deck better.

This actually isn't my first Mirror Mockery deck. But it is the first one I've posted. Also, I haven't actually built this deck.

When designing combos around a specific card, it's important that the deck function well even when you don't draw that card, and I think the secondary theme of black warriors holds up pretty well.

How to Play

This isn't a very difficult deck. It has some cute combos, but generally you want to play cheap creatures and attack, then close out with life drain from Blood-Chin Fanatic.

The real value of Mirror Mockery is when your creature's ETB ability is too powerful to be recursive. Exploit and to a lesser extent Raid abilities fit that description much of the time. But the key Mirror target here actually has neither. Merciless Executioner is like an Exploit-based Diabolic Edict, except it's not optional. With MM it becomes a straight Edict on attack since the token just sacrifices itself.

The Skullhunter is also pretty straightforward with MM.

Bloodsoaked Champion uses up over a third of our budget, but it is fast, pesky, and it makes a recursive combo with Blood-chin Fanatic.

The Fanatic itself gives you a way to close out, and with MM it can effectively cast a 3-point drain each attack. Reusable Siege Rhino effect!

Rager is a solid warrior who helps your fancy creatures attack. Emissary is a sacrifice target. Usually MM is wasted on them, although you can create minor combos with Fanatic.

The spells are all to help you protect or reuse your assets, except Damnable Pact, which gives you either card draw or a kill shot in a pinch. Also, don't forget that MM can be used defensively on opposing creatures or in multiple copies on one of your creatures.

Sideboard in Icebreakers for Executioners against creatureless opponents.

Side in Sidisi's Faithful if you need to slow down a faster opponent -- the main deck's early creatures are bad at blocking, and SF with MM is a real pain for creatures that get better with age (heroic) or need to tap for effects.

And side in Plagues against tokens -- no need to get cute when you can just hose them. Remember though that Plague kills your MM tokens as well, so Sultai Emissary becomes an intriguing MM target.

Illusory Gains is nice because it doesn't clash with your Executioner and because you can cast it on your own creature as a trap and "catch" anything the enemy plays. I didn't main deck it because it's a bummer against some strategies, but it's a nice late game safety net against things with haste or nasty effects, such as most popular dragons.

Deck Tags

  • silumgar
  • Warriors
  • Mirror Mockery
  • Budget

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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