Fateful Hour!

by nickbooth on 09 April 2012

Main Deck (60 cards)

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Deck Description

In answer to racky54's deck challenge (http://forums.mtgvault.com/showthread.php?t=6620).

Basically kill yourself then use the fateful hour dudes to beat face. or, in contrast, melira + Unlife = i cant lose.

Spellskite uses my life and protects everything (and usually survives).

The Dragon lets me spend my life at will, while also creating, as the flavor text says, "an apocolypse in dragon form".

The tree lets me get out of bad situations, like a 10 poison counter death. Hug the tree, go up to 13 life.

the Zenith lets me find the tree or melira.

Deck Tags

  • Fun

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Fateful Hour!

I very much like this deck. Looks like fun to play!

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Posted 10 April 2012 at 08:32

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so if you have both melira and the phyrexian unlife out, you are effectively invincible?

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Posted 17 April 2012 at 20:11

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Yes. With both on the battlefield. When you hit 0 life, the Unlife kicks in and gives all your opponents creatures infect and makes you get poison counters. However, Melira forces all you opponents creatures to lose the infect they just gained, forcing them to deal normal damage to you, which should be in poison counters thanks to unlife but isnt thanks to melira, so you just chill at zero life, and you dont die because of it. The only downside is you cant spend life to pump/cast Moltensteel and Spellskite because for all intents and purposes you have no life to spend. I dont believe you go into negative life, thats just weird.

Its just that the combo is so much more risky than other combos, because 1) it doesnt provide a way to win, just a way to avoid losing, hence the fateful hour dudes, and 2) if it breaks you are pretty much dead. If they kill melira, its not so bad, either fetch another with GSZ or kill them before they hit for 10 damage, but if they have a Beast Within or Ray of Revelation you have no chance for recovery. Hence the tree, so i can get 13 life at instant speed (activated abilities are at instant speed).

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Posted 17 April 2012 at 21:48

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