Liquimetal Splinter

by Superkaj on 07 July 2016

Main Deck (60 cards)

Artifacts (4)


Enchantments (2)


Land (20)

Sideboard (12 cards)

Sorceries (4)


Instants (4)

Enchantments (2)


Land (2)

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Deck Description

A simple but effective budget deck i own.

You simply turn their cards into artifacts and reduce their side of the table one card at a time.

"Cool" combo is the Splinter on Mono-Color decks, where you remove all their forests/swamps etc. from their hand/library. which usually mean a forfeir when you remove the last 3-4 in battle.

Thraben Doomsayer + Devout Chaplain makes sure that you are still capable to remove later in the game.

Lots of new artifact removal has been added to the game since, feel free to replace any you seems more effective.
Example: "Natural State" - 1 green removal, also enchantment

You can make the deck even more cheaper by removing "Wall of Omens", but i believe it is very valuable in the deck for early protection and you gain a free card.
"Angelic Wall" is a good alternative.

Deck Tags

  • Removal
  • Budget

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

2100029

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Liquimetal Splinter

> Ancient Stirrings: "Searches" for Liquimetal Coating / Myr Landshaper. If neither are among the 5, just take a land (lands are colourless).
> Birds of Paradise: Far superior to Avacyn's Pilgrim in every way. Pilgrim only interacts with one card: Devout Chaplain, and I think you can do better than it.
> Isochron Scepter: This is a better, imo, option than Devout Chaplain. Plus Ancient Stirrings can "search" for it.
> Eternal Witness: Can return used a Splinter or destroyed Coating / Shaper.
> Elvish Visionary: A deck like this needs all the draw it can ger. Wall of Omens is a must 4x, but this is easily the extra draws, so numbers 5-8 (preferably 8).

Sadly, one can't afford to sacrifice too much in the name of cheap. Make it too cheap and you're the one that suffers.

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Posted 13 July 2017 at 07:18

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I went ahead and designed another Liquimetal + Splinter deck

http://www.mtgvault.com/dedwards/decks/liquimetal-hate/

This one is Gruul, but incorporates most of the suggestions I made here.

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Posted 13 July 2017 at 07:57

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If you don't get Liquimetal Coating this deck's plan is to get beat in the face to use Thraben Doomsayer?

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Posted 14 July 2017 at 05:10

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Myr Landshaper is the backup Liquimetal Coating. It's also why I suggested Ancient Stirrings. But ya, looks like the backup, backup idea is Thraben tokens

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Posted 14 July 2017 at 05:19

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I'm kind of curious how Mycosynth Lattice would work, it does cost more (CMC and price).

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Posted 14 July 2017 at 05:44

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Personally, I don't like Mycosynth Lattice because of its cmc. {6} is a LOT of mana for a deck wanting to fire off as quickly as this does. The ideal play is a turn 3 Splinter on something, preferably the land they have most of in their deck.

T1: land, mana dork.
T2: land, Liquimetal Coating, one mana artifact hate.
T3: land, Splinter.

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Posted 14 July 2017 at 05:56

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I kind of wanna try this deck, but I have the worst luck with essential combo pieces -_-

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Posted 14 July 2017 at 06:21

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GW and GR aren't the best colours to search up these combo pieces, but they really the best colours to abuse them.

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Posted 14 July 2017 at 06:55

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I'm thinking about making an uncounterable, hexproof deck. Idc if it gets wrecked by other decks, there's something super satisfying when you beat a control deck :)

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Posted 14 July 2017 at 17:57

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