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The basic premise of the Instant Winner deck is to spend your early turns dropping lands and setting up your hand so it can go off at a moment’s notice. With a High Tide or two in hand, you work your way up the mana chain with land untappers Reset and Turnabout. Once you get to absurd mana levels, you’ll be able to draw up most or all of your deck, playing enough spells in the meantime to generate a huge Brain Freeze or simply aiming a winning Stroke of Genius at your opponent’s library. You’ve got a ton of utility spells to help assemble the key cards. Brainstorm and Mystical Tutor are great early on, helping you filter through the deck quickly. You’ll generally follow them up right away with Impulse, Peer Through Depths or Words of Wisdom to get more of your business cards into hand, though it’s sometimes best to save Words for a finisher. In addition to the Tides and untappers, save your Meditates for the coup de grace since you never have to worry about skipping a turn if you’ve already won. The key trick with this deck is to start up the combo on your opponent’s turn after his upkeep, since you can only play Reset then. You usually want to go off during the combat phase when he’s most vulnerable. Even if he’s packing problem cards like Gaea’s Blessing, you can still respond to the triggers by working through your combo again and finishing him off with Stroke or Words of Wisdom; notice that the draws from both are mandatory. Twincast also comes in handy here, as it can copy any spell still on the stack and avert counters, and Force of Will lets you protect key cards. Cunning Wish gives you access to 15 different cards, including several that are fourth copies of main-deck staples like Brain Freeze and Meditate, so you can go snag them when needed. The rest are silver bullets against specific opposing strategies. Chain of Vapor rids the board of annoying stuff like Platinum Angle and Chains of Mephistopheles, while Hydroblast and Misdirection are great against goblins and burn. Echoing Truth, Evacuation, Rebuild and Stifle all have plenty of Legacy targets, too.
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