GRB Infect

by jazztoken on 07 January 2011

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (5)

Instants (10)

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Deck Description

The deck has explosive draws- if a lightning bolt is not in their top 8 cards, you will probably win. The only deck that can work faster right now is WW Quest, but getting that off on turn 2 or 3 is a crapshoot. Godhand is 3 duals, Plague Stinger, Assault Strobe, and Groundswell. t3 GG. If the game slows down, use Livewire Lash and Contagion Clasp to finish them. Goblin Tunneler clears the way against Aggro decks.

SB: Is designed to counter Vampires and Elves, though some rethinking might be in order- Duress is used to preempt answers like Lightning Bolt or Mana Leak and it gives the deck a stronger t1 play. Autumn's Veil is primarily here to counter Doom Blades, while Consuming Vapors clears a path and slows your enemy down. Naturalize may give you a moment to survive against WW Quest, which all you really need.

Deck Tags

  • Rogue

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for GRB Infect

I like the idea, but i think you're missing a few key components; one is Vines of Vastwood; it's one of the best cards out there for an infect deck, as for GG, you get +4/+4 and your creature can't be targeted by opponent's spells. I like the inclusion of Goblin Tunneler; it's nice twist.

Trigon of Rage and Contagion Clasp are pretty useless here; with the Trigon, you're effectively paying 4 mana for +3/+0, since any good infect deck will power out before you get the chance to use it. I'd drop it for the aforementioned Vines of Vastwood. Contagion Clasp is just simply too slow; it only nets you 1 poison counter a turn, and costs a total of 6 mana to do so, if it doesn't get destroyed.

If I were you, I'd run 2 more Goblin Tunneler, dropping the Clasp, drop Trigon for Vines, and drop the Vector Asp for Ichor Rats; it's one of the best cards available right now for infect decks; unless you're not running black in your infect deck, you need to be running Ichor Rats and possibly Hand of the Praetors.

A final note; Assault Strobe isn't that great of a card for Infect decks; it only gets rid of one blocker. I'd argue that something like Distortion Strike or even Whispersilk cloak is better, because they can nullify multiple chump blockers, something that Assault Strobe can't do. All in all, i feel like adding Red to an infect deck is kind of useless; there' s nothing Red has to offer infect that Blue can't do better, while also giving you more options with meta, proliferate and control.

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Posted 07 January 2011 at 13:03

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I think vendetta for side board over doom blade due to the speed of infect decks. Also Natures Claim over Naturalize. Good deck check mine out.

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=132249

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Posted 07 January 2011 at 15:22

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