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Regardless of the number of Lands in this deck, nearly all variations still call themselves 42 Land. This deck uses the Dredge mechanics of Life from the Loam and Manabond to quickly play a massive amount of Lands. I played this at Grand Prix Columbus this year.
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how do you win games with this deck?
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Using Mishra's Factory, Barbarian Ring, or an Infinite lock using Mindslaver
ok missed that, i thought it was all land, didn't realise there was stuff that did damage in there
Yeah its a very quirky deck, but once you actually play with it you see how quickly it can overwhelm the other plays Manabase with Wasteland and Rishaden Ports while keeping creatures from doing anhything with Tabernacle, Maze of Ith, Glacial Chasm lock.
tarbernacle is like 150 dollars, do you really have one??
150$$ where, I just checked on ebay and the cheapest is like 288$+shipping.
Yeah., in total I have bought 2 of them. If you need me to take a picture or something I can.
I'm glad i buyed a Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale 10 years ago for 50$! :P
really cool deck. i like how you use lands for practical uses. maybe island of wak-wak would be good in sideboard against decks w/ lots of flying also crawl space/dueling grounds for reducing the attacking creatures, especially with maze of ith 10 stars from me
Thanks
i think running crucible of worlds with fastbond in there would be cool to with zuran would make infinite gain life. i wish i could afford some of these cards...... oh well. comment on the decks i can afford plz... under my deck section
Unfortunately, in Legacy Fastbond is Banned so I cant play the single copy.
broken
Holy crap, what made my deck so popular all a sudden?
because its cool :p and most people havent heard of 42 land decks.
vesuva. howd it do in the grand prix?
My article explains it all in the forums, it went 5-3 and it doesnt need any Vesuva.
Didn't know you could do that ... wow!
Which part?
I'm still having difficulty seeing how this deck would win against any deck with kind of speed. For example, the standard-popular Liquimetal Coating deck in the various colors, or Valakut, or any green aggro deck with a Naturalize in it. I feel like this deck would get bumped off sort of quickly against any of those.
This deck is actually one of the fastest decks out there, it can place 3 or more lands into play on turn 1 consistantly, but the best part is it does that continuously every turn for the whole game. Its a prison deck in sorts, even somewhat of a control deck. You use Rishadan Port, Wasteland, and Ghost Quarters to deal with lands. Creatures are dealt with using Maze of Ith, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, and Glacial Chasm. Glacial Chasm, Wasteland, and Ghostquarters can be replayed every turn usign Life from the Loam constantly and reused, being able to simply not pay for Glacial Chasms upkeep cost and return it to play in the same turn. In a sense, its probably the best deck against Aggro you can afford while being very good against Control because its very hard to deal with lands unless your using mass removal to destroy them, which still they can continuously come back. To win, you dont even need to reduce their life! Extremely early you can Mindslaver lock them using Academy Ruins, which in this deck happens very quickly.
How this deck works against a LD deck?
Thats this decks best matchup, the key to this deck is using Manabonds or Exploration, either one will do, paired with the card that makes this deck work... Life from the Loam. What you do is bring it back using Dredge each turn, replay it, pick up your lands, then cycle a Tranquil Thicket as many times as you can! You replace the draw off the Cycling ability of Tranquil Thicket with Dredge and bring back Life from the Loam and use Manabond to dump your lands into play at the end of the turn.
I'm loving this. Two classic builds make front page within the same day :) This is one of those decks I wish I had the $$ to build. I started playing with a lot of these cards, but they were all my brother's and I lost access to them when he sold his alpha-ice age rares to supplement the cost of college :3 I've recently seen a variation of this that ran more artifact manlands + steel overseer + more dredge / card retrieval. Was a scary effin deck! I'd consider an Elixir of Immortality for your side-board, though, just in case an opponent is running a lockdown deck and the game drags on. It messes with your graveyard retrieval a bit, but it'll prevent you from decking yourself if it comes to that.
Ive already got the long game planned out, I can use Academy Ruins to keep putting Engineered Explosives or Mindslaver on top the deck to keep myself from running out of cards and keeping their board locked or completely locking them out of their turn for the rest of the game. Thanks for the comment!
man this deck confuses me bro, give a run down of whats supposed to happen here
I will do my best! :) Alright, this decks KEY CARDS are Life from the Loam and Manabonds, Exploration isnt as good as Manabonds but it works very well either way. The idea is to use Manabond to dump as many lands into play as you can, which on turn 1 ends up being alot usually! With Life from the Loam you can keep adding more lands to the graveyard every turn and picking them up with Life from the Loam. You use the Cycling Ability on Tranquil Thicket to do this more than once per turn by skipping the draw, and replacing it with Life from the Loams Dredge ability. You keep replaying Life from the Loam and Dredging it to build up lands. At the end of each turn you keep dumping your hand into the graveyard, letting you next turn continue to do the same. The main lands include Mishra's Factory (Win Condition), Barbarian Ring (Win Condition and Control), Maze of Ith (Creature Control), Glacial Chasms (Creature Control, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale (Creature Control), Rishadan Port (Land Lock), Wasteland and Ghost Quarter (Land Destruction) and Academy Ruins (Recurring Mindslaver and Engineered Explosives). All these Lands can be played, used, and if they have to be destroyed like Barbarian Ring and Wasteland to use them you can simply bring them back again with Life from the Loam! Over and over and over..... and over again. The Mox Diamond helps you speed up your play and try to cast early Intuition. Intuition lets you grab 3 Manabond and forces them to put one in your hand or you can use it to grab a single Life from the Loam and 2 lands, either way you will get your Life from the Loam back next turn and your lands because of Life from the Loam. The best kill condition is Mindslaver, with this deck you can EASILY play it, activate it, and put it back on top of your deck every turn because of the overwhelming amount of mana. I hope this helps, thanks for asking!
this deck is probably thee most interesting deck I've seen. Not only does it look fun to play, it looks like a lot of fun to play against. I never thought losing would be so much fun lol
lol Thanks! It can be fun to play, against, not so much. Your turns are usually very long and the other player is very limited because of how hard you make it for them with this deck. This deck though is very difficult to play, one of the hardest decks I have ever played and I have been playing since 2002 and competitively since 2003... its not for everyone though. It takes ALOT of time and ALOT of playtesting to make it work, to be honest, if you check my article in the forums on Grand-Prix Columbus I even state that I did go 5-3... but I wouldnt have lost atleast 1 of those games if I hadnt made stupid choices and didnt realize plays I could have made.
Lol no Prognetius?
Dont need it, he doesnt do anything for me :P
Loving the deck, Would adding 2 crucible of worlds help so then even after the cards are in your graveyard you can play them as well as using life from the loam. I know the deck doesn't need it just thought it'd be funny in there.
It wouldnt really help at all mainboard, but in sideboard it could help out alot incase they have a method to neutralize my Life from the Loam. I have had Extirpate come down on Life from the Loam and still win, but its very hard because you have to already be VERY setup.
What about Bazaar of Baghdad in here?
I havent tested a Bazaar of Baghdad, but I do not see what it would do besides help. Really all it would do is dump more lands into the graveyard and make it easier to find the ones I need more often. I could see someone playing 1 of em, problem is Tolaria West already searches for lands. Its worth a shot though! Thanks!
this is some crazy shit. too bad i only play standard.
Look at the bright side, never to late to start playing the LEGACY of Magic, unfortunately this deck is pricey. In the long run, though, Legacy is cheaper to play than Standard.
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I fucking LOVE this deck. :D I'm considering dismantling and selling off my EDH decks to build this. You said you went 5-3 at the Grand-Prix? What archetypes did you lose to, and what were the match-ups like? I know you said you have an article here on the forums somewhere about it, perhaps you could link me? Cheers.