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I haven't seen a prison deck quite like this yet. Winter Orb land locks have always been potent, but the arrival of three new spells - Unwinding Clock, Sword of Feast and Famine, and Stoneforge Mystic -- have changed the way Winter Orb can be used.
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I have just come back to MTG after 16 years and my forte was Winter Orb decks - There is no doubt this deck grows in power as the game develops. This deck displays some nice synergies, but i would like to see more early creature mitigation. It feels to me there is an abundance of locking mechanisms, but are there bail out options if the opponent gets into a strong early position? However, it does look very interesting - has it been play tested and what did you discover from this?
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Hi, and thank you for the reply! This deck is still in conceptual design. It's been in the rough for some time, and only I've only just refined it to be playable yesterday.. though it's far from finished yet. I also do not own many of the older cards (Rishadan Port & Mox Diamond being the most significant), but I am looking to break away from the isolated local meta I've played in for so many years, and begin investing in a quality legacy deck. I've explored enough to find the two archetypes that appeal to me most -- Winder Orb / Landlock, and Extraction. So, in a way, I'm mostly just looking for feedback before I begin buying and trading for some of those more expensive cards. Having said that, though, as soon as I published this deck yesterday, I had an epiphany.. and built this within minutes after. http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=208954 It too is still in the rough, but if I build anything, it will likely be that.
Also, bail out options.. I was thinking if I absolutely needed to, I could use Enlightened Tutor / Expedition Map to fetch a Glacial Chasm, even though it's really there to fetch Strip Mine. There's also Tutor / Ghostly Prison. I expect to almost be dead against some decks, before the lockdown is in place.
Ill check out your other deck as well. Yeah i am very much about Extraction and lock down control decks too - i get much more satisfaction. I tend to steer away from creature decks - although i do like mono black discard type decks too.