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Terentius
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Warped Devotion is an old haunt for me, from my early days of playing Magic. I wanted to see if I could do something viable with it.
Creatures: 12
4x Thing in the Ice
4x Hunted Horror
4x Hunted Phantasm
Enchantments: 4
4x Warped Devotion
Sorceries: 7
4x Hidden Strings
2x Wash Out
1x Call of the Nightwing
Instants: 16
4x Echoing Truth
4x Recoil
4x Cyclonic Rift
4x AEtherize
Lands: 21
4x Dismal Backwater
3x Dimir Guildgate
4x Lonely Sandbar
3x Barren Moor
4x Island
3x Swamp
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60 cards
All cylinders would be landing a multi-bounce effect with Warped Devotion out, especially if tokens from the Hunted creatures or elsewhere are included in the bounce, so I get board control and some hand disruption as well. I'm betting big on this strategy as opposed to effect on discard, i.e. Liliana's Caress, or Megrim for the old school. This build is all cards from 8th Edition or later; I may make an additional Warped Devotion deck using cards prior to that mark with Megrim.
I had initially wanted to keep it Horror-tribal, but I thought it would be more consistent with Hunted Phantasm for another 4 chances to combo with a multi-bounce effect. I can take the chance of Thing in the Ice transforming and bouncing Hunted Phantasm.
Other cards considered:
Perplex
Unsubstantiate
Dinrova Horror
Dissipation Field
Phyrexian Negator
Blizzard Specter
Nihilith
Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch
Sapphire Medallion
Dimir Keyrune
Other cipher spells
Problems:
Creatures: 12
4x Thing in the Ice
4x Hunted Horror
4x Hunted Phantasm
Enchantments: 4
4x Warped Devotion
Sorceries: 7
4x Hidden Strings
2x Wash Out
1x Call of the Nightwing
Instants: 16
4x Echoing Truth
4x Recoil
4x Cyclonic Rift
4x AEtherize
Lands: 21
4x Dismal Backwater
3x Dimir Guildgate
4x Lonely Sandbar
3x Barren Moor
4x Island
3x Swamp
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60 cards
All cylinders would be landing a multi-bounce effect with Warped Devotion out, especially if tokens from the Hunted creatures or elsewhere are included in the bounce, so I get board control and some hand disruption as well. I'm betting big on this strategy as opposed to effect on discard, i.e. Liliana's Caress, or Megrim for the old school. This build is all cards from 8th Edition or later; I may make an additional Warped Devotion deck using cards prior to that mark with Megrim.
I had initially wanted to keep it Horror-tribal, but I thought it would be more consistent with Hunted Phantasm for another 4 chances to combo with a multi-bounce effect. I can take the chance of Thing in the Ice transforming and bouncing Hunted Phantasm.
Other cards considered:
Perplex
Unsubstantiate
Dinrova Horror
Dissipation Field
Phyrexian Negator
Blizzard Specter
Nihilith
Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch
Sapphire Medallion
Dimir Keyrune
Other cipher spells
Problems:
- Low creature count, and creatures die to removal.
- Having trouble getting Warped Devotion out quickly. Cycle lands provide some acceleration. I have a set of Perplex and tried running it, but after discovering the transmute ability only works at sorcery speed, I wasn't feelin it. What I really need is Demonic Tutor.
- So far unsure on the consistency of Thing in the Ice transforming.
- Creeping Tar Pit is expensive.