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Title: I have questions about this deck
Post by: ibtrickey on October 27, 2014, 11:59:16 AM
Samuel Black - Mono-Blue Infect
Pro Tour Philadelphia, Modern Top 8
Deck at the very bottom
http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/ptphi11/top8decklists

Mainborad

2 {Tolaria West}
1 {Watery Grave}
4 {Inkmoth Nexus}
4 {Scalding Tarn}
8 {Island}

4 {Blighted Agent}
1 {Progenitus}

4 {Preordain}
4 {Ponder}
4 {Spell Pierce}
4 {Peer Through Depths}
4 {Muddle the Mixture}
4 {Dragonstorm}
4 {Blazing Shoal}
3 {Disrupting Shoal}
2 {Gitaxian Probe}
1 {Summoner's Pact}
1 {Pact of Negation}
1 {Snapback}

Sideboard

3 {Vendilion Clique}
2 {Jace Beleren}
4 {Spellskite}
2 {Deprive}
1 {Trickbind}
1 {Echoing Truth}
1 {Slaughter Pact}
1 {Dismember}
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: ibtrickey on October 27, 2014, 12:00:47 PM
{Dragonstorm}???
Why?
I do not see the red mana to cast this card or any dragon, since {Progenitus} is a hydra
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: Mattao19 on October 27, 2014, 12:06:58 PM
{Balzing Shoal}
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: ibtrickey on October 27, 2014, 12:21:18 PM
Okay, but how do you cast progenitus???
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth on October 27, 2014, 12:23:02 PM
Quote from: ibtrickey on October 27, 2014, 12:21:18 PM
Okay, but how do you cast progenitus???
{Blazing Shoal}...
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: ibtrickey on October 27, 2014, 12:24:32 PM
So blazing shoal is the only reason those 5 cards are there?
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: griffin131 on October 27, 2014, 12:45:21 PM
Yes. And they result in 1 turn kills.
Not Turn 1 kills, but from 0 poison counters to 10 in one turn.
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: SoshiGanrou on October 27, 2014, 12:47:09 PM
Quote from: ibtrickey on October 27, 2014, 12:24:32 PM
So blazing shoal is the only reason those 5 cards are there?

Yes. It is a huge boost on the swing for the agent to end the game quickly.
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: ibtrickey on October 27, 2014, 01:09:07 PM
Thanks guys.
I was a bit confused:)
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: Munchlax on October 27, 2014, 07:11:34 PM
Quote from: Noblellama on October 27, 2014, 07:10:24 PM
So kill the 4 blighted agents and this deck can't win?
Ink moth nexus
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: Mattao19 on October 27, 2014, 07:11:40 PM
Good luck killing them {Abrupt Decay} wasn't a card back then and he has counters for days!!
Title: Re: I have questions about this deck
Post by: DrainCleaner on October 27, 2014, 08:09:54 PM
Fortunately {Blazing Shoal} has since received the banhammer.