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By: Leviathan, Mike Morales
Mar 19 2013 10:27am
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I was talking with my buddy Neo and I asked him about what he would like to see for a deck.  He came up with a pretty specific list of restrictions:

1) Sen Triplets is the general
2) Must include Vampire Hexmage and Dark Depths
3) Minimum of 4 counterspells
4) Maximum of 8 counterspells
5) No cards with a mana cost over 6
6) Minimum of 2 cards with a mana cost of 6
7) Maximum of 4 cards with a mana cost of 6
8) Maximum average cmc is 3.20
9) Minimum of 38 land
10) Maximum of 5 mana rocks
11) Minimum of 15 creatures
12) Maximum of 22 creatures
13) 12 basic lands minimum
14) 18 basic lands maximum
15) Maximum of 12 artifacts

He was obviously trying to break me out of my comfort zone.  Here's the deck I came up with that meets all these criteria:

Sen Triplets
A Commander Deck (with restrictions)
Creatures
1 Blood Artist
1 Bloodline Keeper
1 Emeria Angel
1 Falkenrath Noble
1 Geist-Honored Monk
1 Hero of Bladehold
1 Hex Parasite
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
1 Slithermuse
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Sublime Archangel
1 Suture Priest
1 Trinket Mage
1 Twilight Drover
1 Vampire Hexmage
15 cards

Other Spells
[Artifacts]
1 Chromatic Lantern
1 Coalition Relic
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Druidic Satchel
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Mana Crypt
1 Scroll Rack
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
[Planeswalkers]
1 Elspeth Tirel
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
1 Jace Beleren
1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
[Enchantments]
1 Bitterblossom
1 Cathars' Crusade
1 Coastal Piracy
1 Grave Pact
1 Land Tax
1 Luminarch Ascension
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Phyrexian Reclamation
1 Rhystic Study
[Instants]
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Hinder
1 Mana Drain
1 Mirrorweave
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Pact of Negation
1 Path to Exile
1 Return to Dust
1 Spell Crumple
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 White Sun's Zenith
[Sorceries]
1 Austere Command
1 Decree of Justice
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Entreat the Angels
1 Imperial Seal
1 Increasing Devotion
1 Martial Coup
1 Merciless Eviction
1 Notorious Throng
1 Time Spiral
1 Vindicate
1 Yawgmoth's Will
46 cards
 
Lands
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Azorius Chancery
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Command Tower
1 Dark Depths
1 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Fetid Heath
1 Flooded Strand
1 Godless Shrine
1 Hallowed Fountain
4 Island
1 Kjeldoran Outpost
1 Marsh Flats
1 Maze of Ith
1 Mystic Gate
1 Orzhov Basilica
1 Phyrexian Tower
4 Plains
1 Polluted Delta
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Scrubland
1 Strip Mine
1 Sunken Ruins
4 Swamp
1 Temple of the False God
1 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Vault of the Archangel
1 Watery Grave
38 cards

Sideboard
1 Sen Triplets
1 cards
 
sen triplets

 

So some of the card choices may seem a little bit goofy, but there you go.  The two cards that I wanted to fit in were Army of the Damned and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, but they obviously didn't fit the criteria.  Basically we're going for token control!

Deck tech:

 

I forgot to show the curve and average CMC of the deck in the video, so here it is:

As you can see, the deck's average CMC is 2.96, and there are only 4 cards with a CMC of 6, and none above that.  Mission accomplished!

Game 1:

 

Game 2:

 

Game 3:

So this was an interesting experiment for me.  I'm obviously not a control player, so I'm sure that I made plenty of mistakes.  Feel free to point them out!  The deck can sometimes get overrun by early aggro, but it usually does pretty well.  Until next time!

Leviathan, aka Tarasco on MTGO
mrmorale32 at yahoo dot com

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2 Comments

This build seems like a good by KaraZorEl at Tue, 03/19/2013 - 19:09
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This build seems like a good excuse to include the Vizkopa Guildmage/Exquisite Blood combo, as well as the Mindcrank/Duskmantle Guildmage combo.

Yeah, you can put a bunch of by Leviathan at Wed, 03/20/2013 - 13:04
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Yeah, you can put a bunch of little 2 card combos in there. Include Bloodchief Ascension with Mindcrank, and include Sanguine Bond to go with Exquisite Blood. But then it sort of becomes a combo deck. You could lose the token elements entirely and build up to one of those combos. Add more tutors and more creature destruction. That's a slightly different deck though.