Subject: Re: Tourney viable exodus cards
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 04:49:03 -0400
From: Len Blado <lblado@SNET.NET>

> > Mirozel
>
> I am not sure yet.

        Mirozel is terribly difficult to kill- effectively it's
untargetable.  And it costs 4 mana for a 3/2, which isn't horrible
in blue.  While there aren't all that many uses for it currently,
I have no doubt that if certain types of decks come back into
vogue, it'll be very popular.

> > Oath of Ghouls
>
> Not really.

        This is, for general use, the best Oath out there.  The
chances of your opponent ever getting to use it in the right
deck is negligable, and it allows you to 'draw' an additional
card every turn.  Maybe you haven't put it in a deck yet,
but this is a basic resource along the lines of Volrath's
Stronghold; little mentioned, it still creeps into decks
all the time.

        The basic problem with the Oath of Ghouls is simply
that the current vogue of black decks (Suicide Black) don't
have much use for it, as they don't want games to last
long enough to gain any real advantage from it.

        Sample deck for the reader to tweak:

4 Bottle Gnomes
2 City of Brass
1 Equilibrium
4 Forbid
3 Daring Apprentice
2 Gaia's Blessing
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Impulse
2 Intuition
13 Island
4 Man o' War
4 Oath of Ghouls
2 Phyrexian Furnace
3 Quicksand
2 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Volrath's Stronghold
4 Wall of Tears

        The goal is to gain 'creature in graveyard' superiority and
use the Oaths like personal Howling Mines to power both Forbid
and Daring Apprentice recursion.  Eventually, you can totally
lock down your opponent with countermagic and just cruise to
victory.  The major weakness is a lack of permanent removal,
but this is why it's a deck to tweak, not a deck to copy. :)

        -Len Blado