I thought I’d start a series of articles on deck ideas. This one is actually for the upcoming release of the second set in the Return to Ravnica block, Gatecrash.
I have to admit, there hasn’t been a lot of cards in this set that have really excited me. However, as a closet Johnny, one card really caught my eye in that of Biovisionary. The card reads as follows:
Biovisionary – Creature Human Wizard
At the beginning of the end step, if you control four or more creatures named Biovisionary, you win the game.
The card costs 3 mana to cast … 1 blue, 1 green and 1 of any color.And it’s a 2/3 creature so it has a decent amount of toughness to keep itself alive.
Now, naturally, getting 4 of these onto the field at one time, since you can only have 4 of them in your deck, is a pretty tough accomplishment to say the least. However, we are not alone in our quest, for as you will soon see, we have a few cards that can help us get 4 of these out so fast that our opponents might not know what hit them.
For starters, we have these three cards.
Clone
Evil Twin
Cackling Counterpart
Clone is a reprint from the old Alpha edition card that has come back to haunt us. For 1 blue and 3 of any color, you can make a copy of any creature on the battlefield. That includes Biovisionary. Now we’re up to potentially 8 in our deck.
Evil Twin says “You may have Evil Twin enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield except it gains “UB, Tap : Destroy target creature with the same name as this creature.” Now obviously you don’t want to destroy your own creature but, it can copy Biovisionary to give you yet 4 more chances to get 4 out on the battlefield OR you can copy an opponent’s creature if it happens to become a thorn in your side.
Cackling Counterpart – Put a token onto the battlefield that’s a copy of target creature you control.
And … it’s an instant. So you can do it end of turn. But, here’s the best part.
Because Cackling Counterpart makes a token, it has great synergy with cards in Return to Ravnica that populate tokens.
Growing Ranks – At the beginning of your upkeep, populate. That means make a copy of a token that you control. Growing ranks only costs 4 mana to cast and you can pay it with green or white. Green just happens to be in the colors we’re playing.
Before you know it, or more precisely, before your opponent knows it, he’s confronted with a bunch of Biovisionary creatures that win you the game just for being on the battlefield.
Want to keep him from killing you? Play a lot of fog effects so that his attacks don’t do you any damage.
In the current standard we have:
Fog
Druid’s Deliverance (which also populates)
Clinging Mists
Moonmist
There you go. A fog deck with enough token generators and clones to ensure victory.
It’s certainly worth considering.
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Steven “Land Boy” Wagenheim
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