Historic - Wizard Amass (With description)

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Midrange
Control
TCGPlayer $177
Cardmarket €169
Cardhoarder 3 Tix
Main 60 cards (23 distinct)
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (12)
$0.24€0.190.03
$0.75€0.490.02
$0.50€0.390.02
$0.50€0.360.02
$0.27€0.15
Creature (23)
$0.62€1.000.03
$0.50€0.330.02
$0.20€0.18
$0.39€0.360.02
$0.29€0.200.03
$18.99€14.010.02
$0.25€0.170.03
$0.25€0.140.03
Land (25)
$0.50€0.33
$1.10€0.970.02
$8.25€9.460.17
$10.00€9.660.07
$1.65€1.320.02
$2.69€1.800.02
$13.36€13.600.29

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Description

(Updated for Historic)

 


This deck revolves mainly around two cards:

image ; image.


     - The main objective is to stall the opponent until you can make a decisive blow with your army and/or with your flyers. A well placed Revival // Revengeimage preceding the final blow can give you the game very often.


- Dreadhorde Invasionimage can be quickly accelerated by Naban's shenanigans, but it can become costly quickly if you have two or even three on the board. It can be compensated with Elite Guardmageimage and Revival // Revengeimage.
     - Gleaming Overseerimage gives your army hexproof. This is awesome especially if you make a token copy of it, because you end up with a Gleaming Overseerimage with hexproof. Another very crucial point is that it gives your army "Menace". Your main goal is then to put holes in your enemy's defense forcing him to make painful sacrifices or simply womp massive "Lifelink" damage in is face. Your army needs to have a power of six if you want it to have "Lifelink". Once it does, life is rarely a problem if you properly controlled the battlefield.

     - Eternal Skylordimage gives flying to your army. It is generally a killing blow when you summon it (especially if Naban, Dean of Iterationimage is on the board because it "Amass 2" two times!


- Naban, Dean of Iterationimage doubles every "ETB" effects...
     - Control with Merfolk Tricksterimage ; Deputy of Detentionimage ; Exclusion Mageimage
         - Exclusion Mageimage and Merfolk Tricksterimage allow you the save precious time, but like mentioned above they allow you to remove key blockers for your army to hit the enemy.

         - Deputy of Detentionimage is extremely powerful paired with Naban, Dean of Iterationimage. They will be magnets; your enemy will throw everything at them. That's fine, because most of the time it means Naban, Dean of Iterationimage will survive as your army keeps growing safely until it reaches the magic 6 +1/+1 counters. It can be instantly put on the battlefield from the graveyard with Revival // Revengeimage and since Naban survives most of the time, life and card advantage is generally not an issue.

    - Life gain and draw with Cloudkin Seerimage ; Elite Guardmageimage
        - Elite Guardmageimage paired with Naban, Dean of Iterationimage gives you six hit points and two cards!

     - Accelerate amass and more importantly protect your army with Gleaming Overseerimage.


Thassa, Deep-Dwellingimage is extremely useful, but I believe one is more than enough. She is good, but you need to have a good setup established on the board for her to shine and not just be a dead card. Most of the deck is blue so she very often becomes an "Invincible" creature, but her main purpose is of course her ability to cause blink on a creature. Her tap ability gives you more opportunities to punch holes in your enemy's defense.

Wizard's Retortimage main purpose is to prevent board wipes. There are only three in the deck, they must be held for critical counters unless you know it's safe to burn them.

Riptide Laboratoryimage is wonderful. It allows you to bounce back a wizard if it is about to die. If you cannot counter a board wipe you can at least save one creature (and more importantly if it is a Deputy of Detentionimage the creatures exiled face the same fate as the ones on the board). It also allows you to assign wizard to block and then bounce it back to cancel an attack. Of course, if you have the mana and the time, you can simply bounce a wizard back in your hand at the end of the opponent's turn and cast it again the next turn for more ETB sweetness. Do not underestimate this card!

Quasiduplicateimage is very often a god send since pretty much everything on the board triggers effect when entering on the battlefield. As metionned above, when Gleaming Overseerimage is copied, it gives you an extra layer of hexproof protection since it is a "zombie token".

Bloodchief's Thirstimage is multi purpose, but if you believe your opponent is running huge creatures with "protection from multicolor" or many Planeswalkers, you should hold on to them.

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MenacingMTG
Looks fun.I'll try it
ObserverWill
This is one of my favorite decks on aetherhub. There are a lot of really fun cards in this one.
GrilledCheese
Last Updated: 24 Nov 2020
Created: 23 Nov 2020
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