MTG Salvation

This was one of the most time intensive decks I ever built! But it WORKS!!! It maybe not as amazing as Rofellos, but I normally summon Emrakul around turn five without disruption, to turn eight. Summoning him normally ends the game one on one! It seems playable for multiplayer as well. Its been tearing up a storm locally, Gaddock Teeg being the most troubling general thus far. The main goal of the deck is to rush Emrakul out as fast as you can. But that isn't easy sometimes... So I put in a charge counter engine for crazy mana / extra turns, and Myr Incubator as an alt win. This deck lacks removal, so eldrazi are added. I personally dislike running the eldrazi for it removes the the basic idea of the deck to rush your general out, but are valuable threats for the deck. Anywho, here is my build.




Counters Everywhere!!!

Other than mana accel to rush the general out, the deck can do quirky things with charge counters / +1/+1 counters. Coretapper, Energy Chamber and Power Conduit are the engines that fuel these cards:

Arcbound Reclaimer - Get your artifacts back or beef him up! If it dies, it can fodder a creature quite well. Can obtain Mindslaver lock!

Workhorse - If you need a bigger creature or need more mana.

Triskelion - Pinging creatures down, can control some games. Great against Teeg.

Kyren Toy - To store mana (don't laugh, it works!).

Coalition Relic - Easy mana and produces charge counters.

Everflowing Chalice - Makes as a big mana producer.

Angelheart Vial - Drawing cards and gaining life is pretty nice. Works well as Power Conduit fuel.

Sun Droplet - For stall and again, fuel for Power Conduit.

Serum Tank - For card draw, another fuel source.

Eternity Vessel - A stablizer with many counters!

Orochi Hatchery - Capable to make more and more 1/1 snakes.

Magistrate's Scepter - Taking extra turns is fun! Can be quite gross of a card! Works well with Rings of Brighthearth.


Summon Emrakul!

The deck normally gets things out turn 3 - 4. Mana normally isn't a big problem, but Emrakul is very pricey. It can be summoned in due time, like turn 7. However, there are are some instant ramp that summons him as early as turn 4, basicly ending the game.

Krark-Clan Ironworks - Absolutely foolish when your guaranteed a big, crazy swinging general! Probably the best ramp card in the deck.

Clock of Omens - In between turn 5 and onward, it can generate some crazy mana and even a few combos. Again, Rings of Brighthearth works well with it.

Ashnod's Altar - It isn't the greatest in the deck, situational. But if your able to summon lot of snakes or use Myr Incubator for 10 (If it can't win you the game), instant mana!

Rings of Brighthearth & Basalt Monolith - If you have the Monolith uptapped and two mana floating. Infinite mana!

Blinkmoth Urn & Doubling Cube - Produces mana extremely fast!


Other Silly Things!

Tower of the Magistrate - More valuable than you think! Protects Emrakul from Icy Manipulator, Staff of Domination and Scepter of Dominance!

High Market - There were many times I sacificed Emrakul after attacking to recast him for another turn. Its also another sac outlet for Cathodion.

Mutavault & Swarmyard - I guess it can be silly. It regenerates!!!

Changelog:

07/13/2010

I've learned that Staff of Domination just got ban. So my replacement suggestion is Temple Bell. Its cheap! Chances are you will gain more tempo than the opponent.

-1 Spawnsire of Ulamog
-1 Staff of Domination
-1 Tectonic Edge
+1 Mystifying Maze
+1 Temple Bell
+1 Triskelion

Edit: Emrakul is ban overall. Sad pandas!

basalt is a mana ability, isn't it?
rings says "if it isn't a mana ability"

so that doesn't work for infinite mana afaik.

Howling Mine and Font of Mythos
(I suggest because you are playing temple bell)

This deck seems very fragile, one O-ring and it is all over.

Oblivion Ring wouldn't stop Emrakul. He can just send it back to the Command Zone.

I would recommend putting in a bit more removal. Oblivion Stone and Nevinyrral's Disk are both good options. Brittle Effigy is also some nice spot removal that can get past Gaddock Teeg.

You might also want to consider Mycosynth Lattice. It works really well with your Darksteel Forge, Voltaic Key, Blinkmoth Urn, and a bunch of other cards.

A card I really like is Hall of the Bandit Lord. I run it in my Multani deck, and it's sick (admittedly I can tutor for it in green).

Hall of the Bandit Lord, I can't believe I never thought of it! Its a great suggestion! I've just browsed at the spoilers for Scars of Mirrodin and its going to help this deck to run better! I've also tried swaping Emrakul and Kozilek around and I find Kozilek can be just as good. The draw power is foolish!

Why not run Su-Chi and sac'em to Krark-Clan Ironworks.

i checked the errata, & Emrakul has "protection from colored spells", meaning, he cannot be targeted by any colored spell, oblivion ring cannot target the beasty... He can however, be affected by spells that do not target him (***).

EDIT: ok, this is not the case, sorry for the mixup...

Put the tectonic edge back in, remove Swarmyard

And find a spot for Planar Portal, cut the Ashnod's Altar. Cute, but not worth it.

oblivion ring is no longer a spell once it hits play so emrakul is legit bait. Deck seems fragile against any sort of artifact removal (especially against mana rocks) which many green decks run, and any counterspells (majority of blue).

Concerning multi-player where artifact removal is aplenty, green ramp eldrazi works because it accells lands which are harder to disrupt than artifacts. Blue control eldrazi works by artifact ramp but manages to protect its own via counters. Emrakul with just artifact ramp will never see the light of day unless your play group never runs any sort of disruption.

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i checked the errata, & Emrakul has "protection from colored spells", meaning, he cannot be targeted by any colored spell, oblivion ring cannot target the beasty... He can however, be affected by spells that do not target him (***).

This has been gone over many a time, Oblivion Ring puts a trigger on the stack after it resolves. It is no longer a spell because it has finished resolving off the stack. The RFG trigger is put on the stack and Emrakul is a legal target. If he had protection from colored permanents, he would not be able to be targetted by O-Ring.

wow, my bad, thank you for the clarification, i missed wherever it was mentioned before...

I play an Emrakul deck and while not as focused on ramping as your deck it still can cast Emrakul and then its usually game. I admit the decks biggest weakness is lack of removal. I only run a disk in mine, the other three good ones are in other decks, and Emy just folds to a grave-pit type card or to a bribery, as we have no ways of killing one of our own aliens out of combat.