Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Necrotic Ooze Combo for Inni-standard!

So for those of you who have not seen it yet, the interaction between Necrotic Ooze and Civilized Scholar is just bonkers. 



When Civilized Scholar is in the graveyard and Necrotic Ooze is in play you may tap Necrotic Ooze to draw a card and discard a card.  As long as the card discarded is a creature, you may do this indefinitely.  

So Obviously the deck starts out like this:

Now it is important to note that you do not have to attempt to just get Civilized Scholar into the graveyard.  He happens to also be a very aggressive blue card.  In many match ups, I have simply "gone aggro" with him and won games droping people to 0 with 4 hits.  The knowing when to go from combo to control to aggro is very important.  Sometimes you just have to swing for the fences.  Next up what to combo with:

2x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
2x Bloodline Keeper
1x Trespassing Souleater

This cute combo lets Necrotic Ooze make a Vampire and then sacrifice it to untap it and give it a +1/+1 counter.  You now have an infinitely big Necrotic Ooze.  Please note, do not make him a 10k/10k, there is a sac effect that is really annoying at the moment(tribute to hunger), just make him as big as he needs to be.  Trespassing Souleater just makes sure that your damage hits.  In order to get this 3 piece combo together, you need things to help you survive long enough to do it.  Of course you could live the dream, but it doesn't happen every time.

4x Mindshrieker

For a long time I had Merfolk Looter in this slot, but she happened to do "nothing" most of the time.  Sure she helped me assemble the combo, but more often then not, I found myself chumping her to save some life.  This guy does the same thing but can go from protecting yourself to aggro very easily.  With 2 mana open, your opponent doesn't know if his titan is going to live or not.  You can always just mill some cards and boom, 6/6 or a 8/8 with some more mana.  A very versatile creature.

1x Molten-Tail Masticore
1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
1x Mirror-Mad Phantasm
1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

These are your one of silver bullets.  These typically come out of nowhere and just can win you the game on their own.  Molten-Tail Masticore gives your Necrotic Ooze some resilience and also the ability to just dome them for a ton.  It will put them on a very quick clock if not dealt with.  Geth, Lord of the Vault can be really amazing sometimes.  With many decks playing Phantasmal Image, you just pay 3 to get it out of their grave and into play under your control.  What shall you choose?  Necrotic Ooze perhaps?  More is always better.  Mirror-Mad Phantasm is a very interesting card as it does some ridiculous things.  Most of the time it just helps you finish your combo.  Play Necrotic Ooze while it is in your graveyard, pay 1U and boom you most likely have your combo.  Other plays revolve around making multiple Necrotic Oozes.  If you pay the cost twice, you get 2 copies of Necrotic Ooze.  Skithiryx give you both resilience and effectively combo on the same turn you play Necrotic Ooze.  Sometimes he even hits them 3 time and they die..... only sometimes....

4x Mana Leak
3x Day of Judgement
2x Doom Blade
1x Tribute to Hunger
1x Diabolic Tutor
1x Dismember
2x Unburial Rites

These give you the ability to sustain long enough to combo without diminishing your creature density too much.  The creature density is needed in order to maximize value from the Necrotic Ooze/Civilized Scholar interaction.  Unburial Rites allows you to "not care" if something goes to the grave as you can always get it back.  This is another key point about this deck.  Do not be afraid to chump if it lets you live long enough to combo. 

So once you put it all together

2x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
2x Bloodline Keeper
1x Trespassing Souleater
4x Mindshrieker
1x Molten-Tail Masticore
1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
1x Mirror-Mad Phantasm
1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

4x Mana Leak
3x Day of Judgement
2x Doom Blade
1x Tribute to Hunger
1x Diabolic Tutor
1x Dismember
2x Unburial Rites

4x Island
5x Swamp
2x Plains

3x Glacial Fortress
1x Seachrome Coast
4x Drowned Catacomb
2x Darkslick Shores
4x Isolated Chapel

Hopefully this new build is more tuned to dealing with issues that the previous build did not.  Please comment either here or on TappedOut.net.  I'd love to hear about how you did with this deck or any improvements you would make. 

1 comment:

  1. This deck looks very interesting. I have seen a similar deck in action but am new to the use of Mirror-mad phantasm. I am a little confused on its use. I understand that having one in the graveyard allows necrotic ooze to use its ability. I am confused because I do not know what prevents you from milling yourself... or is that the point? Mill yourself and then win before your next draw. I say that because I almost certain that even though necrotic ooze can use the ability, it will not recurr back onto the battelfield. Thanks for you insight. The deck looks to be fun. I want to build one, hence all of my questions.

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