The deck (60 cards, Historic) is based around the 'perpetually' keyword. It also involves [[Rusko, Clockmaker]], because I simply love that guy.
Here's an overview of the most important general cards:
- [[Three Steps Ahead]] as a counterspell and to make copies of creatures or [[Midnight Clock]].
- [[Test of Talents]] to thin the forest.
- [[Saw It Coming]] because it stays when [[Midnight Clock]] cycles.
- [[Sheoldred's Assimilator]] to recast own spells, to exile or steal cards.
- [[Sheoldred's Edict]], because it's too good.
- [[Tear Asunder]], same reason.
- [[Ritual of Soot]], because why do so many people play with soot? :(
- [[The End]] is there still forest?
- [[Casualties of War]] to reduce biodiversity.
- [[Druid Class]] for life and ramp. Also a sweet target to make copies.
- [[Glarb, Calamity's Augur]] ramp and "draw", plus emergency deathtouch blocker.
- [[Primeval Titan]] for ramp, also helps fetch enhanced lands from [[Vigorous Farming]] which were shuffled.
- [[Doppelgang]] because we need a sink for our 50 mana.
And here are the perpetual stars:
- [[Antique Collector]] as a cheap drop for round 2, or to enhance creatures. Note, casting it twice does nothing extra.
- [[Absorb Energy]], another counterspell. Though I feel this is one of the weakest here.
- [[Smogbelcher Chariot]] because giving creatures lifelink, deathtouch and menace perpetually is pretty sweet! Love to use it on [[Hall of Giants]] or [[Primeval Titan]].
- [[Vigorous Farming]] this is a tough one. It needs some time, but boy can the rewards pile up! Today I had a single land producing 12 mana. Also a nice clone target.
- [[Nashi, Illusion Gadgeteer]] you need to have a nice creature or sorcery in grave, then Nashi conjures a copy to your hand and gives that copy flash! When using Doppelgang on Nashi, you can conjure a copy of DG back to your hand, lol.
- [[Blooming Cactusfolk]] we do have plenty of mana, now we need cheaper spells. It's nice to copy the cactus, and to have spells with X cost.
- [[Discover the Formula]] for the lulz.
The idea is to play defensively, build up manabase and reduce cost on spells, enhance spells with flash and creatures with extra abilities. Worst enemy is having things exiled. [[Farewell]] or [[Ugin, Spirit Dragon]] are the absolute worst to encounter.
I think the synergy between Rusko and 'perpetually' is pretty nice. Enhance stuff, drop it in grave, draw it again to enhance it further.
It's a bit sad players have only 20 health. This setup starts to shine when the game is already over.
I was happy to find a working deck (currently around 85% ladder) which uses Glarb and Nashi. Haven't seen them played by anyone else yet. Same for [[Vigorous Farming]] and [[Blooming Cactusfolk]], underrated cards imo.
So, what are your thoughts? Have you played something similar? Have we met online? What would you change?