Subject: pOx Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:45:25 -0600 (CST) From: "T. McCollum" To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com 4 Pox 4 Ensaring Bridge 4 Cursed Scroll 4 Diabolic Edict 4 Coercion 4 Mana Leak 2 Disenchant 3 Bottomless Pit 3 Stupor 3 Funeral Charm 2 Choking Sands 3 Mox Diamond 3 Undiscovered Paradise 3 Gemstone Mine 14 Swamps Sideboard: 4 Chill 4 Dark Ritual 1 Bottomless Pit 3 Ebony Charm 1 Disenchant 2 Choking Sands OK, I know the mox isn't that great, but here it serves as a) nom-poxable mana, b) multi-color, c) a way to empty my hand for the bridge, d) a way to dump the paradises when they start to piss me off. Basically , the point is to dump my hand, and scroll the crap out of them, using the poxes, LD and discard to disrupt them, The Brigde is REALLY effective, and the pit is one of the most powerful cards printed recently. Sligh gives this deck a lot of trouble, as does counter-cheese. The chills in the SB are for red(duh), the rituals, extra pit and ebony charms are for control. The rituals helping me play first turn pits, LD or coercion, and the charms are for Gaea's blessings, hammers and the damn bottle gnomes. I would really like to put Lobotmy in the SB or even main deck it, as an early ritualed lobotomy would utterly destroy many decks, also my opponent playing with cursed scroll would be quite a problem, thus the extra disenchants. Considering taking out some coercions or stupors for 2-3 lobotomy and would like to main some more LD. PLEASE EMAIL ME WITH COMMENTS :) -Tim McCollum mccollum@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu "Everyone should laugh at least once a day. Because a day without sunshine is like...night." -Steve Martin