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Title: Grafdigger's Cage Beating
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 3:02pm

Boyachi
Posts: 1553
Joined: 02-Nov-11

My animate dead deck is currently tied for 2nd strongest out of ten decks that I have made. I streamlined it to monoblack and watched its power soar.

Now that damned single mana costing Cage is coming to ruin it all, and Black is absolute @$$ when it comes to artifact destruction.

I'm looking for ways to deal with this accursed first turn drop and so far I've come up rather dry.

Phyrexian Tribute needs two creatures to go off, something that I'm not likely to have considering I only have four creatures that coust under six that are castable, making a total of eight actually castable creatures out of...sixteen?

The only other things that have come up are powder keg, Lux cannon, Ratchel bomb, and steel hellkite.  So far I'm leaning towards the keg because of its speed, but I'd prefer something better.

I heard a legend years ago (say like ten) that if you tap an artifact with a continuous effect, such as Winter's Orb, said effect becomes inactive until aforementioned artifact is untapped. If this is true, I'd totally rock Kill Switch in my deck and never look back, but looking at the comphrensive rules I've found nothing close to supporting this notion.

Your help will be greatly appreciated!
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 3:05pm

PinkiePie
Posts: 157
Joined: 10-Sep-11

Engineered explosives?!
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 3:06pm

DyingJester
Posts: 1771
Joined: 16-Dec-08

Powder Keg is your best bet...there's just no other way for black to deal with damn cage. (Aside from splashing for another color). It's just the balance of the game honestly. If you can get the cage with a Thoughtseize and a Surgical extraction that is also a solution, but to be honest Powder Keg or ratchet bomb is more practical. I personally dig ratchet bomb over powder keg, it just sounds cooler....

Best of luck though all the same...
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 3:07pm

PinkiePie
Posts: 157
Joined: 10-Sep-11

Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 3:20pm

Narcinek War-Rider
Posts: 1283
Joined: 16-Jun-11

Lux Cannon can work with Unwinding Clock.
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 4:30pm

T}{3 0l\l3 VV}{0 1S
Posts: 178
Joined: 10-Jun-11

the point of lux cannon is destroy the thing, adding in an unwinding clock is going to take out too many cards from the deck and ruin balance! also, can you change your pic back? i like this one less
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 4:32pm

PinkiePie
Posts: 157
Joined: 10-Sep-11

Lux canon is kind of a build-around card...!
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 4:43pm

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Plus the fact that it costs 4 and takes a while to build up.
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 8:15pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

Gate to Phyrexia might be an option

Also Mental Misstep


[Edited by gericault5 on 26/Jan/12 at 8:22PM]
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 8:41pm

Narcinek War-Rider
Posts: 1283
Joined: 16-Jun-11

You can make Lux Cannon work if you run alot of removal to stall on.
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 8:44pm

Boyachi
Posts: 1553
Joined: 02-Nov-11

Truth be told I was thinking about Mental Misstep but wasn't certain if it would catch it on time. What do you guys think?

Looks like I'll start looking for powder kegs, regardless.

I'd love to make a surgical extraction with corrupted zendikon/ Eradicate/Thran Lens. However I feel like S.E. would take too much set up/luck and still doesn't protect me from a first turn drop for my current reanimation deck. *sigh*
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 8:58pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

It has the same probability of catching it as your opponent has of dropping it
Date Posted: Thu Jan/26/12 at 10:23pm

DyingJester
Posts: 1771
Joined: 16-Dec-08

Hmm...well it also depends on your play area too...where do you play at, and what's the meta there?
Date Posted: Fri Jan/27/12 at 9:32am

PinkiePie
Posts: 157
Joined: 10-Sep-11

Ratchet bomb, explosives, and powder keg are good for taking out tokens or red beats, and misstep is good against burn and....! Anything that costs 1 or less mana!