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Date Posted: Tue Jun/19/12 at 9:10 pm

hedsak
Posts: 44
Joined: 12-Jun-12

The Swamp is Rune-Scarred Demon
The Island is Havengul Lich.

With Demon in the grave, pay 1 and return it with Lich and search a card. Sac the Demon to either altar. Use an altar-produced mana to activate Lich and search again. Repeat on Ashnod's Altar for infinite searches and colorless mana or just get infinite searches with phyrexian altar. If you have both on the field, you can blue or red sun zenith, fireball, or Devil's Play for infinite if you hit the phyrexian for a few colored mana as well. The upside is that you can search the burn spell with the demon, as well as anything else you want for other combos and such.

Edit- If you keep 1 mana open after using Blue or Red Sun Zenith, you can search and use them again and again. Also, I believe that since Demon is a search and not a draw, you can do it infinite times to wipe multiple opponents. If you go the fireball route, you can just target multiple opponents. With devil's play you can only hit twice per play due to flashback.

[Edited by hedsak on 19/Jun/12 at 9:32PM]
Date Posted: Wed Jun/20/12 at 7:52am

Squillis
Posts: 424
Joined: 20-Nov-08

Small Problem - The Lich allows you to Cast the card from the G/Y.  You still need to pay the full casting cost of the Runescarred Demon.  It's nice to keep searching, but playing this with Heartless Summoning, Lich, and Phyrexian Metamorph, like in the current decks in standard, seems stronger.
Date Posted: Wed Jun/20/12 at 10:20am

hedsak
Posts: 44
Joined: 12-Jun-12

I thought the Lich's ability changed the cost and the creature is cast for only 1 mana.
Date Posted: Wed Jun/20/12 at 12:37pm

Squillis
Posts: 424
Joined: 20-Nov-08

The exact wording on the card is "{1}: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast that card this turn, Havengul Lich gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn."  The card specifies that it allows you to cast the card targetted from a different location, it doesn't says that it changes the cost to cast that creature.  You may be mistaking it for abilities like the ones on Cascade cards.  Those cards specify an 'Alternate Cost' you can pay to cast them, that cost just happens to be not paying their mana cost.

In the game of magic, a card will never do more than it says, this one says it lets you cast the card from the graveyard and that's just what it does.  You can cast it from the yard in the same way you would cast it from your hand (you just can't to other things that require it to be in your hand like Cycling)




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