A new deck idea
The other day I played against someone that used the Ornate Kanzashi in a deck. It was kind of tangental to his deck idea, but honestly, it was the first time I had ever seen anyone use that card.
Fast forward a few days, and Mark Gottlieb at the Wizards web page put up a deck idea that involved using the Lantern of Insight and Psychogenic Probe in combination to force your opponent to shuffle themselves to death.
Something in my mind clicked when I saw that deck. The thing that had been missing for me with the Ornate Kanzashi was that you were spending mana in a crap shoot with the other guy's deck. You might get something useful, or you might deprive your opponent of something, but you didn't know if you were getting something good or not. Add the Lantern of Insight into the mix, and now you always know the top card on your opponent's deck, and you know if using the Ornate Kanzashi is a good use of mana or not.
Then I started looking for other cards that would be good if I knew what my opponent's next card would be. I came across another 'junk rare' from Champions of Kamigawa, the Hair-Strung Koto. I have never seen that card used in a deck. Not once. But it makes perfect sense in this deck. In order for the Koto to really be useful, I need access to a decent number of creautres, which made me think of tokens, which decided the color of my deck: Green. I added in Troll Ascetics, Meloku the Clouded Mirror and Umezawa's Jitte for win conditions and took my little deck out to play.
Lantern Deprivation:
Standard
Creatures
4x Troll Ascetic
2x Meloku the Clouded Mirror
4x Sakura-Tribe Elder
4x Joiner Adept
14 creatures
Other spells
3x Fabricate
4x Beacon of Creation
4x Lantern of Insight
3x Hair-Strung Koto
2x Honden of Life's Web
2x Honden of Seeing Winds
3x Ornate Kanzashi
3x Umezawa's Jitte
24 other spells
Land
14x Forest
4x Island
4x Cloudpost
22 land
Fast forward a few days, and Mark Gottlieb at the Wizards web page put up a deck idea that involved using the Lantern of Insight and Psychogenic Probe in combination to force your opponent to shuffle themselves to death.
Something in my mind clicked when I saw that deck. The thing that had been missing for me with the Ornate Kanzashi was that you were spending mana in a crap shoot with the other guy's deck. You might get something useful, or you might deprive your opponent of something, but you didn't know if you were getting something good or not. Add the Lantern of Insight into the mix, and now you always know the top card on your opponent's deck, and you know if using the Ornate Kanzashi is a good use of mana or not.
Then I started looking for other cards that would be good if I knew what my opponent's next card would be. I came across another 'junk rare' from Champions of Kamigawa, the Hair-Strung Koto. I have never seen that card used in a deck. Not once. But it makes perfect sense in this deck. In order for the Koto to really be useful, I need access to a decent number of creautres, which made me think of tokens, which decided the color of my deck: Green. I added in Troll Ascetics, Meloku the Clouded Mirror and Umezawa's Jitte for win conditions and took my little deck out to play.
Lantern Deprivation:
Standard
Creatures
4x Troll Ascetic
2x Meloku the Clouded Mirror
4x Sakura-Tribe Elder
4x Joiner Adept
14 creatures
Other spells
3x Fabricate
4x Beacon of Creation
4x Lantern of Insight
3x Hair-Strung Koto
2x Honden of Life's Web
2x Honden of Seeing Winds
3x Ornate Kanzashi
3x Umezawa's Jitte
24 other spells
Land
14x Forest
4x Island
4x Cloudpost
22 land
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