RangerWickett
Legend
I read up on the set list - http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?text=+[infect]&color=+@([B]|[G]) - and will be playing in a draft next Friday. In the meanwhile, I'm coming up with an Infect deck.
Aggro Infect
Green/Black. This one's goal is to deal 10 poison counters as quickly as possible.
- Creatures -
4x Cystbearer
4x Hand of the Praetors
4x Ichor Rats
4x Plague Stinger
- Spells -
4x Ancient Stirrings
4x Grasp of Darkness
4x Livewire Lash
4x Prey's Vengeance
4x Vines of Vastwood
- Lands -
4x Verdant Catacombs
10x Forest
10x Swamp
The deck's curve tops out at 4. Your ideal play is:
1. Ancient Stirrings (to get a livewire lash or land)
2. Livewire Lash
3. Cystbearer or Ichor Rats
4. equip Livewire Lash, and use Vines of Vastwood with kicker.
Targeting your critter will shoot 2 poison counters at the bad guy's head, and the creature itself will have 4 power, plus another 4 from the vines, so you can inflict 8 more poison counters. If they've got blockers that slows you down a tad. A more average draw goes something like:
1. nothing.
2. Plague Stinger
3. Ichor Rats (swing with plague stinger, 2 poison counters total)
4. Hand of Praetors (assume the plague stinger flies through unblocked, 4 poison counters)
5. Cystbearer, Prey's Vengeance on whatever's unblocked (9 poison counters)
Aggro Infect
Green/Black. This one's goal is to deal 10 poison counters as quickly as possible.
- Creatures -
4x Cystbearer
4x Hand of the Praetors
4x Ichor Rats
4x Plague Stinger
- Spells -
4x Ancient Stirrings
4x Grasp of Darkness
4x Livewire Lash
4x Prey's Vengeance
4x Vines of Vastwood
- Lands -
4x Verdant Catacombs
10x Forest
10x Swamp
The deck's curve tops out at 4. Your ideal play is:
1. Ancient Stirrings (to get a livewire lash or land)
2. Livewire Lash
3. Cystbearer or Ichor Rats
4. equip Livewire Lash, and use Vines of Vastwood with kicker.
Targeting your critter will shoot 2 poison counters at the bad guy's head, and the creature itself will have 4 power, plus another 4 from the vines, so you can inflict 8 more poison counters. If they've got blockers that slows you down a tad. A more average draw goes something like:
1. nothing.
2. Plague Stinger
3. Ichor Rats (swing with plague stinger, 2 poison counters total)
4. Hand of Praetors (assume the plague stinger flies through unblocked, 4 poison counters)
5. Cystbearer, Prey's Vengeance on whatever's unblocked (9 poison counters)
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