By: KBR

KBR — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:49:04 +0000

Yeah, Maelstrom Pulse is also in the SB of Swans Combo. I built the deck today and ran some goldfish hands with it and I've got to say…its the most asinine deck I've ever played. You can usually just win on turn 5, sometimes 4, sometimes 6. It's just disgusting. The only thing that really stops it dead are Pithing Needle and Runed Halo. Cascading into Maelstrom Pulse seems to solve that issue handily.

By: routlaw

routlaw — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:36:59 +0000

Swans of Brynn Argoll is going to double in value in the span of the next week. Apparently four of the top eight decks at a PTQ yesterday were running the new Combo Swans deck, and a couple of big American players-including Luis Scott-Vargas -are running the combo deck in Barcelona this weekend as well.Keep in mind that this deck is (except for the reflecting pools, and this deck runs so few actual spells that you could just replace them with jankier lands and get away with it) is really cheap to build. Pro Tour caliber deck+hilarious comboing+cheap to build=high demand for its rares.I would include Seismic Assault in there but it's been printed so much that I can't see it really budging too much.This could have the side effect of making Meddling Mage more relevant, as the cascade mechanic would prevent a Seismic Assault cascaded off a Bitumous Blast or Deny Reality from resolving (since the Blast or the Deny Reality don't resolve until AFTER the Seismic can't be played due to a Meddling Mage naming Seismic). So the Alara Reborn card we've all been looking to find a reason to play might have its first good one. Maybe even two, given that apparently there is a potentially successful adaptation of the Extended Elfball going around in Barcelona as well (stopping Primal Command prevents the deck's wincon).Maelstrom Pulse looks to be really popular and waiting for it to come down in price before picking up a set might be pointless.

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