peasant deck - Blue Black wizard


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Blue/black wizard control deck

Land 
    13 Islands
      6 swamps
      2 Saprazzan coves
     21 total
 
Creatures
      3 information dealers
      3 disruptive Pitmages
      2 trinket mages
      3 Aven Fogbringers
      3 Mistformed Seaswifts 
      1 Nameless one- Wizard legend
       15 total

Spells and artifacts
      1 Darksteel Pendant
      2 Leonin Scimitar
      1 Vulshok MorningStar
      1 Neurok Stealthsuit
       5 total
Spells
       3 brainstorms
       3 curfew
       2 spy networks
       3 airborne aid
       2 early frost
       4 Ixidors will
       2 confiscate
       3 despoil  
       22 total

total    63

       I named this deck after a Wizard from
thievesworld whose power was maintained by a pledge
(never to let a man see him eat or drink) and a
secret (that she was really a woman passing in a mans
world). I thought it was an appropriate metaphor to
running a wizard deck where all but three of your
creatures have a toughness of only one and you had to
depend on the mechanics of the deck to keep them and
you alive. The Pitmages (aided by despoil) slow your
opponents down while drawing direct damage spells away
from the infodealers by being such a nuisance. Curfew
lets you whisk them away to safety while punishing
your opponents who must also return a creature card to
their hand. When you get the stealth suit out you have
an auto counter to direct damage spells. The info
dealers are the main mechanic, allowing you to in
effect run two hands, one your holding and the other
being the top of your library up to the number of
wizards in play. Brainstorm and airborne aid allows
you to access this second hand while darksteal pendant
lets you draw into it. The trinket mages give you a
reshuffle if needed while bringing the sabers out to
beef up you flyers. 
      Back to the Pitmages, once your opponent has
enough mana reserve to risk bringing a fatty out past
the mages counter spells, Ixidors will or early frost
foil your opponents big play, or you confiscate the
fatty they where hoping was a winner. Your winner is
the nameless one (power and toughness equal to all
those wizards you have in play) backed by well armed
flyers and whatever creatures youve confiscated. 
         Two notes from playing this deck, if your
opponent plays Dawns reflection, let it through and
then play a fogbringer to return the target land to
their hand and dispelling the enchantment. Second
dont be afraid of sending a card you cant afford
down to the bottom of the deck with the pendant, with
as many as 15 wizards in play the info dealers dig
deep. Keep sending extra land to the bottom and
refilling your hand with airborne aid and you will see
it again soon enough. And youll see it again before
the game is over.
      This does not play too badly as a lowland (no
uncommons) deck either. Swap out the coves for two
swamps, the confiscates for a couple of irradiate and
a riptide biologists and a Glintwing Invoker for the
nameless one, but be ready to sacrifice your seaswifts
to kill off dangerous attackers. For those interested
in the roleplay elements Lythande was an excellant
fencer hence the sabers. 



Zari Mezzanine Nyx 
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