Super Secret Sunday #4: "Do you want to make it a combo?"

In case you weren't paying attention, it's Sunday again. Super-Secret Sunday, in fact. There place and time for underplayed cards, under the radar strategy and under-thought thoughts.
For all you playing along at home thinking I am all about value and spiking wins from casual players who don't take EDH seriously....then you are mostly right. Today however, we are going off. As in comboing...but also the deep end. I will not advocate playing bad cards, but occasionally you can slam two bad cards together and they magically become fun cards. These brews are pretty janky, but worth a look...and a laugh. Get ready. This episode comes with fries and a drink.

From where I play, it seems like most Magic players these days don't remember hack effects. When I say 'hack effects' they don't even know what that means. Then I explain it and they don't know why anyone would print these cards. The answer is that color hate cards used to be much less subtle and much more powerful. So it wasn't unreasonable to print cards that hosed the hosers. That made sense to me anyway.The idea is that you play a Cabal and point a hack effect at it to make it counter whatever you want. If you think Isochron/Counterspell is all played out then down grade to this and let the fun begin anew. Bonus points if you know what creature Volrath is working on there. Similar bonus points if you know which helmet is in the background of Stromgald Cabal.



















Credit for this combo goes to Angry Graybeard. An EDH blogger after my own heart. He writes a Tumblr called I Remember Banding. Give it a look/see: http://irememberbanding.tumblr.com/. He has a series of posts called "EDH Tech You've Never Heard of." Very similar to this series, but dedicated to going real deep.

If you don't like countering spells...you are reading the wrong blog, but if you don't like blowing things up you're on the wrong planet. Everyone likes a good kill spell, right?



















I know this looks pretty suspicious, but I recommend playing Viashino Heretic in mono-red builds anyway. If you are running a land destruction theme, then this is sick. Adjust your removal suite to use things like Shatter or Demolish instead of direct damage. If you can get the coating into play you suddenly have a stack full of Vindicates instead of Demolish.

Do you know someone who likes fatties? Maybe a little too much? Do they like to skimp on removal because they don't know enough about Magic? GET 'EM.


















Pretty strong against certain colors of mono-brews. This combo is also kind of a trump in the mono red mirror if you can stick it to the right guy. Not that trumping mono red mirrors was a significant feat...
Oh well young ones that's all the time old grandpa has for today. It almost time for my afternoon nap. Come back next week.

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