Hey-o folks! It's been a while, but I have work and all that. Also, it seems like every time I think of a combo, I read it in a decklist immediately afterwards and it loses some of its flair. But today I have two decks, so that makes up for it methinks.
Here's the first:
4 Skill Borrower
2 Filigree Sages
4 Training Grounds
3 Spawnsire of Ulamog
2 Sphinx of Magosi
2 Deprive
4 Awakening Zone
4 Ponder
4 Khalni Gem
4 Growth Spasm
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Khalni Garden
4 Halimar Depths
2 Forest
6 Island
Sideboard:
1 All Is Dust
4 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
2 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
4 Polymorph
4 Negate
The idea of this deck is sort of a double combo centering on Skill Borrower and Training Grounds. You can get Khalni Gem + Filigree Sages + Training Grounds to give you infinite mana, or you can get Spawnsire of Ulamog on top of your library and use Skill Borrower to generate an infinite amount of tokens (with two Training Grounds out of course...) and then cast a bunch of Eldrazi from your Sideboard. I really like Sphinx of the Magosi in here as a sort-of infinite mana Mind Spring. Sure, it's not as consistently helpful, but it's still fun. I originally wanted to throw in a Soul Warden, since getting infinite life off the Skill Borrower combo works even if you don't get the infinite tokens afterwards, but I couldn't figure a way to work in a third color. I guess you could drop the green for white, but I'm not sure how much that would gain you for a situational combo.
And here's the second decklist:
1 All is Dust
4 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
2 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
4 Polymorph
4 Negate
2 Deprive
4 Awakening Zone
4 Ponder
4 Khalni Gem
4 Growth Spasm
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Khalni Garden
4 Halimar Depths
2 Forest
6 Island
Sideboard:
4 Skill Borrower
2 Filigree Sages
4 Training Grounds
3 Spawnsire of Ulamog
2 Sphinx of Magosi
This is pretty much your standard Polymorph deck by now, with token generators
galore and some nice big fatties to round out your curve at 15.
What...what's that you say? These are the same deck? Well...what do you know. One could almost imagine playing one, then sideboarding a completely different combo. Let them board in all the enchantment removal they want, as long as they're not Swerve-ing a Polymorph. Or let them board in all their Negates against your...Training Grounds? Then on game 3, just keep them guessing on what deck you're siding in this time.
This was sort of an experiment in seeing how transformative a sideboard could really be. This is like 2 combo decks in 1. I'll admit the first combo is hardly consistent, but on the other hand it's got 2 combos in it, and a minor combo in Skill Borrower + Sphinx of the Magosi.
I would have liked for 3 full decks, but I couldn't really shoehorn in an Eldrazi ramp deck without making the other combos much less consistent.
I'm not promising it will win you tournaments, but the surprise factor of playing a completely different deck in round 2 counts for something, right? Feel free to play either deck first, or to edit the Sideboarded Eldrazi (I just couldn't resist throwing Ulamog in there, even though Emrakul is going to win you games anyways and is a much better Polymorph guarantee. You could probably take him out and 2 or 3 of the Emrakuls to give you some extra Sideboard space, if you wanted.)
