Of Atogs

[Wiccy]

What is the current Atog theme deck these days? If anyone has an atog deck let me know, I am planning top build a new one but I am out of touch with what is happening these days

[Maraxus of Keld]

Well, I found this deck on www.magicdeckvortex.com that is based around Atog:

4 Bottle Gnomes
4 Atog
2 Shock Troops
4 Solemn Simulacrum
3 Pyrite Spellbomb
3 Chromatic Sphere
2 Sunbeam Spellbomb
3 Skullclamp
4 Shrapnel Blast
4 Second Sunrise

4 Great Furnace
4 Ancient Den
4 City of Brass
6 Plains
6 Mountain



Personally, if I were to build this deck I would drop the 4 City of Brass in favor of Glimmervoid.

[Wiccy]

Thanks Maraxus.

I am planning to make a deck around Atog, Summoning Staion and Parallel Evolution. What I want though are cards that return artifacts to my hand or play to bolster my artifact feeding.

[Maraxus of Keld]

If you can splash white and produce a lot of mana, Roar of Reclamation can do the trick. If all you need is cheap artifact returning, Ritual of Restoration is also very nice. Or, you can go all out with Bringer of the White Dawn to return an artifact every turn.

There's also Salvaging Station. Or you could be devious and combine some sort of cheap token production like Mobilization or Sacred Mesa with a Mycosynth Lattice.

[Baron Sengir]

If you want to be really sick, throw in a Disciple of the Vault

[Wiccy]

I am going into throwing some black into the deck so Disciple of the Vault has gone in there (I am to cruel to leave such an evil card out of the deck). What I am after though is something that will return creatures to play after they are destroyed, alot of the artifacts going intop the deck are artifact creatures (with a mana cost of 3 or less if I can help it to keep the deck fast). At the moment my deck is similar to the Sacrificial Bam deck with a smattering of green and having some things emoved to make space for cheaper spells and werebears (I prefer them to elves). Isn't there a card that returns destroyed creatures to play at the end of each turn? I'm sure I remember one from somewhere, but I forget what it was and did exactly.

If White was to go into the deck, it would be to play Balance after I have sacrificed alot of goodies

Mycosynth Lattice would work though and let me sacrifice everything to inflict alot of harm. Now to see if I can find any copies of it cheap

[Maraxus of Keld]

Genesis Chamber would not only give you a ton of artifact creatures that your Atog could eat, they also make great fodder for Skullclamp.

As far as bringing back creatures that die each turn, there is Endless Whispers, but I don't think that's what you want.

[Volrath, the Fallen]

Skeleton Shard and affinity creatures or Ornithopter is a good way to do it.

[Wiccy]

Skeleton Shard, Ornithopter and Shield Sphere have gone in there.

I love Shield Sphere, a 0/6 wall for 0 mana that make excellent fodder

[Maraxus of Keld]

Somehow I never got a Shield Sphere... I never got much good from Alliances packs though, so it doesn't surprise me.

[Wiccy]

I bought the equivalent of at least 2 booster boxes of Alliances when it was out as I collected a few complete sets (which have since been broken up for additional cards to play). There were some useful cards in there, but Shield Sphere and Storm Cauldron are the cards I have used most form the set.

[Volrath, the Fallen]

i love Storm Cauldron. Oh, the ways you can screw people with that card.

[Maraxus of Keld]

I hate Storm Cauldron....

[Volrath, the Fallen]

he is one of the people i screwed with.......

[Baron Sengir]

I don't know which is more abnoxious, Storm Cauldron

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