Bounce EVERYTHING (Yes, Even the Lands) | Brewer's Kitchen
Well, hello there! Brewer’s Kitchen here and today we’re gonna bounce absolutely everything. Yes, even the lands. Actually, even the spells.
The Gameplan
As you can imagine, the cards we’re building around today is Venser, Shaper Savant, the (I think) only thing in Magic that can bounce everything, including lands and spells. But only bouncing one thing when it enters would be boring, so the rest of the deck is made to double up and even infinite the trigger.
We spend the early game setting up with ramp like Birds of Paradise and creatures that enter with a treasure like Prosperous Innkeeper and Charming Scoundrel.
Then we’re trying to drop something that doubles up ETB triggers as fast as possible. Delney, Streetwise Lookout is the cheapest option, but Panharmonicon and Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines work just as good.
Once we double up triggers, the deck goes crazy. Burning-Tree Emissary becoming a ritual effect that allows us to chain multiple spells and flood the board with value. Once we cast everything, we get our Companion Yorion, Sky Nomad to retrigger all of our creatures again.
If we throw a Venser in this mix, we’re already bouncing a lot of our opponent’s permanents, especially if we can safely attack with Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd or cast Ephemerate to repeatedly flicker Venser or even Yorion.
But the real fun begins once Emiel the Blessed hits the board. It allows us to flicker any of our creatures for three mana. No tapping, no “once each turn”, no safety valves. With a Panharmonicon effect and a Burning-Tree Emissary we create infinite mana and flicker everything on our board as much as we want to.
The premise of the deck is to use this with Venser to leave our opponent with nothing on the board and no chance to ever resolve a spell again. If this, for some reason, isn’t enough to force a concession, we could also flicker Charming Scoundrel 21 times to drain our opponent with Wicked Roles leaving the battlefield.
Recruiter of the Guard is the glue that keeps the deck together. It can tutor up most of the creatures in our deck and even find Glasspool Mimic if we need to hit a land drop. Most of the time, it will find a Delney or Venser, though.
Roxanne, Starfall Savant is our plan B. It doesn’t work with Recruiter or Delney, but works incredibly well with the rest of our gameplan. Panharmonicon and Elesh Norn will double the ETB trigger of itself and of the Meteorite tokens. The extra mana generation from tapping artifact tokens also allows for more infinites with Emiel and creatures that create treasures.
Wrap up
Let’s be real here, this isn’t a top-tier deck or anything close. Early removal and aggression is hard to beat with only bounce spells and small value creatures. That said, it has some insanely fun and explosive turns and feels satisfyingly evil to play once you pull off the combo.
