Video: Grixis Slaver In Vintage!

Deck Tech

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Round 4

Grixis Slaver

Drew Levin

Test deck on 07-29-2014

Vintage

Creatures (5)

• 2 Goblin Welder
• 1 Myr Battlesphere
• 2 Baleful Strix

Planeswalkers (3)

• 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 2 Dack Fayden

Lands (15)

• 1 Strip Mine
• 1 Island
• 2 Volcanic Island
• 3 Underground Sea
• 2 Flooded Strand
• 1 Library of Alexandria
• 1 Tolarian Academy
• 4 Scalding Tarn

Spells (37)

• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Yawgmoth's Will
• 4 Force of Will
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Time Walk
• 1 Ancestral Recall
• 1 Mana Crypt
• 2
• 1 Merchant Scroll
• 4 Night's Whisper
• 1 Thirst for Knowledge
• 1 Mindslaver
• 1 Pyroblast
• 1 Tinker
• 1 Black Lotus
• 1 Mox Emerald
• 1 Mox Jet
• 1 Mox Pearl
• 1 Mox Ruby
• 1 Mox Sapphire
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 3 Mental Misstep

Sideboard

• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Pyroclasm
• 1 Mountain
• 2 Pyroblast
• 1 Shattering Spree
• 3 Ingot Chewer
• 2 Nihil Spellbomb
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 2 Grafdigger's Cage
• 1 Toxic Deluge

For those of you not in the know, this is the exact 75-card decklist that Rich Shay used to win a live Vintage tournament a few weeks ago. All due credit
to him and his teammates, co-brewers, and so on.

With that said, if you were to cut the Blood Moons from last week’s deck
and add a bunch of card draw, I think you would end up with a deck that looks a lot like this.

Not exactly this, mind you, since I would have never figured out Night’s Whisper but somewhat close.

This deck is beautiful. It has the ability to create classic Busted Vintage Starts (although I would like another Jace somewhere in the 75) while having a
ton of staying power in the mid-to-late game. Its early power comes from the high number of restricted cards and the artifact-dense manabase, while the
staying power comes from the above-average density of draw spells. Night’s Whisper is a huge part of that.

A major draw to playing this particular deck is that it is very powerful against Workshop decks, as can be seen in match four. Goblin Welder and Baleful
Strix are all-stars in their own right, the basic Mountain and Ingot Chewers do a lot of work, and multiple copies of Dack Fayden provide several angles
for the deck to attack on.

After playing with the deck quite a bit, it is fairly soft to nonartifact creatures and to the card Oath of the Druids but is largely excellent outside of
those situations. I would add another Jace to the sideboard to try to play on the board some more in creature-based matchups and to have more busted
openers against blue decks, but other than that, I loved the configuration. If you can, I would highly recommend giving this deck a shot.