MTG Combos

[StratGuy74]

I don't know how many people run combo decks, but I would like to hear what sort of combo decks people use, and how effective they are.

I play the Quillspike-Devoted Druid thing at the moment, but people have caught on to it and simply burn or counter or kill them.

[articpenguin]

I've been working on an Elf deck that specifically run's on counters. Like every deck, it isn't perfect and there's easily flaws.
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Basically, you play Forests and Llanowar Elves until you draw Ambush Commander. Now all of your forests are 1/1's, so it's good to play lands while having the Llanowar Elves do damage to you opponent.
Play Elvish Promenade + Wellwisher and you will end up gaining a BIG life bonus which will obviously surprise and maybe anger your opponent.. Now that's just a few of the combo's. Most of it all leads up to Wellwisher.

But after playing with it for a while, it's biggest enemy is Nausea. It can just kill all of my lands and elf's early on in the game, leaving me pretty much helpless.

[valk]

My old combo deck when I just started playing was a GB Saproling/thrull-Hell's caretaker deck. It revolved around hell's caretaker hitting the decks turn three and the thrull's turn four. Keep sacrificing the necrites and armour thrulls to bolster defences and getting them back with hell's caretaker via saprolings or breeding pit. Later added jalum tome and some of my big creatures, and when masques came out I tried it again with diplomatic immunity on the caretaker. that worked a lot better but it was still pretty slow.

Fun though, which is why I really like the above elf deck. It's astronomically annoying watching someone just get diabolical amounts of life. I love elves because you can do so much with them, they're fun to make decks with and try it out. For humour, combine priests of titania with a few R/G multi lands and two fireballs in your deck. ^_^ Seriously, you can just generate life till the cows come home and then summon one almighty bang...

[derpderpderp]

I recently built a Vampire deck which uses Sanguine Bond and Blood Tribute. It usually takes most people by surprise in the 1st match; however, they are usually much better prepared for the 2nd or 3rd match. I keep 4 of each, though, which keeps them coming throughout the game. Aside from these two cards it's a fairly basic Vampire deck; with several Vampire Nighthawks, Doom Blades, Anowans, etc. to keep things close until they don't have an answer to the blood tribute. This usually guarantees me at least one more of the remaining two matches for the game.

[Ferridge]

I had a casual combo of using Jace Beleren, Gilder Bairn and then either flood or spring leaf drum. Allowing me to land jace and use his ultimate on the turn i played him. To add it I used time warps, twin casts and sand silos. Was so funny to see people faces when it went off.

Another ones got to be rite of replication on an allie, either to kill all your opponents with life loss or mill them.

[Xanamir]

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind + Curiosity

Just remember that if you tell your opponent you use the combo to deal "a million damage," then you might end up in an argument about whether or not they died before you decked yourself. So it's not "technically" an infinite combo, but it's certainly a lethal one.

The very first combo I ever built, and still one of my favorites.