[Deck] The Servant's Stone

[kabal]

The idea for this deck comes from a post I saw in the Shadowmoor section.

The basic premise is to mill your opponent's entire library once you get Grindstone and Painter's Servant into play.

// Lands
7 Island
4 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
3 Tundra
1 Academy Ruins

// Creatures
4 Painter's Servant
3 Phyrexian Dreadnought
3 Trinket Mage

// Enchantments
4 Counterbalance
1 Oblivion Ring

// Spells
4 Brainstorm
4 Enlightened Tutor
4 Force of Will
4 Stifle
2 Trickbind
2 Ponder

// Artifacts
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Grindstone
3 Sensei's Divining Top

// Sideboard
2 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Chill
3 Echoing Truth
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Hydroblast
2 Pithing Needle
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Serenity
2 Tormod's Crypt


Sideboard suggestions:

- Serenity against Stax. Tutorability FTW.
- More Engineered Explosives for matches in which you really need it. Which are those, BTW?
- Pithing Needle against lotsa stuff.
- BEBs?
- More Dreadnoughts for a stronger plan B?
- Echoing Truth for taking care of permanent hate.
- Are Seal of Cleasing or Oblivion Ring strong enough for taking care of permanent hate?
- Tormod's Crypt?

Maybe something like this:
4 BEB
3 Serenity
3 Echoing Truth
2 Pithing Needle
3 Tormod's Crypt

Affinity version:

After that post I began brainstorming some ideas. This was my first stab at it:

4 Thoughtcast
3 Cranial Plating
2 Enlightened Tutor
2 EE
2 Grindstone
1 Jitte
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Pithing Needle
1 Crypt

4 Painters Servant
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Frogmite
4 Ornithopter
3 Trinket Mage

4 Seat of Synod
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Ancient Den
2 Academy Ruins
4 Tundra
2 City of Brass

Combo Fairies:

// Lands
3 [ON] Polluted Delta
3 [ON] Flooded Strand
3 [OD] Island
4 [TE] Ancient Tomb
4 [EX] City of Traitors

// Creatures
4 [CK] Painter's Servant
4 [RV] Phyrexian Dreadnought
4 [RV] Serendib Efreet
4 [P2] Sea Drake
2 [MR] Trinket Mage

// Spells
4 [6E] Brainstorm
4 [DS] Stifle
4 [AL] Force of Will
4 [MR] Fabricate
4 [MR] Chrome Mox
3 [TE] Grindstone
2 [TS] Vision Charm

[Cire]

Why not splash white for enlightened tutor? and why not put in counter-top?

Also personally i would stay away from the 2 mana lands and either add in black or red for acceleration instead. or if you keep the 2 mana lands put in shackles or some artifacts. Try not to center the deck to much on the combo.

[georgjorge]

There's not much reason to go monocolored...Playing white would give you a very necessary card for this deck with Enlightened tutor while also allowing you to play EE at two (CBalance, anyone ?). Intuition/Fabricate seems a bit slow, as does Muddle the Mixture. I'd probably try to include CBalance + Top somewhere in there, as Top fits the theme, and CBalance works fine with E Tutor...yea, it would slow the deck down and make it (another) combo-control deck, but that would probably be the best shell for it.

Anyway, the combo is nice, but I think it would have the problem of protecting the Servant from removal. If going for a faster kill (i.e. not protected by CBalance), then Pact of Negation could do very well here, and you could also play Abjure as a cheap way to protect the combo (all your lands are blue and can be sacced) - however, those two couldn't protect the combo well prior to going off, i.e. from Chalice, discard, CBalance...

[Jak]

4 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
7 Island
4 Tundra
1 Acamedy Ruins
4 Chrome Mox

4 Grinestone
4 Painter's Servant

4 Force of Will
4 Counterspell / Daze
4 Counterbalance
1 EE

3 Trinket Mage
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
4 Enlightened Tutor
2 Sensei's Diving Top

This is how the white splash would look?

[Michael Keller]

Just because I'm tired: Lands are colored now too, correct? If so, this is hot.

[kabal]

I thought about including CB engine in a white splash and now seeing it listed out, it looks very strong.

[Michael Keller]

This combo is so hilarious:

You can now pitch Island to Force of Will!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[xsockmonkeyx]

Meh, I think using Grindstone would be better. Also Sensei's Diving Top and Acamedy Ruins are crappy, and strictly inferior to their correctly spelled counterparts.

Jak: E Tutor, Chrome Mox, and FoW in the same deck seems like a lot of card disadvantage.