This Deck Wins by Emotional Damage | Brewer's Kitchen
Today we’re gonna kill the opponent with emotional damage.
Gameplan
Ok, we’re back playing timeless so we only got one to three turns to pull off something broken before our opponent does it. Good thing, this deck not only runs all the necessary pieces to stop them in Grief and Thoughtseize, it can also assemble a brutal stax lock as early as turn two (turn one if you’re insanely lucky)
Opposition Agent allows us to control the opponent when they are searching their libraries. While that usually just hoses Fetchlands and the occasional tutor, we combine it with Mornsong Aria. This three mana enchantment makes it so nobody can gain life or draw cards, but every draw step, the active player tutors their library for any card and puts it in their hand. Now, on its own, this will just lose you the game real quick since they’ll either tutor for removal or find their combo pieces. But once we got an Opposition Agent, we will tutor their library instead of them, resulting in a game where the opponent has only the cards left in their hand to try and fight through us playing their deck against them.
The goal of the deck is to rush out the combo as fast as possible, so we’re playing the full playsets of Dark Ritual and Chrome Mox. Combined with aggressive mulliganing, we have a reasonable chance to assemble this lock on turn two to three. All we need to do then is deal with what the opponent has in hand, and then wait for the life loss of the Aria to kill them.
Now what if the life loss of Mornsong Aria kills us faster than the opponent? The deck plays a single copy of Gideon of the Trials and a Sevinne's Reclamation to get it back if it dies. Once we have his emblem, and keep our opponent under control, there’s no way for us to lose the game anymore.
Wrap up
Since we’re playing timeless, I’m not gonna say that this is a viable deck to compete with all the degeneracy of the format. That being said, we do have a lot of disruption, and some nut draws that rival those of the titans of the format. If you don't need to spend any wildcards, this is certainly a fun deck to play for a couple of matches.
