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Valakut, but no Scapeshift (an Extended deck from MTGO)

JWay made it to 16th place in the most recent MTGO PTQ with a Valakut deck that caught my eye by dint of having no copies of Scapeshift.

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Valakut Omen

4 Creatures:
Tarmogoyf
31 Spells:
Ancestral Vision
Condescend
Cryptic Command
Engineered Explosives
Into the Roil
Lightning Bolt
Mana Leak
Muddle the Mixture
Prismatic Omen
Repeal
Spell Snare
25 Land:
Breeding Pool
Cascade Bluffs
Flooded Grove
Misty Rainforest
Scalding Tarn
Snow-Covered Forest
Snow-Covered Island
Steam Vents
Tolaria West
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
15 Sideboard:
Ancient Grudge
Bottle Gnomes
Chalice of the Void
Curse of Chains
Sun Droplet
Threads of Disloyalty
Tormod's Crypt

Rather than trying to Scapeshift into an instant win, this deck attempts to Transmute into one or more Valakuts as well as a Prismatic Omen to make all of your lands into Mountains. This changes the deck from a combo deck to a control build with a slow-burn win.

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Alexander Shearer is a biologist, gamer, and writer. He has written for games and educational comics, and writes the ongoing In Development column at ChannelFireball.com when he's not collecting his gaming thoughts here at Gifts Ungiven.

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