Infectwire Evolved

I've been playing a lot of online matches with my version of Infectwire, and now it has a little less wire in it, but it's still doing pretty good.

Recently, over on Magic-League, this deck placed 2nd in a Tournament:

Deck
Land (23) 4 Inkmoth Nexus 4 Island 8 Forest 4 Misty Rainforest 3 Terramorphic Expanse Creatures (13) 4 Blighted Agent 4 Glistener Elf 3 Spellskite 2 Viridian Corrupter Counterspells (3) 3 Mana Leak	Pump spells (14) 3 Groundswell 4 Mutagenic Growth 4 Vines of Vastwood 3 Distortion Strike Equipment (3) 3 Livewire Lash Other Spells(4) 4 Preordain	Sideboard: 1 Spellskite 1 Distortion Strike 3 Beast Within 3 Corrupted Resolve 2 Viridian Corrupter 2 Jace Beleren 3 Spell Pierce

I like what this list does, but I have some tweaks to it that I think make it better.

Here's my current list:

Deck
Lands (22) 4 Inkmoth Nexus 4 Misty Rainforest 2 Halimar Depths 5 Island 7 Forest Creatures (14) 4 Glistener Elf 4 Blighted Agent 4 Necropede 2 Viral Drake Pump Spells (16) 2 Distortion Strike 4 Mutagenic Growth 4 Groundswell 2 Vines of Vastwood 4 Apostle's Blessing	Other Spells (2) 2 Tezzeret's Gambit Equipment (2) 2 Livewire Lash Other Artifacts(4) 4 Contagion Clasp	Sideboard 2 Tezzeret's Gambit 2 Beast Within 4 Nature's Claim 3 Dismember 4 Spellskite

This deck has been doing very good in matches.

Some of the tech that I've added:

Apostle's Blessing: Can't be stolen by Spellskite. Gives pseudo Distortion Strike if all his creatures are 1 color.

Tezzeret's Gambit: Proliferates, draws you 2 cards. This card is awesome.

Halimar Depths: Gives a free Preordain, almost.

Currently, Spellskite is in the sideboard. You can very easily beat a Splinter Twin deck before turn 4 as long as they don't drop a Spellskite.

I'm still working on the rest of the sideboard. This depends a lot on how the meta shapes up, but we have a ton of options. Beast Within does some fun things against opponents. Nature's Claim is an obvious must. Dismember is an addition anti creature card, it kills Spellskite, Batterskull germs, and kills a lot of other things too.

I recently entered a Magic-League tournament with a list close to this one, and I made it to the semi-finals. I lost to a Caw-Blade deck 1-2. It was very close, with him at 9 poison counters, and he top decked a Go For The Throat and killed off my Viral Drake.

I've also seen another similar list going around that uses Adventuring Gear. In a recent match it beat me 2-1. Adventuring Gear on a Blighted Agent and dropping a Misty Rainforest is pretty sweet. Adventuring Gear plays out faster than Livewire does, but doesn't give you the targeted removal that Livewire can do, which was how I won my one game against him, killing off his lone blocker with a bounced Mutagenic Growth and getting in for the win.

I'll be taking my list to FNM tomorrow, and report on how it did. Wish me luck.

See Part 1 here: http://ggxgames.blogspot.com/2011/05/testing-infectwire.html
See Part 2 here: http://ggxgames.blogspot.com/2011/05/testing-infectwire-part-2.html
See Part 3 here: http://ggxgames.blogspot.com/2011/05/testing-infectwire-part-3.html