Such an awesome time for mtg for me too! Im going to builf my own version of this deck in the premodern format, you should play premodern! I remember when i first opened miraris wake in a apck (still have it) and i knew it was good and wanted to build a deck around it, but i couldnt afford singles at the time lol
I started playing just before this as well. Odyssey-Torment is my favorite block ever! Still has the old-school flavor and artwork, but plenty of great deck/graveyard mechanics, and before the meta shifted big time with the card changes and Kamigawa.
Something very important to note - all these discard to activate effects actually were not that painful to pay with all the Flashback cards. Also Circular Logic with Compulsion could very often just be 3 mana counter spell and draw a card.
One if not my fav deck of all time. Though you would rarely cast degree of justice. cycle it for 13 mana and you pretty much win. they had to add in stife because you can not counter a cycle. new wish rules really took away a lot of its power. Being able to wish for a wish was very important. usually meant you could not lose atleast to creature based decks. You could have moments piece every turn.
This is correct. You'd basically never cast it. Getting enough for lethal wasn't hard, because Mirari's Wake doubled the size of your soldier tokens as well as the number, effectively quadrupling the effectiveness of Decree of Justice. The other advantage to cycling is you can do it at your opponent's end step, so they can't board wipe to remove it. Cunning Wake was one of the most dominant decks I've ever seen. Its worst match up was the mirror.
Cunning wish could also retrieve another Cunning Wish that you played previously. Thus if you had a lot of mana you could produce a lot of storm this way.
that's not the case anymore because cunning wish gets exiled and exile is considered to be in the game, just like library, battlefield, ante and graveyard.
I played Wake during most of the Ody-Onslaught days and won many tournaments with it. This deck featured is not the optimal or classic version of it and you didn't quite explain how to play it correctly. Daniel Zink built this deck as a metagame counter to the Wake-Wake mirror match. By the time this hit, so many people were playing Wake, that he had to make a version of Wake to get you an advantage against other Wake decks. This is why Decree of Justice was introduced. You did not ever cast Decree for the angels. You always cycled it on EOT and make soldiers, which were always at least 2/2s or 3/3's because of the Wake in play and couldn't be countered, except for with Stifle. The traditional classic Wake instead used Mirari and the combo of Cunning wish with the copy - Elephant Ambush - Cunning wish as its win condition. This allowed you to keep creating Elephant tokens that were generally 4/4's or 5/5's because of the Wake bonus to crush your enemy. Zinks sideboard also gave him the advantage because people would generally side out the WoGs against him, thinking they are useless, so he would turn his deck into an Agro-Countrol with the Brush Hoppers and Angels. While his version was better in the Wake - Wake mirror match, it however was not as good against some of the other decks at the time (Like Astral Slide, UG Madness, and WG Beats). However, it was still strong in those matchups, giving him a good shot at winning the championship.
It was really good against control decks, like Psychatog, which won the World Championship the year before. :) Here's a link to that video if you're interested: ruclips.net/video/ad2NLJPO8AU/видео.html
A great deck from the time, when MtG was much more popular in Germany , than today. Remembering all those fantastic german MtG-Players like Kai Budde, Janosch Kühn, Daniel Zink, Dirk Barberowski and Marco Blume! It's a shame, that WotC forget to support more the European/ German MtG-Community today. I love all those old decks from 1998-2006, when WotC had the focus on the game itself, and no political disscussion and influence of those SJW's in the USA. WotC is wasting the time with to much political disscussions, bannings......... instead to support the international community creating great new cards and deck mechanics, today.
Sick deck tech! Imma gonna buy this one for Premodern Tournaments 😎
Same!
Playing mirari's wake in premodern at the moment :)
Such an awesome time for mtg for me too! Im going to builf my own version of this deck in the premodern format, you should play premodern! I remember when i first opened miraris wake in a apck (still have it) and i knew it was good and wanted to build a deck around it, but i couldnt afford singles at the time lol
I started playing just before this as well. Odyssey-Torment is my favorite block ever! Still has the old-school flavor and artwork, but plenty of great deck/graveyard mechanics, and before the meta shifted big time with the card changes and Kamigawa.
Yeah, the art quality was so good around that time! :)
Something very important to note - all these discard to activate effects actually were not that painful to pay with all the Flashback cards. Also Circular Logic with Compulsion could very often just be 3 mana counter spell and draw a card.
One if not my fav deck of all time. Though you would rarely cast degree of justice. cycle it for 13 mana and you pretty much win. they had to add in stife because you can not counter a cycle. new wish rules really took away a lot of its power. Being able to wish for a wish was very important. usually meant you could not lose atleast to creature based decks. You could have moments piece every turn.
This is correct. You'd basically never cast it. Getting enough for lethal wasn't hard, because Mirari's Wake doubled the size of your soldier tokens as well as the number, effectively quadrupling the effectiveness of Decree of Justice. The other advantage to cycling is you can do it at your opponent's end step, so they can't board wipe to remove it.
Cunning Wake was one of the most dominant decks I've ever seen. Its worst match up was the mirror.
Cunning wish could also retrieve another Cunning Wish that you played previously. Thus if you had a lot of mana you could produce a lot of storm this way.
Excellent point!
that's not the case anymore because cunning wish gets exiled and exile is considered to be in the game, just like library, battlefield, ante and graveyard.
Is ray of revelation a reference/counter for "hidden *" cards? I love these non-obvious relations between cards
Possibly! :)
I played Wake during most of the Ody-Onslaught days and won many tournaments with it. This deck featured is not the optimal or classic version of it and you didn't quite explain how to play it correctly. Daniel Zink built this deck as a metagame counter to the Wake-Wake mirror match. By the time this hit, so many people were playing Wake, that he had to make a version of Wake to get you an advantage against other Wake decks.
This is why Decree of Justice was introduced. You did not ever cast Decree for the angels. You always cycled it on EOT and make soldiers, which were always at least 2/2s or 3/3's because of the Wake in play and couldn't be countered, except for with Stifle.
The traditional classic Wake instead used Mirari and the combo of Cunning wish with the copy - Elephant Ambush - Cunning wish as its win condition. This allowed you to keep creating Elephant tokens that were generally 4/4's or 5/5's because of the Wake bonus to crush your enemy.
Zinks sideboard also gave him the advantage because people would generally side out the WoGs against him, thinking they are useless, so he would turn his deck into an Agro-Countrol with the Brush Hoppers and Angels.
While his version was better in the Wake - Wake mirror match, it however was not as good against some of the other decks at the time (Like Astral Slide, UG Madness, and WG Beats). However, it was still strong in those matchups, giving him a good shot at winning the championship.
why he used brushhopper?
It was really good against control decks, like Psychatog, which won the World Championship the year before. :)
Here's a link to that video if you're interested: ruclips.net/video/ad2NLJPO8AU/видео.html
I think you could only have 3 4/4 ceatures not 4. You count only 3 other spells before it
Yeah, the spell creates a token by itself, and then you get 3 storm copies.
@@AffinityforMTG so the example on the vid was wrong? I was on a hiatus when storm was out so im confused
A great deck from the time, when MtG was much more popular in Germany , than today. Remembering all those fantastic german MtG-Players like Kai Budde, Janosch Kühn, Daniel Zink, Dirk Barberowski and Marco Blume! It's a shame, that WotC forget to support more the European/ German MtG-Community today. I love all those old decks from 1998-2006, when WotC had the focus on the game itself, and no political disscussion and influence of those SJW's in the USA. WotC is wasting the time with to much political disscussions, bannings......... instead to support the international community creating great new cards and deck mechanics, today.