A Session with UR Polyplosive

If you look at my Polymorph posts from yesterday (Part 1 and Part 2), you’ll notice two things. First, and most importantly in a world where I didn’t screw up egregiously, I thought the UR build would be the worst of the 3. Second, and most importantly in this world, I forgot to put Polymorphs in the deck.

So first, an updated list:

Polly Wanna Morph Part 2

The red version is obviously going to be a little more aggressive. Featuring treats like Dragon Fodder (which would be sweet if we were ‘morphing into dragons), Goblin Assault, and Zektar Shrine Expedition, it…doesn’t quite seem close to playable. I do like that there’s a second monster combo to insert into the deck, namely Explosive Revelation into Emrakul, as set up by Jace. Ok, let’s see what we can do with that.

Polly Wanna Morph

One of the two best ways to cheat an Eldrazi into play is Summoning Trap. But I already built a deck around that, so now I’m gonna look at the other one…Polymorph, of course. Polymorph decks are pretty much always around, with the latest batch including finishers like Progenitus and Iona, Shield of Emeria, each of which is sufficiently hard to kill. Progenitus kills in two hits while being largely unblockable and only dies to wrath effects. Iona needs 4 turns to do the job, but she turns off all of the removal (usually decks lean on one color for it) and supplementary game plans as well. Emrakul seems to be an upgrade to both. He matches Progenitus’ speed at ending the game and is only slightly worse at the resource denial aspect than Iona is. Due to annihilator 6, when you ‘morph into Emrakul your opponent has a turn to operate and recover and that’s usually it.