Extended Psychatog deck
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Psychatog, named for Psychatog was a blue-black control deck with heavy relience on countermagic and creature removal. Originally a design out of the Invasion-7th-Odyssey Standard format, the deck was quickly adapted for the Extended scene throughout various rotation until it's demise when Odyssey and with it the namesake card left the game.
Primarily, the deck would utilize Discard, countermagic and creature removal to keep the opponent from winning the game. For long times, the deck played no permanents beside Lands and Psychatogs (save the occasional single copy of Wonder which would be discarded to give the Tog Flying). Occasional board sweepers such as Upheaval or later Damnation would also be employed. The hand was continuously replenished with card draw spells such as Accumulated Knowledge and Fact or Fiction. At some point, a Psychatog would be put into play protected by counters in hand. He would chip away at the life total until it would eventually be pumped to a lethal size and finish the game. Sometimes this was just done after an Upheaval immediately followed by the 'Tog.
Modifications were accumulated as they saw fit, most notably the inclusion of Isochron Scepter and Counterbalance in combination with Sensei's Divining Top. While Dredge cards were occasionally used to speed up the time until Psychatog could be lethal, the concept spun off into the much more aggressive Friggorid deck in which Psychatog saw play.
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| Lands 12 Island 4 Polluted Delta 3 Swamp 4 Underground River Creatures 4 Psychatog Instants 4 Accumulated Knowledge 4 Brainstorm 4 Counterspell 3 Cunning Wish 1 Deep Analysis 3 Fact or Fiction 2 Intuition 3 Mana Leak 4 Smother 1 Thwart | Sorceries 3 Duress 1 Upheaval | Sideboard 2 Annul 1 Capsize 1 Corpse Dance 2 Deep Analysis 1 Diabolic Edict 1 Fact or Fiction 1 Mana Short 4 Powder Keg 1 Shadow Rift 1 Vampiric Tutor | |
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| Lands 13 Island 4 Polluted Delta 2 Swamp 4 Underground River 23 lands Creatures 4 Psychatog 1 Wonder Spells 4 Accumulated Knowledge 3 Boomerang 4 Brainstorm 4 Counterspell 2 Cunning Wish 3 Fact or Fiction 4 Force Spike 3 Intuition 4 Memory Lapse 1 Upheaval | Sideboard 3 Annul 1 Diabolic Edict 4 Engineered Plague 1 Fact or Fiction 2 Gainsay 1 Hibernation 1 Misdirection 1 Teferi's Response 1 Turnabout | ||
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| Lands 3 Bloodstained Mire 9 Island 1 Mountain 4 Polluted Delta 1 Shivan Reef 2 Swamp 2 Underground River Creatures 3 Psychatog Artifacts 2 Chrome Mox 3 Isochron Scepter Spells 4 Accumulated Knowledge 4 Brainstorm 4 Counterspell 2 Cunning Wish 1 Daze 2 Diabolic Edict 2 Fact or Fiction 4 Fire/Ice 2 Force Spike 2 Intuition 2 Mana Leak 1 Upheaval | Sideboard 1 Boomerang 1 Coffin Purge 1 Corpse Dance 1 Deep Analysis 1 Diabolic Edict 4 Duress 1 Ensnare 1 Fact or Fiction 2 Powder Keg 1 Shattering Pulse 1 Vampiric Tutor | ||
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| Lands 1 Barren Moor 2 Bloodstained Mire 1 Cephalid Coliseum 9 Island 2 Lonely Sandbar 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds 2 Overgrown Tomb 4 Polluted Delta 1 Swamp 2 Watery Grave Creatures 1 Genesis 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror 4 Psychatog 1 Stinkweed Imp 1 Wonder | Other 3 Circular Logic 4 Counterspell 1 Darkblast 1 Deep Analysis 4 Force Spike 4 Gifts Ungiven 1 Life from the Loam 2 Mana Leak 4 Mental Note 3 Smother | Sideboard 2 Coffin Purge 1 Darkblast 4 Duress 4 Ghastly Demise 1 Llawan, Cephalid Empress 3 Pernicious Deed | |
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| Lands 1 Academy Ruins 1 Blood Crypt 2 Bloodstained Mire 1 Breeding Pool 2 Flooded Strand 4 Island 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds 4 Polluted Delta 1 Steam Vents 1 Swamp 2 Watery Grave 20 lands Creatures 4 Dark Confidant 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror 3 Psychatog | Artifacts 4 Chrome Mox 4 Sensei's Divining Top 2 Engineered Explosives Enchantments 4 Counterbalance Spells 4 Counterspell 2 Damnation 2 Fact or Fiction 3 Smother 3 Spell Snare 4 Thirst for Knowledge | Sideboard 3 Ancient Grudge 4 Duress 3 Dwarven Blastminer 3 Ghastly Demise 2 Tormod's Crypt | |
