A short while back, I ran my mono-white Bottle of Suleiman deck into Ben's Aisling Leprechaun deck. It was fun! But I didn't really get to see the Leprechaun do it's thing. So, I went back to the drawing board, dusted off my Battlebots deck, made a few updates, and once again launched into the fray.
Behold!
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| Battlebots (2021) |
Could the deck be better? Oh, yes. More Mishra's Factory is almost certainly better. But could the deck be cooler? I'm not sure, but I don't think so. Okay, maybe finding a slot for Sword of the Ages would be cooler. You've got me there.
Ben's Leprechaun deck uses the little guy to turn creatures green, then uses other cards like COP: Green and Lifelace(!) to deal with opposing threats. It's fantastic and weird and wonderful all at once.
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| Ben, excited about Leprechauns. |
At one point in the game, I was in top deck mode. Things were looking dire for team robot. I ripped an Aeolipile off the top. It was enough to win me the game and get me out from unrelenting Ernham beats. But, then this happened.
As an aside: Look, I understand that this isn't really how the rules work. That's not the point. The point is that the way this played out was way more fun.
I cast the Aeolipile. Ben used Lifelace to turn it green. Then used his COP: Green to prevent the damage.
Hey, hey! Lifelace!
I reality, I could have responded by sacrificing the Aeolipile. Sacrificing it is part of the cost, so it wouldn't have been on the battlefield for Lifelace to change the color. But still. I feel like that was the originally intention of how Lifelace was supposed to work. It was an interrupt. I certainly wasn't expecting it. And it made my night (and the game).
It was rad.
