Stranglehold

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by Contrary

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The mystery card is Shard of Patience.

For a while now I've wanted to make an original Mitosis deck, but the only really effective combo I could find was with Devourers, which has been done to death. So I looked at what made Devtosis effective.

1. Devourers are cheap, so it's easy to take advantage of Mitosis and make a lot of them.
2. Devourers stall well, giving you time to make more of them, which lets you stall better.

I decided to use Wardens which are cheap and can stall by controlling, so I can take advantage of EBonds by spamming a lot of cheap creatures and having CC to complement the healing.

I've also wanted to make a deck with SoP, and luckily it was perfect for this deck. It synergizes with Mitosis as the more creatures you have the more net attack you're getting. It also works really well with Wardens as they delay themselves with their ability anyways, and they gain the ability to kill when their attack is boosted.

For the kill card I was using Golems for a while as they're pretty hardy, but I was finding myself really short on Earth so I switched to Forest Scorpions. The scorpions work well with the deck because poison and growing works well with stalls. It's cheap, so it works well with Mitsosis. The only problem with Forest Scorpions is that just 1 damage reduction completely stops them. Thankfully SoP can boost their attack to overcome shields.

However despite all this the deck is still pretty ineffective.

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I like the idea, but it doesn't look like it has a win-condition.
Neither damage by scorpions+buffed wardens nor deckout by warden stalling looks viable- you'll always get out-rushed/damaged/CC'd/stalled.