2004)

Ok, so everyone knows it. Chimney Imp

Chimney Imp
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 5 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Imp Rarity: C Number: 59 Artist: Christopher Moeller Power: 1 Toughness: 2 Text: Flying When Chimney Imp is put into a graveyard from play, target opponent puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library.

sucks. I mean look at it, it's a 5 for a 1/2 flying, that's atrocious! For 5 mana, I could play Air Elemental

Air Elemental
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 5 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Elemental Rarity: U Artist: Richard Thomas Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Flying

, a 4/4 flier! Well, don't burn those Chimney Imp

Chimney Imp
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 5 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Imp Rarity: C Number: 59 Artist: Christopher Moeller Power: 1 Toughness: 2 Text: Flying When Chimney Imp is put into a graveyard from play, target opponent puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library.

s just yet, there may yet be some uses for it!

Let's take a look at chimney imp's effect. It puts a card from your opponent's hand right back on the library where it came from, effectively making your opponent skip their next draw. Now comes the trump: Hell's Caretaker

Hell's Caretaker
	Set: Chronicles Cost: 4 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Hell's Caretaker Rarity: R Artist: Sandra Everingham Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: T: Sacrifice a creature to take target creature from your graveyard and put it directly into play as though it were just summoned. Use this ability only during your upkeep.

. If you have a chimney imp in your graveyard and one in play, just switch them around with the caretaker, making them lose 1 card per turn! Now, you can stop them from drawing any new cards (unless the have a card drawing card, like wheel of fortune). But it gets better! There's the notoriously famous and now reprinted INTRUDER ALARM! This card is great with cards that require tapping to put out creatures. it goes with Voice of the Woods

Voice of the Woods
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 5 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Elf Lord Rarity: R Number: 297 Artist: Pete Venters Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Tap five untapped Elves you control: Put a 7/7 green Elemental creature token with trample into play.

and elves, and it works with the imp!.

Here's how it works. You have the alarm out, and you tap Hell's Caretaker

Hell's Caretaker
	Set: Chronicles Cost: 4 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Hell's Caretaker Rarity: R Artist: Sandra Everingham Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: T: Sacrifice a creature to take target creature from your graveyard and put it directly into play as though it were just summoned. Use this ability only during your upkeep.

to replace your current imp with one in your graveyard. Since a creature just came into play, Hell's Caretaker

Hell's Caretaker
	Set: Chronicles Cost: 4 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Hell's Caretaker Rarity: R Artist: Sandra Everingham Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: T: Sacrifice a creature to take target creature from your graveyard and put it directly into play as though it were just summoned. Use this ability only during your upkeep.

untaps, letting you use it's effect again. And AGAIN! The only problem is that this only works during your upkeep. Now we can use chimney imp to get rid of your opponent's hand AND stop them from drawing. Also, Recurring Nightmare

Recurring Nightmare
	Set: Exodus Cost: 3 Color: Black Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 72 Artist: Jeff Laubenstein Text: Sacrifice a creature, Return Recurring Nightmare to owner's hand: Put target creature card from your graveyard into play. Play this ability as a sorcery.

will basically do the same thing as Hell's Caretaker

Hell's Caretaker
	Set: Chronicles Cost: 4 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Hell's Caretaker Rarity: R Artist: Sandra Everingham Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: T: Sacrifice a creature to take target creature from your graveyard and put it directly into play as though it were just summoned. Use this ability only during your upkeep.

.

Now, to help you set up the combo. Dark Ritual

Dark Ritual
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Black Type: Instant Rarity: C Artist: Sandra Everingham Text: Add BBB to your mana pool.

s will help you get out any expensive cards, and Mask of the Mimic

Mask of the Mimic
	Set: Stronghold Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: U Number: 37 Artist: Heather Hudson Text: Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for any copy of target creature card and put it into play. Shuffle your library afterwards.

sets up an imp the 'yard and one in play, as well as skipping your opponent's next draw. To go with the theme, Memory Lapse

Memory Lapse
	Set: Fifth Edition Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Artist: Mark Tedin Text: Counter target spell. Put that spell on top of owner's library.

on a stick (on isochron scepter), will also freeze up your opponent's card drawing.

I hope I've enlightened you with this rant on the Chimney Imp

Chimney Imp
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 5 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Imp Rarity: C Number: 59 Artist: Christopher Moeller Power: 1 Toughness: 2 Text: Flying When Chimney Imp is put into a graveyard from play, target opponent puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library.

. Now go show off to your friends your new chimney imp combo deck!

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