2001)

Eric and I were talking on the phone about awesome starts. One of the best starts in type two would be swamp, dark ritual, dark ritual, duress (look carefully), and then persecute! Wow, and you thought mind twist was mean! Eric Weissmann continued to talk of the “old days” where first-turn-kills were often desired and hoped to draw. You all remember this one:

Mountain (tap for red)
Black Lotus (3 green)
Channel (pay 19 life)
Fireball (for 20 damage)

How about the “old” extended? Remember when dark rituals sped up black enough to be suicide? This was the theory of the first turn kill.

Swamp (tap for black)
Dark Ritual (three in your pool)
Dark Ritual (five in your pool)
Dark Ritual (seven in your pool)
Nether Shadow (five still in pool)
attack with…
Hatred! (pay 18 live, for 20 damage)

Well, Nether Shadow wasn’t used too often in the hatred decks because they weren’t as good as other one and two drop black creatures. Some are still playing suicide black in the new ritual-less environment Culling of the Weak and Lake of the Dead. Still fast, but not as evil as it used to be. Eric thought about other old-extended combos that abused Hatred!

Mountain (tap for one red)
Raging Goblin (This will end your turn)
Mountain (tap both mountains)
Final Fortune (yep, end of turn two!)
Swamp (one black)
Dark Ritual (see a pattern?)
Hatred!

I really liked this cool combo from Erik. It is very creative! It’s indirect direct damage.

Mountain (tap for one red)
Lightning bolt (3 to you – end of turn)
Mountain (another final fortune?
Final Fortune (yep)
Swamp (tap for that black mana)
Dark Ritual (you now tap the mountains so you have 2 red and 3 black)
Mogg Maniac (One red and one black)
Fire Covenant (One red and two black to inflict 19 damage on the Mogg Maniac)
poof!

I had personal experience with this turn 1 kill when macro and I were playing type “fun”!

Mountain
Mox Ruby
Black Lotus (5 mana on first turn is some bad… and it is all going to be red!)
Sneak Attack (one mana left, what creature could kill the opponent?)
Sneak attack the SERRA AVATAR. Twenty points of sadness!

Here are some more combos sent by Card-Shark user Josabad (8.1.01) ! Thanks for the ideas!

Ball berserk!

Black Lotus (3 red)
Mountain (4 red total)
Mox Ruby (5 red total)
Mox Emerald ( 5 red, one green total)
Ball Lightning (3 red)
Blood Lust (one red, one colorless)
Berserk (one green)

Megrim Twist

Black Lotus (3 black)
Forest (3 black, 1 green)
Mox Emerald (3 black, 2 green)
Channel (3 black, pay 11 life for 11 colorless mana)
Megrim
Megrim
Mind Twist for 7 cards and 28 damage

Turn Two Shallow Grave Kill (as long as your opponent went first)

Turn one:
Discard draco

Turn Two:
Mountain
Mox Jet
Shallow Grave
Forest
Surge of Strength
attack for 25!

If you can think of any turn one or turn two combos, send them to me and I will attach them to this article. Include your email address and card-shark user name so I can give credit where credit is due.

On a final note, look for the easy combos. You don’t need to list the forty-six step victory of the High Tide deck!

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