A Proper Origin Story

I have recently been spending time cleaning up my closet where I store most of my Magic things (the rest are all over my room. I'm trying to get everything put away in the closet, but this is harder than it sounds when I have around 20,000 cards in need of organization. Around the time of my second or third FNM, I built a pretty interesting deck. I also put it in a deck box and wrote the deck list on a folded notecard which I used to separate the deck and the sideboard. I forgot all about this list and then a little while ago, I found the deck box with the list still inside.

Now, all of this started one time after the release of Dark Ascension. I got into playing competitively. My first deck was not great, but I didn't do too bad. I had mixed an intro pack with cards from boosters. Which intro pack? Well, this one of course!

So here I was with little experience playing and several cards at my disposal (except I did not have playsets of dual lands or of good rares, etc.) so I built what I could and when I started, I could only bring in commons, uncommons, and the couple rares I pulled from a few packs. I did pull a couple planeswalkers and was given another, but here we go...

BUG to Bant Switch

Creatures x1 Delver of Secret x1 Birds of Paradise x1 Ambush Viper x1 Blood Seeker x1 Dawntreader Elk x1 Wall of Tanglecord x1 Predator Ooze x1 Aether Adept x1 Gravebramble x1 Neurok Invisimancer x1 Acidic Slime x1 Beguiler of Wills x1 Sengir Vampire x1 Frost Titan x1 Ghoultree Land x1 Glacial Fortress x1 Drowned Catacomb x1 Darkslick Shores x1 Sunpetal Grove x1 Hinterland Harbor x1 Nephalia Drownyard x1 Buried Ruin x1 Evolving Wilds x5 Island x4 Swamp x6 Forest

Artifacts x1 Darksteel Axe x1 Manalith x1 Trepanation Blade x1 Elbrus, the Binding Blade Planeswalkers x1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad x1 Garruk, Primal Hunter x1 Sorin Markov Other Spells x1 Reclaim x1 Tragic Slip x1 Sorin's Thirst x1 Jace's Erasure x1 Mana Leak x1 Naturalize x1 Spectral Flight x1 Titanic Growth x1 Turn the Tide x1 Clinging Mists x1 Rites of Flourishing x1 Trollhide x1 Levitation x1 Monomania x1 Bountiful Harvest

Sideboard x1 Mutagenic Growth x1 Negate x1 Plummet x1 Remember the Fallen x1 Timely Reinforcements x1 Day of Judgment x1 Master Thief x1 Thraben Sentry x1 Elspeth Tirel x1 Gavony Township x4 Plains

Honestly, I have no idea what 20 year old me was even thinking at the time... This makes absolutely no sense, and the order I wrote it on a notecard (I used the notecard as a deck/sideboard separator) makes no sense either. This has got to be the worst thrown together deck I've ever made.

I believe the goal was pretty much stay alive as long as possible and then put down Elbrus the Binding Blade and flip it to get Withengar Unbound. Or maybe I wanted to get Frost Titan or Ghoul Tree on the field.

    

It may have just been the goal to put Garruk on the field too. I will say that I honestly have no clue, but I do remember ultimating Sorin Markov once.

  

My best guess as to why I made this was because I thought it would be cool to be able to convert an entire deck from BUG to Bant and confuse my opponent who would not expect it. I do remember that Bant worked better, but that's about all I can remember about this deck.

By the way... I do not advise actually using this deck in Modern. You probably won't win. I didn't do very well this when it was Standard legal, so I doubt you could do well with this in Modern.