Focus on Legacy: 'Nic Fit' (aka Ramp decks)
Today, I'm focusing on the Legacy equivalent of ramp deck, more commonly known as 'Nic Fit'.
I am told the name comes from Caleb Durward quitting smoking while building it, so there we go with yet another name whose roots are very hard to find.
An example of Punishing Fire 'Nic Fit':
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Forest
2 Bayou
2 Windswept Heath
2 Mountain
2 Swamp
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Taiga
1 Badlands
1 Phyrexian Tower
4 Veteran Explorer
2 Eternal Witness
2 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Thragtusk
1 Primeval Titan
1 Broodmate Dragon
1 Deathrite Shaman
4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Punishing Fire
2 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Pernicious Deed
1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
SIDEBOARD
1 Duress
3 Carpet of Flowers
2 Pyroblast
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Thoughtseize
2 Slaughter Games
1 Red Elemental Blast
The main idea behind these decks is to use Veteran Explorer (in conjunction with Cabal Therapy or Phyrexian Tower) as a one-sided double Rampant Growth. A fair number of decks (see RUG and most BUG decks) have 0 or 1 basic land. You can then leverage your mana advantage to get a large creature (Thragtusk/Primeval Titan/Broodmate Dragon). I don't really think this deck is very good, but it probably is great versus the other fair decks, since you get to 'go bigger' and have a lot of 2 for 1 creatures.
Scapeshift 'Nic Fit':
2 Eternal Witness
3 Huntmaster of the Fells
2 Primeval Titan
1 Thragtusk
4 Veteran Explorer
4 Wood Elves
5 Forest
3 Mountain
1 Swamp
4 Badlands
2 Bayou
1 Stomping Ground
4 Taiga
2 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Volrath's Stronghold
3 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Pernicious Deed
4 Burning Wish
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Green Sun's Zenith
3 Scapeshift
Sideboard
3 Carpet of Flowers
1 Collective Voyage
1 Damnation
1 Innocent Blood
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Pulverize
1 Reanimate
1 Scapeshift
1 Slaughter Games
1 Tsunami
1 Virtue's Ruin
1 Pyroclasm
I like this list a bit better, because you actually have a way to leverage your lands into victory directly. For those of you who don't know, Valakut + 6 Mountains is (18 points of damage), 2 Valakut + 6 lands is (36 points of damage). You probably have to play around wasteland most of the time, so you would need to get Valakut + 7 Mountains, since each trigger needs to see 5 other mountains upon resolution, so if one gets wastelanded, you need to play around it. However, people should just wasteland you right away if they are planning on doing so, to prevent you from casting your 'big guys'.
I have also seen variations on 'Nic Fit' with blue (for Baleful Strix / Consecrated Sphinx / Brainstorm).
I also think maybe a G/u/r Scapeshift Counterbalance build of 'Nic Fit' solves a lot of problems, but I don't know exactly how to build it...(just food for thought).
I am told the name comes from Caleb Durward quitting smoking while building it, so there we go with yet another name whose roots are very hard to find.
An example of Punishing Fire 'Nic Fit':
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Forest
2 Bayou
2 Windswept Heath
2 Mountain
2 Swamp
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Taiga
1 Badlands
1 Phyrexian Tower
4 Veteran Explorer
2 Eternal Witness
2 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Thragtusk
1 Primeval Titan
1 Broodmate Dragon
1 Deathrite Shaman
4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Punishing Fire
2 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Pernicious Deed
1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
SIDEBOARD
1 Duress
3 Carpet of Flowers
2 Pyroblast
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Thoughtseize
2 Slaughter Games
1 Red Elemental Blast
The main idea behind these decks is to use Veteran Explorer (in conjunction with Cabal Therapy or Phyrexian Tower) as a one-sided double Rampant Growth. A fair number of decks (see RUG and most BUG decks) have 0 or 1 basic land. You can then leverage your mana advantage to get a large creature (Thragtusk/Primeval Titan/Broodmate Dragon). I don't really think this deck is very good, but it probably is great versus the other fair decks, since you get to 'go bigger' and have a lot of 2 for 1 creatures.
Scapeshift 'Nic Fit':
2 Eternal Witness
3 Huntmaster of the Fells
2 Primeval Titan
1 Thragtusk
4 Veteran Explorer
4 Wood Elves
5 Forest
3 Mountain
1 Swamp
4 Badlands
2 Bayou
1 Stomping Ground
4 Taiga
2 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Volrath's Stronghold
3 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Pernicious Deed
4 Burning Wish
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Green Sun's Zenith
3 Scapeshift
Sideboard
3 Carpet of Flowers
1 Collective Voyage
1 Damnation
1 Innocent Blood
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Pulverize
1 Reanimate
1 Scapeshift
1 Slaughter Games
1 Tsunami
1 Virtue's Ruin
1 Pyroclasm
I like this list a bit better, because you actually have a way to leverage your lands into victory directly. For those of you who don't know, Valakut + 6 Mountains is (18 points of damage), 2 Valakut + 6 lands is (36 points of damage). You probably have to play around wasteland most of the time, so you would need to get Valakut + 7 Mountains, since each trigger needs to see 5 other mountains upon resolution, so if one gets wastelanded, you need to play around it. However, people should just wasteland you right away if they are planning on doing so, to prevent you from casting your 'big guys'.
I have also seen variations on 'Nic Fit' with blue (for Baleful Strix / Consecrated Sphinx / Brainstorm).
I also think maybe a G/u/r Scapeshift Counterbalance build of 'Nic Fit' solves a lot of problems, but I don't know exactly how to build it...(just food for thought).
posted by Jarvis Yu at 7:01 AM
7 Comments:
The name come form mtgthesource user Tao who started discussion about this deck back in 2011
http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?20983-Deck-Nic-Fit-(GBW-Explorer-Zenith-Control)
...and anyone who talk about Counterbalance in Nic Fit never played the deck.Compliments for the 'good' idea, lol'z.
Yes, I read the Source. This is the kind of close minded thinking that prevents innovation.
I assume adding counterbalance to nic fit may not be to difficult. Referencing the CMC configuration of a counterbalance deck and migrating that CMC configuration into nic fit w/scapeshift shouldn't be impossible.
Oh yes, good idea a 4-colors deck who runs Counterbalance and has a Scapeshift win.
Hey guys, knows the number of fetchland played by the deck? Know that it needs lots of Mountains and Forests with just a little amount of Swamps? The UU casting cost is really easy to get, yeah?
Innovations are for players, not people who never take the deck in their hands.
You must be a professional Nic Fit player. Although you are posting as Anonymous so I am unable to determine if your opinion carries any weight. I have played the deck and cashed a couple opens with it. It probably can't support CC but have you ever tried to incorporate both ideas? Or are you just in troll mode?
IMHO:
Counterbalance + Nic Fit was tried in BUG type decks, postboard vs combo when you usually can fetch safely only duals (UU is more simply to get).
Maindeck, is a pretty bad card because of the casting cost, but here we're speaking of Counterbalance when you are on Scapeshift plan. Then, zero to few fetches and impossible double U to get.
The problem is simple to understand :)
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