I don’t remember EXACTLY what I played, but it probably looked something like this: Evil Summer Camp '96 Artifacts (7)Ģ0 Lands (because 20 was the industry standard, back then)
In my case, I went with a pair of Millstones, sometimes winning games with just a single activation (and A LOT of draw steps). Storm Cauldron changed all of that, allowing you to pay for your Stasis forever, while also netting an additional mana every turn to help pay for your win-condition when you finally drew it. The problem was that Stasis couldn’t put the game away by itself, and even with Kismet, you never really had a permanent lock you only had until you either ran out of Islands to tap, with Boomerang sometimes serving as reset button. I had dabbled with Stasis, before, as I knew Stasis-Kismet was a thing from the few Magic-related magazine that were out there.
I’m not sure where I saw the combo-maybe it was Inquest or maybe it was in the Duelist-but 12-year-old me was VERY fascinated by how the newly revealed Storm Cauldron interacted with the already potent Stasis-Kismet lock. This would also mark the time around when we stopped playing weird piles of 70-something cards-just because 60 wasn’t enough to fit all the cool spells we wanted to cast-and started playing something that more closely resembled “real” decks (trust me, we were still quite a ways off). This was a big deal to us, because this would be the first new expansion* that would come out since we started the game, and the fact that it tied into Ice Age, the big set of the last year that we all learned the game on, made it all the more awesome. Having started slinging spells around the beginning of the school year and officially hooked, my friends and I were abuzz with excitement for the upcoming new expansion that we had recently heard about, called Alliances, which was supposed to be like a “sequel” to Ice Age. Our classes were winding down, and summer was right around the corner.
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