Deck # 8: The Project For A Non-Phyrexian Century (EDH / Commander)

With the awful American project having been stopped by storms and +1/+1 counters, Dr. Kylie Moriarty goes back to Theros to rest, have a vacation, and commune with her deity, Pharika.

While they are walking together, however, Kylie and Pharika notice that Phyrexia is invading Theros. As Theros changes around them, Pharika and Dr. Kylie Moriarty react with horror. One by one, even the gods become compleat in the wrong way. To ensure nothing happens to her, Kylie creates yet another clone of Pharika to take her place on Theros, then takes the real Pharika back to England with her.

From there, Pharika gets angry and decides that she's going to use infect against the Phyrexians. Show them what it's like to be infected, in an unstable way she and Kylie can control. (In game this is my idea of an infect deck, while in story, this is infect against infect, like trying to fight one virus with an opposing virus).

Kylie and Pharika begin by producing clones of Melira for themselves. And then Kylie goes crazy, working on a project that will make her fellows at the Simic Campus she used to teach medicine at go straight to the top. Her Simic Ascendancy would be unstoppable. She produces a clone of Vivien Reid to ensure it.

Kylie and Pharika also work together to create a reserve of counterspells. Originally, this was a run of hexproof and indestructible until end of turn cards, but all they did was clog up the deck. Counterspells serve the same function without the headache, and what they can't counter, Redirect can reflect.

Pharika knows that using Kylie's Darksteel Reactor once the counter-infection is completed will allow her to save Theros and prevent the Phyrexians from ever entering it again by using the power of the Darksteel Reactor to fry the mental control the Phyrexians have over everyone, restoring individual wills and minds even if the bodies remain partially metallic. In exchange for access to the D. Reactor and the proliferate creature clones, Pharika has also agreed to protect the U. K. (Kylie's homeland), but not all of Planet Earth.

For the immediate moment, Kylie and Pharika, partnered with a clone of Zimone and Dina, are working to use infect against infect so that they can build up the Darksteel Reactor, then fry the infected. If that doesn't work, Silumgar and dragons will create tainted treasure, ten of which will be enough to kill the invading Phyrexians without harm to Theros.

Of course, Kylie and Pharika also have something far more interesting in mind which they work on in the lab, letting Yidris run the battle; Kylie's a doctor, and Pharika, a medical alchemist. They're working on a cure.