Favors from Nyx vs. Manipulative Monstrosities Game 1

I apologize for not being able to post. I was working on a big project and was very busy. I decided to make a new series to find the best Intro Deck for each release. This will help new players get the best Intro Deck for them if they want to play something like Friday Night Magic but do not know how to build a deck. What I did was put all the decks on MTG Deck Builder and then play tested them. I will play a best out of five series for each match up. In the end the deck that has the greatest percentage of victory will be the best. The first match up is Favors from Nyx and Manipulative Monstrosities.

Favors from Nyx drew an opening hand of 2 Plains, 2 Swamp, Gift of Immortality, Auramancer, and Doom Blade and decides to keep it. Manipulative Monstrosities drew an opening hand of Island, Mountain, Magma Jet, Crackling Triton, Archaeomancer, Burnished Heart, and Shock and decided to keep it.

Turn 1:

Favors from Nyx went first and played a Swamp. Manipulative Monstrosities drew another Archaeomancer and played a Mountain.

Turn 2:

Favors from Nyx drew a Plains then played a Plains. Manipulative Monstrosities drew Lost in a Labyrinth and played an Island. Then Manipulative Monstrosities cast Magma Jet to deal 2 damage to Favors from Nyx. Manipulative Monstrosities Scryed an Island and an Ordeal of Purphoros than put both on top of the library with the Island above the Ordeal.

Turn 3:

Favors from Nyx drew a Hopeful Eidolon and played another Plains. Then cast the Eidolon as a creature. Manipulative Monstrosities Drew and cast the Island then cast a Burnished Heart.

Turn 4:

Favors from Nyx drew a Minotaur Abomination and played a second Swamp. Manipulative Monstrosities drew the Ordeal of Purphoros and used three mana to use Burnished Heart’s ability to search for an Island and a Mountain. Then Manipulative Monstrosities played a Mountain and Shocked Hopeful Eidolon.

Turn 5:

Favors from Nyx drew an Ordeal of Erebos and played a Plains. Than cast an Auramancer to return the Eidolon to the hand. Manipulative Monstrosities drew an Island and cast an Island. Manipulative Monstrosities cast an Archaeomancer and returned the Magma Jet to the hand.

Turn 6:

Favors from Nyx drew and cast a Swamp than cast a Minotaur Abomination and attacked with Auramancer. Manipulative Monstrosities did not block and so took 2 life. Manipulative Monstrosities drew an Omenspeaker and played an Island. Than Manipulative Monstrosities cast Magma Jet to kill the Auramancer and scryed a Mountain and an Island and put both on the bottom of the library. Manipulative Monstrosities then cast a second Archaeomancer to bring back Magma Jet.

Turn 7:

Favors from Nyx drew and cast a Swamp. Then cast Gift of Immortality and Ordeal of Erebos on Minotaur Abomination and attacked. Manipulative Monstrosities blocked with an Archaeomancer. Manipulative Monstrosities drew a Lightning Strike. Then cast Crackling Triton and Omenspeaker to Scry 2 Islands and put one on top and one on bottom.

Turn 8:

Favors from Nyx drew Lagonna-Band Elder than cast Hopeful Eidolon as an enchantment onto Minotaur Abomination making it a 6/8 and attacked. Manipulative Monstrosities blocked with Omenspeaker but Favors from Nyx cast Doom Blade on it. Minotaur Abomination dealt 7 damage to Manipulative Monstrosities and gain 7 life because it has Lifelink from the Eidolon. Manipulative Monstrosities drew the Island and played it.

Turn 9:

Favors from Nyx drew a Plains and played it than cast Lagonna-Band Elder to gained 3 life. Favors from Nyx attacked with Minotaur Abomination to put the third +1/+1 on it and so sacrificed Ordeal of Erebos so Manipulative Monstrosities had to discard Lost in a Labyrinth and Ordeal of Purphoros. Manipulative Monstrosities blocked with the second Archeaomancer. Manipulative Monstrosities drew an Ill-Tempered Cyclops and cast it.

Turn 10:

Favors from Nyx drew a Blightcaster than attacked with the 8/10 Minotaur. Manipulative Monstrosities took the eight damage. Manipulative Monstrosities cast Magma Jet and dealt 2 damage to Lagonna-Tribe Elder and Scryed a Mountain and Sea God’s Revenge. Manipulative Monstrosities put both on top but the Sea God’s Revenge was above the Mountain. Then Manipulative Monstrosities used the Cyclops’s ability to give it 3 +1/+1 counters and attack for 6.

Turn 11:

Favors from Nyx drew a Plains and played it then cast Blightcaster and attacked with the Abomination. Manipulative Monstrosities blocked with Crackling Triton. Manipulative Monstrosities drew the Sea God’s Revenge and cast it to return Blightcaster and Minotaur Abomination to the hand of Favors from Nyx. Manipulative Monstrosities got to Scry 1 from Sea God’s Revenge and decided to put the Mountain on the bottom of the library. Then Manipulative Monstrosities attacked with the Cyclops.

Turn 12:

Favors from Nyx drew Traveling Philosopher and cast Minotaur Abomination and the Philosopher. Manipulative Monstrosities drew a Disperse and used it to put the Minotaur back in the hand. Then cast Lightning Strike on Traveling Philosopher to kill it and attacked with the Cyclops.

Turn 13:

Favors from the Nyx drew an Erebos’s Emissary and cast the Minotaur. Manipulative Monstrosities drew an Island and played it.

Turn 14:

Favors from Nyx drew a Pillarfield Ox and cast Erebos’s Emissary as an enchantment on the Minotaur and attacked. Manipulative Monstrosities blocked with the Cyclops. Manipulative Monstrosities drew another Ill-Tempered Cyclops and cast it.

Turn 15:

Favors from Nyx drew a Plains and played it then cast the Ox and Blightcaster and attacked with the Minotaur. Manipulative Monstrosities blocked with the Cyclops. Manipulative Monstrosities drew a land and conceded.

Game one goes to Favors from Nyx