I really should let the players who got raped on turn 4 tell you but here goes...

Turn one: Land, BOP / Sprawl (the choice of colour depends on the land you have)
Turn two: Land, Tap for 3 mana to get Relic. Tap Relic at end of opponent's turn.
Turn three: Choose appropriate mana from Relic counter. Land, Tap for 5 mana (including Relic & Relic counter). Cast Scion.
Turn four: Swing with Scion, use 2 mana to fetch:
(a) Nicol Bolas - 7 damage & dump his hand
(b) Numot - 6 damage & destroy 2 lands
(C) Oros - 6 damage & destroy his weenie patrol
(d) Scourge - 6 damage & destroy his weenie patrol too!

Subsequently, Swing with Scion, Make those Transformer noises, And Become Teneb the Gravedigger/Harvester & Fetch one of those dragons you previously discarded (in this meta, probably Oros or Scourge).

You can also GlitWish into Scion (2 mana + 5 mana + leave 2 mana open to transform in case someone tries to Char it).
Or Pact into Scion (5 mana + leave 2 mana open to transform in case someone tries to Char it) - Next turn, pay the Pact upkeep and transform into the Weapon of your Choice.

Watching him play, the intention is not always to pull a Transformer. Sometimes beating with a 4/4 flyer that quick is enough. Especially if you have a backup 4/4.

Yes, i think you are right - it suffers if the scion is countered / killed. That's where his most difficult games were. But as you mentioned, he can wish a scion back out from the board. The debtor's knell is a good idea. But he showed me his entire sideboard =) No debtor's knell there. There were a few slots that I think he could then use for debtor's knell. He had some wall of roots in the sideboard to board in against aggro.

Oh, he had rise/fall! To fetch a dead dragon. If you see him around, you should ask him to show you the sideboard. It's very neatly designed.

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Added on August 20, 2007, 11:43 pmCome to think of it - the rise/fall solution is probably better - it's quicker - he just needs to grab that dragon back. Debtor's knell is great but more mana-intensive?

High casting cost?? I got hit by a turn 5 Bogardan Hellkite.......

with relic mana and pact of negation, you can normally beat that remand with a permission of your own, or you can always cast teferi first.

Lol, he beat me to it. I too was going to make a deck around Scion. However I was too busy preparing for the plethora of standard tournaments. Although I was going to play Angelfire (my favorite deck as many of you should know by now), I passing all my essential cards to my mates because his playing some innovative March of the Machines deck. Ended up playing Dralnu (Urg ... Boring sial) Still managed to make the finals in one standard tournament and faced the absolutely WORSE match up. The exact one that killed my mate in the semi's .... BW Rack ... Still 2nd, so split the packs with my mates and still got a Shimian Specter. Not a bad day.

Would have prefered to play Angelfire as I won the Gateway tourney in MFest with it.

On a side note ... Pact of Negation is plain Awesome in Dralnu.

Its a good strategy as me being a control player will have to race him. I am forced to counter all his threats alls whiles getting hit by the rack.