As promised, if a little late the 2011 Glen Burnie winner. I did not play it, but my friend Eric did and I figured I'd type it up or it never would get done.

Yog

x3 Cursed Skull

x3 A Single Glimpse

x3 Guardian of the Key

x3 Many-angled Thing

x3 Living Mummy

x3 Prism of Many Views

x2 Constricting Elder Thing

x3 Journey to the Other Side

Shub

x3 Snow Graves

M.U.

x3 Museum Curator

x3 Strange Librarian

x1 Harry Houdini

x2 Board of Directors

x3 M.U Museum of Natural History

x2 Derby Hall

x2 The Necronomicon

x2 Horrid Dreams

Nuetral

x3 Eldritch Nexus

x3 Descendant of Eibon (Restricted)

The plan is to get a cursed skull and a Museum of Natural History and keep forcing your opponent to sacrifice characters. Many-angled Thing is a champ and does double duty as a character and kill. In hindsight the deck could be improved by adding doppleganger as there are so many good targets. Please feel free to leave comments.

I like it very much! I am going to play this deck! It seems very good, but I believe there are some rooms for improvement. Will work on it!

Yeah as I said one improvement would be the doppleganger, but you can't do that anymore. =/ Since the Descendant is unique now it will be worth retesting the guardian pillar, it can be sick with the museum curator. The new miskatonic artifact will be fun to try out too. Please give feedback with your version when you get the chance!

Are Snow Graves that important? If you can start the Skull/Museum combo early, I don't think they'll be able to reanimate characters from graveyards anyway. I would add the Doppelganger instead. And the Nexus is maybe useless as well. You get a domain so you can cycle the combo more times in a round, but there are some cards that can force sacrifices as well, or take Artifacts from graveyards as well. I'll have a look.

The idea of recurring skull with the university is filthy. I like it. But i think i'd look at making some changes to the deck:

Yog

x3 Cursed Skull

x3 A Single Glimpse

x3 Many-angled Thing

x3 Journey to the Other Side

M.U.

x3 Museum Curator

x1 Harry Houdini

x2 Board of Directors

x3 M.U Museum of Natural History

x2 The Necronomicon

Neutral

x3 Descendant of Eibon (Restricted)

I'd say the above are all solid, and fit with the gameplan. The below i think can be cut:

x3 Living Mummy -- You're expecting to be able to remove most of an opponent's characters anyway, thus mass removal like this has more chance of hurting you than the opponent, especially since a lot of the time your opponent will be able to control when it goes off.

x3 Guardian of the Key -- After the cuts, i don't think we'll have enough support cards to make him worthwhile. I am quite possibly wrong on this guy.

x3 Prism of Many Views -- Honestly, i don't think this card does anything useful. It doesn't affect the board state, and you don't need to necessarily rely on the combo so there's no need to run too many things to dig into it.

x2 Constricting Elder Thing -- Don't think this guy is good enough.

x3 Snow Graves -- On the fence for this one. While recursion may ruin your day, i'm not sure it will be enough to worry about.

x3 Strange Librarian -- See Prism of Many Views. The guy isn't terrible, but i think there are better uses for the slots.

x2 Derby Hall -- I don't think you need to be worrying about re-buying the come-into-play triggers on the miskatonic guys.

x2 Horrid Dreams -- Seems a bit weak to me. Will obviously be good against a mono-faction deck, but has too much chance of being a do-nothing.

x3 Eldritch Nexus -- Don't think the extra domain is overly needed.

That gives us 24 slots to play with. I would add the following:

1 x Board of Directors -- Don't see any reason not to play all 3.

3 x Faceless Abductor -- This guy is awesome. Good efficient cheap guy, and helps keep an opponent's board clear of guys. Can also be used to bounce your own guys to re-buy their come-into-play effects (especially dirty is a many-angled thing re-buy).

3 x Initiation of Glaaki -- Solid removal spell with upside.

3 x Servants of Glaaki -- Cheap efficient guys that work well with the above.

3 x Glaaki -- To complete the Glaaki package. Gives the deck a bit of late-game punch that you might be able to sneak in earlier with the servants. Also helps keep an opponent's board clear. Also, i love Glaaki. How could you not love the Deathslug?

3 x Bird Demon -- Efficient mid-range character.

3 x Medical Student -- You shouldn't have many of your characters go insane very often (most have willpower or terror icons), so this just is just an undercosted guy in this deck.

3 x Obscure Linguist -- To nullify what few characters your opponent might have left.

2 x Dimensional Rift -- Having a reset button is handy, and gives more support card hits for the curator.

I'd also be tempted to swap out Descendant for Diseased Sewer Rats.

This gives a final decklist of:

Yog

3 x Cursed Skull

3 x A Single Glimpse

3 x Many-angled Thing

3 x Journey to the Other Side

3 x Faceless Abductor

3 x Initiation of Glaaki

3 x Servants of Glaaki

3 x Glaaki

3 x Bird Demon

M.U.

3 x Museum Curator

1 x Harry Houdini

3 x Board of Directors

3 x M.U Museum of Natural History

2 x The Necronomicon

3 x Obscure Linguist

3 x Medical Student

Neutral

3 x Descendant of Eibon / Diseased Sewer Rats (Restricted)

2 x Dimensional Rift

Thanks for all the feedback, nobody likes the nexus huh? I encourage to test with and without it to draw your own conclusions but being able to play and sac the skull on the same turn is really important. I would love to hear what you think after you try it a bit.

The snow graves attachment is a meta choice, so much yog and shub shenanigans in our group(and descendants) that it has to go in. Just think of it against the mirror.

Prism of the Many Views was on the bubble, but it is powerful way to deal with stuff before it hits the table. It combos very well with the strange librarian denying the good cards by putting them on the bottom or discarding it.

Constricting Elder Thing and Horrid Dreams were the best way to deal with opponents support with this deck. Horrid Dreams is less hit and miss with strange librarian and the prism. A snow graves can really cripple this deck(everywhere in our meta) and being able to potentially get rid of it is key even if only a turn.

Living Mummy was our reset, Dimensional Rift destroys our support cards which is bad for this deck I feel.

doppleganger might win out against the descendants with the new changes.

Derby Hall is probably wasted space.

Without Derby Hall Board of Directors only finds the MU museum so I don't think they bring a whole lot to the table.

Glaaki stuff might give the deck some needed punch thanks for the discussion.

Hope this explains some of the choices, I hope you guys get a chance to play some games with your versions.

The problem with things like the Prism is that they do nothing to the existing game state. You're spending a card and resources to hopefully decrease the value of an opponents draws from then on - the information you get from seeing the top of the deck is negated by the fact that your opponent gets the same from you. You are just as likely to mean an opponent now draws a better card than the one you discarded than you are for them to draw a worse one. I just think that while it might sound good at first, the card actually does very very little, where you want to be spending your cards and resources on taking advantage of kiling your opponents guys. Strange librarian is a little better, as you can use him to dig through your own deck, and it comes attached to something that actually advances your board state and helps stories (i.e. a guy).

Snow Graves i can concede to, i don't think it's something i'd run personally, but as you say, it's meta dependant.

Nexus i think only pays off when you've got multiple things in the deck requiring activation costs. With the way i built it, there isn't. Without it you can still play and sac skull as well as cast 1 other thing each turn.

Constricting elder thing / horrid dreams / mummy / dimensional rift - there aren't really good outs to support cards with yog/uni. The elder thing only does a turn, and i don't think a one turn swing will really do a lot for the things we truly care about (snow graves, etc). And horrid dreams is just too hit and miss, end even when it does hit, because it's a sacrifice, it won't hit what we want it to. I went for the rift over the mummy as i think rift is the only decent out to any opposing support cards which are crippling us. You're only going to pop it when you are behind, so i don't think there would ever be an issue. Also, it's a hit off the Curator.

I think the Board of Directors is definitely worth all 3 slots. Even if you are only searching for Museums, you are still getting card advantage out of them. Sure, the second and third copies lose value, but then regain it if the opponent deals with the first Museum. I think you can also afford to cut one copy of the museum when playing with the directors, as they are pseudo copies of it, and the museum only actually does anything once we have a skull. The only other Uni location i think that might be worth running as a 1-of to tutor for with the Board is Field Research Station, but even that might not be good enough. I'm ging to test it and see. Maybe Pagan Hall, but again i haven't played with it to know if it is any good or not - on the face of it, it doesn't seem good enough.

I agree with this deck. The only thing that bothers me is Harry. I just don't see it. There is only one copy and he doesn't fit into the strategy. I would remove him and add unearthing the Ancients or something similar.

Yeah I guess we just feel different about how the deck should play out, which is cool because I am not one for groupthink. As for the Prism I will say that it is probably Yog's best answer to support I have played against this deck and have lost a revealed snow graves so many times. YMMV Horrid Dreams is kind of bad but the idea was to try to get more kill (that could potentially get support) that would provide a Misk. resource. Harry is in because he is just a good aggressively costed character.