Deck Advice
Ben Jackson
Next few postings are decks that I have created... Comments/Advce Would be
welcome...
Yet another useless E-Mail by,
Ben Jackson
br...@shore.net--n1wbv@nsradio.org--http://www.shore.net/~brtl
"Democrats piss me off" - Eric Cartman
"Just so you know I am trained in 15 forms of Karate, 3 forms of
Jujitsu and 2 forms of interpretive dance" - Johnny Bravo
John7099
You are a newbie. This group is not for newbies.
Jim Monk
Ben Jackson wrote:
>
> Next few postings are decks that I have created... Comments/Advce Would be
> welcome...
>
Ben,
In the spirit of Xmass and all I am going to try to comment on some of
your decks.
First off a few notes :
1) Ignore John7099 as he seems to be a complete tosser.
2) It is generally not good practice to post lost of decks all at once.
Focus on a couple of decks and get them working.
3) It is usually a good idea to say what the deck does and what it has
problems with.
Second general deck building hints :
1) 99% of all decks are 60 cards. This is for a reason. It makes the
deck "tighter", increasing your chances of drawring your best cards.
2) You haven't said if these decks are of a DCI tornie type. I will
assume that they are for type 2, and may remove some cards because of
this.
3) Most 60 card decks need 24 land, not 20, to be effective.
4) Sideboards depend on your area, e.g. if everyone plays red you need
more anti-red cards. I won't make sideboards for you.
On to the decks :
Black "Variety" Deck
"Variety" may be the spice of life, but a tight theom deck is usually
better.
31x Swamp - drop to 24
4x Dark Ritual - nice to get out early stuff, but looses card advantage.
4x Terror - Dark banishing is more versitile change it
4x Paralyze - Poor anti critter change for Diabolic Edict
4x Unholy Strength - Critter enchantments (enhancers) are generally bad.
If the creature dies you loose 2 cards. Drop
4x Raise Dead - Just plain bad
4x Drain Life - Nice but needs lots of mana
2x Soul Burn - Not T2 leagal
2x Hypnotic Specter - Not T2 leagal, drop
2x Kjeldoran Dead
2x Skeletal Crocidile - (portal ?) not T2 leagal drop
2x Gravedigger
2x Royal Assasin - Not T2 Leagal (NT2L)
2x Scathe Zombies
2x Drudge Skeletons
2x Mind Rot - NT2L
Hymn to Tourach - NT2L
Transmutation - NT2L
Bog Wraith
Cursed Land - Poor quality card - drop
Demonic Tutor - NT2L
Knight of Stromgald
Soceress Queen
Sengir Vampire - NT2L
Mind Twist - NT2L
Rag Man
The Wretched
Minion of Leshrac - NT2L
Lord of the Pit - expensive and bad upkeep drop
Word of Binding - NT2L
Commander Greven il-Vec
Uncle Istvan - NT2L
Norrit
Spirit Shackle - NT2L
Vampiric Touch - NT2L
Darkling Stalker
This leaves you with :
24x Swamp
4x Dark banishing
4x Diabolic Edict
4x Drain Life
2x Kjeldoran Dead
2x Gravedigger
2x Scathe Zombies
2x Drudge Skeletons
Bog Wraith
Knight of Stromgald
Soceress Queen
Rag Man
The Wretched
Commander Greven il-Vec
Norrit
Darkling Stalker
You seem to have 3 conflicting theoms here.
1) Zombies
2) Critter control
3) Beatdown
Here is a quick zombie deck :
24x Swamp
4x Dark banishing
4x Diabolic Edict
4x Drain Life
4x Gravedigger
4x Scathe Zombies
4x Zombie Master
4x Evil Presence
4x Zombie Scavengers
2x Tombstone Stairwell
2x Bone Dancer
Blue "Permission" Deck
4x Reef Pirates - Miller
4x Power Sink - Counter
4x Sea Serpent - Pants
3x Prodigal Sorcerers - Pinnger
3x Unsummon - Change for the far superior Man`o`War
3x Psychic Venom - Pants
3x Brainstorm - Change for the superior Impulse
2x Twiddle - PANTS
2x Sleight of Mind - Usually Sideboard material
2x Spell Blast - Counter
2x Illusionary Wall - NT2L Use Wall of air
2x Awesome Presence - NT2L
2x Phantasmal Terrain - PANTS
2x Ray of Command - Cool
Water Elemental - NT2L
Zuran Spellcaster - NT2L
Icy Manipulator - Cool (Much better than Twidle ?) but NT2L
’Ether Storm - Nice in critter less decks
Gaseous Form - Not bad can be used on yours or his
Merseine - NT2L
Control Magic - NT2L
Binding Grasp - OK but expensive
Sibilant Spirit - ok but expensive use Air Elemental or Waterspout
Icy Prison - NT2L
Merfolk of the Pearl Trident - only any good in a merfolk deck
Mistfolk - NT2L
Rootwater Hunter - Pinger
Anti-Magic Aura - NT2L
Phantom Monster - OK but Air Elemental + Waterspout are better
Fylmarid - poor with out "some combo"
Spiny Starfish - NT2L
Legacy Allure - Not bad
Krovikan Sorcerer - NT2L
Clairvoyance - NT2L
Volrath's Cures - Nice
Backfire - NT2L
Counterspell - Counter
So now we have :
4x Reef Pirates - Miller
4x Power Sink - Counter
3x Prodigal Sorcerers - Pinnger
3x Man`o`War
3x Impulse
2x Spell Blast - Counter
2x Wall of air
2x Ray of Command - Cool
Gaseous Form - Not bad can be used on yours or his
Binding Grasp - OK but expensive
Air Elemental
Rootwater Hunter - Pinger
Waterspout are better
Legacy Allure - Not bad
Volrath's Cures - Nice
Counterspell - Counter
Again you have conflicting theoms. It is all anti critter. But not
focused enough.
Try this :
24x Islands
4x Counterspell
4x Powersink
2x Spell blast
4x Wall of Air
4x Ray of comand
2x Legacy Alure
4x ManoWar
4x Ophidian
2x Air Elemental
4x Impulse
2x Capsize
Black "Ebon Hand" Deck
Ive looked at one Black deck.
Green "Variety" Deck
It looks to me like you have taken a list of greens worst cards and
added a few bad artifacts for good measure.
Here are the cards worth playing from your list :
Hurricane
Tranquility
Yavimaya Gnats
Balduvian Bears
Bounty of the Hunt
Elvish Ranger
of these only the first 2 are T2 leagal.
Here is a cheep green deck :
20x Forest
4x Armor of thorns
4x Giant Growth
4x River Boa
4x Gazban Ogre
4x Rogue Elephant
4x Harvest Wurm
4x Rootwalla
4x Quirion Ranger
4x Muscle Sliver
4x Mtenda Lion
Nice and quick and all common!
I really don't have time to do any more.
If you have one deck that you really want to work on mail me and I'll
make some suggestions.
Hope this helps.
Jim Monk
Michael
John7099 <john...@aol.com> wrote in article
<19971224035...@ladder02.news.aol.com>...
> You are a newbie. This group is not for newbies.
>
Youn are an ass....get a life
--
Once upon a time, the ancient Romans would
throw obnoxious christians to the lions. This
practice has long since ceased......Pity...
******************************************
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4437
******************************************
ka...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
John7099 (john...@aol.com) wrote:
: You are a newbie. This group is not for newbies.
You haven't proven yourself to be anything other than an insulting little
man. You have no basis on which to call another "newbie."
--
Randomness is not hypocrisy, if done with honesty.
In chaos, all is possible.