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Red Deck Annoys 2.1 |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
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Red Deck Annoys 2.1
This is a deck that was originally
posted in the MDV Casual Deck Forum by PerfectCell, a well known figure
of the MDV Forum Community. He posted this deck, I DBM'd it and
then it was added to the MDV Deck Database. If you are interested
in getting more information about submitting decks to MDV, please go
here or
here.
To find out more about the deck, click the link... |
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PrimalClone. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
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PrimalClone. To
quote the creator of this deck, "When I found out that Cloning effect
copy the Mana cost of whatever they clone I had to build this deck. It
uses Primalcrux, in addition to Clone (and other creatures that can copy
creatures) to get a huge Primalcrux into play, and swing for the win.
The deck uses various other creatures and spells to help speed it up, or
make Primalcrux even bigger..." This deck is another deck submission
that is also a recent addition to the MDV deck database. Who's the
creator? None other than AlasterEisaroh. Go, Go Forum
Wizards. |
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Trampoline. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 |
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Trampoline. Today's deck
is another new addition to the database. So new, it was added
tonight! This deck is a deck submission by deviant_audio from the
MDV forums. To quote his description: "This deck uses the combo
with Cauldron Haze and Cowardice to bounce every creature you want. You
can also use Cauldron of Souls. I added some Terrors and Counterspells
to keep things from getting there in the first place..." |
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County LockUp. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, August 24, 2008 |
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County LockUp. This
is a first. I am featuring a deck that hasn't even made it into
the deck database yet. However, it will very soon. I am
currently working on a deck database update and this happens to be the
first added. Although, it hasn't been propogated.
Specifically, this is a Lock Down deck using Mycosynth Lattice and Null
Rod. This is also a deck submission, stright from the casual deck
forum. Please enjoy! |
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Puca-Puca! |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, August 22, 2008 |
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Puca-Puca! To quote the
creater of this deck submission, Maleficent... "Ever find yourself thinking, "If I only had
that card of theirs, I'd win for sure!"? Well now you no longer need to
wait for them to get up from the table to do so! Puca's Mischief will
let you steal any nonland permanent for exchange of any nonland
permanent (of any type), so long as yours costs as much or more. Then
you can simply blink the card you gave them and get it back at end of
turn - voila! ..." |
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Pipo Life Vortex. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
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Pipo Life Vortex.
This is quite an interesting mix of
cards. At first I thought this deck was centered around Celestial
Convergence. After further review it turns out it is mostly a Mana
Vortex combo deck! Go, Go Vortex Decks! While Mana
Vortex is destroying mana bases around the table, including your own,
you are a step ahead of the game. Land Tax, Exploration,
Groundskeeper and Mirri's Guile should keep you with a steady supply of
mana sources. Meanwhile you have... |
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Poisoned Venom. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
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Poisoned Venom.
While this looks to be a typical
Poison Counter deck, it is not. I see something within it that
I've never seen in another Poison deck: Leeches.
Leeches is a card from Homelands that prevented a death from Poison
Counters. (Note you need 10 poisons counters on you before you lose the
game). It was obviously created to offset the power of poison
counters started with Serpent Generator. However, one thing that
most people forget, and that I forgot before seeing this deck, is
that... |
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Pro: Life. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
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Pro: Life. Yikes -- I
didn't plan to have two similar decks right next to each other for MDV's
Deck of the Day feature... but it just worked out that way. This is very
similar to yesterday's deck with many similar cards like Serra Avatar,
Mother Of Runes, Angelic Chorus and Phyrexian Processor. What's
different? It concentrates more on the life gain and less on the combo.
One notably different card is Soul Foundry. Check it out! |
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Processed. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, August 18, 2008 |
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Processed.
This happens to be one of my favorite decks of all time and also one
of the reasons I hate Mindslaver. The main combo of this deck
Phyrexian Processor and Angelic Chorus. On the way to establishing
this combo (Thanks Academy Rector for the help) you have a series of
weenies to both attack and block and perform fast effect shenanigans.
Cards include Mother of Runes, Soul Warden, Longbow Archer and False
Prophet. |
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The Dragon. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, July 15, 2008 |
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The Dragon.
This is a deadly combination of burn, land
destruction and creature beatdown. Pillage, Stone Rain, Lightning Bolt,
Masticore, Shivan Dragon, Wasteland... Mountain... It's crazy! You have
to check out this deck. *grin* |
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Sweet Dreams. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, August 8, 2008 |
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Sweet Dreams. If you
like Nightmare, you'll like this deck. If you like mono-black
decks, you'll like this deck. If you like Nightmare tribal decks,
you'll also like this deck. Today's deck of the day is a great way
to get into the groove of playing with your Nightmare cards. It
has Recurring Nightmare, Altar of Dementia and Terror to keep the game
interesting. If you want to see what I mean, click on the link. |
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Mind Games. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, August 7, 2008 |
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Mind Games. This is
a typical control-mill style deck packing cards like Scalpelexis,
Ambassador Laquatus, Standstill and Circular Logic. Check it out -- you
might find a card you need to put in your own control-mill deck list.
Or you might want to build a control-mill deck for the first time.
Go ahead... play some mind games next time at your local play group
gathering... |
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Hydraponics. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, August 6, 2008 |
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Hydraponics. This deck
packs many heads in the form of one of Magic's most underplayed and
underappreciated tribes: Hydrae. Packed with cards like Rock Hydra,
Molten Hydra, Mana Flare and Fling, this deck sure provide some fun
gameplay and possibly even a few wins. You may want to rethink this
decklist and find some newer cards to make it more spicy. Go ahead...
give it a try! |
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Molten Temper. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, August 1, 2008 |
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Molten Temper.
Wow. It's a deck submission from the Temper, Temper deckbuilding
contest. This was one of the first contests of Magic Deck Vortex from
over five years ago. That's right, as of mid-July, MDV is six years
old!!! Back to the deck, this deck uses Temper to beef up cards like
Molten Hydra, Suntail Hawk and Kilnmouth Dragon. Mind you, this deck was
built long before the +1/+1 counter goodness of Mirrodin Block and
Lorwyn block. Check it out, update it and make it your own! |
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July 2008 --
in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Erhnam Burn'em. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
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Erhnam Burn'em. To
quote Inquest magazine, where I originally found this deck and
description: "Erhnam & Burn Em's midgame strategy is
similar to Erhnamgeddon's. Instead of Swords to Plowshares to remove the
opponent's creatures, you have Bolts, Incinerates, and/or Stormbind, and
instead of Wrath of God, you have Earthquake or Pyroclasm. Against small
creatures, you're in great shape, but larger creatures are more of a
problem; you'll need to spend two cards to take out one..." |
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Warlord Deluxe. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
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Warlord Deluxe. I
never thought Keldon Warlord was such a great card that it deserved a
deck built around it. However, I've been proven wrong on multiple
occasions so today's deck doesn't surprise me. Except the means this
deck uses to benefit the Warlord does slightly surprise me. Cards
include: Fungal Bloom, Thallids, Goblin Offensive and Saproling
Symbiosis. Does it work well together? Looks like you'll just have to
try it out yourself! |
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Overflow Break. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, July 28, 2008 |
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Overflow Break. If I
was to tell you there is a deck that includes only one creature playset
in it and that creature was Flowstone Overseer, would you believe me?
Well, believe me. Today's deck of the day is a red aggro deck using some
land destruction and some burn to obliterate the opponent. Stone Rain,
Pillage, Seal of Fire, Cave-In and Hammer of Bogardan... all cards
within the deck. Whether or not you are curious, you should still check
the deck out... |
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Webbed. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, July 25, 2008 |
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Webbed. This is both a
tribal Spider deck and a theme web deck. Complete with cards like Plated
Spider, Pincer Spider, Bequeathal and Magnetic Web, this deck is
designed to bring down any flower your opponent should cast. Since this
deck was originally built there have been some better spiders. Check it
out, rebuild it and have fun. |
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Weather Report v2. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
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Weather Report v2.
If you like Theme Decks, you'll really like this one. And that's
not just because Neuromancer, resident MDV forum moderator, engineered
the deck. No... it's because it's a fun weather themed deck
including excellent cards like Stone Rain, Tornado Elemental and Ice
Storm just to name a few. Can you think of some of the other
potential cards in this deck? Go ahead, brainstorm about it before
you click the link. |
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Vampires & Moons. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
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Vampires & Moons.
Grimclaw Bats, Sengir Vampire, Bad Moon and Drain Life... what more
could you ask for in a mono-black tribal/theme deck? Not much. This deck
packs cheap creatures, powerful vampires, removal and permanent creature
pump thanks to the bad moon. The only real thing missing is some
legendary lands for flavor. |
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Mom's Zombie Deck. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
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Mom's Zombie Deck.
What on earth is a MOM'S Zombie Deck? If it was Mon's Zombie Deck, I
would assume it was a goblin zombie deck. However, this is Mom's. Is it
an old school zombie deck? Looks like you are just going to have to
click on the link and find out! |
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FIVE - A Deck. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, July 21, 2008 |
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FIVE - A Deck. Chris
Millar, a regular columnist for www.wizards.com, wrote an article some
time ago in which he put together several decks using only one-syllable
named Magic cards. For instance, Mulch and Jinx are both one
syllable card names. He made one for each color and then made one
of all five colors. Today's deck of the day is the five-color
version. If not anything else, it is certainly amusing. |
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Second Nature. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
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Second Nature.
Primarily, this is a Dual Nature deck loaded with creatures that have
great comes into play abilities. Unfortunately, the other combo in
the deck, which is Unnatural Selection and Dual Nature, doesn't work as
the deck originally intended it to. You can thank Oracle updates
and the Legendary rule change brought about after the Kamigawa Block.
In any event, you should find the rest of the deck enjoyable. |
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Ashling's Leprechaun. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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Ashling's
Leprechaun. Today's deck centered around one card: Ashling's
Prerogative (Here all my life I thought Prerogative was spelled without
the first "r"). If you recall the card you are going to ask, is it an
even or an odd themed deck? The answer is EVEN. Cards like Leaf Glider,
Thelonite Hermit and Masked Admirers are all even to cast. They are also
all Elf. This is also a tribal elf deck. Curious? Click the link! |
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Out of Ideas. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
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Out of Ideas.
This deck is a great way to leave your opponent without any ideas
(spells) so that you can cast a Hunted Wumpus without too much fear of
your opponent having something nasty to play for free. Thus the
deck name (leaving your opponent) Out of Ideas... or something like
that... |
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Tenacious Tron. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, July 14, 2008 |
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Tenacious Tron.
What's not to like about the deck title? This deck won 1st place in a
2007 tournament and was then covered on MTG.COM by Mike Flores. Flores
states that, "[this deck] is differentiated from other U/W "big mana"
decks via the inclusion of Gifts Ungiven, and the packages that arise
from such a different card drawing engine..." To read more, click on the
link. This deck and description were quoted from
www.magicthegathering.com. |
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Swirling Sanctuaries. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, July 8, 2008 |
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Swirling
Sanctuaries. To quote the great Neuromancer on his deck: "This deck
revolves around Swirl The Mists' color-altering effect. That effect is
put to use with the Apocalypse Sanctuaries to generate massive card
advantage and a veritable win condition with Necra Sanctuary. Drift of
Phantasms and Academy Rector find the combo pieces, and the deck has a
solid disruption package with Duress, Cabal Therapy, Vindicate and STP..." |
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Insect Swarm. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, July 7, 2008 |
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Insect Swarm. Wow!
It's always amusing to look at an old deck you created... Today's deck
of the day is one of those occasions for me. This was a deck I
created to abuse Pattern of Rebirth except within a Tribal Insect deck
frame. To combo with Pattern of Rebirth I used Giant Caterpillar
and Marker Beetles. Targets for the Pattern enchantment included
Gigapede and Thriss to name a few. I wonder what this deck would
look like with the current batch of insects out there now... Maybe you
want to build it! What's cool is that you can find ways to use
Pattern of Rebirth in many different Tribal decks. Give it a try;
I dare you! |
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The American Way. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, July 4, 2008 |
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The American Way.This
is a deck from Inquest #134. Let me just give you their intro for
the deck... "Boros. Izzet. Azorius. That’s not only
American’s most patriotic alliance; it’s also a deck that has the answer
or threat for every situation. With a guild from every set, this Ravnica
block deck is packing seven current and former top-10 cards, which means
your lineup’s got more ringers than the New York Yankees crashing an
intramural softball league." Sounds pretty good, doesn't it?!
Happy Fourth of July! |
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Weird American Angels. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, July 3, 2008 |
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Weird American Angels. There
is a theme to this week's deck of the day feature, at least since
7/1/08. That theme is red, white and blue decks inspired by the
upcoming Fourth of July. This deck is a strange concoction of
Firemane Angel, Meloku, Shard Phoenix and Zur's Weirding! Splash
in some control elements and some mana acceleration and you have today's
deck. |
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Orcombo Warriors. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 |
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Orcombo
Warriors. Earlier this year, Cashew hosted a
deckbuilding contest called Class-Wars. For this contest I
submitted several decks, one of which won the Most Original Combo
category. This is a Orc Warrior tribal deck that uses Circle of
Protection: Red and Whim of Volrath to win the game... in an interesting
way. Why don't you check it out. I can guarantee you won't
find this deck anywhere else. |
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Star Spangled Slaughter. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 |
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Star Spangled
Slaughter. This deck is a red-white-blue deck (thus the reference to
the "The Star-Spangled Banner", which is the national anthem of the
United States of America). One of the key cards in the deck is
Fire/Ice; another is Lightning Angel. This was a popular deck
during the Invasion block and was seen in many different variations.
This deck is one of those variations. |
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June 2008 --
in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Snakestone. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, June 30, 2008 |
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Snakestone. Snake tokens
are fun. Especially if you have gazillions of them. This isn't
necessarily an infinite deck but is a deck that uses Cloudstone Curio in
combination with some comes-into-play Snake creatures to generate lots
of snake tokens and/or nice effects. As if that wasn't enough, Meloku
and Voidslime are also in the deck... |
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Scorpion Foundry. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, June 27, 2008 |
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Scorpion Foundry.
Today's deck is capable of going infinite and a LITE deck... although
I'd have to check all of the prices on the cards in this deck to make
sure it qualifies for LITE status. In any event, this is a fun deck
using cards like Bottle Gnomes, Dross Scorpion, Soul Foundry and Myr
Moonvessel. You'll just have to read the description to found out how
this deck really works. Enjoy! |
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The Crew! |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
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The Crew! Not only is
this a domain deck, but it's a theme deck featuring Legendary creatures
and it's packing the power nine!!! And to top that off, it's
lacking a deck description. If you are interested in adding a
description to this deck, please let me know. Otherwise, know that
you could build this deck in any number of different ways. The
Kamigawa block gives this deck some tools for tutoring Legends and every
block since this deck was created gives it more options with more
Legendary creatures. Give the deck a spin with your own
collection. Make it your own! |
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Pango Express. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
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Pango Express, today's
deck of the day, was one of the first decks added to the MDV Deck
Database that the webmaster didn't build. When MDV first started,
more than 80% of the decks were all by the webmaster. This deck features
Limited Resources with Pangosaur and was built quite some time ago.
Go ahead and update it yourself! |
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Root Dive. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, June 24, 2008 |
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Root Dive. This deck uses
Unifying Theory and that's all it needed for me to fall in love with it.
This deck uses Unifying Theory with both Tangleroot and Words of
Winds... how does it work? You will just have to click on the deck of
the day link to find out. MaGo, the creator of this deck, describes the
interaction well. Note: This description was quoted from
www.magicthegathering.com. |
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Enchant Chant. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, June 23, 2008 |
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Enchant Chant.
I miss doing Top 20 lists for creature types. It's a shame I don't have
more time to do those. Today's deck is from the Top 20 Druids article I
did in 2006. This deck uses both Enchantresses in combination with
Rancor and other powerful Enchantment cards to win the game. Typically
the winning card is Endless Wurm who is fueled by heavy card advantage
and lots of Auras. If you have some extra time, check out the rest of
the article. |
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Shuffle Extraction. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, June 20, 2008 |
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Shuffle Extraction.
There's something about copying Psychogenic Probe and then playing cards
like Extract that give me that tingly sensation. I guess I'm just
a die hard MILL player. In other news, this deck is also a
description-less deck. If you are up for the challenge, I am
looking for people to write deck descriptions for some of the
description-less deck. If you are interested, please email me.
Thanks. |
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Restock. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
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Restock. Being a typical
blue player who likes to control the board and counter every spell my
opponent plays, I find it strange that I also like land destruction
decks. Of course, maybe that isn't a stretch. LD is just a different
form of control so I guess it makes sense. Today's deck is a Plow Under
/ Ice Storm / Sinkhole land destruction deck with some fun twists
including Spellweaver Helix and Pernicious Deed. Check it out - you
won't be disappointed! |
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Blind Faith. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
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Blind Faith. This deck
can be defensive. It can be offensive. It can be beatdown
and at times it can be controllish. It's an interesting deck that
I would encourage you to check out although, be warned. There are
quite a few cards within it that are from the Kamigawa block! |
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Onulet. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
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Onulet. In this deck, Abe
Sargent, casual guru of Star City Games, tries to make Onulet the center
of the deck. What's cool is that it involves Lifeline and Blasting
Station. What's unfortunate is that Onulet could easily be replaced with
Bottle Gnomes. Still, its a fun deck that you should build and tweak if
you have any Onulets in your collection. Enjoy! |
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Seven Years Bad Luck. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, June 16, 2008 |
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Seven Years Bad
Luck. If you thought this deck would involve a mirror or sorts upon
reading the deck title, you are right. This deck is a single card
strategy for Panoptic Mirror. Full of fun control cards like Wrath of
God and Discombobulate, this deck is a fun way to use the Mirror. Don't
underestimate the low creature count in the deck (only four creature
cards total), this deck packs four copies of Decree of Justice for some
creature token beatdown. |
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World of Hurt. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, June 13, 2008 |
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World of Hurt.
Citadel of Pain AND Manabarbs?! Ouch. To offset the damage from
Manabarbs this deck uses Sun Droplet. To prevent the damage from
Manabarbs, this deck uses Chimeric Idol to tap all of your lands. What
does your opponent have to battle your two vicious red enchantments?
Hopefully a Naturalize or a Disenchant.. otherwise they are in trouble! |
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Brave the Elementals. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
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Brave the
Elementals. Even though this deck was found in a Raiding the Dollar
Bins articles, which normally showcases cheap to make decks, it still
has a few expensive cards. Cards like Platinum Angel and Bogardan
Hellkite won't be found in your local dollar bins any time soon.
Despite that, this is otherwise cheap to build and focuses on Elemental
interactions with an older card known as Heartstone. Curious?
Click on the link to find out more. |
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Thallid Shooter. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
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Thallid
Shooter. This deck was by MDV Writer and Contest Admin Cashew and as
the deck name suggests, it is a deck that involves Thallids and
'shooting them'. One card that really shines in this deck is Dark
Confidant, however, I'll stop there and let you read on. Scroll down
from the deck list to see Cashew's beautiful story about the deck. This
deck was one of the entrants from the Christmas Contest in 2007; in
fact, it was second place! |
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Urza's Xanthic Howl. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
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Urza's Xanthic Howl.
This is another new deck in MDV's Deck Database thanks to the recent
updates from this past weekend. This particular deck I found on
the MTGSalvation forums through Google but I couldn't find the actual
thread it was from. And thus, I don't know the real author of this
deck list. About the deck list: It uses the Urza's Lands in
combination with Candelabra of Tawnos to generate a lot of mana.
With this mana you can activate your Xanthic Statue and give it a
gigantic Howl from Beyond until end of turn... Looks fun. |
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Rat Aggro 2005. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, June 9, 2008 |
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Rat Aggro 2005.
Interesting. This deck is from 2005 but it was just added to the deck
database this past weekend... What!? Even more interesting is that the
Deck Database has been updated! Hmmm. Back to the deck being featured
today... This is a fine example of some of the rat decks that populated
Standard back during the CHK era including cards like Chittering Rats,
Skullsnatcher and good-ol' Ink Eyes. Let's not forget Aether Vial and
Umezawa's Jitte... |
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Living Swap. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, May 6, 2008 |
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Living Swap. As the
author states in his description, this deck is not your typical Living
Death deck nor is it a toolbox recursion deck. It's loaded with Spike
creatures, Triskelions, Eternal Witnesses and more. Aside from lands,
there are only six non-creature spells in the whole deck. That should
tell you. In any event, this deck has a good deck description so I'll
stop blabbering about it and let you click on the link to find out for
yourself. If you build a deck similar to this, increase the Triskelion
count... |
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Livin' on the Edge. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 5, 2008 |
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Livin' on the Edge.
Oh how I miss Inquest Magazine. Not that Scrye is bad, its just that
Scrye isn't as mindful to the casual players as it is to the tournament
players. Perhaps that is what keeps Scrye in business and magazines like
Inquest out of business. In any event, today's deck of the day is a
Recursion deck using Gleancrawler to interact cards like Grave-Shell
Scarab and Vulturous Zombies. Last Gasp much? |
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Spell Shaping. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, May 4, 2008 |
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Spell Shaping.
Coat of Arms was never meant for cards like Latulla and Kirs Mage... but
hey! Why not? Mark of Fury, Thran Dynamo and Coat of Arms all support
your Spellshapers as a tribe. Squee combos with all of them and Violent
Eruption makes good use of the discarding you will be doing. The biggest
problem this deck will have is card advantage. However, this is really
just a conceptual deck in need of some major tweaking - by you! |
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Lightly Armed. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, May 3, 2008 |
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Lightly Armed.
There's something about Kamahl, Fist of Krosa that says BEATDOWN, AGGRO
and STOMPY. Overrun on a stick? I'll take that any day. However, when
you combine the green Kamahl with a red Sorcery known as Pyroclasm,
suddenly this beatdown king becomes a king of Land Destruction (LD).
Click on the deck to see more... |
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Light'em Up! |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, June 2, 2008 |
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Light'em Up!
If you like burning things, you'll like this deck. If you like burning
things using not-so-expensive components, you'll really like this deck.
This deck combines cards like Volcanic Hammer, Lightning Blast, Shock
and Magma Jet. The unfortunate part of this deck: Isochron Scepter. Why
unfortunate? It's not so cheap anymore. So I take back everything I said
about this deck using cheap components... |
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May 2008 --
in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Mutant Decking. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, May 30, 2008 |
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Mutant Decking. This
deck was a submission into a deck building contest Magic Deck Vortex
hosted in early 2003. How time flies, right? The name of the contest was
Mutant Mayhem. Anyway, this deck uses a
variety of card combinations some which involve the legendary Ambassador
Laquatus to deck an opponent. I'll let you figure out the rest. Enjoy! |
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Egg-Shrine-ance. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
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Egg-Shrine-ance.
There is something about playing a deck full of eggs, a shrine and a
tribute for the win. This deck using the Eggs from Odyssey in
combination with Aven Shrine and Test of Endurance for an alternate
life-gain win. If you don't understand how this could work I would
strongly encourage you to click on the deck link and see the deck.
I actually have a variation of this deck built and ready to play. |
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Red Skelion. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
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Red Skelion. Ponza
never looked better than this deck. Why you ask? Because it includes
Triskelion in the main deck list. Believe it or not this deck made top
eight somewhere in the world. If you missed out on my article
yesterday, it was about my love for Triskelion. It only makes sense to
follow up the article with a deck using 'skelion. In other news, there
won't be a Words from the Streetz today -- I didn't have time to finish
that up. |
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Nantuko Revolt. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
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Nantuko Revolt.
This here is an ANTI deck. A deck that is specifically designed to
counter another deck type, strategy or deck color. In this deck's case,
it is an Anti-Black deck. Oh wait, never mind. This is actually a combo
deck using Pygmy Kavu and Nantuko Blightcutter in combination with
Darkest Hour (makes all creatures in play black). However, there are
ANTI decks in MDV's deck database, found on
this page. |
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Mobil Station. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, May 23, 2008 |
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Mobil Station. Not
only does the deck name of today's featured deck amuse me, but the major
card combination within it amuses me too: Death Match + Mobilization.
I loved Death Match in draft and constructed during the Onslaught time
frame and seeing is paired up with Mobilization seems like a match made
in heaven. But how is the rest of the deck executed? You'll
just have to click on to find out! |
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Rabid Librarian. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
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Rabid Librarian.
This, my friend, is from Inquest Magazine number four. Believe it or
not, someone, about a year ago, requested me to find this deck. I found
it, added it to the deck database and here it is again, only this time
being featured on MDV's Deck of the Day feature. It's a mill deck and it
uses an interesting combo: Martyr's Cry and Heaven's Gate!? You know you
want to click on the deck link... |
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Wishing Well. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
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Wishing Well. This
deck is also known as ProsBloom and was a very innovative deck of its
time. Played by Mike Long, it won PT Paris in the Mirage Block
Constructed category. This deck combined Prosperity, Squandered
Resources and Cadaverous Bloom to generate a lot of mana which is then
funneled into a really big Drain Life for the win. It's fun to
play and relatively easy to put together (nowadays). |
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Discard Draw. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 |
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Discard Draw. I don't
know that the power of this deck compares to its similarly named Draw Go
deck, however it does involve a similar strategy. Make them
discard, then go. This deck uses its creatures to make them
discard combined with some mill cards and some removal. I would
encourage you to update this decklist with your own collection and if it
works out, submit it to the MDV Deck Database. |
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Wizards of the Moon. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, May 16, 2008 |
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Wizards of the
Moon. The deck name is creatively referring to the creature types
within the deck: Wizards and Moonfolk. Its win conditions include
Soratami Savant, Soratami Rainshaper and Meloku, the Clouded Mirror.
There are some fun tricks you can do with Trinket Mage too. Not only is
this a tribal deck, but it's a LITE deck too so you should be able to
pick up the majority of its pieces for minimal cost. You can pick
up Meluko nowadays for $4 and under. |
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Rat Extraction. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
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Rat Extraction.
There are some cards in Magic: the Gathering that are abusive. Then
there are cards that are annoying. Combine those two types of cards with
some other intrusive cards and Walla! You have today's deck. I'll sum
this up quickly: Shared Fate - Relentless Rats - Cranial Extraction -
Leveler... I don't need to go on, but you do need to click on the
link because you want to see how MaGo executed these cards together in
the same deck. (MaGo = Mark Gottlieb @ WotC). |
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Switcharoo. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
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Switcharoo. About Face
was this quicky card from Urza's Legacy that switched a creatures power
and toughness. Then came Betrayers of Kamigawa when they introduced
Mannichi, the Fevered Dream which does it to every creature in play.
Combine it with creatures with high toughness and evasion like Ensouled
Scimitar, and suddenly you have a good deck. Click the link to see what
else JMS put in the deck. |
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Discord. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
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Discord. Playing a bunch of
spells that hurt you just doesn't sound right and I suppose that is
where today's deck gets its name. Either that or it is because one of
the key cards in the deck is Discordant Spirit. Both it and Blood Hound
get better when you take damage so cards like Flame Rift and Aftershock
make your creatures better and your opponent's board position worse.
You'll just have to check this one out for yourself. If you like the
concept, build it, tweak it and have fun playing Magic: the Gathering. |
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Acidic GU. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, May 12, 2008 |
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Acidic GU. Today's deck
is all about Dream Acid. In fact, its a single-Card Strategy deck around
Dream Acid. It includes cards like Dream Stalker, Drake Familiar and
Tolarian Sentinel to bounce it back to your card and kill the permanent
it was attached to. Other cards in the deck are beatdown esque. Curious?
Check it out. |
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Army of the Faithful. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, May 9, 2008 |
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Army of
the Faithful. If you missed Cashew Week the week of 5.5.08 then you
missed out on this deck. It's a Fallen Empires inspired white weenie
deck including cards like Preacher, Order of Leitbur, Aeolipile and
Icatian Infa | |
