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- 2007
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December 2007 -- in reverse order.
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Smells More Like Spirit. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, December 28, 2007 |
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Smells More Like Spirit.
You have to love the title of the deck. Once you get past the catchy
title, you have a mean white-blue incarnation of a deck using cards like
Tireless Tribe, Confessor, Glory and Deep Analysis in combination with
Spirit Cairn for the win. If you like a different approach to a
white-blue deck, check this one out. |
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Assault on the Earth. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, December 27, 2007 |
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Assault on the Earth.
If you like attacking with lands opposed to normal 'just-creature'
creatures, this deck is for you. Genju of the Cedars, Earth Surge,
Woodwraith Corrupter and Ambush Commander are all in this deck. Oh, and
Rude Awakening too. How fitting! Anyway, this deck is a great start if
you want to build a beatdown land deck. |
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Massacre-less Control. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, December 26, 2007 |
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Massacre-less
Control. This is a rogue T1.5 deck built by Sebastian Smith over at
StarCity Games some time back using lots of efficient black discard
spells and cards like Manticore, The Rack and Powder Keg. While I don't
think it would stand up in the current metagame, what do I know about
that format. I'm casual. Note that I updated this deck page with the
deck detail from the author and deck creator (which I try to do when
posting these deck of the days). |
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Standard Salt and
Pepper Vapors. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, December 21, 2007 |
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Standard Salt and
Pepper Vapors. Standard refers to the format it was built for. Salt
and Pepper refers to the colors of the deck: black and white. Vapors...
well that refers to Lethal Vapors, which this deck attempts to abuse.
Curious? Check it out. |
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Islandhome. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, December 20, 2007 |
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Islandhome.
This is just one of those fun decks I enjoy playing not to win, but
to enjoy blue and cards like Sea Monster, Manta Ray and so on. The
majority of the creatures in the deck are islandwalkers or islandhomers
(can only attack if an opponent controls an island). How do you
get around Islandhomers? I mean, if you opponent isn't playing and
you are stuck with a bunch of defenders? |
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Roarrites. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
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Roarrites. Adrian Sullivan designed this
deck with the help of other Cabal Rogue members. It was a deck focused
on Mindslicer and its impact on Standard, even though it didn't really
see much action during the Odyssey block for many reasons. I would
encourage you to check it out -- it abuses the Madness mechanic in Roar
of the Wurm with cards like Mindslicer and Last Rites. |
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Hitting the Bottle. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
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Hitting the Bottle. This deck
doesn't recommend doing what its title suggests, especially since the
deck can be a little complex. First you want to set up the Bottled
Cloister - Ensnaring Bridge combo. Then add a little Dark Suspicions.
Finish up with a Null Brooch and a Seizan and then once you've won...
Well, you get the idea. |
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Chronocheese. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, December 17, 2007 |
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Chronocheese.
This deck uses the new Barren Glory to give you an alternative win
condition. For those that don't know, Barren Glory is the new "The
Cheese Stands Alone" card which was original from Unglued. Using popular
and powerful suspend cards like Restore Balance and Chronomantic Escape,
you should have no problem in getting rid of all cards in hand and in
play except for Barren Glory to win the game. Check out the deck for
more information. |
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You Got Zurved! |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, December 14, 2007 |
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You Got Zurved! The following is
what Chris Millar has to say about this deck: "This deck came all the way from Denmark,
courtesy of master single-card strategist Christian Moeller-Holst. I’m a
sucker for a deck with a toolbox, and Zur the Enchanter is nothing if
not handy around the house. Given a little time, the Coldsnap Legend can
make you immune to damage, facilitate a sudden twenty-to-the-dome
strategy, or even allow you to blow up all the lands in play, just for
kicks. I like to have Armageddon in my toolboxes. Right next to the
needle-nose pliers." |
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Rector Exam. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
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Rector Exam. This deck attempt to
lockdown the opponent from hurting you via three cards: Ivory mask,
Bubble Matrix and Pariah. While the deck could use some work and
possibly some card switch-outs, I would encourage you to atleast try it.
Then fix it up and make it your own. |
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Rabid Licids. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
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Rabid Licids. If you like Enchant
Creature spells, also known as Auras, you'll like this deck. Using the
Licid cards from the Tempest block, you can build your own personalized
creature. You see, the licids turn into Auras enchanting a creature. Put
some of them on your Thran Golem or Rabid Wombat and go to town.
Rounding out the deck you have Winds of Rath... |
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Erayo Affinity. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, December 11, 2007 |
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Erayo Affinity.
This particular deck placed 7th @ the Columbus, OH regionals back when
Mirrodin block was prevalent. It combines the popular Affinity concept
with Erayo, Soratami Ascendant and Genesis Chamber. I could go on about
the deck, but I figured I would let you figure it out. Affinity and
control at its best... |
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Mercilicious. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, December 10, 2007 |
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Mercilicious. Chris
Millar, this deck's creator, wanted to abuse Stingscourger from Planar
Chaos. Did he succeed in doing so? You'll just have to check
out the deck to find out. I will tell you this, he combines
Stingscourger with Aether Membrane and Kaervek the Merciless.
Where it goes from there... well, like I said -- you'll have to find out
for yourself!!! |
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Seeking Liege. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, December 7, 2007 |
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Seeking Liege. Wow -- This is an old
deck of mine. I kind of forgot about it until I randomly chose it for
today's deck of the day. If you like Forests and you like Gaea's Liege,
you might like this deck. There aren't as many forestwalkers in the deck
as I would typically include in this type of deck, however, it loaded
with ways to make those forests work for you. |
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Twelvepost. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, December 6, 2007 |
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Twelvepost.
This is a deck created and piloted by Gabriel Nassif at Pro Tour KOBE in
2004. It took him to first place! The name comes from the Cloudposts and
the eight means to search out the Cloudposts in the form of Sylvan
Scrying and Reap and Sow - hence the possibkle 12 Cloudposts (not
literally). Once the deck has its mana ramped up it entwines a Tooth and
Nail to bring two of its power critters into play (like Darksteel
Colossus). Or a Mindslaver... |
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Red Elements. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, December 5, 2007 |
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Red Elements. Back before the
elemental surge of Ravnica and Lorwyn, I put together a deck of red
elementals including cards like Cinder Elemental, Skizzik, Fire
Elemental and Subterranean Spirit. Since then there have been a plethora
of good red elementals. However, this deck doesn't have any of them. If
you like tribal and want to make a red elemental tribal deck, check this
deck out. Use it as a point of reference. |
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UR Snow 2006. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 |
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UR Snow 2006. "This is a “draw-go” style deck. The plan is to
just play a land every turn and pass. You almost never play a spell in
your own turn in order to keep mana open during your opponent’s turn. If
your opponent plays something threatening, you use your open mana to
counter it. The deck includes 14 counterspells, so you should usually
hold one..." -Frank Karsten about another's deck. |
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Hulk Smash. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, December 3, 2007 |
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Hulk Smash. Hulk Smash
is a deck from the Eternal Formats. In all honesty, I don't keep up with
the Eternal Formats so I don't know if this deck is still viable.
However, it uses a combination of Cunning and Psychatog to combat an
opponent. And during its heyday, it did well. If you like Psychatog, I
would encourage you to check this deck out. If you have a deck
description for it, let me know via email. |
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November 2007 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Hatch-It Job. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, November 30, 2007 |
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Hatch-it Job. As you
might have guessed, this deck uses Hatching Plans with cards like Read
the Runes. However, what you probably didn't guess is that it is a
Horror Tribal deck too! Curious? Click the link. |
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Thallid Haze. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
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Thallid Haze.
Thallids are a great creature type. In fact, Thallids and Spikes are two
of my all time favorites. This particular deck combhines a little blue
with these moldy critters to tap upon cards like Followed Footsteps and
Paradox Haze. If that wasn't mean enough, the deck's creator decided
Doubling Season was fair game. |
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Un Tidaled. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
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Un Tidaled.
To Infinite and Beyond... with a bunch of non-rare cards. Tidewater
Minion... Dimir Aqueduct... Freed from the Real. Actually, they are all
common. Generate Infinite mana. Combine it with a bunch of LITE cards
and suddenly you have a cool deck. I would encourage you to check this
one out. |
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Rug Routes. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 |
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Rug Routes. This one of the many decks
that tie in the name of the deck with the colors of the deck. The deck
is URG in colors, which can spell RUG. Combine the color with one of the
key cards, Trade Routes, and walla! You have a deck name. This
particular decks likes cards like Seismic Assault, Crucible of Worlds
and Sprouting Vines. |
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Tsetse. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, November 26, 2007 |
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Tsetse. To quote the opening
paragraph of this deck's creator: "During my long sojourn, hunting for (and
Gatherer-ing) Volcano Hellion combos, I stumbled upon a couple of
six-legged freaks that seem like they wouldn't mind having liquid-hot
magma spat upon them. I'm talking, of course, about Broodhatch Nantuko
and Bennie Smith's beloved Saber Ants..." |
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Reborn the Ivy League. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, November 16, 2007 |
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Reborn the Ivy League.
This deck is a remake of an old favorite of mine called Ivy League.
While Death_By_Beebles version of my deck doesn't include Scent of Ivy,
it still has some green heavy hitters and still includes Pattern of
Rebirth. You should check it out, and rebuild it with your own
collection. However, if you are going to use Ivy in the name, include at
least one copy of Scent of Ivy in your deck... |
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Charisma is Greater. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
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Charisma is Greater.
I'll give you two hints on what ths deck is all about. Hint #1 --
The artwork on the card features Gerrard. Hint #2 - the card that
this deck revolves around is from the Masques block. Heck.. I'll
give you a third hint ... the deck revolves around a card reference in
the title of the deck. It's also a LITE deck. Curious? |
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Leave No Stone
Unturned. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
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Leave No Stone
Unturned. This deck is one of the entries from
a past deckbuilding contest titled Land Savvy. It was hosted by
Death_By_Beebles in his Raiding the Dollar Bins article. This particular
deck has many combos including Akki Raider and Impending Disaster,
Mudhole and Planar Birth and Crucible of Words + Zuran Orb + Horn of
Greed... to name a few. Check the deck out! |
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Super Snake
Shooter. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, November 12, 2007 |
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Super Snake
Shooter. To start off this week after a week
of no Deck Feature Updates, I've got a deck from Death_By_Beebles. This
deck is from one of his Raiding the Dollar Bins articles and features
lots of snakes, cards like Endless Swarm and Blasting Station. Where it
goes from there is up to your mechanical imagination. Check it out! |
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Streetzatog. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, November 2, 2007 |
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Streetzatog.
This is an attempt at making a fun Atogatog deck but the fun really
begins with cards like Lifeline and Fecundity. The mana base is very
shaky, mainly because this is a LITE-like deck using few rares. Feel
free to update this for your own use so you can dust off your Atogatogs
currently in your bunk-card-box. |
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Nature's Assault. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, November 1, 2007 |
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Nature's Assault.
It's another Spellweaver Helix deck! This one uses Relentless Assault
and Verdant Touch... and well, Nature's Will to attempt an infinite
attack phase. Buyback spells with Spellweaver Helix are evil.
Unfortunately, this particular combo involves combos. Oh - this is a
deck from Inquest Magazine. Man, do I miss them... |
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October 2007 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Holy Golem. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
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Holy Golem. Wow!
This is an older deck... made long before the great Creature Type Update
from Lorwyn. If you like Golems and have ever thought of building
a Golem tribal deck, use this deck as a platform to jump from.
It's not the best deck, but it how many Golem decks are there? |
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Oh My Keldon! |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, October 29th, 2007 |
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Oh My Keldon!
If you like to break bad rares, this deck is for you.
Abe Sargent from Star City Games put this deck together in an effort to
break Keldon Battlewagon. Yes, that's right... Keldon Battlewagon!
There's something about making a 100/100 creature with trample that's
just fun and mean all at the same time. Interested? Check it
out! |
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Joshie Green 2006. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, October 29th, 2007 |
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Joshie Green 2006.
This is one of those metagame decks that was built in an effort to
combat some of the trends of the metagame of its time. This
particular deck is a green-black aggro style deck with beatdown
creatures and some board control. And of course, Umezawa's Jitte
is in the list too... |
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Fun With Faeries. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, October 26, 2007 |
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Fun With Faeries.
Apparently Garruk works very well with the faeries of Lorwyn, and
HappyBounce's deck, found in the MTGS forums, proves that. This
deck packs lots of new faeries with some old faeries to make for an
efficient and evasive deck. If you wanted to make a Fae deck,
check this deck out for an example. |
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Ajani and Kumar
Go To White Castle. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
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Ajani and Kumar Go To White Castle. I hope everyone is enjoying
Lorwyn Week thus far. We are four days into this week and still
have tons more stuff to throw your way. This deck is
being featured mostly for its name. You have to admit, Ajani and
Kumar Go To White Castle is ingenious. Anyway, the basis of this
deck? Wrath of Gob + Ajani = FTW! |
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Dead and Stupid. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
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Dead and
Stupid. How fitting that our deck of the day today is from a Raiding
the Dollar Bins article. You'd almost think I planned it that way with
there being a new Raiding the Dollar Bins article today. Anyway, this
deck combines Omeletback Goliath with some recursion. Curious? Curious
why I named him Omeletback? I must be hungry... anyway, check out the
deck! |
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Evokeswagon. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
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Evokeswagon.
Hamletback Goliath is a big fan of Lorwyn creatures with Evoke and thus
is the theme of this deck. Packed with cards like Briarhorn,
Cloudthresher, Primal Forcemage and other fun cards, Hamletback Goliath
with get really large really quick. To help cast the Goliath faster
Chris Millar choose cards like Soulbright Flamekin and Sakura-Tribe
Elder to ramp up his mana-base quickly. Check it out. If anything, you
find this to be a start to your own Evoke deck. |
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Doran's Bridge Rules. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, October 22, 2007 |
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Doran's
Bridge Rules. It only makes sense to feature decks using Lorwyn
Cards this week in light of the Lorwyn Theme Week in progress. And thus,
I bring to you the first deck of the week. It features Doran, the
Siege Tower in combincation with Ensnaring Bridge. Interested?
Check it out! |
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Grinball. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, October 19, 2007 |
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Grinball. Ah... another
new deck from the recent deck database update. Grinball is a deck
utilizing Grinning Ignus and Centaur Omenreader to generate large
amounts of mana and high storm counts. Use cards like Empty the Warrens
or Molten Disaster to make use of this mana. How did you like this
week's featured decks? Remember you can discuss them
here. |
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Haakon Y. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
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Haakon Y. These new
Shapeshifters from Lorwyn with the Changeling ability have some fun
interactions. Particularly with Haakon, Stromgald Scourge. This deck is
all about an infinite storm count with a grapeshot to finish off your
opponent. Interested in how it works? Click the link. This is one of the
new decks from the recent deck database update. |
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Birds of A. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
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Birds of A. As the name
suggests, this deck is a tribal deck of Birds. Also as the name
suggests, this deck uses cards that start with A (not counting basic
lands). What the name doesn't suggest is that it is a Pauper deck.
Curious? Check it out. This is one of the decks from MDV"s
most recent deck database update. |
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Knighty Night. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 |
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Knighty Night. Not
only is this a Knight-like theme deck, it's a theme deck too. All of the
nonland cards rhyme with each other. Not only are there knights and
rhyming going on, there are several combos. Most of which revolve around
"Blanket of Night". You'll just have to check this out yourself. |
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CoP Aggro. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, October 15, 2007 |
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CoP Aggro.
I was perusing the WotC forums the other day and happened upon this
deck. Created by Team Zephyr, it uses Circle of Protections in an aggro
fashion. While I would consider it a control type deck with all of the
damage prevention, they coupled cards like Faith Healer, Phantatog and
Balduvian Shaman for an interesting deck that I would to test out. Check
it out -- see if it is up your alley. |
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Yes You Kanzashi. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, October 12, 2007 |
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Yes You Kanzushi.
If you can't tell from the title, which is a crafty title, this deck
means to break Ornate Kanzashi. Lots of Kami block decks this week in
the deck feature. Anyway, the deck has access to all five colors and
thus has a better chance to play whatever card you remove from your
opponents library. Full of Talismen(mans?), Ingots and dual-colored
lands, here's to hoping your opponent is playing good cards in his or
her deck... |
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Goblin Droppings. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, October 11, 2007 |
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Goblin Droppings. This
is a Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar deck creation back from when he did House
of Cards on www.wizards.com. In this deck he attempts to abuse Airdrop
Condor from Onslaught block in a deck full of goblins. Did he
succeed? You'll just have to check it out. |
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Oni Potent. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
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Oni Potent. Ogres and
Demons go well together, at least in the Kamigawa block they did. This
budget oriented deck attempts merge the two tribes together in a aggro
deck full of beats and creature hate. Did I mention this is a LITE deck? |
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Lockness. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, October 9, 2007 |
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Lockness. The
Kamigawa block attempted to bring back some reincarnations of pieces
from old Stasis decks in the form of Orb of Dreams and Hokori, Dust
Drinker. Unfortunately, they were nothing compared to the original but
the deck still makes a nice control, almost pseudo lockdown, deck. |
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Blood Gulch. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, October 8, 2007 |
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Blood Gulch. Who would
have thought red could make a good mill deck? While this deck
isn't purely red, some of its mill cards are. The red mill cards
include Dragon Mage and Book Burning. Anarchist helps to recur the Book
Burning and other blue mill cards. The deck also features a suite
of burn cards to keep your opponent on edge throughout the match. |
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Legion Land Loss. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, October 5, 2007 |
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Legion Land Loss. If you haven't
yet seen the pattern from this week's featured decks of the days, this
week's theme was land destruction decks. Today's deck is a well know
green LD deck called Legion Land Loss. Packed with efficient creatures
and cards like Creeping Nold, Thermokarst and Winter's Grasp, this green
deck is as good as it is cruel. Check it out! |
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Thunder Cats. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, October 4, 2007 |
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Thunder Cats. ThunderCats is what
Brian Kibler refers to as a FOIL deck -- or a metagame deck. This Land
Destruction varient fared well against other decks of its time
considering how mana hungry they were. Check it out. This deck came
about during the Masques-Invasion era. |
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Sinkhole. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 |
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Sinkhole. This is one of my earlier
decks, modified in the database to reflect four Sinkhole cards -- I only
own one. This is a mean mono-black land destruction deck that
features cards like Sinkhole, Ice Quake and Rain of Tears in addition to
Iron Maiden and Worms of the Earth. The end result is a cruel
black deck that your opponents' will fear. |
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Snatch Steal. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, October 2, 2007 |
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Snatch Steal. Who
ever thought a mono-blue land destruction deck could be so potent. With
cards like Annex, Confiscate, Copy Enchantment, Dream Leash and
Tidespout Tyrant, this blue LD deck packs a punch. Designed by our own
Chris Newton, aka Tynion, this deck is a must try if you like blue and
LD. |
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Not Quite Armageddon. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, October 1, 2007 |
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Not Quite Armageddon. A white
and red land destruction deck, now that's interesting. What even more
interesting is that this deck made Top8 at an Ontario Provincials with
more LD spells than land. Be sure to check it out -- it even includes
Ark of Blight in the decklist! |
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September 2007 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Droverdrive. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, September 28, 2007 |
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Droverdrive. If you
like fatties and drovers, this deck is for you. It's chock full of
six-plus casting cost creatures and Krosan Drover. The Drover
reduces the mana cost of creatures with cmc (converted mana cost) of six
or more by two - thus making a six cmc creature cost only four.
That's spiffy and this deck is all about that interaction. |
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Lady and the Trampler. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
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Lady and the
Trampler. This is a relatively cheap deck to make with only two
rares in it: 1 Myr Matrix and 1 Darksteel Colossus. The deck birthset is
Mirrodin as it is chock full of Myr. To help out in mana production, as
if there wasn't enough there are Urza's Lands and Cloudposts. Let's not
forget the Fireballs... |
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Icky. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
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Icky. This anti-black deck
features both black and white cards. One of the combos in this deck
includes Infected Vermin and Strength of Isolation. By giving your weak
pestilence-like creature protection from black, it can't hurt itself and
die from its own ability. Other cards that round out this deck include
Duress, Vindicate and Plague Spitter. |
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Uktabi's Forge. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
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Uktabi's Forge.
While this is listed in the deck database as a combo deck, it is
actually a land destruction (LD) deck. The combo involves uses
Thran Forge, Uktabi Orangutans and Stampeding Wildebeests to destroy a
land a turn. Kind of a drawn out combo, but it's a little more fun
and exciting than a normal LD deck. |
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Garv.dec. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, September 24, 2007 |
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Garv.dec. This is a former
Type One deck. Of course, perhaps it is a current Type One deck too but
I don't know that because I need help in that portion of deck strategy.
If you want to help, please send me an
email. You can assist in providing Type One decks that the MDV
Database should have, update deck listings or update information about
type one decks currently in the database. For instance, this deck
doesn't have an author noted or a deck description. I can tell you it is
an aggro style deck with efficient early drops and other tricks that
make it a threat against other Type One decks. Cards like Kird Ape,
Troll Ascetic and Berserk are all good examples of its strategy. |
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Waiting in Line. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, September 21, 2007 |
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Waiting in Line.
Ah! Three colors decks. Gotta love 'em! If you haven't noticed, this
week's decks of the days all had the same color combination in common.
I'm not trying to copy what www.wizards.com is doing -- I just thought
it would be fun to have theme weeks for deck of the day. In the
meantime, this deck is centered around Hold the Line. But how it is --
you'll just have to click on the link to find out! |
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Dawn of the Worms. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
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Dawn of the Worms.
Vermiculous is affectionly called Worm-boy by MaGo and thus he built a
deck around it. However, this deck how a fun little combo involving a
recursion white card from the Mirrodin Block. Remember which card? If
not, I'll tell you -- It's Second Sunrise. Be sure to check this deck
out! |
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The Lich Deck. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
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The Lich Deck. If
you've never seen a "Lich" deck, you might want to check it out. Not
because it is something completely new that no one has ever seen, but
because it combos the card with Transcendence. That's good fun if you
ask me. |
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Desolation. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
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Desolation.
Control Apocalypse style. This
Inquest engineered deck includes four copies of Desolution Angel, some
Desolation Giants and a playset of Vindicates. No wonder this deck
is titled Desolation. Also included in the decklist are great
cards like Orim's Chant, Death's Grasp and Phyrexian Arena. If
only Apocalypse had access to the dual lands of Ravnica block... |
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Cocoa Pebbles. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, September 17, 2007 |
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Cocoa Pebbles. This
is one of the many combo decks named after cereals (i.e. Fruity Pebbles,
Wheaties, Trix, etc). This deck uses Goblin Bombardment, Enduring
Renewal and Shield Sphere to do large amounts of damage. The difference
between this deck and Fruity Pebbles is the inclusion of Necropotence. |
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Vampires and Moons. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, September 14, 2007 |
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Vampires and Moons.
If you like traditional tribal decks, and vampires, you'll like this
deck. This deck uses a good range of Vampires with cards like Vampiric
Feast, Steal Strength, Drain Life and Bad Moon. The keep a lower mana
curve considering all vampires are a bit expensive, the creator uses the
thematic Grimclaw Bats and Vampire Bats. |
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Rats without Honor. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
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Rats without Honor.
If the name didn't give it away, this is a tribal Rat deck full of
little black furry creatures and some Aether Vials. Did I mention this
is also a LITE deck? |
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Mutilator. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
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Mutilator. If you haven't
heard, Inquest Magazine is no more. The September 2007 issue, #150, is
the last issue for the magazine. I, for one, will miss the magazine as
I've had a subscription to it for a LONG time. In the meantime, this is
a deck I found in Inquest that uses Mutilate with a slew of other
efficient black creatures from the time -- i.e. this is
MBC(Mono-Black-Control). |
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Hitman's Scorpion. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
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Hitman's Scorpion.
"Named after the character in
Mortal Kombat, this is a simple, effective, fast, and expensive deck,
this one revolves around the combo of Norritt/Nettling Imp, Vampires,
and Sorceress Queen with a side dish of Royal Assassin and Sadistic
Glee. It usually has a good threat out by turn 3 and often quicker."
Note that I am quoting the unknown deck creator. |
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Corrupter. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, September 10, 2007 |
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Corrupter. This deck is
an almost creatureless deck featuring lots of black control spells and
the Mirari. Combining the Mirari with cards like Duress, Corrupt,
Mutilate and Chainer's Edict can make for an angry opponent. The
Cabal Coffers just make it that much easier to pull it all off. |
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August 2007 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Nagle's Dragons. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
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Nagle's Dragons.
Kenneth Nagle wrote an article for
www.wizards.com talking about different deckbuilding strategies.
Not only is this a mid-range deck, but it's also a Tribal Dragon deck.
It uses a moderate amount of mana acceleration in the forum of Mind
Stone and Thran Dynamo to pump out large dragons. Be sure and
check it out! |
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FIVE - A Deck. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
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FIVE - A Deck.
In honor of
MDV's unofficial birthday this month,
where it turned five, I figured I would feature a deck that somehow tied
in with the 5 years MDV has been around. This was the best I could
do. This deck is a theme deck that uses all one word card names in
a WUBRG decklist. It's quite ingenious for the theme of it.
I challenge you to make a similar deck! |
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Splice and Dice. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, August 9, 2007 |
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Splice and Dice.
Izzet players rejoice! Today's deck of the day combined blue and red to
make an infinite combo using Lava Spike and Izzet Guildmage. Be sure and
read the description of the deck after the deck box as it will explain
the combo in full. Thanks, Death_By_Beebles! |
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We're a Band! |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, August 7, 2007 |
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We're a Band!
Banding is probably one of the most confusing mechanics in all of Magic
design. And if you like to be confused while playing a deck, or at
the very least confusing your opponent(s), try this deck out. It's
a theme deck chock full of Banding creatures. |
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Stuff This. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, August 6, 2007 |
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Stuff This.
A few months back, actually almost a year ago, I wrote an article about
Stuffy Doll. The first deck I featured was called Stuff This which
included combo-licious card Pariah with Stuff Doll as a sure means to
kill an opponent. If this deck doesn't light your fire, keep
scrolling down as you'll find several other decks using Stuffy Doll too. |
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Bloody Return. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, August 3 |
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Bloody Return.
Given there's a new Raiding the Dollar Bins article for today, I thought
it would be fitting to feature an old deck from the series. This
deck approaches Bloodbond March with a LITE perspective. When I
say LITE, I mean budget. A low rare card with a high power ratio.
If that doesn't make sense, just check out the deck. You are sure
to like it. |
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Linessa's Hunt. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, August 1, 2007 |
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Linessa's Hunt. The
Legends with Grandeur are awesome and become even more awesome when you
have several of them in your hand. This deck uses Pack Hunt to
make that happen more often and even a mysterious Unhinged card to
double the possible number of Legends with Grandeur. The Grandeur
or choice in this deck is Linessa. |
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July 2007 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Indestructible March. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
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Indestructible
March. Apologies on the lack of Deck of the Day updates lately -
things have been chaotic for me. In the meantime, today I have a
deck for you. This particiular deck is all about dropping
indestructible artifacts from the Mirrodin block and then following it
up with March of the Machines. This deck's creator uses Wrath of
God and Culling Scales to not only buy you time in setting up your army,
but to also combo with your indestructible creatures. |
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A Man Among Thrulls. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
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A Man Among
Thrulls. If you like Thrulls, this deck is for
you. It takes an old-school approach to a Thrull tribal deck with
cards like Ebon Praetor, Armor Thrull and Blood Pet. Add in a little
Oath of Ghouls, Grave Pact and Cabal Therapy and you get some
excitement. And to round out the deck, it's legendary centerpiece is
none other than Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder. Does your thrull deck look
like this? |
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Uncle Fester's Dreamy
Deck. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, July 23, 2007 |
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Uncle
Fester's Dreamy Deck. This combo deck uses
Underworld Dreams and Teferi's Puzzlebox to lock in some serious damage
every turn. While there's a slew of discard cards incuding Hypnotic
Specter and Blackmail, Howling Mine should keep the hands full. Megrim
seals the deal. Check the deck out! |
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Top Seeded. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, July 19, 2007 |
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Top Seeded.
Gruul Goodness can be found in this deck with token generators, Ulasht,
the Hate Seed and Doubling Season. What really makes the tick though is
Cloudstone Curio. Curious? Check it out. |
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Mighty Maniac. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, July 18, 2007 |
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Mighty Maniac.
Green-Red beatdown has never been more fun. This deck packs Mogg
Fanatics, Mogg Maniacs, Rhox, Primal Boosts and Might of Oaks. A little
burn, a lot of beatdown. Good times. What does your GR Beatdown deck
look like? |
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Tequila. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
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Tequila.
Tokens are fun. 6/6 Wurm tokens are more fun. Trampling 7/7 Wurm Tokens
are even better. This deck makes 'em thanks to cards like Crush of Wurms
and Mirari. Mirari's Wake gives you the extra mana and Brawn gives them
trample. Green with a splash of white apparently makes Tequilla. of
course, the creator was obviously referring to the worm at the bottom of
a bottle of Tequilla... |
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The Abyss for Beginners. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
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The Abyss for
Beginners. MDV has this little section
in it's Deck Database that debuts multiplayer decks (MDV calls them
GROUP decks). This decks packs a punch
including cards like Syphon Mind, Abyssal Gatekeeper, Barter in Blood
and other multiplayer gifted cards. If your a regular group player,
bring this deck to the table. Just remember to make it your own. |
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Twofer. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, July 10, 2007 |
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Twofer.
If you like blue-black control, you'll like this deck. Nekrataal,
Stupor, Infernal Contract, Binding Grasp, Lobotmy... all in there. The
centerpiece of the deck is really Forbidden Ritual, although I like the
addition of Triskelion. Check it out -- use some old cards and modify it
to be your own UB control deck. |
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Roshambo |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, July 9, 2007 |
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Roshambo.
This is a rather well-known Mercadian Masques block deck created by
several people using Death Pit Offering and Natural Affinity. I would
encourage you to check it out, substitute some of your own cards, and
give the deck a spin. It's quite fun. |
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Balls to the Walls. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, July 6, 2007 |
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Balls to the Wall.
Assuming the rumored spoilers are true, walls are making a come back in
Xth edition. I guess it's time to break this type of deck out
again. Specifically, this deck casts a bunch of versatile and
efficient walls and then lays a Rolling Stone enchantment. The
enchantment enables all of your walls to attack and suddenly you have a
mean first-striking, flame bearing army your opponent's won't want to
deal with. |
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Good Form 2005. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, July 5, 2007 |
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Good Form 2005.
When you mix Seething Song, Enduring Ideal and Form of the Dragon you're
in Good Form 2005. This innovative deck uses the aforementioned
cards and cards like Zur's Weirding to put a lock on your opponent.
This deck used cards from Mirrodin Block, Ninth Edition and Kamigawa. |
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The American Way. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, July 4, 2007 |
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The American Way.
Takes the two decks from earlier this week, and build a similar deck
using the same colors in Ravnica's block. You'd be using Boros, Izzet
and Azorius. This deck does just that with cards like Azorius Herald,
Court Hussar, Lightning Helix and Odds/Ends. |
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Star Spangled Slaughter. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, July 3, 2007 |
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Star Spangled
Slaughter. This deck is very similar to the
Fire 'n Ice deck from yesterday. It involves a lot of red, white and
blue cards that form an aggro, control deck appropriately named Star
Spangled Slaughter. This version of the deck uses cards like Meddling
Mage and Lightning Angel. |
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Fire 'n Ice. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, July 2, 2007 |
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Fire 'n Ice.
As the title suggests, the deck includes the split card Fire/Ice. And
Rakavolver, Prophetic Bolt, Suffocating Blast and Goblin Legionnaire. If
you couldn't tell, it's a red-white-blue deck. Anyway, this is fun,
burn, control, aggro deck from a few years ago. Feel free to check it
out, update it with some Ravnica cards and go to town. |
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June 2007 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Well of Worship. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
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Well of Worship.
As the name implies, this deck uses Well of Lost Dreams, Words of
Worship and lots of life gain. To top it off, the deck's creator
included Ageless Entity and Fireshrieker for good times. |
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Sheep. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
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Sheep.
Back before the days of Kamigawa block, before Azusa and before Curcible
of Worlds, there was Ovinomancer. And then there was a card called
Burgeoning. This deck attempts to use those two cards together, along
with Manabond, to turn lots of creatures into sheep. If you want a fresh
approach to Ovinomancer that's actually an old approach, check this deck
out. |
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Shuffling Madness. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
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Shuffling
Madness. If you like shuffling and cards that work well with other
cards that make people shuffle their decks, this deck is for you. Of
course, I'm not talking about Soldier of Fortune or the Probe... this
deck uses cards from a fictional set of cards called Celixia. If you are
interested in the cards you see, you might want to check out the visual
spoiler (linked to on the deck page). Let me know what you think in the
forums. |
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The Shambler. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, June 25, 2007 |
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The Shambler. Fungal
Shambler, the centerpiece of today's deck of the day, feel victim to a
FTK metagame. In other words, Flame-Tongue Kavu kept people from playing
Fungal Shambler as often before the Shambler only had four toughness.
However, if your casual group is FTK free, give this deck a chance. |
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Kill U With Myr. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, June 22, 2007 |
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Kill U With Myr.
This are few decks in the MDV Deck Database that are themed around one
artist. However, this is one of them. The theme? Kev
Walker art. Obviously this excludes basic lands. Anyway,
this deck aims to with with cards like Vedalken Archmage, Upheavel and
Glorious Anthem... along with a plethora of the common Myr from
Mirrodin. Have a fun Artist Theme Deck? Post it in the
forums! |
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Cadaverous Chaos. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
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Cadaverous Chaos.
Cadaverous Bloom - a card from Mirage block that works terribly well
with Squandered Resources and Drain Life. This chaos (multiplayer) deck
features all three of those cards along with Iron Maiden and Prosperity.
Quick sidenote: In my opinion, Inquest is the best gamer Magazine out
there (for English speaking people anyway). If you don't have a
subscription to it, I would recommend it. There are always great decks,
combos and articles pertaining to Magic... now if they only offered more
to the casual player they would be perfect. |
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What's For Dinner? |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
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What's For Dinner?
It's a tribal ATOG deck!!! To enforce the atog tribe as a tribal deck,
this deck's creator uses Coat of Arms, Cover of Darkness and Cryptic
Gateway. Then you have six different atog creatures and what looks like
a mess of lands. The end result -- a good time. |
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Intolerance. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
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Intolerance.
Remember Mask of Intolerance from the Invasion block? Well, this deck
tries to abuse that card with a slew of land changing cards and some
artifact duplication. The rest of the deck uses card advantage and
control in the form of Propaganda to keep your opponent's offenses at
bay. Overall, this is a fun deck although considering how old it is I'm
sure you can rebuild it using the same concept. Enjoy! |
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Generations. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, June 18, 2007 |
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Generations.
If you like Saprolings, infinite mana, and/or infinite creatures -- you
should like today's deck. The deck uses Fecundity, Elvish Farmer and a
slew of Saproling generators to fuel the deck. Spellbook and Gaea's
Blessing help to either keep your hand full or your library full.
Sterling Grove helps to protect your enchantments. Overall, this is a
fun deck and I would encourage you to check it out, rebuild it and have
some fun with the concept. |
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GB All Common
Control |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, June 15, 2007 |
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GB All
Common Control. Pauper is a format using
all commons to build decks. This deck, by Chris Romeo of Star City
Games, makes use of that format to build a green-black beatdown/control
deck utilizing cards like Craw Wurm, Rend Flesh and Moss Kami. I'm
currently trying to beef up the Pauper and Peasant decks in MDV's Deck
Database. If you have a good one, post it in the casual deck forum
noting [PAUPER] or [PEASANT] in the thread title. |
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Casual Doom. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
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Casual Doom.
Speaking of Bouncing Around, today's deck has some fun bounce cards like
Turbulent Dreams and Sunken Hope. In combination with Megrim and Warped
Devotion, this deck has quite a bit of bounce-discard-combo power. That
and it's extremely casual and creature-less. Curious? Just click
on the deck icon! |
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Ace of Spades. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
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Ace of Spades.
Today's deck is actually a theme deck. What's the theme?
Anti-Black! This deck is packed full of creatures with Protection
from Black - everything from Llanowar Knight to Nantuko Blightcutter.
The deck even has a play set of Basking Rootwalla for those discard
mages. If your friends like to play black all of the time, give this
deck a try -- with a few of your own tweaks, of course. |
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Power Struggle |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, June 8, 2007 |
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Power Struggle.
Reins of Power is a favorite of many blue mages from
Stronghold and this deck combos it's switcheroo effect with Claws of
Gix. Mind you, there are much better ways to do the whole 'kill
all of your opponent's creatures' with Reins of Power, but it's still a
fun deck. |
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Instant Hulk. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, June 7, 2007 |
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Instant Hulk.
It wasn't too long after the occurrence of Hulk-Flash that Flash got
banned in a tournament format. With the right mix of cards, the
Hulk-Flash combo can win during one's upkeep! Check out MZ's deck list
in today's article and a brief description of the deck whether or not
you are familiar with this combo deck. |
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Ringing the Bell. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, June 6, 2007 |
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Ringing the Bell.
If you like Morph, you'll like this deck. Nate Heiss, the creator, fills
the deck with Onslaught block morphing creatures and cards like Skirk
Alarmist and Dream Chisel to enhance the theme. It also happens to be a
LITE deck -- a deck known for it's ease on the pocketbook. |
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Ugly Beast. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, June 5, 2007 |
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Ugly Beast. If you like
Beast Tribal decks, you are sure to like this one. Chris Millar put
together a band of beefy and evasive creatures including tribal friendly
Canopy Crawler and Feral Throwback. This beast deck even has some mean
grafters. |
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I Vex, Therefore I Am. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, June 1, 2007 |
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I Vex, Therefore
I Am. If anything, I just like the name of
this deck. Vexing Arcanix is one of the weird cards from Ice Age that
was later reprinted in 8th Edition just to give us all a taste of
interesting artifact-ness. This deck designer decided it would be fun to
mess with people's heads using cards like Portent, Think Tank and
Ransack. If you are going to playtest this deck out on some friends,
bring some Advil along... |
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May 2007 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Sap Attack. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
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Sap Attack.
As the name would make you assume, this deck is all about Saprolings.
Cards like Verdeloth, Nemata, Death Mutation and Sporogenesis are all in
there. And given it's black-green, the creator had to include at least
two Spiritmongers. Why don't you try updating this deck with all of the
new Saproling Generators out there. This deck is kind of old. |
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All Hail The Goblin King. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
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All Hail The
Goblin King. During the Onslaught Block and
for quite some time after that, Goblins were a force to fear. However,
Goblins' reign over metagames wasn't just post-Onslaught. For example,
take a look at the featured deck. It uses Goblin King in conjunction
with well known and older goblin cards for the win. The key piece?
Mystic Compass. |
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Advocate This! |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
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Advocate This!
There were cycles of cards in Judgment that gave you an effect in
exchange for putting cards from an opponent's graveyard back into their
hand. While the effects varied, I personally never preferred giving an
opponent a card back. However, one ingenious deckbuilder decided to take
advantage of keeping your opponent's hand full. Cards like Ebony Owl
Netsuke, Viseling and Storm Seeker all like full hands. Check the deck
out! |
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UB Slivers. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, May 28, 2007 |
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UB Slivers.
Back before Slivers overran the Time Spiral block, and even apparently
invaded the future (as seen on Time Shifted Slivers from Future Sight),
there was wave two of Slivers in the Onslaught Block. This
particular deck uses those slivers with a combination of blue and black
control spells to make for a challenging deck for an opponent to beat. |
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UB Slivers. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, May 25, 2007 |
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UB Slivers.
Back before Slivers overran the Time Spiral block, and even apparently
invaded the future (as seen on Time Shifted Slivers from Future Sight),
there was wave two of Slivers in the Onslaught Block. This
particular deck uses those slivers with a combination of blue and black
control spells to make for a challenging deck for an opponent to beat. |
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Zebra Hive. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
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Zebra Hive.
If you like the Zuberas from the Kamigawa Block, and you like Wireflies,
and you like Krark's Thumb... you'll like this deck. I'll let you figure
this one out -- however, know it is at least a tribal Zubera deck! |
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You Got Zurved! |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
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You Got Zurved!
MDV has this section of the deck database called Single Card Strategies,
SCS for short. A SCS deck is one that revolves around one card. In
this deck's case, it rotates around Zur the Enchanter from Coldsnap,
loaded with fun enchantments to pull out using Zur's ability.
Check it out, tweak it, make it your own and have fun playing it! |
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Illusionary. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
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Illusionary.
Tribal Illusions, mono-blue style. This deck features cards like
Imaginary Pet, Equilibrium, Brass Herald, Fleeting Image and a plethora
of Mistform creatures from the Onslaught block. This deck is a few years
old so I'm sure you can find plenty of cool new Illusions to update it
for yourself. Krovikan Mist anyone? |
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World of Hurt. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, May 21, 2007 |
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World of Hurt.
This is a blue-red combo-pain deck using cards like Citalde of Pain and
Manabarbs together! This is also a deck submission from the forum turned
into a deck in the MDV Deck Database by Neuromancer. |
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Seton. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, May 18, 2007 |
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Seton.
As the deck title suggests, this deck makes use of Seton, Krosan
Protector. What the title doesn't suggest that the deck is packed with
flashback cards and token generators. It even has a playset of Catalyst
Stone to facilitate the flashback themes in the deck. Overall, it's a
fun mono-green beatdown deck. |
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Stop and Go. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
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Stop and Go.
A deck by Anthony Alongi -- he mixed cards like Propsperity and
Indentured Djinn with cards like Standstill. One part of the deck wants
to keep spells a playin' while the other part wants to keep them at bay.
(Thus the Stop and Go deck title). Together, they make for a fun deck. |
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The Abyss for Beginners. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
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The Abyss for
Beginners. MDV has this little section
in it's Deck Database that debuts multiplayer decks (MDV calls them
GROUP decks). This deck is a new entry for that section of the database
including cards like Syphon Mind, Abyssal Gatekeeper, Barter in Blood
and other multiplayer gifted cards. If your a regular group player,
bring this deck to the table. Just remember to make it your own. |
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Time Sifting |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
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Time Sifting.
Death_By_Beebles describes this deck as
strange, fun and not necessarily difficult to play. The deck attempts to
break Timesifter with cards like Sensei's Diving Top and a plethora of
high casting cost cards. All of this is done in a LITE deck way -- that
is the deck is relatively cheap to get the pieces for and the rare is
worth one dollar. |
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Petroglyphing. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, May 14, 2007 |
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Petroglyphing.
Here's a nice new deck for your perusal straight from
the latest batch of deck database updates. This deck, by Ben
Bleiweiss @ SCG, using a bunch of vanilla creatures with Muraganda
Petroglyphs for a mean beatdown deck. Check it out -- make it your
own -- and enjoy the game! |
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Darkstaff. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, May 11, 2007 |
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Darkstaff. Ah, a fun deck
that uses Proteus Staff without the Goblin Charbelcher. Ultimately, the
one card you are fetching in this deck is Darksteel Colossus. Along the
way you have Wrath of God, Mana Leak and Aether Spellbomb to ensure the
success of the Colossus. |
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Watch Your Step. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 10, 2007 |
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Watch Your Step.
Here's a deck that was originally found in the Casual
Deck section in the MDV forums that became a deck in the MDV Deck
Database. Neuromancer, the deck's creator, uses Powerstone Minefield the
delay an opponent's game and then uses Serra Angel to finish them off. |
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Impwrath. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, May 9, 2007 |
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Impwrath.
Tribal Imps are fun -- especially with the
Deluge-Maddening Imp combo. Deluge taps all non-flying creatures.
Maddening Imp makes them attack, and if they don't -- they die. Good
times. |
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18 Blue Counters. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, May 8, 2007 |
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18 Blue Counters.
If you like the Arcbound creatures from Darksteel,
you are sure to like this deck. Packed with seven different Arcbounds,
Gemini Engine and Sage of Lat-Nam, this deck will prove to be fun and
aggravating for your opponent. Ironically enough, there isn't actually a
counterspell in the deck and you would think from the title. |
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Ivy League. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, May 7, 2007 |
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Ivy League.
Ivy League is one of my personal favorites. At it's
core is a beatdown deck with cards like Albino Troll, Rancor and Thorn
Elemental. However, with cards like Heart Warden, Scryb Sprites, Scent
of Ivy and Pattern of Rebirth, you have a little more speed and force.
Of course, Pattern combos with Heart Warden nicely. Check it out! |
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Wheeled Warriors. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, May 4, 2007 |
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Wheeled Warriors.
Barbed Shocker causes a "Wheel of Fate" effect when
it deals damage to an opponent. This decks pairs up the insect with a
Viridian Longbow. Coupled with cards like Wheel of Fate and Dragon Mage
you have a not-so-typical MILL deck. |
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Chaodeath. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 3, 2007 |
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Chaodeath. Chaodeath is
a deck that is currently in the works, but has potential to be added to
the database, thus the [DBM]
in the thread title. It's a PAUPER deck, which means it is all commons.
Originally the deck used Anarchist and Death Duets for some mean common
recursion. |
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Tamanoan Meditation
Technique |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 |
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Tamanoan
Meditation Technique. Tamanoa was one
of those cards that made me go 'OOOOOH!' when I first saw it. Even
better is that I sooned realized it's combo potential with cards like
Searing Meditation. Brian David-Marshall built this deck and
posted it on www.wizards.com before Coldsnap's release on Magic Online. |
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Tamanoan Meditation
Technique |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, May 1, 2007 |
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Tamanoan
Meditation Technique. Tamanoa was one
of those cards that made me go 'OOOOOH!' when I first saw it. Even
better is that I sooned realized it's combo potential with cards like
Searing Meditation. Brian David-Marshall built this deck and
posted it on www.wizards.com before Coldsnap's release on Magic Online. |
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April 2007 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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So You Hate Me |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, April 30, 2007 |
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So
You Hate Me. There are fun combos and
then there are mean combos. If you plan on making this deck, I would
encourage you to only play it once or twice against any opponent. Once
you've made your rounds, dismantle it or you may lose friends. The deck
uses the Splinter - Myr Landshaper combo to eradicate your opponent's
lands. |
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Angelgeddon |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, April 27, 2007 |
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Angelgeddon.
The owner of CabalCity.com, a beautiful site that you all should check
out at least once, put this deck together featuring lots of angels and
cards like Glory and Wrath of God. Angels included in the decklist are
Desolation Angel, Serra Angel, Voice of All, Akroma (the original) and
Sustainer of the Realm. |
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Yearn to Urn |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
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Yearn to Urn.
Travel back in time two years to Death_By_Beebles's first article ever,
titled Raiding the Dollar Bins. The deck uses Blinkmoth Urn with a
LOT of artifacts (including Myr Matrix). In effect, the Urn will
produce an exorbitant amount of mana and you will be able to cast a
really big Fireball. The deck is solid and the cost to make it is
CHEAP. You can check out his other Raiding the Dollar Bins
here. |
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Oatmeal |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, April 25, 2007 |
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Oatmeal.
This deck was pulled from a website called magicsingles.com - which
appears not to exist anymore. I searched and searched the web
archives and could not find a deck description for this one. It
does however use the interaction of Riptide Mangler, Nantuko Husk and
Caller of the Claw in a combo-like fashion. However, Dirge of
Dread cards as a means of evasion for the army/big Mangler is weak.
Can you make this Oatmeal better? Post it in the casual deck
forum! |
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Hammer Time |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
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Hammer Time.
Who doesn't love infinite combo decks? This particular deck uses
Spellweaver Helix, Time Stretch and Hammer of Bogardan to reach infinite
turns and kill with lots of burn. Sounds like fun to me. Note that if
you see any combos on the infinite combo page without a deck link to
submit one in the forum. Link to the combo page and note in the thread
title "INFINITE COMBO PAGE DECK - [name]" that way I'll notice it
faster. |
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Life Crusher Redux |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, April 23, 2007 |
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Life Crusher Redux. Sometimes
featured decks aren't actually part of the deck database of MDV!
This particular deck was subimtted in the MDV forums for review and
comment. It is a 'redux' version of the typical Life Crusher deck
known abroad. Have comments about it? Post it in the forum! |
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Kill U With Myr |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, April 20, 2007 |
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Kill U With Myr.
MDV has a small collection of Artist Theme decks, this being one of
them. Note: You can find them in the "THEME" portion of the deck
database. ALL of the non-land cards in the deck are illustrated by Kev
Walker (one of my artist favorites). Plus, it's a tribal Myr deck! |
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Zirilan's Kiln |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
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Zirilan's Kiln.
TRIBAL decks are fantastic. Decks with dragons are fantastic.
Tribal Dragon are even better. This tribal deck, by Mark Gottlieb,
uses various dragons with Zirilan the Claw. I think with the many
dragons in Time Spiral including Torax Bladewing from Future Sight, this
deck is due for an update by you! |
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GB All Common
Control |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
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GB All
Common Control. Pauper is a format using
all commons to build decks. This deck, by Chris Romeo of Star City
Games, makes use of that format to build a green-black beatdown/control
deck utilizing cards like Craw Wurm, Rend Flesh and Moss Kami. I'm
currently trying to beef up the Pauper and Peasant decks in MDV's Deck
Database. If you have a good one, post it in the casual deck forum
noting [PAUPER] or [PEASANT] in the thread title. |
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Need Help |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
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Need Help.
Deck Names often play off of a certain card in the deck. In this
case, it's Time of Need. Being a Kamigawa era deck, it had plenty
of beefy Legends to pull out when in need. Including the legendary
dragons. |
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Roshambo |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, April 16, 2007 |
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Roshambo.
This is a rather well-known Mercadian Masques block deck created by
several people using Death Pit Offering and Natural Affinity. I would
encourage you to check it out, substitute some of your own cards, and
give the deck a spin. It's quite fun. |
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Kithkin Weaponry |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, April 13, 2007 |
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Kithkin Weaponry.
Sometimes fun ideas don't work out as well as you would like. This
deck attempted to make full use of Amrou Kithkin with Thran Weaponry and
Intrepid Hero. While the deck should work like a Weenie deck with
some added synergies, it just didn't play as well as expected. Can
you make this deck better while staying true to the name? |
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The Cheese Stands Alone |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, April 12 2007 |
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The Cheese
Stands Alone. Given the fact that I
posted the Unglued Visual Spolier, it's only appropriate that I feature
a deck using an Unglued Card. This particular deck, as if you
didn't guess it, features the ALT-WIN card The Cheese Stands Alone...
Using cards like Renounce and Tireless Tribe, this deck can actually
win! |
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Yawgmoth's Day Off. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |
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Yawgmoth's Day Off.
What happens when Yawgmoth, most likely the greatest villain of MTG,
takes a day off? You get a demonic theme deck. While this
deck is older and could use some fine tuning, it's a great start.
That and I had to feature a Villain-ish deck given today's article. |
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Zombo Combo |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
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Zombo Combo.
The House of Cards over on wizards.com has long been a provider of decks
for the MDV Deck Database. This particular deck, back from when
Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar ran the House, uses Rotlung Reanimator with
Artificial Evolution. With a little Cabal Archon and Nantuko Husk,
you've got yourself a mean deck. |
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Afterwhile Crocodile |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, April 9, 2007 |
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Afterwhile
Crocodile. Tribal
decks are fun. In fact, MDV has the best selection of Tribal decks on
the net. This particular deck, by Abe Sargent @ SCG, is all about
Crocodiles! Not Gators mind you, but Crocs. If you have some
Crocodiles laying around, give this deck a try. |
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Oath Bolt |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, April 6, 2007 |
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Oath Bolt.
A little secret: before Streetz started Magic Deck Vortex, he posted
100's of decks on MTGFanatic. There he met several people
including Phillip Morris who was an excellent deck designer. This
deck, which uses Blood Oath and Sunder, was put together with the help
of Mr. Morris. |
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Blanket of Algae |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, April 5, 2007 |
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Blanket of Algae.
Eric Son Huynh has a website that has been around the net for a LONG
time. So long that he was referenced in the "The Magic the
Gathering Internet Guide" as in the top 150 sites for Magic back then.
This is one of the many unique and fun decks from his lists. Guess
what cards it uses. X |
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Tom's Temper |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, April 4, 2007 |
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Tom's Temper.
One of the highlights of Magic Deck Vortex in the beginnnig was the
monthly contest. Temper Temper, the second contest on MDV, made
contestants try out Temper (white uncommon from Tempest). This
deck, using cards like Spikes, Magmasaur and Savage Firecat, placed
fourth. |
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Black-skelion |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, April 3, 2007 |
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Black-skelion.
There are some of us that are sadistic about Triskelion. Streetz
owns about 40 of them. It's especially cool to combine Triskelion
with Sadistic Glee in one deck, as today's features deck shows.
Give it a try, and remember to stay Mephidross free. |
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Keef/Agent 666 |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, April 2, 2007 |
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Keef/Agent 666.
Everyone wants to break cards that don't sway in your favor. One
such card is Sleeper Agent from Urza's Block. For one mana, you
give your opponent a 3/3 creature that sucks 2 life each turn.
Cards like Light of Day, Moat, Cemetery Gate and Shackles are all great
ways... |
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About MDV's Deck of the Day |
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Deck of the Day is a new feature where
you get to see a (maybe) random deck from the vast database of decks on
Magic Deck Vortex. Sometimes you'll find some insightful piece of
information about the deck. Sometimes it will just be a glimpse of
a deck you never knew existed. ~Streetz~ |
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March 2007 --
in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Empress Oath |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, March 30, 2007 |
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Empress Oath. A long, long time ago, Streetz hosted a deck clinic here on
MDV. The original user submitted a deck using Planar Birth - Oath
of Druids and Jolrael, Empress of Beasts. After some extensive
revisions and tweaks, Empress Oath was the final deck. If these
three cards spark your fancy, check it out! |
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Power Struggle |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
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Power Struggle.
Reins of Power is a favorite of many blue mages from
Stronghold and this deck combos it's switcheroo effect with Claws of
Gix. Mind you, there are much better ways to do the whole 'kill
all of your opponent's creatures' with Reins of Power, but it's still a
fun deck. |
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ZZzzz |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 |
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There are many shadow decks in the MDV Deck Database,
except this is the only user submitted shadow deck. The creator,
appropriately named Dauthi Ghoul, teamed up some deadly shadow creatures
of old with Twisted Experiment and Unholy Strength. Plus it's a
LITE deck. |
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Pango Express |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
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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! NOTE: This
is first Deck of the Day ever on MDV. |
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About MDV's Deck of the Day |
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Deck of the Day is a new feature where
you get to see a (maybe) random deck from the vast database of decks on
Magic Deck Vortex. Sometimes you'll find some insightful piece of
information about the deck. Sometimes it will just be a glimpse of
a deck you never knew existed. ~Streetz~ |
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