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Note: Deck of the Day went on break after
10/18/08. October 2008 --
in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Elfball Redux 2008. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, October 18, 2008 |
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Elfball Redux 2008.
To quote this deck's creator, "Before Eventide, there was a passable "Elfball" deck.
Elfball is a bit of a classic. It first showed up around the time of
Urza's Saga and at the time used Priest of Titania, Gaea's Cradle, and
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary to generate huge amounts of mana for a big
Fireball. When Onslaught came out, it took a different twist, with
Wirewood Lodge and Seeker of Skybreak enabling Wirewood Channeler to
play really big spells..." Keep reading! This deck
is from the most recent deck database update (82 new decks). If you
haven't checked them out, please click here. |
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Deep Im-Pact. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, October 17, 2008 |
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Deep Im-Pact. For all
general purposes, this is a Night Dealings deck that seeks to search out
low costed spells like Breath of Darigaaz and even cheaper spells like
Pact of the Titan and Slaughter Pact. There are a few other combos put
instead of me telling you about them here, why don't you click the link
and read up on it for yourself? This deck is from the most recent deck
database update (82 new decks). If you haven't checked them out, please
click here. |
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The Pinnacle of Winning. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
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The Pinnacle of
Winning. This deck should really be called "the pinnacle of infinite
mana possibilities that can ultimately fuel a Helix Pinnacle to win the
game." Staff of Domination, Transguild Courier with Bloom Tender, Umbral
Mantle and Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary... Shall I go on. Its mono-green
too! Go, go mono-green combo decks. This deck is from the most recent
deck database update (82 new decks). If you haven't checked them out,
please click here. |
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Riftleveler. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
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Riftleveler. The combo
involving Leveler and Beacon of Tomorrows which can give you infinite
turns is nothing new. However, if you want to expand from the Beacons
and make better use of the Leveler you can include a card like
Riftsweeper much like Chris Millar did in this deck. Riftsweeper will
give you access to a card otherwise removed from the game after the
Leveler entered play. Combine with Cloudstone Curio and a bunch of
elves, and you have a fun concoction of cards that capable of tutoring
any card in the deck once a turn. NOTE: This doesn't work as well
against a mill deck... This deck is from the most recent deck database
update (82 new decks). If you haven't checked them out, please click
here. |
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Jokulpox. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, October 13, 2008 |
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Jokulpox.
As the name suggests, this deck combines to power of Jokulhaups and Pox.
Not suggested in the title are cards like Brood of Cockroaches, Mana
Flare, Kuon, Ogre Ascendant and Homura, Human Ascendant. I'll let your
imagination go from there... or you could click on the link. This deck
is from the most recent deck database update (82 new decks). If you
haven't checked them out, please click here. |
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Pebbles Kinda... |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, October 9, 2008 |
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Pebbles Kinda... At
this deck's core, it runs two cards that are well known as Pebbles
pieces: Ornithoper and Enduring Renewal. However, this is not a Pebbles
deck. The deck actually revolves around Bridge from Below. If you want
to see what else this casual deck engineer put in this decklist, click
on the link. |
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September 2008 --
in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Mind Vise. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, September 17, 2008 |
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Mind Vise.
This deck sports some of my favorite cards
including Triskelion, Metalworker, Black Vise, Copy Artifact, Karn and
Prosperity. While this can easily be considered a MILL deck
because of Prosperity and Metalworker, it is more or less a BURN deck in
the form of Black Vise. The goal is to generate a lot of mana,
play a huge Prosperity and have one or more Black Vise in play before
your opponent's next turn. Come their turn, the Black Vise will
kill them or do a large amount of damage... |
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Pact of Nath. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
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Pact of Nath. Today's
deck was featured in an article on www.wizards.com from a while back.
The author of the article was The Ferrett and he had the following to
say about this deck...
"You don't need to be genius to get the main idea of
the deck: Opponents discard cards --> You get Elves. Your Elves die -->
opponent's creatures die. What happens if you have Nath and Grave Pact
in the game and you use Smallpox? Everyone loses 1 life, discards a card
(giving you Elf tokens), everyone sacrifices a creature (you sacrifice
one of your tokens) and because of Grave Pact your opponents sacrifice
another creature. Then everyone sacrifices a land."
Seems like a good deck to me. |
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I Hate Everyone. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
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I Hate Everyone.
Spectral Searchlight is a very cool artifact from the Kami Block.
There is nothing better than making your opponent lose a game because of
a Spectral induced mana burn... This deck featured Genjus, the
Searchlight and some other fun cards from around that time. Note:
I don't hate you. |
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Allergic to Lace. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, September 8, 2008 |
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Allergic to Lace.
To quote the creator of this deck, MaGo, "Y’know what would be awfully
cool? A deck revolving around a rare centerpiece from The Dark. I think
everyone would really appreciate that. The card in question is the mondo
bizarro Psychic Allergy. It’s your typical blue damage-dealing
enchantment that requires hefty land sacrifices to keep it on the board.
All that talk of the Color Pie that Rosewater does in his column? It’s
to prevent eye-popping head-scratchers like this from showing up
again..." |
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5cElementals 2007. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, September 3, 2008 |
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5cElementals 2007.
This is one of the decks that was used as a gun-slinging deck at one of
WotC's tournament events in 2007. Chris Millar was among the people
piloting these decks and this was one of two decks he played mostly for
the event. You can read up more on it by clicking on the link. |
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Pine Needles. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 |
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Pine Needles. This is
an interesting deck as it uses two specific creatures to control the
board: Bane of the Living and Silklash Spider. Combine them will Putrefy
and Rend Flesh to continue the creature control. Then add some
beaters like Twisted Abomination and Kavu Titan -- and you have a nice
Beatdown/Control deck that's sure to stomp all over your opponent's at
your next casual gathering. |
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August 2008 --
in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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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 Infantry. If you scroll down in his article you see the
opposite of this deck by Tynion. Be sure and check out the rest of
the articles from Cashew's unofficial official Sarpadian Empires week.
[Sorry today's Deck of the Day is late]. |
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Swirling Sanctuaries. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 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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What the Muck! |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, May 7, 2008 |
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What the Muck!
Here's a LITE (cheap to put together) deck for your perusal including
some not-so-often used black cards. Ironic though that since this deck
was created some of these commons and uncommons have actually gone up in
price. Anyway, this deck uses cards like Fog of Gnats, Endless Scream,
Bubbling Much, Spike Cannibal and others to win the game. Besides being
a fun mono-black beatdown deck, it has a fantastically creative name.
What the Muck? What's not to love? |
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The Blue Zone. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, May 6, 2008 |
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The Blue Zone. For
the record, I didn't plan on having Guma in today's deck as I picked the
deck pretty much at random. This deck features cards like Fylamarid,
Metathran Transport, Razorfin Hunter and one of my favorites --
Curiosity! Combined with Parch, Fire/Ice and Seal of Removal, you have
yourself a fun little blue-red control/combo-like deck. This is also a
LITE deck. |
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Guma Glasses. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, May 5, 2008 |
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Guma Glasses.
Distorting Lens works well with a variety of cards, especially cards
like Pyroblast (Destroy target blue permanent for one mana). This deck
takes advantage of said card interaction while mixing it with a Cat
tribal theme. The ending result is a terribly fun deck to play.
Note that it includes Blistering Firecat, Anarchy and Guma! You
know you want to see the deck... |
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100% Relentless Rats Free. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, May 2, 2008 |
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100% Relentless
Rats Free. As the title suggests, you won't
find a sinlge Relentless Rat card in this decklist. You will,
however, find the evil combo fo Momir Vig & Thrumming Stone. If
you click the link you'll find everything you ever wanted to know about
the combo and this deck. |
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Storming Arcanix. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, May 1, 2008 |
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Storming Arcanix.
Vexing Arcanix was one of those cards I was super excited about it being
reprinted in Eighth Edition. This deck was most likely inspired by its
reprinting. This is a mill deck by Mr. Alongi over at
www.magicthegathering.com that involves both the Arcanix and Brain
Freeze... and Millstone... and Vision Charm... and Whetstone... I love
artifacts. And I certainly love Mill. If you do too, click on today's
deck of the day. |
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April 2008 --
in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Burning Hatred. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
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Burning Hatred. This
is one of the decks that was featured during Evil Combo Week last week.
If you checked out the content for that week stop by the
forum thread and let us know what you thought. If you missed
out on Evil Combo Week, you can find all of the content
here. This deck is a mean deck
using Burning Sands, as Cashew described
here. Enjoy! |
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UG Threshold 2008. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
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UG
Threshold 2008. This deck took Kacper Pękala to 7th Place @
Rzeszowie Extended in January 2008. (I only know that because I found
this deck on deckcheck.net). So this is what UG Threshold looks like in
Extended... It appears as nasty as it was when it was in Standard
settings. Of course, what do I know about the current T2 or Extended
formats? Nothing. I do know this is a fun deck to play and equally
powerful in casual. |
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Alpha Bits. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, April 28, 2008 |
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Alpha Bits. If you are a
fan of the UN sets like Unhinged and Unglues, you should enjoy today's
deck. This uses ____________ in combination with other cards with
uncommon letters of the alphabet in their name... to win the game with
Now I Know My ABC's. Also included in the deck are Johnny, Combo Player
and Richard Garfield, Ph.D. Have fun. |
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Eternal Slide. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, April 25, 2008 |
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Eternal Slide. This
deck is straight from MDV's
Historical Database of decks. If you
see any 'historic' decks missing from this list, please let me
know. This deck, played by Julien Nuijten, 2004 World Champion,
combines Astral Slide with Eternal Witness which can keep recurring
cycling cards or other cards like Plow Under for a lockdown strategy.
Astral Slide is an evil card in general but with Eternal Witness, its
just cruel. |
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Worldgorger Dragon Combo. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
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Worldgorger
Dragon Combo. Holy Power Nine! This deck was obviously built
with the Eternal formats in mind including the nasty infinite combo
using Wolrdgorger Dragon and Animate Date. The win conditions are
all found in the sideboard and are fetched via a wish. Check out
the deck, figure out how it works and then try to build it. Good
luck getting the power cards. *grin* |
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Bucket of Blood. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
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Bucket of Blood. I
have to be honest here. This is a deck I actually have built and ready
to play with real Magic: the Gathering cards. I don't know why I love
this deck, but I do. The combo involving Wall of Blood and Grab the
Reins is just evil. It comes out of nowhere and kills an opponent real
fast. Not only is it evil, but its budget too! Check it out, build it,
tweak it, make it your own and have fun playing the game we all love. |
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Channeled. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
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Channeled. If you've been
playing Magic since the beginning (or even shortly after the beginning)
you will know what is in this deck. If you don't, here it is:
Channel, Fireball and Drain Life. Channel plus either of the
latter cards is fully capable of winning you the game. Channel
lets you pay life for mana. Fireball or Drain Life will deal
damage to your opponent. With the help of a Birds of Paradise and
a quick burn spell, this combo will win you the game. Evil.
Totally Evil. Its no wonder Channel is restricted and/or banned in
tournament formats. |
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Scepter Chant 2006. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, April 21, 2008 |
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Scepter Chant 2006.
Isochron Scepter and Orim's Chant is an evil combo that is capable of
locking down your opponent's untap step and attack phase. The combo
isn't too difficult to set up with cards like Thirst for Knowledge and
Fact or Fiction. It isn't terribly difficult to protect either with
cards like Counterspell, Fire/Ice and Spell Snare. Overall, this is a
pretty evil deck with a very evil combo. |
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Pango Express |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, April 18, 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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Entertaining Idiots. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
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Entertaining Idiots. This deck was created by guest author Lord Sage
of Ronevia in his article "How to Keep an Idiot Busy" article from June
2007. I would talk more about the deck but instead I will encourage you
to read his article. It will be a lot more fulfilling that way. Enjoy!
(Just click on the link and it will take you to the article). |
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Oppenheimer's Atlantis. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |
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Oppenheimer's
Atlantis. This is an older Merfolk deck that doesn't use Stasis Orb
or any of the Orb's lockdown ilk. It does use an ingenious combo
consisting of Booby Trap and Memory Lapse. The combo combined with
some efficient Merfolk drops, Intuition and Brainstorm makes for a
pretty good deck. Check it out. |
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Omnichord 2007. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
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Omnichord 2007.
If you participated in Standard last year you should recognize this
deckname. Omnichord relies on Chord of Calling to pull out whatever
creature would be needed for any given situation. This, of course, is
after accelerating your mana supply with cards like Wall of Roots and
Farseek. The deck also implements the "pickles" lock of Brine Elemental
and Vesuvan Shapeshifter but doesn't absolutely depend on it for a win. |
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Mom's Zombie Deck. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, April 9, 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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Bob Visits Egypt. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 |
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Bob Visits Egypt.
When Dimir Cutpurse was first spoiled before Ravnica was released,
everyone was like, OMG!!! And then it didn't make many appearances. I
could be wrong on that. In any event, this deck combines some masters
from the Kamigawa Block with Dimir Cutpurse and Writ of Passage from
Ravnica in an attempt to make Dimir Cutpurse useful. Check it out; you
might see something you like. |
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Obedience. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, April 7, 2008 |
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Obedience. Here's an old
deck of mine featuring Helm of Obedience. While the deck is
completely creatureless, don't be surprised when I pull a creature out
of your deck and put it into play. That's the beauty of Helm of
Obedience. To compliment it there is a suite of mill cards,
discard cards and creature removal spells. Can this deck to
improved? Definitely. That's why you need to check it out! |
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Fun With Faeries. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, April 4, 2008 |
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Fun With Faeries.
Here's a fun Faerie deck I found in the MTGSalvation Forums shortly
after the release of Lorwyn. Did you know that the Faeries of Lorwyn
were the only race to have barely or not changed at all after the Aurora
that brought the world to Shadowmoor? Just thought I'd ask. Many thanks
to MTGS for their rumor mill and spoiler which fuels MDV's own VS Page
during rumor season. |
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Wolfgang Deck. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, April 3, 2008 |
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Wolfgang Deck.
BEHOLD! It's the Wolfgang Deck! Actually, its a lockdown/prison style
deck featuring none other than Pygmy Hippo!! ?? And Stasis. And
Opposition. And Survival of the Fittest. Shall I go on? |
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A Pirates Life For Me. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 |
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A Pirates Life
For Me. While its name would insist a Pirate Tribal deck, it isn't.
It's a well crafted pseudo-LD control deck utilizing quick land bounce
like Hoodwink and Boomerang. Follow it up with the Rishadan Cutpurse
and/or Footpad and then move in for the kill with Juggernaut. Note the
two copies of Ankh of Mishra. If I were to play a fun control deck, I
would play this one as its fun and mean all at the same time. I love
blue Land Destruction. *evil grin* |
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Worst Deck Possible. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 |
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Worst Deck
Possible. And this, my friends, is the Worst Deck Possible. It
could be because today is April Fool's Day, or perhaps its because
that's what Nate Heiss decided to name it. In any event, this deck
uses Shared Fate. From here, you'll just have to click on the link
and find out how he works with or around Shared Fate for a winning deck. |
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April 2008 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Minotaur. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, March 31, 2008 |
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Minotaur. This here deck
is a tribal Minotaur deck. Yeah, I know. Big Surprise.
Anyway, it is a blue-red deck that includes a lot of Minotaurs,
Didgeridoo and Quicksilver Dagger. Could it be improved?
Most definitely. And I anticipate you to be that person to improve
upon this decklist and make it your own. |
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Counter Madness. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, March 28, 2008 |
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Counter Madness. This deck was
originally found in Scrye Magazine. To quote the creator of the deck,
"The object of this casual build is to put charge counters and token
creatures on the table as fast as you can (without the use of Slivers,
because it’s been done, done again, and done some more). Winning is a
close second. It’s also a low-budget deck, so you can sink your cash
into fancy tokens – like little wind-up robots..." Please enjoy! |
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Chamber of Madness. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
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Chamber of Madness.
Anyone remember the Magic website called Nexus Prime?
Unfortunately, it is no longer in existence. Fortunately, I found this
decklist on it before it closed. This is an ALT-WIN (Alternative Win
Condition) deck using Test of Endurance with Animal Boneyard and Chamber
of Manipulation. Unlike the other decks from this week, this deck
doesn't use any cards with Madness. |
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Bazaar Madness. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
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Bazaar Madness.
While I'm not totally on top of the
Eternal Formats and scenes, I
believe this is a deck that was once popular. It may still be, but I
don't know for sure. This is an example of combining the powerful
madness mechanic from Odyssey with a land known of Bazaar of Baghdad.
Being that it is an Eternal decklist, it is moxed out with the power
nine... good for MWS play anyway... unless, of course, you are one of
those lucky individuals who own the power nine already. I would assume
the majority of those people live in
southwest Virginia area. |
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It's Maddening. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
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It's Maddening. This is a
Pauper deck. If you don't know what a pauper deck is, know it is a deck
of all common cards. This particular deck is one that DBB featured in
his Pauper article series. It is a Time Spiral block constructed deck
using cards like Gorgon Recluse, Strangling Soot, Lightning Axe and
Gathan Raiders... all commons and actually pretty good together too! |
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Madness Control. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, March 24, 2008 |
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Madness Control. It's funny to see
this decklist as its one I haven't seen since I originally created this
website. I built the deck around the Madness mechanic in combination
with Masticore. The rest of the deck is literally control in the form of
Memory Lapse, Forbid, Force Spike and Counterspell. I do have to
question my inclusion of Silver Wyvern... |
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Apple Jacks. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, March 21, 2008 |
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Apple Jacks. I'm
not sure if this is an official deck name as I found in a forum and not
on an official page of any site, however, this cereal deck is also a
combo deck. It involves Verdant Succession, Elvish Soultiller and Caller
of the Claw. Please click on the deck link to see the deck list. |
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Cocoa Pebbles. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
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Cocoa Pebbles. Cocoa
Pebbles is a version of Fruity Pebbles using the Enduring Renewal combo
with Goblin Bombardment. The major difference between the two decks is
Necropotence. Note the the description of this deck was quoted from
www.phyrexia.com and the first
paragraph of the description really talks about Wheaties. Go, go
cereal decks! |
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Trix 2001. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
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Trix.
...are for kids... Yet another combo deck named after a cereal - are you
noticing a theme for this week? This deck involves Donate and Illusions
of Grandeur. Play Illusions, gain 20 life. Then Donate it to your
opponent. They will eventually not be able to pay the upkeep and lose 20
life. That's just mean. The rest of the deck is counterspells and
tutors. |
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Raisin Bran. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
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Raisan Bran.
To quote the creator of this deck, Alex Borteh, "The concept of this
deck is simple. Aluren, Aluren, Aluren. Get out your Wall of Roots and
Blossoms early, then cast a Man O' War... and then your Aluren. Cast the
Cavern Harpy and go to town. Keep drawing card upon card and lay down
card upon card and eventually attack with a hoard of creatures..."
Actually, I'm not sure if that is by Alex Borteh as I don't have the
website credited. In any event, it's a great combo deck. |
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Fruity Pebbles (Budde). |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, March 17, 2008 |
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Fruity
Pebbles. This version of Fruity Pebbles, a term dubbed on decks
using the Enduring Renewal - Goblin Bombardment combo, was played by Kai
Budde at Pro Tour Chicago in 1999. It is one of the historical decks in
the MDV deck database. To see more, please go
here. By the way, if anyone
can find the sideboard from this decklist, please email me. |
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Uyo's Journey. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
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Uyo's Journey.
If the title doesn't give it away, Uyo, Silent Prophet is the main
attraction in today's deck of the day. Some targets for her wonderful
ability include Cunning Wish, Cunning Wish, Cunning Wish, Cunning Wish
and a host of decent toolbox cards in your sidebox. Besides that, the
deck uses a bit of permission (countermagic) and a playset of Birds of
Paradise. Sounds fun, right? |
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Onward Pious Soldiers. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
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Onward Pious
Soldiers. In case I haven't mentioned it before, MDV has a LITE deck
section that features decks that
are light on your pocketbook. In other words, they don't cost a whole
lot of money to put together, have mostly commons, some uncommons and
few to none rares. This particular deck is influenced heavily by the
Onslaught block and features Soldiers. |
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Recycled Zombies. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, March 11, 2008 |
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Recycled Zombies. At the core of
this deck is recursion in the form of Patriarch's Bidding. Read the
Runes powers out a huge Patriarch's Bidding, provided you play it the
turn before you play Bidding. Then you have a team of Zombies to back
you up. Together with Noxious Ghoul, who is mean to have with Bidding,
you have a decent tribal-recursion deck. Feel free to substitute some of
your own Zombies to make it your own and have fun with it. |
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Our Town. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, March 10, 2008 |
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Our Town. Holy lack of cohesion!
Today's deck has lots of one of's folks, however, I think you will be
amused to know it is a Tribal Townsfolk deck. I think that explains a
lot. Check it out, update it if you can and give it a try.
You might just like it and win some unique bonus points for using this
tribe. |
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Of Insects and Elves. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, March, 5 2008 |
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Of Insects and Elves. It's
not too often you get a tribal deck that actually has two tribes that
work really well together. There were Ogres and Demons from the Kamigawa
block and then there are the strange tribal interactions of Lorwyn. This
deck combines Elves and Insects! Surprise, right... Anyway, several of
the elves in the deck are capable of generating Insect tokens. Combines
with Kaysa and Slate of Ancestry... you have a mean beatdown tribal
deck. Sure, it could use some improvement. Why don't you be that person? |
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Mooning You. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, March, 4 2008 |
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Mooning You. Here's a deck that used
the Mistform creatures to help power out an early Patron of the Moon
(thus the title of the deck). I think this is one of those decks can can
do nicely, or better really, with some of the Changelings from Lorwyn
block. Check it out, try it out and let me know what you think. |
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Wacko Jacko. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, March, 3 2008 |
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Wacko Jacko. This deck name is
certainly creative; if you haven't guess, this is a black and white
deck... Anyway, this deck involves Wicked Akuba, Long Forgotten Gohei
and several other cards from the Kamigawa block. I would encourage you
to look at the decklist and at least read the opening paragraph about
the title of the deck. Note: This is a Tribal Spirit deck. |
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February 2008 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Ow About That. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, February, 29 2008 |
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Ow About That.
To quote the deck's creator: "...finally, Opalescence finds a good home
in a combo deck. With this combo on the table, the next player to be
damaged by a creature will (barring something silly like Worship) lose
the game. It doesn't matter if that player has a million life. In fact,
it's better if that player has a million life. Feel free to spot your
opponent a million life if he lets you go first..." For the record, the
deck creator is Mark Gottlieb. |
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Down with Affinity. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, February, 28 2008 |
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Down with Affinity.
Here's a deck I originally found in Inquest Magazine (#107 to be
specific). This deck tries to outwit Affinity decks with a card called
Grim Reminder. If you don't remember Grim Reminder or gasp, affinity, I
would highly encourage you to check this deck out. In other news, I miss
Inquest Magazine. NOTE that I pulled Issue #107 from my bookshelf
and added the deck description for this deck; previously it was missing
from the deck database. |
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Ad Nauseum V02. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, February, 27 2008 |
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Ad Nauseum V02. It's a shame the
original website this deck was found on no longer exists. It's actually
an intricate little deck! Drop as many permanents as you can as early in
the game, not forgetting to get Recycle and Anvil of Bogardan out early.
Then, when your opponent is lacking either cards in hand or permanents
in play, play Forbidden Ritual as the killing card. Sounds interesting,
right? Do you even know what Forbidden Ritual does? I know I had
to look it up. |
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Haakon Y. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, February, 26 2008 |
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Haakon Y. Oooh. Another infinite combo
deck that has some fun with Changeling, Haakon and Basal Sliver. I'll
let you figure out exactly how the combo works... or you could click on
the link. There the deck description should spell things out for you.
The win condition? Grapeshot. Maybe you don't need to click on the
link... |
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Shadow Elves. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, February, 25 2008 |
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Shadow Elves. If you want to build a
cheap Black-Green Tribal Elf deck, this deck is something you should
look at. It uses some older Elf cards like Defiant Elf, Seeker of
Skybreak and Dauthi Trapper. Wait, Dauthi Trapper isn't an Elf!? Hmm.
Misery Charm, Duress, Unholy Strength... perhaps you should look at this
deck. Oh, it's a LITE deck too! (Easy on the pocketbook). |
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Cauldron Combos. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, February, 22 2008 |
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Cauldron Combos. One
thing I look for in deck construction is card choice. If a deck uses a
card that you don't see too often, like Burgeoning or Lifegift, it has a
good chance of being reviewed for deck database inclusion. This deck in
particular was submitted in the MDV Forums and the minute I saw it I
knew I wanted it in the deck database. You uses Burgeoning?! You
uses Storm Cauldron!?! |
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Necrotasia. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, February, 21 2008 |
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Necrotasia. This is a
recent deck database addition that I found over at Star City Games(SCG).
There are a few places I consistently find good deck database material
and the two top sites are SCG and MTG.COM. While I normally find SCG's
decks in Abe Sargent's articles, Chris Romeo (who created this deck) and
Bennie Smith are runner-ups. One of these days I should analyze the
number of decks each deck creator has in the database… for now, enjoy
the deck! |
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Swap Meet (2007). |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
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Swap Meet (2007) Can
you see this week's theme for Card of the Day? If not, here's a deck
from the recent MDV Deck Database updates. Swap Meet is a theme deck
that aims at swapping permanents with your opponent. Bronze Bombshell
and Legerdemain should give you a good idea what to expect in this
blue-red, fun deck. |
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Thallid Shooter. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, February, 19 2008 |
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Thallid Shooter.
Here's another recent additional to the MDV Deck Database. Made by our
own Cashew it was designed to show his clan mates on Magic Online how a
Thallid Deck can actually BEAT your opponent. Not lose to them... Chord
of Calling, Squall Line, Dark Confidant and a host of great Thallids
make this deck a killer. |
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Frankenfish. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, February 18, 2008 |
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Frankenfish. This
recent addition to the MDV Deck Database is all about fish. Dandan,
Hammerhead Shark, Giant Shark, Sea's Claim, Part Water. They are all
there with some others like Crypic Commands. Not only is this a
tribal Fish deck, it is like an Under the Sea theme deck too! |
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Green Elements. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, February 15, 2008 |
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Green Elements. Much
like the Blue Elements deck I featured earlier this week, this is an
older deck that I made trying to use some of the best green Elementals
at its time. Unfortunately for this deck there have been much better
elementals since it was created. However, this is also a fortunate
matter since you can now tweak this deck using some of the Elemental
cards in YOUR collection. Go for it. Give it a try! |
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Blistering Elementals. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
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Blistering
Elementals. "Blistering Elementals is an aggressive deck
build that utilizes cards such as Smokebraider, Rite of Flame, and
Seething Song to produce a lot of mana to cast powerful and hastely
elementals such as Skizzik, Blistering Firecat, or Hostility quickly to
drop your oponents life points to zero as fast as possible, as is any
aggro deck's point." This intro to the deck was created by the
deck creator, Jason. |
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K.G. Bird. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday,
February 13, 2008 |
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K.G. Bird.
Back when the Elemental tribe wasn't such an overcrowded mass, this deck
was overjoyed to get Squall Drifter from Coldsnap. The deck uses white
and/or blue elementals like Pride of the Clouds, Air Elemental,
Celestial Ancient and Windweaver. Where it goes from there... you'll
just have to find out for yourself. |
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Blue Elements. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
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Blue Elements.
WOW! This is an old deck. It was created long
before the many elementals of Ravnica, Time Spiral and Ravnica. I'm sure
this deck could use a dramatic update -- and you just might be the one
to make that update. The original decklist, as shown in the link, was
full of big fat blue elemental creatures in combination with Dream Halls
for an easier way to cast them. Is this deck amazing? Probably not --
however, I think you can make it amazing. |
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Elemental Breakdance. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, February 11, 2008 |
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Elemental
Breakdance.
There was a time in the very beginning of Magic Deck Vortex when I
hosted a deck clinic. Due to the overwhelming growth of the site from
the start, this deck clinic was destined for failure because of the
number of submissions I received. However, this is one of the decks that
I fixed in the deck clinic. It is a mono-green deck using quick Elf mana
acceleration coupled with big beats like Silvos and Thorn Elemental. How
does this deck stand up now? Only you can make that call. |
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Dead Clone. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, February 8, 2008 |
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Dead Clone.
Recursion is fun... Throwing some creatures
into the graveyard and then casting Zombify on it makes big creatures
look not so hard to cast. However, this deck doesn't use Zombify.
Instead it uses Dawn of the Dead and Corpse Dance. And these two spells
only bring the creature back for a turn. Why not exploit the for a turn
and Clone the creature you just reanimated. When the one goes to the
graveyard, Clone will stick around and be there for good. |
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Ideal Tokens. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, February 7, 2008 |
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Ideal Tokens. This deck was
originally submitted in the Casual Deck Forum found in the main MDV
forums. It is an Enduring Ideal deck centered around lots of
enchantments. It includes token generators like Squirrel Nest and
Centaur Glade to stall your opponent until you eventually cast the
Ideal. Then, as a finishing touch , you can cast Day of the Dragons for
the win. Check it out, make it your own, and have fun playing Magic: the
Gathering! |
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Tim Walk. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, February 6, 2008 |
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Tim Walk. The creator of this deck
decided his win condition was going to be Prodigal Sorcerer, notoriously
known as Tim. The only problem was that his win condition needed 20
turns untouched to win you the game. No problem there, just combo Azusa,
Lost but Seeking, Walk the Aeons and Crucible of Worlds to keep your
turns consecutive (i.e. not let your opponent play his turns ever).
This way your Tim will be able to do his job. Great Deck.
Just build it, play it once or twice and then dismantle it to keep your
opponents from hating you forever. |
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Goon Squad. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, February 5, 2008 |
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Goon Squad. As if Goblins weren't a
powerful force already, this deck combines some powerful and synergistic
goblins with Shock, Sulfuric Vortex and Clickslither. Talk about an
aggressive clock. What goblins are in this deck? Well, you'll just have
to clik on the link to see... |
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Needle Lift. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, February 4, 2008 |
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Needle Lift. To quote the deck
creator's own deck description: "The deck strives to win either via decking or
by attacking with man-lands across a (presumably) clear battlefield. The
Needle-Vapors or Needle-Storm combo won't win the game on its own, it's
disruptable, and (as demonstrated in this very deck) there are ways to
attack with creatures anyway. But it should throw enough of a monkey
wrench into your opponent's plans to let you take control of the game…
or at least be very, very annoying." This deck was created by mark
Gottlieb over at www.wizards.com. |
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Ingrid's Angels. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, February 1, 2008 |
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Ingrid's Angels. Now this is an
odd decks. It's a casual tribal deck using Angels, but it also has
powerful cards like Mox Sapphire, Sol Ring, Mana Vault and Grim
Monolith! I guess you have to have a lot of mana to play all of those
big angel cards... |
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January 2008 -- in reverse order.
Discuss Here |
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Nine Moon Gales. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
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Nine Moon Gales. Intruder
Alarm... if you see this in a deck you know the deck is going to be
infinite on some level. And this deck is no different. Combine Keeper of
the Nine Gales, Intruder Alarm, two other Birds, a mana-producting
creature and a 1-mana creature... Finish off your opponent with an
infinite damage Blaze or a Sharpshooter. Have fun! |
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Ripple Rats. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
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Ripple Rats.
If you actually own 22 Relentlass Rats, or you use Magic Workstation to
play decks, this deck is for you! Combined with cards like Thrumming
Stone, Relentless Rats, Sensei's Diving Top, Relentless Rats and
Relentless Rats... this is a mean deck. I've played against a variant of
this deck, and I've lost almost everytime. Where was Echoing Truth when
I needed it??? |
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Orcs Away. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, January 29, 2008 |
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Orcs Away.
Abe Sargent, this creator of this deck, references some casual combos
from the Dark Age of Magic. Included in his list of old casual combos is
Circle of Protection: Red and Orcish Artillery. Other cards in the deck
include Orcish Cannoneers, Orcish Mechanics and a few creative
artifacts. Orcs Away!!! |
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More Sources. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, January 28, 2008 |
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More Sources. Do any of your friends
play land destruction decks too often or maybe just often enough for you
to not want to play them anymore? Well, don't give up hope.
This deck is an Anti-LD deck and thus packs cards that keep them from
winning with their strategy. Mana producing creatures, spells that
search out lands for you every turn. This is an older deck, but
take the strategy and make it your own. |
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Searing Cache. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, January 25, 2008 |
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Searing Cache. This deck uses Mana
Cache in combination with some red staples to burn your opponent to the
ground. Cards like Shock Troops, Ancient Hydra, Seal of Fire, Cave-In
and Searing Wind are all in there. But how does this deck play? You tell
me. I was taking a second look at this and wondering if Mana Cache is
even worth it in this deck. |
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DD18. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
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DD18.
Wow. This is a deck for blue and black mages. If you remember cards like
Dralnu's Pet, Spinal Embrace, Lobotomy and Seer's Vision - and you like
them -- you definitely like this deck. It's control oriented with a
little Stratadon sprinkled in. Oh yes, and Draco too! |
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Nantooko! |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
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Nantooko! There are deck building
restraints like tournament types. There are deck building restraints
like color. But have you ever tried to build a deck using all cards
illustrated by the same artist? It's a challenge, but this deck works
well. All of its nonland cards are illustrated by Rebecca Guay! |
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Endless Browbeating. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
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Endless Browbeating.
I'm sure everyone is familiar with Spellweaver Helix. If you not, check
out this deck. It's an interesting take on Spellweaver Helix using cards
that are GROUP game friendly. Syphon Soul, Sizzle and Barter in Blood
are all multiplayer cards and the Helix lets you get the most out of
them. The only creature in the deck is Anarchist. I know you want to
check it out. So do it! |
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Enduring Plans. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, January 21, 2008 |
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Enduring Plans. To Infinite and
Beyond! This deck uses Enduring Renewal and Wild Cantor to go infinite -
infinite storm count anyway. Follow up with a Grapeshot and win the
game. There's a variety of other cards in the deck including Wrath of
God, Hatching Plans, Ronom Unicorn, etc. Check it out. Make it your own
and have fun, assuming you like infinite combos. But beware, infinite
combos played too often can break up play groups and lose friends. |
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Keep the Dead Buried. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, January 18, 2008 |
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Keep the Dead Buried. Are
recursion decks running amuck in your local metagame? If so, you might
want to try this deck out against them. Loaded with anti-recursion
tactics, this deck is sure to foil their plans. Cards like the Carrion
creatures from Torment, Duress and Planar Void will keep their graveyard
empty and fast. Curious? |
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I Spy. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
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I Spy. This is actually an Auction of the
People deck, but unfortunately I didn't record which year it was from.
The year was for theme decks, I believe. This particular deck revolves
around SPIES. Cards like Eye Spy, Wu Spy, Stromgald Spy, Orcish Spy...
the list goes on. Check it out, see if you can make any modifications
and have fun! |
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Rift-off. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
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Rift-off. This deck packs 32 lands, no
creatures and the rest spells. The trick? Fluctuator, lots of cycling
cards and Lighting Rift. Check it out! |
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Tribal Twister. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
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Tribal Twister. As the name would
suggest, there is a card in the deck that is a twister. Which one? I'll
give you a hint: it's a mono-green deck. The tribe? Elves. I'll let you
click on the link to see the deck. Although I bet you have the deck's
tribe and twister card all figured out. |
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Strike Force. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, January 14, 2008 |
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Strike Force.
Did you know there are only ten mon-green soldier cards in Magic,
pre-Morningtide? Well, there are. Not that means anything for this deck.
However, it is a soldier theme (tribal) deck using both white and green
soldiers. Although, I haven't checked to see if the great big Oracle
Update of Lorwyn changed any of their creature types. I probably
should... |
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Thallid Haze. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, January 11, 2008 |
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Thallid Haze. I like Thallids. I like
Saproling tokens. I also like twice as many Saproling Tokens which works
when you combine Thallids with Paradox Haze. If you want to see how this
concept panned out, check out this deck. |
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Izzet Dead Yet. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, January 10, 2008 |
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Izzet Dead Yet. Lava Spike, Glacial
Ray, Reach Through Mists, Char... Wee Dragonauts, Izzet Guildmage...
Need I go on? This is obviously a blue-red burn combo-style deck. In
fact, its an infinite deck. If you want to know how it is an infinite
deck, just click on the link. |
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Big Impin'. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, January 9, 2008 |
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Big Impin'. What a deck name. Have I
ever mentioned I loved deck names? This is one of my favorites. In the
meantime, if you couldn't tell, it's a tribal deck revolving around
Imps. Including just one copy of Chimney Imp, it backs powerful imps
like Foul Imp, Stinkweed Imp and Putrid Imp. For some synergy, there are
also dredge cards like Shambling Shell and Moldervine Cloak. Interested?
Check it out. |
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Ability Capability. |
Deck of
the Day - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 |
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Ability Capability. If you
liked Quicksilver Elemental and its ability to borrow activated
abilities of other creatures in play, you'll love this deck. And
you'll love the fact that I updated it with the deck description as
originally written by Mark Gottlieb (aka MaGo) over at
www.wizards.com. Note his
closing statement on the deck -- its one of my favorite as it embodies
many of the decks in the MDV deck database. |
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Heartier Green. |
Deck of
the Day - Monday, January 7, 2008 |
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Heartier Green. Wow. This is an
older deck in the database. Remember Defense of the Heart? How's about
the Harvest Wurm - Rogue Elephant synergy/combo? This deck has all of
that. It could also use some work. I would encourage you to check it
out, tune it up and go with it. That's what MDV's deck database is all
about. |
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Questing. |
Deck of
the Day - Friday, January 4, 2008 |
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Questing.
Ah! A Domain Deck. This particular deck uses Draco and Questing
Phelddagrif as a win condition. Typical Domain decks run cards like
Harrow, Global Ruin, Collective Restraint and Allied Strategies and this
deck is no different. Don't know what domain decks are? A quick summary:
They are five color decks that take advantage of the
five-basic-land-cards-matter cards from the Invasion block. |
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Untap Dance. |
Deck of
the Day - Thursday, January 3, 2008 |
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Untap Dance.
To quote the deck's creator, Anthony
Alongi: [This] deck blends a few boutique artifacts with some older
cards, and is set up to withstand a bit more artifact hate. It does this
by de-emphasizing artifacts a bit, and coming up with at least one
lovely rare to pull them back from the dead. Veteran players may be
better able to handle the deck's timing tricks. They're also more likely
to be up to the challenge of the Jangling Automaton - Copperhoof Vorrac
combo. |
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Scryb and Force 2006. |
Deck of
the Day - Wednesday, January 2, 2008 |
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Scryb and Force
2006. As if blue-green madness wasn't good
enough for this color pair, in 2006 Scryb & Force showed blue-green as a
powerhouse again - only this time minus the Madness and cards like
Wonder. Using powerful cards like Scryb Ranger, Call of the Herd,
Psionic Blast and Spectral Force, this deck provided control and beats.
I'm sure the deck would fair well at your local play group too. |
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