Magic Decks for review - Feel free to post decks or suggestions

[Therin]

And to start, I'm going to go ahead and post one of my most recent decks. It's a Turboland variant that relies on fastbond and horn of greed to cycle through the entire deck and play all the lands. Once that is done, you play Life, Standardize all your lands into zombies, and cycle the Gempalm.

//NAME: D'Buh?
4 Savannah
4 Tundra
4 Bayou
4 Underground Sea
4 Tropical Island
2 Life/Death
2 Standardize
3 Unholy Grotto
2 Gempalm Polluter
4 Words of Worship
1 Reminisce
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Energy Field
2 Atog
2 Library of Alexandria
3 Bazaar of Baghdad
3 Krosan Tusker
4 Horn of Greed
4 Fastbond


What do you all think?

[DeathDragon]

Looks pretty good, I'll have to post my new deck idea when i make it. I am making it today,so I'll post later.

[DeathDragon]

Ok its ready. I call it the Taunting Phage deck. The main idea is to get out phage and taunting elf as fast as you can, then attack with both at the same time. Here it is:
Creatures:
1 Scion of Darkness
2 Dark Supplicant
1 Phage the Untouchable
2 Skinthinner
4 Dripping Dead
1 Infernal Caretaker
2 Phantom Nantuko
2 Needleshot Gourna
4 Taunting Elf
2 Elvish Pioneer
Enchantments, Sorceries, and Instants:
3 Dragon Shadow
2 Mythic Proportions
2 Explosive Vegetation
4 Lure
Lands:
15 Swamp
15 Forest

So what do you think?
Sorry If it seems like I'm double posting, I build my decks REALLY fast.

[Selrahc the Evil]

hey sean I have that extra phage for you along with a mythic proportions. now what will you trade me for them???

[DeathDragon]

Depends, pick some rares from my rare stack. Does this mean that I can trade for one and still borrow one? then that would change the total number of phages from 1 to 2. and the mythic proportions same deal, except it would change from 2 to 3. Ill talk to you about it when u get the chance. By the way, check your e-mail.

[Therin]

Well, the Idea is sound, but the deck seems to be working at cross purposes with itself.

out:

1 Scion of Darkness
2 Dark Supplicant
2 Skinthinner
4 Dripping Dead
1 Infernal Caretaker
2 Phantom Nantuko
2 Needleshot Gourna
3 Dragon Shadow
2 Mythic Proportions
4 Lure

You don't need any of those in there and none of them push you toward your goal(getting out phage and taunting elf) I would work from a mana accelerating elf base and build up from there with some creature kill and black mana accel.

the new list:
4 Wirewood Symbiant
4 Wirewood Herald
4 Shelter
4 Birchlore Rangers
3 Filth
3 Anger
3 Tranquil Thicket
3 City of Brass
5 Swamp
10 Forest
3 Overeager Apprentice
3 Wirewood Channeler
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Elvish Pioneer
4 Taunting Elf
3 Phage the Untouchable

Alright, so there's no creature kill. But almost everything in there is mana acceleration. The shelters are there to protect your phage if you don't have an anger in the graveyard. The overeager apprentice is to get angers and filths out of your hand and into the yard.

ps: Duffy has 2 phages for you.

[DeathDragon]

You have to remember lews that im working off legal tournament rules and besides, I probly dont have some of those cards that you listed. i noticed that alot of what you listed was invasion block, which is not legal right now. thanks for the suggestions though.

[Ming]

Well, I haven't really analyzed what Lews said you should use in the deck, but I do agree with him in that you need more focus on your primary goal, which is to win via a Phage attack. If you're going to go a route like this, you need to stay focused on it, or else your deck gets sloppy and doesn't work right. I'm not in total agreement with him in regards to what should come out. Some of the cards could actually serve you well in the deck. Namely, Skinthinner and Dragon Shadow. The Skinthinner because it is fairly reliable creature kill which you probably need some of, and the Dragon Shadow because it gives your Phage evasion, and could potentially give you the win if you don't have any Taunting Elves. It's also safe to discard it, because when Phage comes into play, it'll just jump from the 'yard onto her.

I think what you want to accomplish here is to get a Phage out as quickly as possibly, and use it for the win. That means you need to devote a good portion of your deck to mana acceleration because Phage isn't cheap. Green is the perfect color for this, and Lews's idea to make it elf-based is good. But if you want to keep this Type 2, then you need to pretty much go a different route. You could try stuff like Rampant Growth, Explosive Vegetation, Elvish Pioneer, Far Wanderings, Early Harvest, Diligent Farmhand, and even Krosan Drover (who will reduce the cost of your Phage). Green has a lot of these kinds of cards that are good for accelerating your mana base.

You could also throw in some other big nasty creature as an alternate win condition. But those are just some suggestions. Good luck!

~Ming

[DeathDragon]

For the deck, most of the cards that lews wanted out were there for the alternate win. The lure/dripping dead combo would wipe out the opponent's creatures and still allow me to attack with everything else i had. The scion was there to steal creatures from my opponent after the dripping dead had killed them, thus giving me more and possibly more powerful creatures to wipe out my opponent with (possibly more flying too, the deck has no flying).

[Therin]

Well, on the one hand, I can understand that, but on the other, that was most of your deck, whereas if you want to consistently pull of the Phage/Taunter combo, most of your deck is going to have to be dedicated to that. An alternate win condition is fine, but it needs to be able to rely on the same base. For example, Krosan Cloudscraper or any other huge baddie would be fine. Or, since you're probably going to have a lot of elves out, you could run a couple of tribal forcemage. heheh, you could probably even go with Akroma as an alternate. Wouldn't that be fun? :p

edit: Is anyone going to review my deck or is it going to sit there and gather dust? Please? :dungetit:

edit PS: What did I list that was from invasion block?