Magic: The Gathering

Shinigami Banchou · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:33 am Post subject:

your merfolk have islandwalk and you can turn your opponents land into islands

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Joetaku · Senior Otaku Joined: 24 Oct 2002

...which is exactly why I started looking for snow-covered swamps. One of my old table top buddies would build his decks to suit mine. After I stomped him with my "back from the grave" deck (i'll post specific cards once I get my cards back out) He started using swamp and forest walk creatures. If I remember, it's a green, black & white deck. I have plenty of snow-covered forests and plains, but only about 3 snow-covered swamps. (Yes, snow-covered landwalking is a different ability...to my knowledge)

Shinigami Banchou · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 1:42 am Post subject:

Joetaku · Senior Otaku Joined: 24 Oct 2002

I'm not familiar with coldsnap. The only thing I'm really sure of is I've only seen one card with a snow-covered land walking ability, and I've never seen anyone play a creature with that ability either, so it's a safe bet to defend against landwalking.

SirGunslinger · Rebel without a clue Gender: Joined: 21 Jun 2007

My favorite decks to play were Kird Ape Deck (Red/Green speed decks centered around getting lots of small creatures out quick backed with Giant Growths + Chain Lightning backup) and Thief Deck (Steal Artifact/Control Creature cards with Dopplegangers and Demoic Hordes backed with Counterspell type cards).

Ming · DOOM! Gender: Joined: 13 Jan 2003

Shinigami Banchou · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject:

i want to make a reanimater deck but i don't know where to start.. it will be ext format tho... i was kinda thinkin a dimir-esque fairy milling deck, using oona prowler and cloudseeder as discarders, also stuff like mind rot that i can use on me or my opponent depending on the situation, debters kneel would be useful, as well as the reanimates that let me steal from my opponents graveyard... hmm so many options... i needz Help

Ming · DOOM! Gender: Joined: 13 Jan 2003

The first thing you should make sure you get is a set of Zombify and/or Dread Return. And depending on how fast you want it to work, you should probably get a set of Life / Death from Apocalypse.

Then you should figure out which creatures you want to use as reanimation targets. Keep in mind that they don't need to be on-color with your deck because you don't intend to play them through conventional means. The most popular reanimation target is Akroma, Angel of Wrath, but they're like $12 each.

You want to look out for GIANT creatures that have relevant abilities, if possible. The most notable would be Haste, so you end the game quickly. A great hasty, large creature would be Rorix Bladewing, or even Hunted Dragon. Hunted Dragon's drawback is pretty minimal considering you'll be winning the game pretty quickly.

Bogardan Hellkite is also a pretty nice target. While he doesn't have Haste, he comes into play and deals 5 damage as you choose to any number of targets. The only problem with him is that he's expensive, at around $10.

The other option is to go get things that they can't block. Tidal Kraken is pretty good for this, being a 6/6 Unblockable. He's also $1 or less.

That should give you a good amount of stuff to think about. Let us know what you decide on.

Shinigami Banchou · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject:

i could use the dragon spirits from kamigawa and throw in a scion of the ur-dragon, if i use demonic tutor or something to get the scion in my graveyard as soon as i can i reanimate it and use it to get all my other dragons in the graveyard