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Started by chapman24, 07-04-2008, 08:36:36 PM

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chapman24

I'm new to this format and thought I would post my first try at a deck just to get some thoughts.  It is a control deck that has a lot of late game power.

Land:
8 Snow-Covered Island
4 Snow-Covered Forest
3 Snow-Covered Swamp
Underground Sea
Tropical Island
Bayou
Watery Grave
Breeding Pool
Overgrown Tomb
Underground River
Yavimaya Coast
Llanowar Wastes
Bloodstained Mire
Flooded Strand
Polluted Delta
Windswept heath
Wooded Foothills
Academy Ruins
Volraths Stronghold
Scrying Sheets
Tolaria West
Ghost Quarter
Wasteland

Creatures:
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Tarmogoyf
Eternal Witness
Psychatog
Ravenous Baloth
Solemn Simulacrum
Shriekmaw
Meloku
Indrik Stomphowler
Genesis
Triskelavus

Instants:
Slaughter Pact
Pact of Negation
Opt
Brainstorm
Force Spike
Reclaim
Diabolic Edict
Smother
Daze
Impulse
Mana Leak
Memory Lapse
Miscalculation
Remand
Counterspell
Expunge
Intuition
Repulse
Thirst for Knowledge
Hinder
Krosan Grip
Putrefy
Voidslime
Mystical Teachings
Gifts Ungiven
Fact or Fiction
Thwart
Cryptic Command
Force of Will
Condescend
Repeal
Spite/Malice

Sorcerys:
Ancestral Vision
Ponder
Serum Visions
Chainers Edict
Demonit Tutor
Life from the Loam
Regrowth
Compulsive Research
Probe
Kodamas Reach
Recollect
Reap and Sow
Damnation
Ribbons of Night
Bribery
Rude Awakening
Upheaval

Enchantments:
Pernicious Deed

Artifacts:
Tormods Crypt
Oblivion Stone
Nevinyrrals Disk
Mindslaver

I was seeing what you thought of it and if there were any cards you think I missed or that could help it out.  Thanks.





Mythrandir

#1
at a first glance i think you can find better creatures than those you have got there.
indrik is kind of bad, like triskelavus (i know u have academy ruins, but even so..)
how about bird of paradise? shadowmage infiltrator? wall of blossoms? ,nighscape familiar? ohran viper? and how about garruk (i know its not an actual creature..)  kokusho and keiga as finishers?

since you only play 3 colors, why not include more manlands? mutavault, mishras factory, treetop... specially if u have LFTL, also if you play LFTL, add the 3 onslaught cycle lands for your 3 colors. u should add urborg. and how about artefact acceleration (signet,talisman?).

your counterspells/removal/draw could also have some modfications: expunge, ribbons of the night, miscalculation, opt arent that good
... no duress/therapy/thoughtseize? shred memory and muddle the mixture are also good cards in that deck. and how about mana drain, or you dont have it in here because its too expensive?

as for artefacts, why not phyrexian furnace, sensei divining top (you could even play trinket mage for tutor effects).

well, thats a quick review of the deck, but keep in mind that if you test it a lot, you start to see what cards are good and bad for you.

if you wanna play test just say something here. :)

Vazdru

think about following changes:

a) Trygon Predator <-> Indrik Stompholwer

Lower Manacost, quite nice in/and against control-decks

b) Phyrexian Furnace <-> Ribbons of Night

in my opinion you need more graveyard-hate in a control deck in the current meta

c) Shadowmage Infiltrator <-> Triskelavus

Card-Advantage

d) Darkblast <-> Ancestral Visions

e) Sensei's Divining Top <-> Spite/Malice

f) Crop Rotation <-> Cryptic Command (in a 3-Color-dec?)


Rest looks respectable to me...worth a try.


Far below the earth
Where the demons hunt the souls of those that sleep
In the city of the Vazdru and the Drin
Where the black flame burns inside the palace fountain.

chapman24

Thanks for looking guys, my thoughts

Mythrandir,
I think with gifts, intuition and card draw I can get buy with less “Finishers” I just set up a genesis, or stronghold and “Draw” them like that.  I thought of Garruk and will probably try him out (over Triskelavus) he’s good with Baloth also.

I don’t want to play that many colorless lands, maybe I’ll try Treetop and Faerie Conclave.  I don’t play Artifact accel because the decks main removial is O. Stone/N Disk / P. Deed and I don’t want to waste my own stuff.

I didn’t think of muddle, it is better than miscalculation, I’ll be making that change.  I play opt and similar 1 mana card draw so I can skimp on land a little, because late game I’d rather draw opt than a forest.  I ‘m not sure if duress/thoughtseize do enough for me, and I don’t run enough creatures to make therapy good.  I also don’t own a Drain or it would be in here.

I don’t like furnace, but I might try and fit in Trinket mage, SDT, and Enginered Explosives, to go with my crypt.


Vazdru
A.you have to attack with the Predator so I don’t like him as much)


C. I added the trik late because it worked with Stronghold, academy ruins, and gensis.  Maybe I was getting to cute, but I want to play with it a bit more before I call the trik a mistake.


D.  I think this is wrong, I would always rather have 3 cards than a recursive -1/-1

E.  I’m going to try and work in the top, but I like the utility of S/M a lot

F. it’s mana is over half blue, but you are right I should have Crop rotation in there some place.

Vazdru

#4
Quote from: chapman24 on 09-04-2008, 02:34:08 AM

D.  I think this is wrong, I would always rather have 3 cards than a recursive -1/-1


Dredge 5 is quite good cause the LftL-Engine is usually one of your strongest weapons.

You play lots of recursions too, so your graveyard is an important resource.

Anc. Visions is quite nice when you can play it first round but in mid and late game it's often too slow. Venser, Remands, Memory Lapse, Counterspells ... can be easily found in the current meta. It's quite frustration to wait another 3 rounds for the card draw.

I think when your opponent play first turn lackey you beg for darkblast :P
Far below the earth
Where the demons hunt the souls of those that sleep
In the city of the Vazdru and the Drin
Where the black flame burns inside the palace fountain.

Mythrandir

Quote from: chapman24 on 09-04-2008, 02:34:08 AM

A.you have to attack with the Predator so I don’t like him as much)


believe me, predator is quite good. 3mana for a 2/3 flyer is very good specially with a disechant ability. 5 mana for a simple 4/4 to destroy an artefact i would rather have a simple naturalize.

btw: venser would be good too in there.

Vazdru

Payron asked me to post my TNM decklist

here it comes:

// Deck file for Magic Workstation (http://www.magicworkstation.com)

// Lands
    1 [ON] Barren Moor
    1 [B ] Bayou
    1 [ON] Bloodstained Mire
    1 [WWK] Bojuka Bog
    1 [ON] Flooded Strand
    6 [ZEN] Forest (3)
    6 [ZEN] Island (2)
    1 [AN] Library of Alexandria
    1 [ON] Lonely Sandbar
    1 [ZEN] Marsh Flats
    1 [ZEN] Misty Rainforest
    1 [ON] Polluted Delta
    1 [ZEN] Scalding Tarn
    4 [ZEN] Swamp (1)
    1 [ON] Tranquil Thicket
    1 [B ] Tropical Island
    1 [B ] Underground Sea
    1 [ZEN] Verdant Catacombs
    1 [TE] Wasteland
    1 [RAV] Watery Grave
    1 [ON] Windswept Heath
    1 [ON] Wooded Foothills

// Creatures
    1 [RAV] Birds of Paradise
    1 [FD] Eternal Witness
    1 [LRW] Garruk Wildspeaker
    1 [JU] Genesis
    1 [EVE] Glen Elendra Archamge
    1 [ZEN] Grazing Gladeheart
    1 [SH] Hermit Druid
    1 [LRW] Jace Beleren
    1 [SHM] Kitchen Finks
    1 [B ] Llanowar Elves
    1 [TSP] Looter il-Kor
    1 [ZEN] Lotus Cobra
    1 [CFX] Noble Hierarch
    1 [ZEN] Rampaging Baloths
    1 [ON] Ravenous Baloth
    1 [CHK] Sakura-Tribe Elder
    1 [OD] Shadowmage Infiltrator
    1 [LRW] Shriekmaw
    1 [MR] Solemn Simulacrum
    1 [LRW] Sower of Temptation
    1 [EX] Spike Weaver
    1 [FUT] Tarmogoyf
    1 [FD] Trinket Mage
    1 [DIS] Trygon Predator
    1 [MOR] Vendilion Clique
    1 [FUT] Venser, Shaper Savant
    1 [MI] Wall of Roots
    1 [OD] Werebear
    1 [EVE] Wicker-Bough Elder

// Spells
    1 [US] Back to Basics
    1 [MR] Chrome Mox
    1 [FUT] Coalition Relic
    1 [FD] Condescend
    1 [UL] Crop Rotation
    1 [LRW] Cryptic Command
    1 [PLC] Damnation
    1 [B ] Demonic Tutor
    1 [US] Duress
    1 [FD] Engineered Explosives
    1 [IN] Fact or Fiction
    1 [AL] Force of Will
    1 [CHK] Gifts Ungiven
    1 [TE] Intuition
    1 [RAV] Life from the Loam
    1 [ARB] Maelstrom Pulse
    1 [LG] Mana Drain
    1 [SH] Mana Leak
    1 [B ] Mind Twist
    1 [UL] Miscalculation
    1 [MM] Misdirection
    1 [SH] Mox Diamond
    1 [AP] Pernicious Deed
    1 [WL] Phyrexian Furnace
    1 [LRW] Primal Command
    1 [EX] Recurring Nightmare
    1 [B ] Regrowth
    1 [CHK] Sensei's Divining Top
    1 [EX] Survival of the Fittest
    1 [DS] Sword of Fire and Ice
    1 [MR] Thirst for Knowledge
    1 [LRW] Thoughtseize
    1 [UD] Treachery
    1 [EVE] Worm Harvest
    1 [WWK] Jace, the Mind Sculptor
    1 [US] Exploration
Far below the earth
Where the demons hunt the souls of those that sleep
In the city of the Vazdru and the Drin
Where the black flame burns inside the palace fountain.

Derflo

but survival is banned

Vazdru

Quote from: Derflo on 18-04-2010, 03:21:50 PM
but survival is banned

like mind twist - so what?

I've said I post my TNM deck-list (which I've played the last 4 month)

Far below the earth
Where the demons hunt the souls of those that sleep
In the city of the Vazdru and the Drin
Where the black flame burns inside the palace fountain.

Derflo

yes i know but i wanted 2 hear some ideas how 2 play it now :P

t3nn0

there is probably no one given you a free decklist out of his labor.

anyway i think its a pity, that there are a couple of decks (including the GBW-Rock i like so much), which do not have a good match up against all these blue based/included decks cause you do not have enough flexibility. Blue either creates Tempoadvantage or Cardadvantage, sometimes in one card. Maybe i got some of the decklists wrong, but why does it always have to be Bant or DarkBant, thats annoying. I can not believe that the other decks do not have any chance against blue based control or more like aggro-control. I think people just stick with what everybody knows works well.

cagain

#11
I played a U/G/B control deck too. I added W to get access to some great cards (e.g. the Landfall-Angels, Moat, Academy Rector, Knight of The Reliquary etc…). The main question is: is it profitable to add a fourth color? Anyway, here's the decklist:

Lands:

1x Watery Grave
1x Scalding Tarn
1x Lonely Sandbar
1x Wasteland
1x Breeding Pool
1x Undiscovered Paradise
1x Tranquil Thicket
1x Tropical Island
1x Windswept Heath
1x Treetop Village
1x Bayou
1x Marsh Flats
1x Bloodstained Mire
1x Mishra's Factory
1x Arid Mesa
1x Overgrown Tomb
1x Plains [Version 4]
1x Savannah
1x Volrath's Stronghold
1x Faerie Conclave
1x Tundra
1x Polluted Delta
1x Flooded Strand
1x Underground Sea
1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Island [Version 4]
1x Scrubland
1x Karakas
1x Celestial Colonnade
1x Forest [Version 4]
1x Wooded Foothills
1x Cephalid Coliseum
1x Dust Bowl
1x Swamp [Version 4]
1x Maze of Ith
1x Hallowed Fountain
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Terramorphic Expanse
(I consider to cut the manlands, 'cause of moat)


Creatures:

1x Lotus Cobra
1x Eternal Witness
1x Glen Elendra Archmage
1x Rampaging Baloths (worth to play? The Baloths are a dead card too, if moat’s on board)
1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
1x Trinket Mage
1x Tarmogoyf
1x Meloku the Clouded Mirror
1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
1x Wall of Roots
1x Vendilion Clique
1x Knight of the Reliquary
1x Emeria Angel
1x Aven Mindcensor
1x Eternal Dragon
1x Admonition Angel
1x Living Tsunami
1x Academy Rector
1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Spells:

1x Engineered Explosives
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Treachery
1x Pernicious Deed
1x Trade Routes
1x Necromancy
1x Future Sight
1x Moat
1x Oblivion Ring
1x Dissipate
1x Stroke of Genius
1x Crop Rotation
1x Misdirection
1x Path to Exile
1x Worldly Tutor
1x Capsize
1x Faerie Trickery
1x Fact or Fiction
1x Harrow
1x Forbid
1x Remand
1x Force of Will
1x Mana Leak
1x Mana Drain
1x Miscalculation
1x Counterspell
1x Mind Spring
1x Worm Harvest (same as Baloths)
1x Duress
1x Vindicate
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Life from the Loam
1x Scapeshift
1x Regrowth
1x Damnation
1x Treasure Hunt
1x Mind Shatter
1x Wrath of God
1x Raven's Crime
1x Thoughtseize

Planeswalker:

1x Garruk Wildspeaker
1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant

Yes, I play the LftL-Engine, but more as a side-kick. The control aspect should take center of the stage. Some questions:

1.   Are Baloths, Goyf, Worm Harvest worth to play? I can’t assume, that I have a Moat always on board, but if it is, these cards are just dead.
2.   How ‘bout Genesis?
3.   How ‘bout other “Landfaller”, like Grazing Gladehart (or so…) against Aggro?
4.   Should I play some more basic lands? If Blood Moon or BtB are on the field, it should be “gg” for me…

Thanks for help in advance. Free to comment.

Derflo

Quote1.   Are Baloths, Goyf, Worm Harvest worth to play? I can’t assume, that I have a Moat always on board, but if it is, these cards are just dead.
2.   How ‘bout Genesis?
3.   How ‘bout other “Landfaller”, like Grazing Gladehart (or so…) against Aggro?
4.   Should I play some more basic lands? If Blood Moon or BtB are on the field, it should be “gg” for me…

1. dont know :P
2. i dont really like 2 play him when theres no survial in
3. gladehart is the best landfallcard ... play it and u will see
4. i would play more because of back 2 basics and maybe cuz of bloodmoon but i dont see it so often ... but i dont know what 2 cut^^

PuTe

Quote from: t3nn0 on 27-04-2010, 11:23:24 AM
there is probably no one given you a free decklist out of his labor.

anyway i think its a pity, that there are a couple of decks (including the GBW-Rock i like so much), which do not have a good match up against all these blue based/included decks cause you do not have enough flexibility. Blue either creates Tempoadvantage or Cardadvantage, sometimes in one card. Maybe i got some of the decklists wrong, but why does it always have to be Bant or DarkBant, thats annoying. I can not believe that the other decks do not have any chance against blue based control or more like aggro-control. I think people just stick with what everybody knows works well.



AGREE!!!!! thats exactly what i said before! straight aggro or blue-based decks. theres not much which can beat these decks with at least 50% win-chance imo.
best regards pute