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This is the most incredible deck I have built in a long, long time. My god, I can’t believe how many hours of work I put into it in order to shape it up, and not to mention, make it T2 legal.
This deck is awesome: it describes me, it’s aggressive, and it beats Green (of course, that’s not always the best, but from me, beating Green means so much, no offense to any Elves here or anything.)
Let’s look at the deck list first:
7 Creature Cards:
4 Thrashing Wumpus
3 Highway Robber
18 Control Cards:
4 Massacre
4 Addle
4 Rain of Tears
3 Unmask
3 Despoil
11 Beautiful Cards:
4 Dark Ritual
4 Desperate Research
3 Rhystic Syphon
24 Handy Little Mana Sources:
2 Rath’s Edge
22 Swamp
And now, Angels, Elves, Goblins, Vampires, and Illusions, the explanation of the deck:
The 4 Thrashing Wumpus provides overkill. These will be very hot creatures, not that they aren’t already. The slowing down of the environment simply makes this bad boy much better. Let me put it this way, if a 5 casting cost card is playable in an Urza environment, a slow environment like this will take this thing like it was broken or something.
The 3 Highway Robber is more than great. It gives Red decks something to deal with, and it’s great food for an angry Blastoderm. It’s in the deck one reason: to provide a chump blocker while giving me some life, and hurting my opponent’s feelings (life total actually).
I also have 4 Rain of Tears and 3 Despoil. They ruin the opponent more than you think. Now a day, the goodies cost at least 4 or 5 mana to cast, meaning that Rain of Tears and Despoil could slow the opponent a bit; this “bit” is all I need to shatter my enemy. The Despoil is even better than it looks; sure, the loss of 2 life is not much, but think about it, between the Highway Robbers, the Thrashing Wumpus, and the Rhystic Syphon, wouldn’t that be distressing by itself! Goodness lord! Plus, there aren’t any great discard cards to fill in the spot, so land removal becomes handy, and trust me, I never knew this, but land destruction combined with discard is really nauseating, for your opponent that is.
Unmask and Addle are simply the best discard spells I’ve seen since Duress. Unmask’s alternative playing cost is handy, and I could destroy a land, and still Unmask my opponent. Addle is simply amazing, I don’t see any big draw back.
Now, for the ‘Beautiful Cards”. I call them “beautiful” because they are. Dark Ritual is, well, do I need to explain? Desperate Research is a really, really good search card for Black. It’s better than Rhystic Tutor even. Here’s an “episode”: I’m at second turn, and I need a Rain of Tears or a Dark Ritual for next turn, well, what do I do? Desperate Research. Play the Research, tear throughout the top 7 cards of your library, and get what you want. The good part is that if you don’ t get what you want, the chances are that the next 2 or 3 cards contain what you want are very great. In another word, you either get what you want, or you’re 7 cards closer to it, which is a handy tool by itself (in my foreign opinion anyway). Now, one might suggest that Rhystic Tutor would fit “better” in this deck; well, what I would say is that “sure, it might fit better”; that’s all I would say. I simply like being “desperate” (read my signature). I also like being of the suicidal type. Desperate Research, either way, is less fragile than the Rhystic Tutor, and when I want to get something out of my deck, I really must get it, even if I have to be at least 7 cards closer to it, but I must get it, the sooner the better. Rhystic Tutor is not flexible. You either get what you want, or get nothing.
Rhystic Syphon is great in this deck, though I still wish I could replace it with the more flexible Drain Life, or the less fragile Soul Feast. Though, Rhystic Syphon is good enough, especially in a deck with minor Land denial like this one.
I chose 24 Lands (duh!), 22 of them being the nice ol’Swamps, and the other 2 are the underrated Rath’s Edge. Why Rath’s Edge? Well, let me put it this way: Gliders, Red, and (the less popular), Spell Shapers.
There. What do you think? Any cards I missed? The deck is great in my opinion. Need your opinion though.
"I forgot to contaminate this thread with similes...shoot!"
This deck is awesome: it describes me, it’s aggressive, and it beats Green (of course, that’s not always the best, but from me, beating Green means so much, no offense to any Elves here or anything.)
Let’s look at the deck list first:
7 Creature Cards:
4 Thrashing Wumpus
3 Highway Robber
18 Control Cards:
4 Massacre
4 Addle
4 Rain of Tears
3 Unmask
3 Despoil
11 Beautiful Cards:
4 Dark Ritual
4 Desperate Research
3 Rhystic Syphon
24 Handy Little Mana Sources:
2 Rath’s Edge
22 Swamp
And now, Angels, Elves, Goblins, Vampires, and Illusions, the explanation of the deck:
The 4 Thrashing Wumpus provides overkill. These will be very hot creatures, not that they aren’t already. The slowing down of the environment simply makes this bad boy much better. Let me put it this way, if a 5 casting cost card is playable in an Urza environment, a slow environment like this will take this thing like it was broken or something.
The 3 Highway Robber is more than great. It gives Red decks something to deal with, and it’s great food for an angry Blastoderm. It’s in the deck one reason: to provide a chump blocker while giving me some life, and hurting my opponent’s feelings (life total actually).
I also have 4 Rain of Tears and 3 Despoil. They ruin the opponent more than you think. Now a day, the goodies cost at least 4 or 5 mana to cast, meaning that Rain of Tears and Despoil could slow the opponent a bit; this “bit” is all I need to shatter my enemy. The Despoil is even better than it looks; sure, the loss of 2 life is not much, but think about it, between the Highway Robbers, the Thrashing Wumpus, and the Rhystic Syphon, wouldn’t that be distressing by itself! Goodness lord! Plus, there aren’t any great discard cards to fill in the spot, so land removal becomes handy, and trust me, I never knew this, but land destruction combined with discard is really nauseating, for your opponent that is.
Unmask and Addle are simply the best discard spells I’ve seen since Duress. Unmask’s alternative playing cost is handy, and I could destroy a land, and still Unmask my opponent. Addle is simply amazing, I don’t see any big draw back.
Now, for the ‘Beautiful Cards”. I call them “beautiful” because they are. Dark Ritual is, well, do I need to explain? Desperate Research is a really, really good search card for Black. It’s better than Rhystic Tutor even. Here’s an “episode”: I’m at second turn, and I need a Rain of Tears or a Dark Ritual for next turn, well, what do I do? Desperate Research. Play the Research, tear throughout the top 7 cards of your library, and get what you want. The good part is that if you don’ t get what you want, the chances are that the next 2 or 3 cards contain what you want are very great. In another word, you either get what you want, or you’re 7 cards closer to it, which is a handy tool by itself (in my foreign opinion anyway). Now, one might suggest that Rhystic Tutor would fit “better” in this deck; well, what I would say is that “sure, it might fit better”; that’s all I would say. I simply like being “desperate” (read my signature). I also like being of the suicidal type. Desperate Research, either way, is less fragile than the Rhystic Tutor, and when I want to get something out of my deck, I really must get it, even if I have to be at least 7 cards closer to it, but I must get it, the sooner the better. Rhystic Tutor is not flexible. You either get what you want, or get nothing.
Rhystic Syphon is great in this deck, though I still wish I could replace it with the more flexible Drain Life, or the less fragile Soul Feast. Though, Rhystic Syphon is good enough, especially in a deck with minor Land denial like this one.
I chose 24 Lands (duh!), 22 of them being the nice ol’Swamps, and the other 2 are the underrated Rath’s Edge. Why Rath’s Edge? Well, let me put it this way: Gliders, Red, and (the less popular), Spell Shapers.
There. What do you think? Any cards I missed? The deck is great in my opinion. Need your opinion though.
"I forgot to contaminate this thread with similes...shoot!"
