Insurrection deck - help wanted!!!!

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boozehound

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I have read alot of threads and realise that most, if not all of the regulars on this forum are "we are not worthy" magic gods, so i summon thee to help this mere mortal! I loved insurrection the first time i saw it, so bought four and built a deck around it. Originally it had biorhythms in it cos i loved the combo, but too expensive to play both in a turn, so this the current incarnation -
9 forest
9 mountain
4 gilded lotus
4 sol ring
4 insurrection
4 fork
4 goblin offensive
4 battle squadron
3 bop
3 utopia tree
3 shivan dragon
2 nemata gg
2 panoptic mirror (if i can get an insurrection on it)
2 ashnods altars ( to sack opponents creatures to the goblin offensives after i have attacked them with there own creatures)
2 stream of life
1 living hive

The main reason i put the forks in there is to fork counterspells (train would like that, as it's red and not blue) but also has its other uses. The deck just seems too mana intensive , hence sol rings and lotus' and utopia trees, which seems to weaken it too much whilst waiting to play the first insurrection, fast creature decks play havoc with it but i like the deck so much i really want to work it out - so come on folks, what do you reckon?
 
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train

Guest
I'm going to put some thought into this one, mainly because I think you can easily biorythm and have some fun with the insurrection at the same time...
 

Oversoul

The Tentacled One
I don't think that the regulars of this forum are really gods, except maybe Train... :p

I'm not sure what to do to fix the expensive spells. What about Thran Dynamo? It might help...

Lotus Vale or maybe Scorched Ruins...

Something for the mana though, I think, would help the speed of the deck...
 
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Tabasco

Guest
Do you want it to be legal in a format...Type 1 in this case?

Sol Ring and Fork are Restricted in T1 so three of each of those would have to go.

A Tolarian Academy...(also restricted) would help along with some Myr or Talismans

Iron Myr and Copper Myr add one mana to the respective colors

Talisman of Impulse adds a colorless, or a G or R (deals 1 point of damage to you)

Other Artifact mana producer's include

The restricted

Mana Vault
Grim monolith

Not Restricted

Thran Dynamo
Gilded Lotus


Personally this might be a better Insurrection deck....(just Insurrection itself) If you made it blue-red with a splash of black (tutoring for the insurrection.

Basically play a control type deck and counter anything that you don't like, but let him/her build up a nice army, then steal it and go for the throat.

I hope I helped, Let me know If you can't make out something from my endless ramble.....
 
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train

Guest
If you don't go by a DCI format, and just build a fun deck, your best play is going to be Dream Halls... Then you could possibly biorythm and insurrection as early as turn 3 to make it worth it...
 
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boozehound

Guest
The deck is a fun deck, Tabasco, so it doesn't really matter what i put in the thing. And as for the mana producers i do have the sols, lotus', bops and trees to try and speed things up, the real problem lies in the cost of the spells, and if trying to play insurrection and biorhythm together you are looking at sixteen mana. Train has the right idea in as much as trying to play the spells without actually paying for them(always a bonus) but i don't run blue so splashing another colour might complicate things further, although i do have the gilded lotus i suppose. They haven't re-printed dream halls in red or green have they?................
 
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Tabasco

Guest
you could make the deck G/U and cast the red spells either with Lotus or bird mana...or dream halls...

blue is good at utilizing your deck.....card drawing/searching for what you really need

Mystical Tutor, for example, lets you find any spell in the deck and put it on top of your library.....for only the cost of 1 blue mana

Accumulated Knowledge is one of the best drawing spells out there, along with Fact or Fiction, which isn't really drawing, but anything you see in the top five cards of your library is yours.
 
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boozehound

Guest
Thanks for the advice, i will definitely look into changing colours to make the deck more user friendly, but i do not own any of the blue cards mentioned at the moment and if i buy any more this month i think the girlfriend will pack her bags never to return (When was the last time you bought me flowers? Always spending your money on those bloody Magic cards etc)
 
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train

Guest
Hey booze - I've ru across some cards, and will have a list shortly - I hope - that I'm getting rid of, I know there's 2 mystical tutors in there...

R U willing to trade?...

:cool:

(technically - you wouldn't be spending, and could get her the flowers...)
 
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boozehound

Guest
All depends on what i might have that you might want............how about some purelace and erosions?
 
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boozehound

Guest
On a more serious note, i have nothing against trading so if you are going to do the list then i will have a look and see if we can't sort something out. Is there anything you want in particular ( i feel stupid asking this as i have an image of you shuffling through masses of black lotus, mox. timetwisters etc.)
 
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train

Guest
I hope to have a trade list up later today...

Keep an eye out for the thread in the trading forum...

:cool:
 
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