original merfolk opposition

[lordofatlantis418]

I have this deck that I've used since I first started playing, around five or six years ago, built on a simple concept.

make my creatures big, make my creatures unblockable... well, it's worked pretty consistantly through out the years, but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to make it better.. here's the layout,

creatures

3 darting merfolk
3 manta riders
4 tidal warriors
4 merfolk looters
4 sandbar merfolk
4 lord atlantis

spells

1 feldon's cane
1 recall
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
2 withdrawl
2 capsize
2 equilibrium
4 sunken city
4 arcane denial
4 counterspell

land

17 island

it's not very complicated, and it doesn't need more than 3 mana to win the game, but it's got enough umph to make it through a longer match (counterspells, equilibrium + darting merfolk = nasty, disk, capsize, plenty to hold its own) but I often get a response such as pffft, merfolk. so comments, ideas? anything you guys have to offer, i'm game, just thought i'd share my favorite deck with ya'll

 

[Spiderman]

Arcane Denial seems odd, there's got to better 2 mana counterspells, like Mana Leak at least.

You could try Unstable Mutation, the blue "giant growth"

 

[train]

Run a conspiracy - and change them into phat beasts...

 

[lordofatlantis418]

Originally posted by train
Run a conspiracy - and change them into phat beasts...

I did that before, I had 2 breeding pits in there with a couple coat of arms, and then some other necessary black stuff, along with the lord and a few merfolk and when the conspiracy came out it was check mate. The only thing is mana, it's hard to run an efficient black blue deck unless you got something that's going to slow the other guy down.

 

[13NoVa]

duel lands, duel lands, duel lands.

counterspells, counterspells, counterspells,

creature removal, creature removal, creature removal....


try underground sea and underground river, a couple poluted deltas and some tainted isles for land

4 conspiracy
4 diabolic edict
4 terror
4 counterspell
4 arcane
4 daze
2 lords of atlantis
4 merfolk of the pearl tridant
4 merfolk looter
2 lord of the dead
2 coat of arms
1 demonic tutor

4 underground sea
4 underground river
3 poluted delta
3 swamp
4 tainted field
2 island