YellowJacket!

[FoundationOfRancor]

Hey everyone, espically Yellowjacket.

YJ, could you post your "Erratic Spike" deck for me? Im making a neo version of it, and I could really use a good deck to base it on. Im not PM'ing this, 'cuz I want to post my new deck here too so I can easily compare.

Thanks!

 

[Killer Joe]

I have toyed with it sooooo much that I cannot, for the life of me, recall the original deck. But I'll try.
I always started with the basic combo in mind: Erratic Portal and The Spike Bros. (Weav and Feed). The early versions carried 4 of each:
4x Erratic Portal
4x Spike Weaver
4x Spike Feeder
Since I love countermagic, I always added a splash, I think the original had just 8 spells:
4x Counterspell
4x Mana Leak
I always loved Tradewind Rider but never wanted to put them in a casual deck so I used Man-O-War (later, I added Guilded Drake). It was during this time that I thought adding Equilibrium was a good idea.
4x Man-O-War
2x Guilded Drake (later version)
2x Equilibrium
Since it was originally for multi-player, I added Gaea's Blessing for recursion.
3x Gaea's Blessing
I usually have a Sylvan Library (and again, a later version had Abundance) in it for diggin' through my deck.
1x Sylvan Library
1x Abundance
Throw in 4x Impulse and you pretty much have the deck (un-tweaked).
The objective of the deck has and always will be: NOT TO LOSE
The difference being that I never tried to "WIN" with this thing, but to stay alive so long that I became the winner via Bordom/others decking themselves or just plain opponent frustration !
I had White in it at times, I carried Disenchant/ Wrath of God/Gerrard's Wisdom.
Sometimes I made room for Propaganda and/or a tad more countermagic .
I always have had 4x Tropical Islands (since like 1998), so I've always used them.
Here's what it looked like in the Mirage/Tempest T2 era:
3x Spike Weaver
3x Spike Feeder
2x Erratic Portal
1x Equilibrium
4x Counterspell
4x Mana Leak
2x Forbid
3x Gaea's Blessing
1x Sylvan Library
4x Impulse
4x Propaganda
4x Birds of Paradise
2x Capsize
3x Man-O-War
10x Island
6x Forest
4x Skyshroud Forest (or whatever it's name was for the Tempest U/G pain-in-the-ass-land)
It did okay for me and I enjoyed playing it.

FYI-I remeber posting this on the Dojo one time and Chaos Turtle responded (circa 1998).

Whatinthehell are you going to do to my "Signature" deck anyways?

Good Luck, I hope you enjoy as much as I do (whatever it looks like ).

 

[FoundationOfRancor]

Thanks for the list YJ, it helps me alot.

Im thinking about making a more spike-oriented kind of deck, Im not that sure though. One things for certain; Im going to have more counter than you.

Two questions.

Which do you prefer and which do you think is better in this deck, Equilibrium or Erratic Portal?

Have you considered Reclaim in this deck?

 

[Killer Joe]

I like the portal better, but if you through sterling grove into the mix, Eqlibrium would be better (of course, you would have to add White).
Reclaim? Hmm. I dunno.

 

[Captain Caveman]

The decklist you sent me awhile back.....


Here's my list from July 9, 2000:
3x Erratic Portal*
2x Capsize
4x Counterspell*
4x Mana Leak*
4x Propaganda*
1x Phelddagrif
1x Abundance*
3x Gaea's Blessing*
4x Spike Feeder*
3x Spike Weaver*
1x Sylvan Library*
4x Wall of Blossoms*
1x Catastrophe
1x Land Tax
2x Seal of Cleansing
3x Wrath of God
1x Flood Plains
5x Forest
1x Grassland
5x Island
4x Plains
1x Savannah
2x Tropical Island
1x Tundra
* = These are the main cards, I am always changing the deck list but these cards always stay-in.
I have a ton of fun playing this deck and I hope you do too.

 

[Killer Joe]

the U/G/W version. That version is great in multi-player, just love Land Tax .

 

[Captain Caveman]

YJ, or anyone!!

I need a little help with my 120 card version of your deck. I
haven't played Multi-player for awhile but I've been trying to
piece it together, so that way, I'm ready the next time someone
mentions playing a big phat MP game.

We usually play 120 card decks and "try" to follow Type I rules,
now. I'm also using the cards I have so the decklist might need
a lot of cards I don't have but if someone has any idea's please
go ahead and suggest them.


Erratic Spike "120"
4 Erratic Portal
1 Scroll Rack

4 Spike Feeder
4 Mystic Snake
4 Wall of Blossoms
4 Sunscape Battlemage
3 Man O' War
2 Jungle Barrier
2 Spike Weaver
2 Fleetfoot Panther
1 Morphling
1 Gilded Drake
1 Questing Phelddagrif

4 Propaganda
4 Counterspell
4 Wrath of God
4 Evasive Action
4 Eladamri's Call
3 Gaea's Blessing
3 Dismantling Blow
2 Absorb
2 Capsize
2 Phyrexian Processor
1 Balance
1 Regrowth
1 Land Tax
1 Abundance
1 Sylvan Library
1 Dueling Grounds
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Enlightened Tutor

10 Island
10 Forest
8 Plains
4 Savannah
4 Brushland
4 Adarkar Waste
3 Tundra
1 Grassland
1 Kor Haven
1 Flood Plains
1 Treva's Ruin's
1 Yavimaya Coast

 

[Killer Joe]

Try Gilded Drake, folks hate their creatures being taken .