My friends and I play a vintage ruleset with the additional restriction of old art borders (in other words: scourge and prior, plus a few others), and I'm looking for deck building advice. My apologies if this would be more appropriate in the casual section or introduce yourself section, but balance is my main concern, and I suspect the people here will know more about that. I'm looking to build 4-6 decks for my friends who play, but don't have their own decks. I only play amongst a small group of people, so I'm not looking for competitive decks, but I want to capture the quick and exciting feel of the format while maintaining a decent balance among the decks. My hope is that they will be suitable for 1v1s, 2v2s, and FFAs.
To keep things simple, I tried to make a mono deck for each color. So far, I've built a mono red, a mono blue, and a mono black deck, but every mono white or green deck I come up with seems to suck. Additionally, I built a white black deck because <3 clerics. Below are the decks I've built so far. I'm looking for advice on balance and structure, but any advice is welcome.
Red Burn Deck
Mountain x14
Wooded Foothills x4
Bloodstained Mire x4
Shivan Gorge x1
Sol Ring x1
Mox Ruby x1
Time Vault
Island x12
Polluted Delta x4
Flooded Strand x4
Riptide Laboratory x1
Mishra's Workshop x1
Tolarian Academy x1
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale x1
Patron Wizard x2
Arcanis, the Omnipotent x1
Howling Mine x4
Static Orb x4
Voltaic Key x4
Relic Barrier x4
Mana Vault x1
Time Vault x1
Sol Ring x1
Moxie Sapphire x1
Black Lotus x1
Transmute Artifact x4
Mana Drain x2
Tinker x1
Counterspell x1
Brainstorm x1
Ancestral Recall x1
Time Walk x1
Force of Will x1
Black White Skull Deck
Swamp x8
Plains x8
Scrubland x4
Caves of Koilos x4
Mox Jet x1
Mox Pearl x1
Sol Ring x1
Mother of Runes x4
Dark Supplicant x4
Rotlung Reanimator x4
Academy Rector x3
Edgewalker x3
Exalted Angel x2
Soltari Visionary x1
Scion of Darkness x1
To keep things simple, I tried to make a mono deck for each color. So far, I've built a mono red, a mono blue, and a mono black deck, but every mono white or green deck I come up with seems to suck. Additionally, I built a white black deck because <3 clerics. Below are the decks I've built so far. I'm looking for advice on balance and structure, but any advice is welcome.
Red Burn Deck
Mountain x14
Wooded Foothills x4
Bloodstained Mire x4
Shivan Gorge x1
Sol Ring x1
Mox Ruby x1
Ball Lightning x4
Jackal Pup x4
Grim Lavamancer x3
Goblin Sharpshooter x2
Jeska, Warrior Adept x1
Lightning Bolt x4
Chain Lightning x4
Incinerate x4
Browbeat x4
Sulfuric Vortex x2
Fireblast x2
Wheel of Fortune x1
Black Deck That I Shamelessly Ripped From The Internet
Snowcovered Swamp x21
Cabal Coffers x4
Moxie Jet x1
Nantuko Shade x4
Undead Gladiator x2
Tainted Pact x4
Dark Ritual x4
Innocent Blood x4
Chainer's Edict x4
Hymn to Tourach x4
Skeletal Scrying x2
Corrupt x2
Demonic Tutor x1
Mirari x1
Vampiric Tutor x1
Time Vault
Island x12
Polluted Delta x4
Flooded Strand x4
Riptide Laboratory x1
Mishra's Workshop x1
Tolarian Academy x1
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale x1
Patron Wizard x2
Arcanis, the Omnipotent x1
Howling Mine x4
Static Orb x4
Voltaic Key x4
Relic Barrier x4
Mana Vault x1
Time Vault x1
Sol Ring x1
Moxie Sapphire x1
Black Lotus x1
Transmute Artifact x4
Mana Drain x2
Tinker x1
Counterspell x1
Brainstorm x1
Ancestral Recall x1
Time Walk x1
Force of Will x1
Black White Skull Deck
Swamp x8
Plains x8
Scrubland x4
Caves of Koilos x4
Mox Jet x1
Mox Pearl x1
Sol Ring x1
Mother of Runes x4
Dark Supplicant x4
Rotlung Reanimator x4
Academy Rector x3
Edgewalker x3
Exalted Angel x2
Soltari Visionary x1
Scion of Darkness x1
Vindicate x3
Seal of Cleansing x2
Recurring Nightmare x1
Necropotence x1
Yawgmoth's Bargain x1
Vampiric Tutor x1
Demonic Tutor x1
Enlightened Tutor x1