Ok.... I have no clue if anybody will get this Joke, but we'll try it.
Meta-Knight Game 2BB
Creature- Broken Knight
When ~ comes into play, destroy target character's game creature.
~ is broken. (It should be banned) Flying, Flash, Shroud, Meta-Knight's Gameplay is indestructable. (It cannot be beaten.)
8/8
The choice simply comes down to the defining element in this format:
Mimics vs. Soul Snuffers as it's removal. No other choice is reasonable. I'd take Soul Snuffers because killing their Mimics> Taking Mimics.
Eventide. The choice comes down to Lorwyn vs. Eventide IMO. This is because Morningtide and to a lesser extent Shadowmoor have a few insane cards with nothing in-between. Eventide and Lorwyn have a lot of playable or almost playable cards. Between the two, I'd take Eventide because I got a Lorwyn box a while back, however if I were just starting up a collection I'd get Lorwyn.
Maybe a Baru, Fist of Krosa or two to capitalize on all those lands that you'll be stealing with the Archdruid?
Um.... Baru doesn't really help capatalize. If you draw two sure, but otherwise none of the forests actually come into play.
In my opinion, the perfect finisher for this deck is Chameleon Collous(pardon my spelling). It's a druid, it's tutorable with harbinger and with 12+ lands in play, it's be a 32/32! I'd cut some combination of Zoologists (Few big creatures to abuse it with) and Mirror Entities (The Chameleon finishes better.)
But even if Dralnu was in many decks, most of those decks had many more sorceries and instants. You didn't just pop a Dralnu on Rg Aggro; you put it in a deck where the only non-instants/sorceries were Dralnu himself and Teferi.
Ok.... maybe your right. So.... maybe Dralnu should be cut but you shouldn't change the entrie deck based on one possibly incorrect card. Also: Even in Dralnu.dec I strongly dislike Izzet Guildmage. It's so incredibly limited and weak, I just can't see running it anywhere but a super-johnny deck. Then again, as a Timmy/Spike with not a hint of johnny that makes sense.
I disagree. Your changes seem to be geared towards a different deck. During the era of teachings Dralnu was thrown into many a deck. It doesn't need a deck built around it, its fine with the current list.
Well, there was a creature spell only dismiss a few sets back and this doesn't really seem much better. A card> a 1/1 token. However, it could be good if you made it a little cheaper (UU?) or made the token a faerie(*half-joke*).
n I like it balance wise. I would probably never play it, because it will cost me a minumum of 6 life...which I can say isn't worth 3 cards at sorcery speed. Even though you said you WOULDN'T use it in aggro because of life lose...i think it fits best in a situation as such. I think I would have too many cards in my hand playing combo/control to want to play this little fella.
Well... I think a storm combo might play it after several rituals because they're winning that turn anyway. Some extended storm decks play Plunge into Darkness after all. But mostly, I see your point. I personally probably wouldn't be playing this either being a control mage at heart but that doesn't make it less strong.
This is an ingenious idea! I've seen hundreds upon hundreds of people asking for elf and sliver deck help, if there were an existing stickied thread for them to look at it would save alot of time and energy for the rest of us.
Seriously, great idea. I heartily give it 2 thumbs up.
-Aje8
In short, I agree with Gildrad. What follows is the long answer:
I see many many decks in the casual forum asking for advice considering duels AND multiplayer. Splitting the forum would be hard on people looking for such advice. If they post it in the multiplayer forum they'll be asked to cut duel stuff such as fast spot removal, if they post it in the casual duels forum then they'll be asked to cut multiplayer stuff like Rattlesnake cards.
The casual forum is fine the way it is and doesn't need to be split further at least in this direction IMO.
First of all, Expunge??!!! The cycling is not worth it. Terror, Shriekmaw, theres a multitude of options that are generally better and I don't see a reason why cycling is crucial to your deck so that seems like a good change. Secondly, consider swapping out Invoke the Firemind for either pure draw or Demonfire , I'm not sure which more benifical here, probably draw. Also: You may want to put deck tags around your deck.
Then, we come to the issue of Avarax, if it's something your dead set on playing then go ahead, but it's not a great card in general.
The card is even good in each other deck that can kick out all cards in hand fast enough, even a Mono Red Burn can splash black to get that card draw, so 6 life for 3 cards is not that bad, and you will do what you can to lose not more life.
I'm not too sure about that. Lets look at this card for an aggro deck. Here are the match-ups, against:
Other Aggro: VERY bad. You can't afford to lose 6-9 life and live. '
Control: Good, but not great. The refill for little cost will own, but to use it you HAVE to overcommit into wrath.
Combo: Your lost anyway, this card makes little difference.
Also: About the black thing, fine it's black.
Your post is a little..... rambling. Do you think it's broken or not?
Look, even the most broken card can be fine if played in a weak enough deck. What about a black lotus being used to power out 9+ mana mono-green fatties? That's not too broken. Turn 6 Kroson Collousus, 9/9, oh noes? we call it terror. A casual B/R list is a terrible idea. Casual is about having fun, and eck fine. In addition, few people I know HAVE cards from that banned and restricted list anyway, making it yet more annoying and useless. In my group, we generallly allow anything that's not unglued/hinged or ante related.
Combo Decks: They're no big deal as long as they're played against decks of the appropiate power. For example, my Narco-Bridge deck (a budget version of the toruney lists) is fine against a super-aggro or good control deck but it would be ridiculous to play it against a Mono-Green fatties deck.
and on a side note hurricane, firespout, thresher and hail storm arent from the TSP block
Did you even read my other post?
To restate:
Um yes.... but they all only hit flyers! Except for hail sotrm witch is from TSP block, hence green should not get damage unless it A. Only hits flyers or B. Is in a block that messes with the color pie.
Meta-
KnightGame 2BBCreature- Broken Knight
When ~ comes into play, destroy target
character's gamecreature.~ is broken. (It should be banned)
Flying, Flash, Shroud, Meta-Knight's Gameplay is indestructable. (It cannot be beaten.)
8/8
Mimics vs. Soul Snuffers as it's removal. No other choice is reasonable. I'd take Soul Snuffers because killing their Mimics> Taking Mimics.
In my opinion, the perfect finisher for this deck is Chameleon Collous(pardon my spelling). It's a druid, it's tutorable with harbinger and with 12+ lands in play, it's be a 32/32! I'd cut some combination of Zoologists (Few big creatures to abuse it with) and Mirror Entities (The Chameleon finishes better.)
Ok.... maybe your right. So.... maybe Dralnu should be cut but you shouldn't change the entrie deck based on one possibly incorrect card. Also: Even in Dralnu.dec I strongly dislike Izzet Guildmage. It's so incredibly limited and weak, I just can't see running it anywhere but a super-johnny deck. Then again, as a Timmy/Spike with not a hint of johnny that makes sense.
I disagree. Your changes seem to be geared towards a different deck. During the era of teachings Dralnu was thrown into many a deck. It doesn't need a deck built around it, its fine with the current list.
Seriously, great idea. I heartily give it 2 thumbs up.
-Aje8
In short, I agree with Gildrad. What follows is the long answer:
I see many many decks in the casual forum asking for advice considering duels AND multiplayer. Splitting the forum would be hard on people looking for such advice. If they post it in the multiplayer forum they'll be asked to cut duel stuff such as fast spot removal, if they post it in the casual duels forum then they'll be asked to cut multiplayer stuff like Rattlesnake cards.
The casual forum is fine the way it is and doesn't need to be split further at least in this direction IMO.
Terror, Shriekmaw, theres a multitude of options that are generally better and I don't see a reason why cycling is crucial to your deck so that seems like a good change. Secondly, consider swapping out Invoke the Firemind for either pure draw or Demonfire , I'm not sure which more benifical here, probably draw. Also: You may want to put deck tags around your deck.
Then, we come to the issue of Avarax, if it's something your dead set on playing then go ahead, but it's not a great card in general.
Other Aggro: VERY bad. You can't afford to lose 6-9 life and live. '
Control: Good, but not great. The refill for little cost will own, but to use it you HAVE to overcommit into wrath.
Combo: Your lost anyway, this card makes little difference.
Also: About the black thing, fine it's black.
Your post is a little..... rambling. Do you think it's broken or not?
Ancestral Pain B
Sorcery
Draw three cards. Then , you lose two life for each card in your hand.
It it too cheap at B? You certainly can't cast it turn 1, and probably not turn 2 either.
EDIT:Changed Ancestral Pain to black as suggested.
Combo Decks: They're no big deal as long as they're played against decks of the appropiate power. For example, my Narco-Bridge deck (a budget version of the toruney lists) is fine against a super-aggro or good control deck but it would be ridiculous to play it against a Mono-Green fatties deck.
Did you even read my other post?
To restate:
Um yes.... but they all only hit flyers! Except for hail sotrm witch is from TSP block, hence green should not get damage unless it A. Only hits flyers or B. Is in a block that messes with the color pie.