Oh no! I have spent my magic the gathering life here.
I came here looking for safe haven after I got laughed at for my terrible janky deck ideas on the official forums but I cam here and found a community willing to help me improve as a deck builder.
And through your help I have turned so many janky dreams into real decks
Thank you everyone :'(
Just the Wurmcoil Engine that is worth more than the rest of the deck.
for instance.
You could spend less than $10 for a Grand Architect Deck put in the Wurmcoil engines and win games with a turn three wurmcoil engine.
You just seem like you are here to make a fuss and have a tantrum over nothing. I know how you feel I got frustrated and put off when can here and all of my deck idea's and just got replies that said "add $200 worth of cards and it will be a great deck"
I am a budget player and I really really enjoy getting the best out of 40c rares.
I am also not a fan of Titans. but the card that pisses me off the most in standard right now is.... Wurmcoil engine was I ever to open on in a booster I would sell it and buy myself a whole new deck rather than use it.
Your deck.... it isn't going to work.... My Psychosis crawler + Time Reversal deck has more of a chance of winning games (because I have won games with it) than this deck.I am aware it is a re animator deck but you don't build decks with nothing to play for the first 6 turns... most decks will win the game before you do anything.
There is a little primer about how to build better decks that is stickied in the forum have a read of that.
A deck requires a mana curve your deck is way too top heavy even for a reanimator deck..you should have a much lower cost deck with 4 finnishers not 7 finnishers.
What does Blue have that Red White and Black don't?.... Card draw and Counters. but there are ways around that.
R/W/B are all amazing at destroying perminates.... Day of Judgement Oblivion Ring, Doom blade, go for the throat, Slagstorm, galvantic Blast, brimstone volley etc.
You should focus on board wiping all creatures repeatedly this will allow you to use Mimic Vat to great effect and keep Aggro from killing you before you can reanimate anything.
Getting things into the graveyard... hmm the best way is coming in Feb and I can't talk about it but look at the spoilers...It might be possible to blue splash just so you can use Desperate Ravings for card draw and discard. It is great card draw and the discard is a bonus. Liliana of the veil is however by far the best way to do it.
you need low cost creatures that you don't mind dying.... Doomed traveler probably the best 1 drop but you don't have a lot of plains currently to back him up. Perilous Myr always good and colourless...Black and Red both have a number of creatures suited to sacrifice search around for some.
Creativity is good but you have to know when an idea isn't going to work.
Just need Lashwraithe.
Plauge stinger is a common.. get some.
Or if you are dead set on blue.... Blighted agent
Psychosis crawler Deck.
I crushed someone that was using the graveyard based Event Deck.
He had a 14/14 bonehoard and boneyard Wurn but I killed them both off with Time reversal then swung for an extra 7 in a nice 14 damage burst.
So I had a go at building a deck....
Deathtouch + Curse of Stalked Prey + Proliferate. Then things that gain advantage from death of creatures so either I get stronger or I get stronger and damage them.
Glissa + Throne of Geth + Perilous Myr..
Motarpod
In brief testing I actually got mana flooded which was annoying i didn't have a lot of time yesterday unfortunately.
I will play around more there is a lot of options... unfortunately my love of using cheap ineffiencient cards tends to get in the way of making a good deck. (I got Olivia when she was $5 )
my GA deck still has Prototype potal though because it is a ridiculously fun card... Mindslaver lock muwhahahahahaha.
Someone had a Blue Black infect decklist that was Proliferate heavy and it seemed like a great deck for Lux cannon.
Thrummingbird. Viral Drake, Inexhaustible tide etc.
I think Artifact proliferation decks need to be in white... Day of judgement, Oblivion Ring, Gideon etc.
Blue + white instead.... you can add Leonin relic warder + suture Preist + Phyrexain metamorph and get yourself infinite life.
My current spell package is 3 X mana leak, 3 X negate. (my full deck list is hidden somewhere in this thread)
having 6 counters means you are highly likely to have the counter ready when you need to play Grand Architech.
I also have Gitaxin Probe and Steel stabotage as sideboard cards.
But I see a lot of Vapour Snag and Ponder in these decks.
What advantages do these have over going with straight counters?
I am not running a delver and it isn't a blightsteel combo deck so I wasn't sold on Ponder...
Azure mage is actually my only card draw... but I didn't really think ponder helped a lot while I was testing my deck.
I like Vapour snag in general but I really focused on protecting my Grand Architect with my spell choices.... should I really be using it?...Is the negate route a very anti control and Vapour snag the anti agro card?...
I have also considered Turn Aside... because I tap out a lot and it is easy enough to leave 1 free.
I am dissapointed that it doesn't have Hexproof like LumberKnot (which is a cool card that is way too slow) and Dungrove Eldar.
there is potential but I think we need to see if there is going to be more synergistic cards there is probably going to be a whole lot more self mill cards.
if you think about it Faithless Looting can set it up very fast since you can choose what to dump.
Glissa the traitor,
who is really cheap for such a good card right now. (especially since she is a zombie)
and Olivia Voldaren
I look at those two cards and I see synergy (Olivia pings, Glissa gets me an artifact) but I can't really get a fully formed idea...
Glissa's demand for a deck high in artifacts could be an easy way around a difficult mana base.
They have low mana costs.
Birthing Pod or a Proliferate or Dredge all seen reasonable idea's.
Do people have some decklists that use these two cards that could get me some idea's for a deck?
Most obviously Undying birthing pod can now pod into a creature and buff instead of losing the creature.
We still have morbid from Innstrad.
Zombie based Pod will be able to recast creatures from its graveyard....
Gravecrawler,
It is interesting in a set with a lot of graveyard interactions that the birthing pod deck actually lost competitiveness since innstrad
...
Is it just Ancient Grudge? I was sure there was already a lot of artifact hate before Innstrad.
most notably opening Skithryx in a booster pack yesterday. Got Mutagenic Growth now.. dropped the Grim afflictions in favour of Contagion Clasp it is an interesting question which of them is better?.
Haven't got Livewirse Lash....
I feel the deck needs to Swam my opponents and having too many non creature spells appears to be working against me a little but I seem to have used up all the good infect Weenie's though, is there any low mana cost infect creatures I am not using?
11 Swamps
9 Forests
Goblin Arsonist?
Rage thrower?
normally these types of decks are paired with Green for morbid triggers and creatures like Lumberknot