Monday, March 15, 2010

Convince Me not to build this:

4x Quest for Ula's Temple

4x Grozoth
4x Inkwell Leviathan
4x Mystic Snake
4x Sage of Epityr
4x Sage Owl

4x Clockspinning
4x Spell Burst
4x Condescend

4x Halimar Depths
4x Misty Rainforest
4x Breeding Pool
4x Flooded Grove
4x Dryad Arbor <- complete proof that this is one of the worst decks
4x Yavimaya Coast

19 comments:

Sean said...

Mystic Snake is (i'm guessing) your fourth or fifth favorite card ever. Behind: 1 Cryptic Command 2 Scryb Sprite 3 Mulldrifter. And yet I don't see any of them? I mean c'mon!

And in a serious note, where is fable of wolf and owl?

DRokRoss said...

Fable is not a creature, not a way to protect the quest, and it cant manipulate the top of the library...

Sean said...

i was just joking about fable.

DRokRoss said...

So maybe I should go -2 Wrexial +2 C. Command just so I have the card in the deck?

I could also go -4 Sage Owl for +4 Mulldrifters...
or -4 Mystic Snake so I could play this with a cheaper manabase

DRokRoss said...

this would be favorite cards.dec:
4x Cryptic Command
4x Mulldrifter
4x Mystic Snake
4x Scryb Ranger
4x Teferi
4x Ancestral Visions
4x Eternal Witness
4x Tooth And Nail
4x Venser, Shaper Savant

unfortunately.... Its not good enough (though it is probably better than the above

Sean said...

Back to your original post--why not run Venser over Spell Burst?

and Calcite Snapper or Wall of Denial over Clockspinning.

so -2 clockspinning, -4 spellburst,
+3 venser +3 wall

DRokRoss said...

venser is too slow. clockspinning speeds up the quest. the whole idea of this was to drop a giant creature early.

T1 Quest
T2 +1 Counter (hopefully) spell burst/condescend for protection
T3 +1 Counter (hopefullly) Clockspinning EOT Grozoth go get a bunch of grozoths and Inkwell Leviathans - end of opponents turn Drop a Leviathan
T4 Swing for 16

Sean said...

I also like Lorthos as a 1 of, and Simic Sky Swallower is good. Just run 4 quests, 34 creatures and some tutor's, like beseech the queen, or take out the sage owl and sage of epityr and run a cascade (ardent plea 1WU or captured sunlight 2GW or demonic dread 1BR or Kathari Remnant 2UB or stormcaller's boon 2WB or violent outburst 1RG to tutor up your ench.

DRokRoss said...

Sean! You are supposed to be convincing me not to build bad deck... not trying to make it better....

Lorthos cant be tutored by grozoth. (nor can Wrexial which is why I recently removed him.)

DRokRoss said...

oh! Dryad Arbor!

Sean said...

yeah, the girl-land. she's a creature.

i was thinking there was some artifact creature that when it went to the GY you could put him on top of your library, but i can't find what i'm thinking of. also, the leg land that puts an artifact from your yard on top (have to tap and pay 2 more, so it isn't exactly fast).

I'll tell you what is good, though, is bitterblossom and jitte. you should be more focused on GB faeries, with scryb and bitterblossom working in harmony.

DRokRoss said...

I'd love to play faeries, the problem is I sold Sower, I sold Ancestral Visions, I sold some of my Cryptic Commands. Sold Bitterblossom, and dont have jittes

Sean said...

I'd go for elf-combo, or even see what you have for ravager. drew may have ravager pieces sitting in a box in his garage, too. but this deck here, this ula's temple, this would be the funniest deck in the room.

Sean said...

Living End is a pretty cheap budget deck. The most expensive thing are the lands, and most of the lands are Zendikar fetch lands which we already have. i have a few of the shock lands i think

Sean said...

Valakut scapeshift is pretty cool and inexpensive looking, too. Lots of breeding pools and stomping grounds and and stuff in it too, though. i have 4 steam vents for sure, and not more than one or two of any of the others.

DRokRoss said...

do you have the bad cascade cards for Living End/Hypergenesis?

Sean said...

I don't have them, but they are just uncommons, should be able to get them from the sale binder at the card shop for $0.50 each.

Sean said...

I actually own 4 stomping grounds but i let my friend use them and he moved. If you build that deck let me know and i'll try to get them for you.

I have grove of the burnwillows, 2 godless shrine, 4 UR shock, 2 temple garden, 1 sacred foundry, 1 tarmogoyf. not sure what lands are in the deck. Also have 2 rugged prairies, playsets of battlefield forge, brushland, karplusan forest, 1 underground river, 1 cave of koilos, and most of the m10 lands.

i have 4 extirpate.

i don't own any hypergenesis or living end.

other relevant green cards: 1 protean hulk, 5 summoner's pact (i must've really liked it), 1 scapeshift, 2 life from the loam.

black: 4 bitterblossom.

red: 3 boom//bust, 6 fatal frenzy (for affinity), 4 blood moon, 3 magus of the moon

white: 1 enduring ideal, 2 intervention pact (for mind hive)

multicolor: 4 firespout, 1 gaddock teeg, 1 dovescape (ideal), 4 figure of destiny, 4 deus of calamity

blue: 4 venser

Also I have 2 extended decks: vore and martyr-tron.

any of that stuff is fair game.

DRokRoss said...

I have 4 of every suspend card without a casting cost except Ancestral Visions actuallly. so Im good on those.