Dauntless in Dominaria

Gatherer-Terrible Magic

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:20:20 -0500

Shawn Main, one of the Magic designers, came up with the “Gatherer-Terrible Magic” format. The only cards which are legal in this format are basic lands and cards which are rated 2 stars or less by the users of our Gatherer website. I piloted this aggressive green ramp deck yesterday. The deck was pretty fun, but was pretty soft to black’s removal. The Circles of Protection in the sideboard are just filler; the metagame is too unknown to have a clear idea of what to sideboard.

Aaron Forsythe, Magic R&D’s director, won our little three-man tournament with a deck that had similar mana fixing to mine, but with a lot more black card advantage cards.

Lands:

20 Forest
4 Plains

Creatures:

4 Meng Huo’s Horde
4 Nettletooth Djinn
4 Quirion Trailblazer
3 Ruham Djinn
4 Whiptail Wurm
4 Wirewood Elf

Other Spells:

1 Aladdin’s Ring
4 Moss Diamond
4 Sudden Strength
4 Tigereye Cameo

Sideboard:

4 Bee Sting
2 Circle of Protection: Black
1 Circle of Protection: Blue
1 Circle of Protection: White
4 Misfortune’s Gain
3 Ray of Distortion

Sliver Overlord deck for Commander

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:08:02 -0400

This is a deck I threw together with what I had lying around. Premium Deck Series: Slivers formed the nucleus of the deck. I cannibalized a couple of cards here and there from my other two commander decks to help the five-color mana base along.

Commander:

Sliver Overlord

Lands:

Ancient Ziggurat

Arcane Sanctum

Azorius Chancery

Boros Garrison

Celestial Colonnade

Crumbling Necropolis

Dimir Aqueduct

Dreadship Reef

Evolving Wilds

Exotic Orchard

Forest X5

Golgari Rot Farm

Gruul Turf

Island

Izzet Boilerworks

Jungle Shrine

Kazandu Refuge

Lavaclaw Reaches

Marsh Flats

Mirrodin’s Core

Mountain

Orzhov Basilica

Plains X2

Rakdos Carnarium

Rootbound Crag

Rupture Spire

Savage Lands

Swamp

Terramorphic Expanse

Tranquil Thicket

Vivid Creek

Vivid Grove

Vivid Marsh

Creatures:

Acidic Sliver

Amoeboid Changeling

Basal Sliver

Battering Sliver

Bloodline Shaman

Bonesplitter Sliver

Brood Sliver

Cautery Sliver

Clot Sliver

Crypt Sliver

Crystalline Sliver

Darkheart Sliver

Fury Sliver

Gemhide Sliver

Harmonic Sliver

Heart Sliver

Homing Sliver

Hunter Sliver

Magma Sliver

Might Sliver

Mindlash Sliver

Mistform Mutant

Muscle Sliver

Necrotic Sliver

Pulmonic Sliver

Quick Sliver

Root Sliver

Sinew Sliver

Sliver Queen

Spectral Sliver

Spinneret Sliver

Synchronous Sliver

Taurean Mauler

Telekinetic Sliver

Toxin Sliver

Two-Headed Sliver

Virulent Sliver

Watcher Sliver

Winged Sliver

Other Spells:

Aphetto Dredging

Ashnod’s Altar

Coalition Relic

Coat of Arms

Cryptic Gateway

Darksteel Ingot

Demonic Tutor

Dimir Signet

Distant Melody

Door of Destinies

Expedition Map

Gruul Signet

Heartstone

Izzet Signet

Lightning Greaves

Living Death

Orzhov Signet

Prophetic Prism

Selesnya Signet

Tempest of Light

Triumph of the Hordes

Wild Pair

Knights vs. Dragons + Fire & Lightning = ...

Tue, 17 May 2011 01:32:00 -0400

I recently posted on Twitter (@EthanFleischer) about my trip to Portland, Oregon. I found myself in that city with only a duel deck (Knights vs. Dragons) in my pocket, Magic-wise. I soon had a multiplay game scheduled at a friend’s house, but what to play with? I found a copy of Premium Deck Series: Fire & Lightning for 50% off at Fred Meyer, and commenced to brew. This is what I came up with:

Lands:

1 Ghitu Encampment

21 Mountain

1 Plains

1 Selesnya Sanctuary

Creatures:

1 Bogardan Hellkite

1 Cinder Wall

2 Dragon Whelp

1 Dragonspeaker Shaman

1 Figure of Destiny

1 Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

1 Kilnmouth Dragon

1 Mordant Dragon

2 Mudbutton Torshrunner

1 Shivan Hellkite

1 Skirk Prospector

1 Thunder Dragon

1 Voracious Dragon

Other Spells:

2 Armillary Sphere

1 Bogardan Rager

1 Breath of Darigaaz

1 Browbeat

1 Captive Flame

1 Cone of Flame

1 Dragon’s Claw

2 Fiery Fall

1 Hammer of Bogardan

1 Jaws of Stone

1 Loxodon Warhammer

1 Oblivion Ring

1 Pillage

1 Punishing Fire

1 Reprisal

1 Reverberate

1 Seething Song

1 Seismic Strike

1 Spitting Earth

We ended up playing Planechase. I squared off against a Bant Commander deck, some sort of Five Color Artifact-Based Commander deck, and a 60-card mono-green ramp deck. The ground rapidly became clogged with Goats (from Goldmeadow), and my dragons were grounded by some enchantment or other. Breath of Darigaaz cleared the Goats out of the way, and I managed to whittle my opponents’ life totals down during the Planechasing shenanigans. Finally, we ended up in Glimmervoid Basin, and I cast Jaws of Stone, cast Reverberate on it, and saw everyone take a bunch of damage, finishing out the game. I had only lost a couple life, so I was safe. Not bad for a burn deck with a bad mana curve.

Photo

Tue, 17 May 2011 01:11:00 -0400