MTG Salvation

Welcome to the first of hopefully many Forum Deck Challenges.

The idea is to complete a Standard deck based on the collective inputs of forum members only, rather than take a standard archetype and modify it iteratively. This is meant to be fun, but will hopefully build some interesting decks.

Here is how this will work. I'm going to kick things off by picking a couple of cards that will be in the deck as 4-of. These are the rules:
* Each reply to the post may add a card to the deck, with any specified count (1-4) you choose. Each user may only post one change to the deck (any cards submitted after your first addition will be ignored). Please refrain from posting decklists, but advice and ideas are okay.
* You must stay on color. If the original post contains 2 colors, only cards that can be cast by a mana base containing just those colors can be added. We need this rule to keep from making 5 color decks every time
* You can add any card type, including lands, but don't bother adding basic lands, we can do that at the end. Non-basics are fine but they must be on-color (or colorless).

I will update this post from time to time with the current decklist.

So, here goes. Let's kick things off with:

4xJace, the Mind Sculpter
4xMarshal's Anthem

Have fun!

Current decklist:


Okay, we are at a full list now, so from here on please suggest changes to the deck, i.e -some card + some card.

Please provide rationale for the change, i.e. don't just say "because X card sucks". We are trying to keep this fun, and we don't need negative input

Great work so far!

4x Baneslayer Angel

x4 Sejiri Merfolk

4x glacial fortress

whoops.

4x Ardent Plea

3x Ponder

Looking good so far! I think we might need more critters.

-4x Sejiri Melfolk... they are REALLY BAD, and this is control

Depending on what you want your deck to be (reanimator?) you could add IONA's and the likes.

Also, if this is going to be reaimator (probably not) you need merfolk looters

3x Negate
1x Essence Scatter

Quote from Kburts

-4x Sejiri Melfolk... they are REALLY BAD, and this is control

Depending on what you want your deck to be (reanimator?) you could add IONA's and the likes.

Also, if this is going to be reaimator (probably not) you need merfolk looters

3x Negate
1x Essence Scatter

Please read the original post. You can't go -cards to remove them out of the deck. The Merfolk fit the deck theme so it wasn't an attempt to hose the list. Merfolk with a plains and an anthem in play seem pretty good to me.

You can only add one card to the deck, so, should we add iona, looters, negates, or scatters? Please contribute one card to add. Thanks!

I noticed that marshall's anthem was in deck after reading the first post for fifth time. My bad. haha! So, to take another shot at it how bout we throw in:
3x Negate

Adding in Negate

However, I worry about how well they go with Ardent Plea, since cascading into a counterspell doesn't usually work out well. Any thoughts?

3x Oblivion Ring

Yay bad deck building!

4x offering to asha (No ardent plea cascade w00t!)

4 arcane sanctum

2x celestial colonade

+4 ornithopters... only kidding.

+4 Everflowing Chalice

4 Deft Duelist

3x Spreading Seas

3 Meddling Mage

This card doesn't get enough love.

Okay, we are at 44 cards without counting lands, so from here on please suggest changes to the deck, i.e -some card + some card.

Please provide rationale for the change, i.e. don't just say "because X card sucks". We are trying to keep this fun, and we don't need negative input

Great work so far!

Quote from Pharmalade

3 Meddling Mage

This card doesn't get enough love.

True, I love the Mages.

-3 meddling mages and add them to sideboard for obvious reasons and + 3 calcite snappers

-2 Marshall's Anthem(Don't need 4) +1 Celestial Colonade.

EDIT:
-4 Ardent Plea
+1 Essence Scatter
Getting rid of the Cascade-counterspell problem. Also, we're down to 36 nonland cards.