This is my [Type 4 / Stack / Limited Infinity] deck. It is definitely a work in progress, but the cool thing about this format is that it doesn't matter if we don't have a good balance of ...well, anything. Colors don't matter, costs don't matter, and we all use the deck as a shared library (with individual graveyards) so any game is literally ready within 10 seconds.
General:
Drawing from a single deck and using separate graveyards, all players begin play with a starting hand of X cards where X is the number of players, 10*X life, and one of these:
There is a maximum hand size of 7. Card 'ownership' takes effect when cards first enter a player's hand, graveyard, or enter the battlefield under a player's control. Some stacks use errata that allows "free" spells. We don't follow this trend, and instead play cards according to their original intent. Unearth & Suspend count toward spell-count and cards that refer specifically to casting other cards are fully useable.
Card Selection:
Drawing from a single deck and using separate graveyards, all players begin play with a starting hand of X cards where X is the number of players, 10*X life, and one of these:
Emblem
Snow
You may only cast one spell from your hand each turn.
:0mana:: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
:symtap:, Exile a card from your hand: Draw a card. (Untap this card at the beginning of your untap step.)
There is a maximum hand size of 7. Card 'ownership' takes effect when cards first enter a player's hand, graveyard, or enter the battlefield under a player's control. Some stacks use errata that allows "free" spells. We don't follow this trend, and instead play cards according to their original intent. Unearth & Suspend count toward spell-count and cards that refer specifically to casting other cards are fully useable.
Card Selection:
- No cards that would be able to 'go infinite' on their own are included. (firebreathers, some 'x' spells, pestilence effects, etc.)
- No cards that shuffle the library are included. (it's a big library!)
This is our current list.
No card-drawing cards are included. (cantrips not included; this is due to our inability to balance the power of card advantage machines with so many instants in the stack)
Categories to be used:
Card Draw
Defense
Offense
Any feedback would be appreciated, as I'm sure there are plenty of cards that I haven't considered. Any card under $1 will be considered. This will eventually be around 300 cards. When the list hits that number, I'll post it to the cube forum for feedback.No card-drawing cards are included. (cantrips not included; this is due to our inability to balance the power of card advantage machines with so many instants in the stack)
- Aether Mutation
- Agonizing Demise
- Aladdin's Ring
- Altar of Shadows
- Ancestor's Chosen
- Angel of Salvation
- Angelic Arbiter
- Arbiter of Knollridge
- Argentum Armor
- Armored Guardian
- Autochthon Wurm
- Backlash
- Back from the Brink
- Bane of the Living
- Baneful Omen
- Bant Charm
- Bituminous Blast
- Bloodfire Colossus
- Boros GUildmage
- Bosh, Iron Golem
- Break Asunder
- Brilliant Ultimatum
- Call to the Grave
- Chainer, Dementia Master
- Chancellor of the Dross
- Chromeshell Crab
- Conquering Manticore
- Conqueror's Pledge
- Controvert
- Corrupted Conscience
- Counterlash
- Covenant of Minds
- Crib Swap
- Crime // Punishment
- Crosis's Charm
- Death by Dragons
- Death Denied
- Death Mutation
- Desolation Giant
- Djinn of Wishes
- Double Negative
- Dread Return
- Dromar's Charm
- Druidic Satchel
- Enlisted Wurm
- Eron the Relentless
- Esper Charm
- Faerie Trickery
- Fall of the Gavel
- Feudkiller's Verdict
- Fissure
- Flowstone Slide
- Ghost-Lit Stalker
- Gravedigger
- Greed
- Hateflayer
- Heed the Mists
- Hindering Light
- Honden of Seeing Winds
- Hour of Reckoning
- Hoverguard Sweepers
- Hull breach
- Induce Paranoia
- Interdict
- Ixidron
- Jund Charm
- Kaervek the Merciless
- Killer Instinct
- Krosan Cloudscraper
- Leyline of Anticipation
- Leyline of Lifeforce
- Liar's Pendulum
- Lord of Shatterskull Pass
- Lost in the Mist
- Lunar Mystic
- Lurking Predators
- Magma Phoenix
- Mindculling
- Minion Reflector
- Mold Shambler
- Moonsilver Spear
- Muse Vessel
- Mystifying Maze
- Naya Charm
- Necrogenesis
- Necromancer's Covenant
- Oblation
- Orim's Thunder
- Ornate Kanzashi
- Panacea
- Parallectric Feedback
- phthisis
- Phyrexian Ingester
- Plague of Vermin
- Planar Cleansing
- Plated Slagwurm
- Prophetic Bolt
- Punish Ignorance
- Qasali Pridemage
- Quicksilver Gargantuan
- Redirect
- Refresh
- Relic Crush
- Resounding Scream
- Return to Dust
- Reverberate
- Rise from the Grave
- Rith's Charm
- Rush of Knowledge
- Savage Twister
- Seize the Soul
- Shell of the Last Kappa
- Silent Specter
- Sisters of Stone Death
- Soramaro, First to Dream
- Soul Manipulation
- Soulblast
- Soulscour
- Spell Crumple
- Sphinx of Lost Truths
- Sphinx-Bone Wand
- Spin into Myth
- Spinal Embrace
- Sudden Death
- Suffer the Past
- Suncrusher
- Survivor of the Unseen
- Swift Silence
- Syphon Mind
- Teferi's Puzzle Box
- Temporal Cascade
- Time Reversal
- Tower of Calamities
- Treva's Charm
- Tunnel Vision
- Tyrant of Discord
- Unmake
- Vanishment
- Veilstone Amulet
- Vengeful Archon
- Vengeful Rebirth
- Vex
- Vicious Shadows
- Violent Eruption
- Violent Ultimatum
- Voidmage Apprentice
- Voidmage Husher
- Voidmage Prodigy
- Volition Reins
- Wickerbough Elder
- Wild Ricochet
- Wurmweaver Coil
Categories to be used:
Card Draw
- Constant (1 per turn)
- Single Effect
Defense
- Counterspells
- Permanent Removal (artifacts, enchantments, creatures)
- Hand Disruption
- Damage Redirection/Prevention
- Lifegain
- Graveyard Hate
Offense
- Creatures
- Artifacts
- Enchantments
- Other Spells (Sorceries, Instants)
I'm currently considering whether I want the stack to have any dedicated 'card draw' cards. Not sure that they're necessary with our exile-cycling rule.
- 1 Abduction
- 1 Adarkar Sentinel
- 1 Adarkar Windform
- 1 Aegis Angel
- 1 Aether Membrane
- 1 Afterlife
- 1 Alchemist's Refuge
- 1 Alexi's Cloak
- 1 Alpha Brawl
- 1 Anavolver
- 1 Angel of Flight Alabaster
- 1 Angel's Trumpet
- 1 Anoint
- 1 Antagonism
- 1 Archivist
- 1 Archon of Justice
- 1 Arctic Nishoba
- 1 Argivian Find
- 1 Ashen Powder
- 1 Augur of Bolas
- 1 Aura Blast
- 1 Aurification
- 1 Avatar of Hope
- 1 Avatar of Slaughter
- 1 Awakening
- 1 Awe Strike
- 1 Azorius Ploy
- 1 Ballista Squad
- 1 Banishing Stroke
- 1 Bargaining Table
- 1 Bash to Bits
- 1 Beacon Behemoth
- 1 Big Game Hunter
- 1 Bind
- 1 Biomantic Mastery
- 1 Blasphemous Act
- 1 Blessed Wind
- 1 Blood Tyrant
- 1 Bloodgift Demon
- 1 Blunt the Assault
- 1 Bone Harvest
- 1 Bonehoard
- 1 Borborygmos
- 1 Breath of Malfegor
- 1 Briarpack Alpha
- 1 Brion Stoutarm
- 1 Broodhatch Nantuko
- 1 Bubble Matrix
- 1 Buried Ruin
- 1 Burning-Tree Shaman
- 1 Butcher of Malakir
- 1 Cairn Wanderer
- 1 Call of the Herd
- 1 Carnifex Demon
- 1 Cauldron Haze
- 1 Celestial Force
- 1 Cemetery Puca
- 1 Cerebral Vortex
- 1 Chalice of Life
- 1 Chaos Lord
- 1 Charmbreaker Devils
- 1 Charnelhoard Wurm
- 1 Chlorophant
- 1 Cinder Cloud
- 1 Cinderbones
- 1 Clear
- 1 Clockwork Hydra
- 1 Clone Shell
- 1 Cloudthresher
- 1 Coastal Piracy
- 1 Cold Storage
- 1 Conjurer's Closet
- 1 Countersquall
- 1 Cradle to Grave
- 1 Crashing Centaur
- 1 Creepy Doll
- 1 Crown of Empires
- 1 Crown of the Ages
- 1 Cruel Ultimatum
- 1 Crush
- 1 Cryptoplasm
- 1 Curse of Bloodletting
- 1 Cursebreak
- 1 Cytoshape
- 1 Dance of the Dead
- 1 Dark Suspicions
- 1 Dark Withering
- 1 Darksteel Brute
- 1 Darksteel Gargoyle
- 1 Dash Hopes
- 1 Dawn Charm
- 1 Dawn of the Dead
- 1 Dazzling Beauty
- 1 Deadly Allure
- 1 Death Pits of Rath
- 1 Death Wind
- 1 Deathbringer Thoctar
- 1 Degavolver
- 1 Delirium
- 1 Detonate
- 1 Diabolic Servitude
- 1 Dimensional Breach
- 1 Disaster Radius
- 1 Disempower
- 1 Dispel
- 1 Dissipate
- 1 Dissipation Field
- 1 Disturbed Burial
- 1 Divine Deflection
- 1 Dosan the Falling Leaf
- 1 Douse
- 1 Drake Umbra
- 1 Dread Cacodemon
- 1 Dream Leash
- 1 Drudge Reavers
- 1 Drumhunter
- 1 Dual Nature
- 1 Echoing Truth
- 1 Electropotence
- 1 Emmessi Tome
- 1 Endure
- 1 Energy Arc
- 1 Engulfing Slagwurm
- 1 Enigma Sphinx
- 1 Epic Proportions
- 1 Erase
- 1 Essence Harvest
- 1 Essence Vortex
- 1 Etched Monstrosity
- 1 Ether Well
- 1 Etherwrought Page
- 1 Evil Twin
- 1 Exclude
- 1 Expunge
- 1 False Demise
- 1 Felidar Umbra
- 1 Fiery Fall
- 1 Fight to the Death
- 1 Filigree Fracture
- 1 Fireshrieker
- 1 Flaming Sword
- 1 Flayed Nim
- 1 Flurry of Wings
- 1 Foil
- 1 Fool's Demise
- 1 Forced March
- 1 Frantic Salvage
- 1 Frazzle
- 1 Fresh Meat
- 1 Frozen Aether
- 1 Fungal Shambler
- 1 Furnace Dragon
- 1 Fury Charm
- 1 Gaea's Embrace
- 1 Gainsay
- 1 Gamekeeper
- 1 Garza Zol, Plague Queen
- 1 Gather Specimens
- 1 Gavony Township
- 1 Gerrard Capashen
- 1 Geth's Verdict
- 1 Ghitu Encampment
- 1 Ghosts of the Innocent
- 1 Giant Solifuge
- 1 Gigantomancer
- 1 Giltspire Avenger
- 1 Gleancrawler
- 1 Gloomwidow's Feast
- 1 Glory of Warfare
- 1 Gnarled Effigy
- 1 Grab the Reins
- 1 Graceful Reprieve
- 1 Grappling Hook
- 1 Grave Exchange
- 1 Graveborn Muse
- 1 Gravepurge
- 1 Grim Backwoods
- 1 Grim Feast
- 1 Grim Flowering
- 1 Griptide
- 1 Guardian Seraph
- 1 Guided Strike
- 1 Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
- 1 Haazda Shield Mate
- 1 Halls of Mist
- 1 Halt Order
- 1 Harmless Assault
- 1 Harmonic Sliver
- 1 Harvester of Souls
- 1 Havoc Demon
- 1 Hearthcage Giant
- 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
- 1 Heartseeker
- 1 Hedron Matrix
- 1 Hedron-Field Purists
- 1 Helvault
- 1 Hibernation
- 1 Hideous End
- 1 Hidetsugu's Second Rite
- 1 Hinder
- 1 Hissing Miasma
- 1 Hollowhenge Spirit
- 1 Honden of Cleansing Fire
- 1 Horobi, Death's Wail
- 1 Hostility
- 1 Hunted Dragon
- 1 Hunted Troll
- 1 Hymn of Rebirth
- 1 Ice Floe
- 1 Ichor Explosion
- 1 Icy Prison
- 1 Illumination
- 1 Illusion // Reality
- 1 Illusionary Wall
- 1 Impatience
- 1 Infiltration Lens
- 1 Infinite Reflection
- 1 Inheritance
- 1 Inner Calm, Outer Strength
- 1 Intervene
- 1 Intimidation Bolt
- 1 Invulnerability
- 1 Iridescent Drake
- 1 Iron Maiden
- 1 Izzet Chronarch
- 1 Jabari's Influence
- 1 Jar of Eyeballs
- 1 Jolrael's Favor
- 1 Jolt
- 1 Justice
- 1 Kaervek's Purge
- 1 Kamahl, Pit Fighter
- 1 Karona, False God
- 1 Karona's Zealot
- 1 Kashi-Tribe Reaver
- 1 Kederekt Leviathan
- 1 Keeper of the Flame
- 1 Keldon Twilight
- 1 Kiku, Night's Flower
- 1 Kiyomaro, First to Stand
- 1 Knight Of Dawn
- 1 Knight-Captain of Eos
- 1 Kor Chant
- 1 Kranioceros
- 1 Kuon, Ogre Ascendant
- 1 Kuro, Pitlord
- 1 Last Laugh
- 1 Leaden Fists
- 1 Legerdemain
- 1 Liability
- 1 Lightning Angel
- 1 Lightning Surge
- 1 Living Hive
- 1 Lone Revenant
- 1 Loxodon Gatekeeper
- 1 Lull
- 1 Lure of Prey
- 1 Madrush Cyclops
- 1 Magmatic Core
- 1 Magmatic Force
- 1 Magus of the Disk
- 1 Malignus
- 1 Mammoth Umbra
- 1 March of Souls
- 1 Mark of Mutiny
- 1 Mass Calcify
- 1 Mass Mutiny
- 1 Meishin, the Mind Cage
- 1 Mercy Killing
- 1 Metamorphose
- 1 Mind Unbound
- 1 Mindleech Mass
- 1 Mine Excavation
- 1 Mirror Strike
- 1 Misinformation
- 1 Mitotic Slime
- 1 Mizzium Transreliquat
- 1 Mogg Maniac
- 1 Moldgraf Monstrosity
- 1 Moonlight Geist
- 1 Moonlit Wake
- 1 Moorland Haunt
- 1 Morbid Plunder
- 1 Moriok Replica
- 1 Mossbridge Troll
- 1 Multani's Decree
- 1 Mycoid Shepherd
- 1 Myojin of Cleansing Fire
- 1 Myojin of Infinite Rage
- 1 Myr Battlesphere
- 1 Mystic Enforcer
- 1 Mystic Veil
- 1 Mythic Proportions
- 1 Necravolver
- 1 Necropouncer
- 1 Necrotic Sliver
- 1 Nemesis Trap
- 1 Nightscape Battlemage
- 1 Nirkana Cutthroat
- 1 Noble Purpose
- 1 Noble Steeds
- 1 Noetic Scales
- 1 Oath of Mages
- 1 Obelisk of Alara
- 1 Odds // Ends
- 1 Ogre's Cleaver
- 1 O-Naginata
- 1 Opal Titan
- 1 Orb of Dreams
- 1 Order // Chaos
- 1 Order of the Stars
- 1 Outmaneuver
- 1 Paleoloth
- 1 Patron of the Kitsune
- 1 Peace and Quiet
- 1 Pearl Dragon
- 1 Pentavus
- 1 Persuasion
- 1 Pestilent Kathari
- 1 Petrified Wood-Kin
- 1 Phyrexian Juggernaut
- 1 Phyrexian Rebirth
- 1 Pitfall Trap
- 1 Planar Collapse
- 1 Poisonbelly Ogre
- 1 Pollenbright Wings
- 1 Polymorph
- 1 Precursor Golem
- 1 Primal Surge
- 1 Promise of Power
- 1 Proper Burial
- 1 Protomatter Powder
- 1 Psychic Barrier
- 1 Puca's Mischief
- 1 Pulse of the Forge
- 1 Purge
- 1 Purity
- 1 Pus Kami
- 1 Quicksilver Elemental
- 1 Rack and Ruin
- 1 Radiant's Judgment
- 1 Rage Reflection
- 1 Rain of Rust
- 1 Rakavolver
- 1 Ranger's Guile
- 1 Razor Hippogriff
- 1 Reaper from the Abyss
- 1 Reborn Hope
- 1 Rebuild
- 1 Rebuke
- 1 Reciprocate
- 1 Reclaim
- 1 Recurring Insight
- 1 Reflect Damage
- 1 Reinforcements
- 1 Reiver Demon
- 1 Relentless Assault
- 1 Repay In Kind
- 1 Repel Intruders
- 1 Resounding Silence
- 1 Retaliate
- 1 Retaliator Griffin
- 1 Reverse the Sands
- 1 Reward the Faithful
- 1 Rhox
- 1 Rite of Ruin
- 1 Ritual of the Machine
- 1 Rockshard Elemental
- 1 Rootgrapple
- 1 Rumbling Slum
- 1 Rushing-Tide Zubera
- 1 Sabertooth Nishoba
- 1 Savage Beating
- 1 Saving Grasp
- 1 Scepter of Empires
- 1 Scepter of Insight
- 1 Scrap
- 1 Scrivener
- 1 Scrounge
- 1 Searing Flesh
- 1 Second Guess
- 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
- 1 Sekki, Seasons' Guide
- 1 Serene Heart
- 1 Serpentine Basilisk
- 1 Shape of the Wiitigo
- 1 Shape Stealer
- 1 Sharding Sphinx
- 1 Shield Dancer
- 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
- 1 Shivan Gorge
- 1 Shriveling Rot
- 1 Silver Wyvern
- 1 Sins of the Past
- 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
- 1 Skeletal Wurm
- 1 Skeletonize
- 1 Skinwing
- 1 Skullcage
- 1 Slayers' Stronghold
- 1 Slithermuse
- 1 Smash
- 1 Solar Tide
- 1 Soul Conduit
- 1 Soul of the Harvest
- 1 Soul Snare
- 1 Soul's Fire
- 1 Souls of the Faultless
- 1 Sparring Collar
- 1 Spell Blast
- 1 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
- 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
- 1 Spinerock Knoll
- 1 Spiny Starfish
- 1 Spirit Away
- 1 Spirit of the Hearth
- 1 Spitebellows
- 1 Splinterfright
- 1 Stalking Vengeance
- 1 Starke of Rath
- 1 Stasis Cell
- 1 Stensia Bloodhall
- 1 Stingerfling Spider
- 1 Stone-Tongue Basilisk
- 1 Stony Silence
- 1 Stormscape Master
- 1 Strandwalker
- 1 Stun
- 1 Sudden Impact
- 1 Summoner's Egg
- 1 Summoning Station
- 1 Sun Droplet
- 1 Sunblast Angel
- 1 Sunweb
- 1 Sworn Defender
- 1 Syphon Soul
- 1 Tainted Aether
- 1 Temper
- 1 Temporary Insanity
- 1 Terrifying Presence
- 1 The Unspeakable
- 1 Thorn Elemental
- 1 Threaten
- 1 Throne of Empires
- 1 Thunderous Wrath
- 1 Tidal Wave
- 1 Tiger Claws
- 1 Titanic Bulvox
- 1 Tolarian Emissary
- 1 Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
- 1 Tornado Elemental
- 1 Tower Drake
- 1 Toxic Stench
- 1 Tracker's Instincts
- 1 Traitorous Instinct
- 1 Tranquil Domain
- 1 Tranquil Path
- 1 Treacherous Link
- 1 Treasure Hunter
- 1 Trigon of Mending
- 1 Trigon of Infestation
- 1 True Conviction
- 1 Truth or Tale
- 1 Turn the Tables
- 1 Turn to Frog
- 1 Twist Allegiance
- 1 Umbilicus
- 1 Unscythe, Killer of Kings
- 1 Uphill Battle
- 1 Urborg Justice
- 1 Urza's Blueprints
- 1 Vanquish
- 1 Vein Drinker
- 1 Venomous Breath
- 1 Venomspout Brackus
- 1 Verduran Emissary
- 1 Vernal Equinox
- 1 Vhati il-Dal
- 1 Vigean Intuition
- 1 Vile Consumption
- 1 Viseling
- 1 Visions of Beyond
- 1 Vitalizing Wind
- 1 Vithian Renegades
- 1 Volley of Boulders
- 1 Wall of Nets
- 1 Wall of Tears
- 1 Ward of Lights
- 1 Wave of Reckoning
- 1 Wave of Terror
- 1 Whirlwind
- 1 Wildfire
- 1 Windbrisk Raptor
- 1 Wipe Clean
- 1 Witch-Maw Nephilim
- 1 Wolfir Avenger
- 1 Words of Wisdom
- 1 World at War
- 1 Wydwen, the Biting Gale
- 1 Zombify
- 1 Zur's Weirding
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The card with the question mark should be Sheltering Word... I think! Though, in hindsight, yeah, that's gonna get knocked off. (SLE 4: I decided to check, and I was right on everything.)
As far as sleeves, I had a box of sleeves I wasn't using, so I chose all the solid-colored ones and made a rainbow.
Keep perusing the list. If you have further questions, ask away.
Also, Aeon Chronicler isn't in my stack. (SLE part 2: It's unlimited free extra draws for which no answer exists in the stack.)
We don't knock it down because we don't make one giant stack. Usually it's broken into four stacks that get swapped in as needed.
SLE part 3: We have a phrase, "evergame," for the exact situations we try to avoid. For example, after someone once gained >100 life off of Ancestor's Chosen, it was deemed to cause evergame, and was thus removed. We have a watch list, as well: right now, Meishin, the Mind Cage occupies the top spot. We removed cards like Arcanis, Teferi, and Rimescale Dragon for similar reasons.
Thanks for the list! Here's some info I gathered after scanning it.
Your list contains 2 Graceful Reprieve, 1 being in the blue section.
We play without sleeves, so I've been avoiding the more expensive cards. I am considering making some proxies if I ever get access to a decent printer, but that ink is expensive anyway!
Pestilence effects aren't horrible, as they deal damage to all players, but I can understand keeping them out.
Always be wary of accidental absurd combos. We have a few "infinite asses" - creatures with +0/+X abilities - in the stack, so cards that act off toughness can be a little tricky, especially when they provide beneficial effects.
We use a communal graveyard, and have a rule that cards lose ownership once they hit the yard. We also have ruled that "bottom of library" = exiled, but that may be due to the size of our stacks.
As I didn't look at your list, I didn't see if Decree of Silence is in there. We've socially discouraged anyone from using it as an enchantment, and it's absolutely amazing, since the cycling doesn't count as a spell.
We also start with some variable number of cards, but usually 2, regardless of the number of players.
Looking at your list now. You need:
Breath of Malfegor
Instant-speed card draw, like Opportunity and Inspiration. Even sorcery speed, if you draw enough, is worthwhile (Tidings). Also, card drawing artifacts are awesome - note Bloodletter Quill is just as good as Jayemdae Tome in stack.
(will add card tags later if you want)
Here's my last spreadsheet for reference. This is fairly current, though I stopped updating the sheet in favor of using iMtG on my iPad. Note that cards with no expansion listed are not as yet in, and a few sets' cards have not been added.