I read through Frank Karsten's update on TSP on modo from a short while back the other day. From the decks he listed I really like the Blink-Rider-deck. Honestly, it has all the fun one can expect from a deck. Tricks, combos, cheap card advantage and large, spankin' cool creatures with which you smack your opponent over the head.
I must admit I've become a different Magic player lately. I used to be all about control. I played almost only control in the old days and my all time favorite decks have been Necro, Super-Counter and Domain. The two first were dominating standard decks at the time, a friend of mine, Sturla Bingen, won the European Championships with Super-Counter, and Necro gave it's name to the "Black Summer". Domain was itself the dominating deck from it's block. I made two top 8 in PTQs with it, but didn't qualify.
Nowadays however, I like to attack with large creatures. Honestly, I can't wait for Planar Chaos to become legal online so I can kill people with shiny new dragons. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I am. Dragons rule!
Right now I'm playing the TSP-online version of a deck I'm planning to develop further once Planar Chaos comes online (February 26th). It's basically a deck that's all about creatures with card advantage-creating abilities. The stars are Thronscape Battlemage and the new Ana Battlemage in Planar Chaos.
I call it 5cGreen after the known archetype in draft.
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Creatures: 4 Thornscape Battlemage 4 Ana Battlemage 4 Citanul Woodreaders 4 Whitemane Lion 2 Bogardan Hellkite 4 Greenseeker 1 Intet, The Dreamer 1 Teneb, The Harvester 4 Gemhide Sliver 4 Yavimaya Dryad | Non-creature Spells: 4 Search for Tomorrow Artifacts: 2 Prismatic Lens Lands: 4 Gemstone Mine 1 Plains 1 Swamp 1 Island 2 Mountain 13 Forest |
That's basically what I'm thinking about at the moment, but my current deck for modo, and thus Timespiral only, looks like this:
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Lands: 12 Forest 4 Mountain 1 Swamp 1 Plains 4 Gemstone Mine Spells: 4 Search for Tomorrow Creatures: 3 Bogardan Hellkite 3 Pit Keeper 4 Gemhide Sliver 4 Greenseeker 4 Scryb Ranger 4 Spectral Force 4 Suq'Ata Lancer 4 Thornscape Battlemage 4 Yavimaya Dryad | Sideboard: 2 Hivestone 3 Fiery Justice 1 Bogardan Hellkite 4 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss 1 Squall Line 4 Sudden Shock |
If any of you try any of these decks, online or otherwise, and have thoughts on possible problems, strengths, weaknesses, changes that ought to be made etc., feel free to tell me. If nothing else, the last one is fun to play. The first I've yet to try.
I've had some success with the TSP deck, but I have only played it so much
The Pit Keepers were also sideboard against removal heavy decks, but it appears most decks play lots of removal and I sideboarded them in more or less the whole time, and I removed the card they tended to swap for; Firemaw Kavu.
In the beginning I played only 1 Hellkite. I realized I kept wishing I'd draw one, and that I almost never wanted the two Stomp the Domains that were in the other two's place. Hence I changed those as well.
The Mwonvulis are really good against the slower control decks, or the three colour decks that doesn't run green. Such as the Vesuvan-control or Blink-Rider. Both are strong decks, but they need their mana. I tend to swap the Dryads for Mwonvulis in this matchup.
Fiery Justice is against all other creature intensive decks, and the Hivestones are of course against slivers. Haven't played against one yet, though.
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Posted Feb 14, 2007If you've got musings you'd like to get out of your head about TS BC, head over to the Block Constructed forums and post some stuff in there. I monitor those constantly, since they have low traffic. I'll be sure to give you some more advice.