I wanted to make a green white prison deck (orbs and Armageddon etc) as well as a typical stasis-manascrew deck. I only have enough cards to make one or the other however so I had a brain wave idea of combining the two. Lo-and-behold this idea isn’t actually that original because Zak Dolan (1994 champion) had a similar sort of deck, which I am using as a template for mine. His uses the power 9 cards however, which I don’t have so I have had use what I have which is similar. For example, instead of time twister, I have Sway of the Stars, and instead of Time Walk I have Beacon of Tomorrow’s. Both are way too expensive to cast so I’ve relegated them to side board.
My sideboard seems to be the main problem because I think there should be a number of cards in my sideboard in the main deck, but can’t decide what to take out of the main deck and add in from the sideboard. In my sideboard currently:
1x Beacon of tomorrows
1x Clone
1x Armageddon
1x Zuran Orb
1x Meekstone
1x Sensi’s diving top
1x Wrath of God
1x Cephalid Shrine
4x Counterspell
1x Sway of the Stars
1x Reverse the Sands
In the main deck I have
1x Balance
3x mana short
2x stasis
1x land tax
2x Beacon of Immortality
3x Disenchant
3x Control magic
1x Armageddon
1x Long-Term Plans
1x Quash (I wouldn’t mind 2-3 more of these)
4x Swords to Plowshares
Creatures:
1x Archivist
2x time elemental
1x Lumengride Augur
1x Magus of the Moat
Artifacts:
1x Blue mana battery
1x library of leng
1x winter orb
1x Nevinyrl’s Disk
1x Scroll of Origins
4x Wayfarer’s Bauble
1x Mana Vault
1x Gilded Lotus
1x Feldon’s Cane
1x Icy Manipulator (1 more perhaps?)
1x Null Brooch
Land:
1x God’s Eye, Gate to the Reikai
3x Secluded Steppe
1 Mishra’s Factory (would like to add 2-3 more in)
1x Darksteel Citadel
9x Islands
8x Plains
I tried playing it the other night and although it was not a serious match, (I lost deliberately), I found the deck to be a bit slow to start off with, in that I wasn’t really able to get into a position of control over the game until about turn 5-6, which in tournament play could mean death long before turn 5. The other issue was that I didn’t seem to get many creature removal or protection cards (eg Magus of the Moat) out until later on in the game, which makes me think that the Wrath needs to go in there somehow.
On my way home on the train I thought of a revised version of it, here it is:
4x quash
4x sword’s to plowshares
2x mana short
1x Long-Term Plans
2x stasis
2x time elementals
1x winter orb
2x Armageddon
2x disenchant
1x wrath of god
1x disk
1x balance
1x land tax
1x magus of the moat
2x icy manipulator
1xivory tower
1x Blue mana battery
1xmana vault
1x Lumengride Augur/Archivist
1x Scroll of Origins
4x Wayfarer’s Bauble
1x Feldon’s cane
1x Glided lotus
1x zuran orb
3x control magic
+ lands
Anyway, your thoughts/ideas would be much appreciated.
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I wanted to make a green white prison deck (orbs and Armageddon etc) as well as a typical stasis-manascrew deck. I only have enough cards to make one or the other however so I had a brain wave idea of combining the two. Lo-and-behold this idea isn’t actually that original because Zak Dolan (1994 champion) had a similar sort of deck, which I am using as a template for mine. His uses the power 9 cards however, which I don’t have so I have had use what I have which is similar. For example, instead of time twister, I have Sway of the Stars, and instead of Time Walk I have Beacon of Tomorrow’s. Both are way too expensive to cast so I’ve relegated them to side board.
My sideboard seems to be the main problem because I think there should be a number of cards in my sideboard in the main deck, but can’t decide what to take out of the main deck and add in from the sideboard. In my sideboard currently:
1x Beacon of tomorrows
1x Clone
1x Armageddon
1x Zuran Orb
1x Meekstone
1x Sensi’s diving top
1x Wrath of God
1x Cephalid Shrine
4x Counterspell
1x Sway of the Stars
1x Reverse the Sands
In the main deck I have
1x Balance
3x mana short
2x stasis
1x land tax
2x Beacon of Immortality
3x Disenchant
3x Control magic
1x Armageddon
1x Long-Term Plans
1x Quash (I wouldn’t mind 2-3 more of these)
4x Swords to Plowshares
Creatures:
1x Archivist
2x time elemental
1x Lumengride Augur
1x Magus of the Moat
Artifacts:
1x Blue mana battery
1x library of leng
1x winter orb
1x Nevinyrl’s Disk
1x Scroll of Origins
4x Wayfarer’s Bauble
1x Mana Vault
1x Gilded Lotus
1x Feldon’s Cane
1x Icy Manipulator (1 more perhaps?)
1x Null Brooch
Land:
1x God’s Eye, Gate to the Reikai
3x Secluded Steppe
1 Mishra’s Factory (would like to add 2-3 more in)
1x Darksteel Citadel
9x Islands
8x Plains
I tried playing it the other night and although it was not a serious match, (I lost deliberately), I found the deck to be a bit slow to start off with, in that I wasn’t really able to get into a position of control over the game until about turn 5-6, which in tournament play could mean death long before turn 5. The other issue was that I didn’t seem to get many creature removal or protection cards (eg Magus of the Moat) out until later on in the game, which makes me think that the Wrath needs to go in there somehow.
On my way home on the train I thought of a revised version of it, here it is:
4x quash
4x sword’s to plowshares
2x mana short
1x Long-Term Plans
2x stasis
2x time elementals
1x winter orb
2x Armageddon
2x disenchant
1x wrath of god
1x disk
1x balance
1x land tax
1x magus of the moat
2x icy manipulator
1xivory tower
1x Blue mana battery
1xmana vault
1x Lumengride Augur/Archivist
1x Scroll of Origins
4x Wayfarer’s Bauble
1x Feldon’s cane
1x Glided lotus
1x zuran orb
3x control magic
+ lands
Anyway, your thoughts/ideas would be much appreciated.