Hey, Zaz! I remember the old cen-con debates. I used to love checking up on that every day, and throwing in my own two cents. Not too long ago, I was trying to explain it to a friend who has played magic as long as I have, but never got into the lore, (except for the occasional "Hey, Dan, what is Braids' deal?" "What is that thing the vedalkens have on their heads?" "Why Garruk so mad?" type questions) and was really wishing I had that thread handy.
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Storyline nerd, sliver-lover, vegan, anarchist, pansexual, role-playing, tattoo-covered, punk kid. Those are all the applicable labels I can think of, I will add more as they pop up.
Current decks:
:symr::symw: Allies-Modern
:symg::symu: Infect-Old Standard that I need to update
And trying to decide what my next EDH will be.
I am a :symg::symrg::symr::symur::symu::symug: 'walker all the way.
As you can see by my post count, I mostly just lurk around here, but I figured this was a good opportunity to pop out from my rock and introduce myself. My real name is Eric, and I'm a development chemist working for an instrumentation company based out of Charlotte, NC, USA. I specialize in peptide synthesis, for those of you with chemistry knowledge. I'm 31, and I've been playing Magic for...geez, since 1999, so 13 years.
I was one of the rare players who actually started during Masques block. My first deck was the rebels precon (Rebels' Call, I believe). Right away I got hooked on the lore of Magic--the majority of the decks I built back in the day were tied together more by flavor than functionality. (Fun fact--the first deck I even designed on my own was a Spike deck, as in the Stonghold/Exodus creatures made of +1/+1 counters. It was...less than good.)
It's something I still do today with my Commander decks--everything in my Kaalia deck has to fit with the Angel/Demon/Dragon/Heaven/Hell flavor (which is why I'm praying for a non-Judge foil reprint of Vindicate without the Gerrard/Weatherlite flavor at some point).
Completely unrelated note: Way back in the day, Wizards did a competition for the right to write Magic novels, and I sent them a treatment for a continuation of the post-Invasion block storyline, but I didn't get selected. (I believe this was before Kamigawa was out, maybe? It was a long time and two computers ago. I think the eventual winners were the co-authors on the Timespiral books.)
Was anyone else around back then, and if so, does anyone recall the details of that open call for stories? It's all a little foggy to me. Price of growing old, I suppose.
the majority of the decks I built back in the day were tied together more by flavor than functionality.
I can so relate to this, Kaburi.
I started playing in 1996, and the Mirage block offered a lot of flavorful legends. Spirit of the Night was my very first rare card from my first booster pack, and I fell in love with it - The name sounded awesome, and it was powerful. I built a deck around it with the three key components in four-ofs: Urborg Panther, Feral Shadow and Breathstealer.
I started playing in 1996, and the Mirage block offered a lot of flavorful legends. Spirit of the Night was my very first rare card from my first booster pack, and I fell in love with it - The name sounded awesome, and it was powerful. I built a deck around it with the three key components in four-ofs: Urborg Panther, Feral Shadow and Breathstealer.
Atleast you got the spirit of the night. I only managed to get a single copy of Urborg panther back when I started and the MTG scene was crap over here so there was no way of getting the rest of them with out cracking a lot of packs which I couldn't afford. Shame as I really liked the feel of the cards in Mirage and it still has one of my favorite cards, Purraj of Urborg.
Did she have any importance in the story or did they just creature because she is a cool black cat legend?
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Gotta say, despite doing a mere ten cards for MTG, Cliff Nielsen is one of my favourite artists. Perhaps not coincidentally, Terese Nielsen is also among my favourites.
If I recall correctly, she was one of Kaervek's lieutenants during his invasion of Zhalfir and Femeref, and she was the guard the Amber Prison that held Mangara during the Mirage War.
Didn't she kill Asmira? It's been a while since I've looked at any of the Mirage stuff.
Edit: beaten to the wiki...which confirms that yes, Asmira was killed by Purraj.
I started playing in 1996, and the Mirage block offered a lot of flavorful legends. Spirit of the Night was my very first rare card from my first booster pack, and I fell in love with it - The name sounded awesome, and it was powerful. I built a deck around it with the three key components in four-ofs: Urborg Panther, Feral Shadow and Breathstealer.
We totally bought a box of Mirage tournament packs and did a pseudo-sealed deck tournament when I was in college, and I managed to get a Spirit of the Night. I ended up trading it to my friend for an entire deck.:D
Come to think of it, that may have been how I wound up with my merfolk deck, which over 12-ish years of tweaking has somehow become a UR madness deck with only one (well, four copies of one) creature: Civilized Scholar! Not even a merfolk!
That Mirage deck ended up being an aweful BR monstrosity with the Spirit and multiple Kaervek's Torches. It basically did nothing for the first five turns.
... And after 16 years, I finally paid attention: Spirit of the Night and the threeotherdudes are all Cliff Nielsen's pieces. Fascinating. Makes me want to try and create an Artist Commander deck.
Looks like that link is working, goes through to a version of Electrolyze not Bird of Paradise. Think I have found the one you mean though. This one for the media inserts right? If so yeah I can see why you like it though.
For the lands for some reason I have always been drawn towards the style of the Odyssey basics for some reason, they appear to be a bit more realistic than some others yet a little darker than normal with out getting cartoonishly so.
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All Religion, my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Give it a shot, but you'll probably want to pick a few different artists, otherwise you'll be filling out the deck with cards that are probably worse than basic lands!
I've thought about trying to do a deck with only great art from MTG. There are lots of good arts, but I wouldn't call Primeval Titangreat, you know? But then who would be my general?
Looks like that link is working, goes through to a version of Electrolyze not Bird of Paradise. Think I have found the one you mean though. This one for the media inserts right? If so yeah I can see why you like it though.
Thanks! My work blocks magiccards.info, so I couldn't confirm that the link was still working. It's fixed now.
My favorite artists of all time would be Pete Venters, Rebecca Guay, John Avon, Volkan Baga and Michael Komarck. I guess that's going to be a decent pool of artists to work around on. Thing is, which commander and what colors to use?
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I recently created two decks to use in case someone I know wants to learn Magic, specifically the Commander format. I personally call it Duel Decks: Castlevania, since the decks are WU led by Geist of Saint Traft and BR led by Olivia Voldaren. It's basically a Humans versus Vampires deck (okay, so Geist isn't a human, but would you rather have Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer or Ith, High Arcanist? Didn't think so, either.) It's probably one of the most flavorful decks I've done in recent memory.
My name's Jan, for friends Honza (It's like Johann and Hans in German). I am from Czech Republic.
I came to MTGS from MTGNews together with the Greek Alliance, a clan of storyline enthusiasts. One of the main things I remember from there is a great work by the very same Zazdor who appeared in this thread, the "Held in the Lion's Eye" and "Embrace the Harbinger" Mirage fanfic.
Despite the fact that it was quite hard to get Magic books in our country, I quickly come to love and enjoy Magic storyline. During my active years (that overlapped my Ph.D. studies), and the golden years of Magic books (Kamigawa, Ravnica, Time Spiral, Lorwyn...), I was an ardent discusser and Magic lore expert, and I remember the good ol' days with my clanmates ( Hello Zazdor! Long time, no see, old pal!)and other great names like MORT, Maybe Eid, later Barinellos, Tezzeret, Moppi and others here in the Storyline forum. In that years, I ran Czech MTG forum and translated and wrote numerous storyline articles, including shortened translations of Heretic, Guardian and Ravnica into Czech. I also moderated Storyline, Clans and Rumor Mill here at MTGS.
However, the Magic story started to run downhill, and never fully recovered, and with Wizards breaking their own rules, the discussions became a bit pointless. Moreover, my work was starting to take its toll in time and energy. So I dropped Clans, and shortly after the Greek Alliance was shut down, because all of us were engulfed by real life issues, I handed over the moderation of Storyline to new blood, i.e. Stardust My heart is no longer in the storyline discussions, but I tend to visit the forum from time to time.
I began playing with Tempest, but took a break after Saga block till Legions, starting anew and running till today. One of my first deck was "Griffin Army", a pseudo-tribal from Mirage block running all griffins, Zuberi, Golden Feather, Griffin Canyon and some Tempest goodies like Spirit Mirror or Flickering Ward. I remember being angry when my opponent cast Burning Palm Efreet.
By education, I am a chemist and an economist, currently working as R&D science manager in a nuclear chemistry company. Happily married for some two years, with my wife liking occassional Magic games, especially with Duel Decks.
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Hey Honza! Glad to see you back here! I was wondering how long it would take to see the Greek Alliance mentioned since I thought this thread might appeal to you guys. If I'd been into Clans back then, I probably would have joined myself.
I'd definitely agree that Zazdor does some great writing, though! I'm still hopeful that he'll finish his Mirrodin work (long shot, I know).
Out of curiosity, how many EDH'ers frequent this subforum? I liked the storyline in MTG before I started playing EDH, and that format only cemented my attraction to the story.
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Out of curiosity, how many EDH'ers frequent this subforum? I liked the storyline in MTG before I started playing EDH, and that format only cemented my attraction to the story.
* Stardust raises hand.
It seems like most of the people who've posted in this thread are into EDH. It's really not surprising since that's the most flavourful format by far. I definitely know what you mean with the attraction to the story too. Once you've become attached to a legend, you want to know what they're all about, right?
Out of curiosity, how many EDH'ers frequent this subforum? I liked the storyline in MTG before I started playing EDH, and that format only cemented my attraction to the story.
* Caranthir raises hand too
I got a handful of decks..my first one was Sliver Overlord, built from PDS: Slivers deck, then I had Oona, Rhys the Redeemed, Intet the Dreamer, tuned-up Ghave and Nin, and currently Teysa is in the works.
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Out of curiosity, how many EDH'ers frequent this subforum? I liked the storyline in MTG before I started playing EDH, and that format only cemented my attraction to the story.
Me three,
I've got a Savra, Arcum and Crosis EDH deck. But my main project is to make a Heroes EDH and Villains EDH and hopefully kit them up to be a duel deck of sorts. Bant colours for Heroes and Grixis for Villians (Probably with Rafiq & Bolas respectively.) Actively taking suggestions and ideas for these btw.
I've got a Savra, Arcum and Crosis EDH deck. But my main project is to make a Heroes EDH and Villains EDH and hopefully kit them up to be a duel deck of sorts. Bant colours for Heroes and Grixis for Villians (Probably with Rafiq & Bolas respectively.) Actively taking suggestions and ideas for these btw.
I think that makes four, actually... but that seems like a cool idea for a duel deck!
It's too bad you couldn't include red into the heroes deck. There are some good choices there too, but I guess you don't want to run Ink-Treader Nephilim as your general.
Speaking of, I recently built an Ink-Treader deck which is pretty powerful. I need him to stick, but then I target him with Niveous Wisps (or another cantrip), draw ten cards or more, then cast a three mana Insurrection or Rite of Replication to win! It kinda does the same thing every game, so I doubt it'll be long lived, but it's fun for now!
Heroes vs. Villains sounds like an awesome idea indeed. It'll be like Magic All-Stars.
I was thinking of a Kamigawa duel deck, featuring Toshiro Umezawa and Michiko Konda against Lord Konda himself, but there's just too few options to make it viable. Would've told an awesome story, though.
And now I want to build Weatherlight vs. Predator commander decks.
I have no idea who would be the Weatherlight general (Cromat? Needs to be 5-color, and he's at least from the correct era), but Hanna, Sisay, Gerrard, Squee, Karn, Mirri, Crovax, Orim would certainly be in (probably including Skyship Weatherlight, maybe both Legacy Weapon and all the constituent artifacts).
Vhaati, Greven, Predator, Flagship, would be on the Predator side (probably with Vhaati as the general, despite Greven being the ranking officer).
Captain Sisay as the general. Play five colour anyway. EDH is supposed to be casual, right? And if you're playing crappy cards like Gerrard, Mirri and Tarngarth, you should be allowed a little leeway.
At least, that's how I would do it. I've had a Weatherlight deck in mind for a long time, but have never actually put it together.
Predator would be fun too. Five colour for Ertai? Maybe. Include Planar Portal to help you get the crew.
I have been playing EDH for awhile now too. Definitely the most flavorful format, so overlap between storyline fanatics is not surprising.
I just recently (January) moved to Portland, OR, and only more recently got my cards out here, so I havent been playing nearly as much as I'd like. But my two roommates have both expressed interest in learning how to play magic. I have been considering making 5 mono-color edh decks, and using them as intro's to EDH, after I teach them the basics of magic. I figure, doing that will help them learn the flavor of each color, what each can do, etc.
My goal in this would be to make them each as much in their color pie as possible. A mono-red deck that is as capital-R Red as possible. Who do you folks think should be my generals?
I was thinking Kamahl, Fist of Krosa for Green, but hadn't decided for the other colors. In the process of moving I seemed to have lost some cards ( ) including some of my favorite legends. (Radha, Radha wherefore art thou Radha?) But I finally have a job out here and would totally be willing to buy some generals.
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Storyline nerd, sliver-lover, vegan, anarchist, pansexual, role-playing, tattoo-covered, punk kid. Those are all the applicable labels I can think of, I will add more as they pop up.
Current decks:
:symr::symw: Allies-Modern
:symg::symu: Infect-Old Standard that I need to update
And trying to decide what my next EDH will be.
I am a :symg::symrg::symr::symur::symu::symug: 'walker all the way.
My goal in this would be to make them each as much in their color pie as possible. A mono-red deck that is as capital-R Red as possible. Who do you folks think should be my generals?
:symg::symu: Infect-Old Standard that I need to update
And trying to decide what my next EDH will be.
I am a :symg::symrg::symr::symur::symu::symug: 'walker all the way.
As you can see by my post count, I mostly just lurk around here, but I figured this was a good opportunity to pop out from my rock and introduce myself. My real name is Eric, and I'm a development chemist working for an instrumentation company based out of Charlotte, NC, USA. I specialize in peptide synthesis, for those of you with chemistry knowledge. I'm 31, and I've been playing Magic for...geez, since 1999, so 13 years.
I was one of the rare players who actually started during Masques block. My first deck was the rebels precon (Rebels' Call, I believe). Right away I got hooked on the lore of Magic--the majority of the decks I built back in the day were tied together more by flavor than functionality. (Fun fact--the first deck I even designed on my own was a Spike deck, as in the Stonghold/Exodus creatures made of +1/+1 counters. It was...less than good.)
It's something I still do today with my Commander decks--everything in my Kaalia deck has to fit with the Angel/Demon/Dragon/Heaven/Hell flavor (which is why I'm praying for a non-Judge foil reprint of Vindicate without the Gerrard/Weatherlite flavor at some point).
Completely unrelated note: Way back in the day, Wizards did a competition for the right to write Magic novels, and I sent them a treatment for a continuation of the post-Invasion block storyline, but I didn't get selected. (I believe this was before Kamigawa was out, maybe? It was a long time and two computers ago. I think the eventual winners were the co-authors on the Timespiral books.)
Was anyone else around back then, and if so, does anyone recall the details of that open call for stories? It's all a little foggy to me. Price of growing old, I suppose.
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I can so relate to this, Kaburi.
I started playing in 1996, and the Mirage block offered a lot of flavorful legends. Spirit of the Night was my very first rare card from my first booster pack, and I fell in love with it - The name sounded awesome, and it was powerful. I built a deck around it with the three key components in four-ofs: Urborg Panther, Feral Shadow and Breathstealer.
Atleast you got the spirit of the night. I only managed to get a single copy of Urborg panther back when I started and the MTG scene was crap over here so there was no way of getting the rest of them with out cracking a lot of packs which I couldn't afford. Shame as I really liked the feel of the cards in Mirage and it still has one of my favorite cards, Purraj of Urborg.
Did she have any importance in the story or did they just creature because she is a cool black cat legend?
- H.L Mencken
I Became insane with long Intervals of horrible Sanity
All Religion, my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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Gotta say, despite doing a mere ten cards for MTG, Cliff Nielsen is one of my favourite artists. Perhaps not coincidentally, Terese Nielsen is also among my favourites.
Didn't she kill Asmira? It's been a while since I've looked at any of the Mirage stuff.
Edit: beaten to the wiki...which confirms that yes, Asmira was killed by Purraj.
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We totally bought a box of Mirage tournament packs and did a pseudo-sealed deck tournament when I was in college, and I managed to get a Spirit of the Night. I ended up trading it to my friend for an entire deck.:D
Come to think of it, that may have been how I wound up with my merfolk deck, which over 12-ish years of tweaking has somehow become a UR madness deck with only one (well, four copies of one) creature: Civilized Scholar! Not even a merfolk!
That Mirage deck ended up being an aweful BR monstrosity with the Spirit and multiple Kaervek's Torches. It basically did nothing for the first five turns.
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Terese Nielsen
Birds of Paradise
Silverskin Armor
Swords to Plowshares
Zombie Mob
Hunter's Insight
Mountain
Visions of Beyond
Cliff Nielsen
Boiling Blood
Urborg Panther
Urborg Stalker
Looks like that link is working, goes through to a version of Electrolyze not Bird of Paradise. Think I have found the one you mean though. This one for the media inserts right? If so yeah I can see why you like it though.
For the lands for some reason I have always been drawn towards the style of the Odyssey basics for some reason, they appear to be a bit more realistic than some others yet a little darker than normal with out getting cartoonishly so.
- H.L Mencken
I Became insane with long Intervals of horrible Sanity
All Religion, my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Crafters' Rules Guru
I've thought about trying to do a deck with only great art from MTG. There are lots of good arts, but I wouldn't call Primeval Titan great, you know? But then who would be my general?
Thanks! My work blocks magiccards.info, so I couldn't confirm that the link was still working. It's fixed now.
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I recently created two decks to use in case someone I know wants to learn Magic, specifically the Commander format. I personally call it Duel Decks: Castlevania, since the decks are WU led by Geist of Saint Traft and BR led by Olivia Voldaren. It's basically a Humans versus Vampires deck (okay, so Geist isn't a human, but would you rather have Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer or Ith, High Arcanist? Didn't think so, either.) It's probably one of the most flavorful decks I've done in recent memory.
Any other flavor decks out there?
My name's Jan, for friends Honza (It's like Johann and Hans in German). I am from Czech Republic.
I came to MTGS from MTGNews together with the Greek Alliance, a clan of storyline enthusiasts. One of the main things I remember from there is a great work by the very same Zazdor who appeared in this thread, the "Held in the Lion's Eye" and "Embrace the Harbinger" Mirage fanfic.
Despite the fact that it was quite hard to get Magic books in our country, I quickly come to love and enjoy Magic storyline. During my active years (that overlapped my Ph.D. studies), and the golden years of Magic books (Kamigawa, Ravnica, Time Spiral, Lorwyn...), I was an ardent discusser and Magic lore expert, and I remember the good ol' days with my clanmates ( Hello Zazdor! Long time, no see, old pal!)and other great names like MORT, Maybe Eid, later Barinellos, Tezzeret, Moppi and others here in the Storyline forum. In that years, I ran Czech MTG forum and translated and wrote numerous storyline articles, including shortened translations of Heretic, Guardian and Ravnica into Czech. I also moderated Storyline, Clans and Rumor Mill here at MTGS.
However, the Magic story started to run downhill, and never fully recovered, and with Wizards breaking their own rules, the discussions became a bit pointless. Moreover, my work was starting to take its toll in time and energy. So I dropped Clans, and shortly after the Greek Alliance was shut down, because all of us were engulfed by real life issues, I handed over the moderation of Storyline to new blood, i.e. Stardust My heart is no longer in the storyline discussions, but I tend to visit the forum from time to time.
I began playing with Tempest, but took a break after Saga block till Legions, starting anew and running till today. One of my first deck was "Griffin Army", a pseudo-tribal from Mirage block running all griffins, Zuberi, Golden Feather, Griffin Canyon and some Tempest goodies like Spirit Mirror or Flickering Ward. I remember being angry when my opponent cast Burning Palm Efreet.
By education, I am a chemist and an economist, currently working as R&D science manager in a nuclear chemistry company. Happily married for some two years, with my wife liking occassional Magic games, especially with Duel Decks.
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
I'd definitely agree that Zazdor does some great writing, though! I'm still hopeful that he'll finish his Mirrodin work (long shot, I know).
Emille, Seven-Sting Dancer Shalin Nariya
* Stardust raises hand.
It seems like most of the people who've posted in this thread are into EDH. It's really not surprising since that's the most flavourful format by far. I definitely know what you mean with the attraction to the story too. Once you've become attached to a legend, you want to know what they're all about, right?
I got lot's of decks.
Commander Greven il-Vec
Taniwha
Atogatog
Barrin, master wizard
Zirilan of the claw
Molimo, maro sorcerer
Selenia, dark angel
Nicol Bolas
Basandra, battle seraph
Vhati il-Dal
My current project is a Sliver Queen edh.
And no, i don't have and won't make a Volrath edh. That card is an abomination and flavorless. Still waiting for an U/B Volrath card tough..
“I once had an entire race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them.”
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* Caranthir raises hand too
I got a handful of decks..my first one was Sliver Overlord, built from PDS: Slivers deck, then I had Oona, Rhys the Redeemed, Intet the Dreamer, tuned-up Ghave and Nin, and currently Teysa is in the works.
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
Me three,
I've got a Savra, Arcum and Crosis EDH deck. But my main project is to make a Heroes EDH and Villains EDH and hopefully kit them up to be a duel deck of sorts. Bant colours for Heroes and Grixis for Villians (Probably with Rafiq & Bolas respectively.) Actively taking suggestions and ideas for these btw.
I think that makes four, actually... but that seems like a cool idea for a duel deck!
Gerrard, Sisay, Hanna, Karn, Barrin, Elspeth, Ajani, Venser, Teferi, Multani, Akroma, Avacyn, Mangara
VS
Bolas, Volrath, Tsabo Tavoc, Ascendant Evincar, Phage, Cabal Patriarch, Braids, Baron Sengir, Kaervek, Lim-Dul, Memnarch, the Praetors, maybe Geth too?
It's too bad you couldn't include red into the heroes deck. There are some good choices there too, but I guess you don't want to run Ink-Treader Nephilim as your general.
Speaking of, I recently built an Ink-Treader deck which is pretty powerful. I need him to stick, but then I target him with Niveous Wisps (or another cantrip), draw ten cards or more, then cast a three mana Insurrection or Rite of Replication to win! It kinda does the same thing every game, so I doubt it'll be long lived, but it's fun for now!
Heroes vs. Villains sounds like an awesome idea indeed. It'll be like Magic All-Stars.
I was thinking of a Kamigawa duel deck, featuring Toshiro Umezawa and Michiko Konda against Lord Konda himself, but there's just too few options to make it viable. Would've told an awesome story, though.
I have no idea who would be the Weatherlight general (Cromat? Needs to be 5-color, and he's at least from the correct era), but Hanna, Sisay, Gerrard, Squee, Karn, Mirri, Crovax, Orim would certainly be in (probably including Skyship Weatherlight, maybe both Legacy Weapon and all the constituent artifacts).
Vhaati, Greven, Predator, Flagship, would be on the Predator side (probably with Vhaati as the general, despite Greven being the ranking officer).
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At least, that's how I would do it. I've had a Weatherlight deck in mind for a long time, but have never actually put it together.
Predator would be fun too. Five colour for Ertai? Maybe. Include Planar Portal to help you get the crew.
I just recently (January) moved to Portland, OR, and only more recently got my cards out here, so I havent been playing nearly as much as I'd like. But my two roommates have both expressed interest in learning how to play magic. I have been considering making 5 mono-color edh decks, and using them as intro's to EDH, after I teach them the basics of magic. I figure, doing that will help them learn the flavor of each color, what each can do, etc.
My goal in this would be to make them each as much in their color pie as possible. A mono-red deck that is as capital-R Red as possible. Who do you folks think should be my generals?
I was thinking Kamahl, Fist of Krosa for Green, but hadn't decided for the other colors. In the process of moving I seemed to have lost some cards ( ) including some of my favorite legends. (Radha, Radha wherefore art thou Radha?) But I finally have a job out here and would totally be willing to buy some generals.
:symg::symu: Infect-Old Standard that I need to update
And trying to decide what my next EDH will be.
I am a :symg::symrg::symr::symur::symu::symug: 'walker all the way.
Jaya Ballard, Task Mage has RED written all over it. If you wanna play politics, Fumiko the Lowblood should do the job. Wanna be straightforward and just rally the hordes to the red zone? Krenko, Mob Boss or Lovisa Coldeyes are your best options.