Oh no! I have spent my magic the gathering life here.
I came here looking for safe haven after I got laughed at for my terrible janky deck ideas on the official forums but I cam here and found a community willing to help me improve as a deck builder.
And through your help I have turned so many janky dreams into real decks
Thank you everyone :'(
but then print good cards with restrictive colour casting costs that make it hard to play them in anything other that mono coloured decks.
Esper, Grixis and Bant have all proven competitive to varying degrees with the two colour versions of the decks being without the tools required to win games.
I like Darksteel axe as equipment.
I think you need more creatures....
Ichorclaw Myr perhaps
Corrupted Conscious is an interesting mind control card for infect.... if they get something through your control being able to deal with the big creatures somehow will be helpful.
i.e Doom blade is now ambush viper
natrualize is Sylvok Replica
so that you have a lot of creatures for kessig cagebreakers
I find the flavour text very interesting... so the vampires have to protect the humans so that they have something to eat... interesting.
Does Zombie Pod Work? It has a lot of graveyard interaction.
I don't have a concrete idea yet... anyone have a deck list using a similar idea?.
Green/Black/Blue perhaps.
also there is a budget section above the mods will probably move this there
This is a thread about making decks like this one... I like this deck type but I play the Myr Version which is posted in that thread (been modified since).. I am glad Kessig has gone way down in price I can actually build that deck now.
Control is always a problem it is the counter to Wolf Run but then control has trouble with aggro and there is a lot of aggro decks around. The solution to control is just to attack with the elves without wolf run and tick out the damage.
My deck is more red than green so I can burn someone if I get them close enough. Devil's play is better than Red Sun's zenith in most situations since you can have two swings at it.
Perhaps sideboard some burn and other removal (beast within, naturalise, Ancient Grudge etc...) to allow you to deal damage and remove enemy threats even if your opponent is able to set you behind with a well timed Day of judgement
what do you think about Glissa, the traitor to return it if it gets destroyed.
the problem as I see it is that Black wants to use instant removal spells and you want to play sorceries.
hmm so I had a look at the sorceries available
http://magiccards.info/query?q=t%3A%22sorcery%22+c!bg+f%3Astandard&s=cname&v=card&p=1
the ones you have mentioned are not the only scary green/black sorceries that would be way better with lower mana costs.
Some of them really support a self mill strategy that works well with a card like Kessig Cagebreakers... but then you run the risk of dropping win cons into the bin. but there are a lot of graveyard interacting sorceries in green and black to return them.
you would be looking to use Deathtouch + Prey upon or Ambush Viper for removal rather than the instants.
there are some nasty hand disruption cards in black you can take advantage of to control the game while you wait for your pieces.
Diabolic tutour is a sorcery which makes finding semblance Avil or a win con easy
if you are staying mono white Strata Scythe can become very strong.
if you are going to go blue white then Invisible stalker is great
I am huge fan of Cobbled wings
you could try Semblance anvil even to really lower your artifact costs. to get a lot of equipment on the field.
Infiltration Lens could make things interesting.
Flayer husk
The list goes on....
I haven't seen the match you are talking about sorry.
I suggest you just play Grixis.
Avoid double colour costs so I don't think Flameblast dragon works without it being a heavy red deck. I have played it in Jund but that was back in the Eldrazi block with easy colour fixing.
I suggest Steel Hellkite instead of Flameblast dragon
I am not quite sure what the fume spitters are doing.... Perlious Myr is probably more useful... or something dangerous like Vault Skirge... particularly with the Galvanic blasts I'd like to see more artifacts.
no Sphere of suns? you have no mid range creatures I would of through some ramp would be helpful
I can't seem to find Chapin's list anymore... obviously for the budget version there is no Lillana, of the veil but you can use Tribute to hunger
Other than Glissa and Lumberknot I only need 1 of the colour.... I have 19 artifacts... I can always do things with the off colour it really isn't what is holding me back..
I droped the throne of Geth... Travellers amulet instead of Mycosynth wellspring and Tezzerets gambit instead of Ichorwell spring.. too many cards I can achieve it with less cards.
I put it to 22 first thing that happens I get mana flooded :S..I really feel I need some more card draw and perhaps more ways of gaining life with all my phyrexain mana I am using.
Dropped lumberknot without a lot of sacing it won't really work.
The problem with Dual lands is they slow me down coming in tapped whille with all the artifacts I can normally play some thing.
but before combat resolves I sac 1 of my blocking creatures... is the other creature I declared still able to block?
if it is infect it should have Blighted Agent
if normal damage I am a big fan of Myr Battlesphere as a finisher especially with the Silver Myr
prototype portal is a really fun card... Mindslaver might be a mythic but it isn't expensive.
I got a deck fairly similar to that one for $13... plays well very fun.