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 :'(
Take a look at Parallel lives it is $4... which is a little expensive but you already have Blade splicers
2x Chandra's Outrage
1x Chandra's Phoenix
4x Incinerate
4x Shock
1x Grim Lavamancer
10x Mountain
4x Charmbreaker Devils
2x Traiterous Blood
1x Chandra, the Firebrand
1x Koth of the Hammer
1x Ambush Viper
1x Engulfing Slagwurm
1x Runeclaw Bear
1x Liege of the Tangle
1x Praetor's Counsel
2x Tree of Redemption
3x Titanic Growth
3x Arachnus Web
2x Overrun
10x Forest
3x Garruk's Companion
1x Garruk Relentless (double faced)
Deck tags done for you
So many plainswalkers I wish I had some :(.
you badly need mana ramp.. 4X llanowar Elves or 4 X viridian Elves or birds of paradise
10 of each land will not be anywhere near enough without these cards.
If you have dual colours I wouldn't use cards requiring more than 2 required of any 1 colour, although I guess Overrun is kind of required for green based decks
I don't think Chandra and Charmbreaker devils really work in this deck you just don't have enough non creature spells.
Liege of the tangle and Koth actually work quite well together in making your lands creatures which means if you are going to go in this direction you are going to need to really ramp hard.
i.e
Rampant growth and cultivate
I am not sure how they interact with warstorm surge whether they count as a creature entering the battlefield
You have the innstrad Garruk but the M12 one would work a lot better with this strategy
Possibly the best way for you to go is land ramp into
Primordial Hydra... with your burn to destroy opponents threats and deal direct damage when you have to.
something like this
http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=904346
Tl:DR stick to 1 stragey your deck is too all over the place.
mentor of the meek?
Then use Concussive Bolt to prevent them blocking and easily hit for 20 damage by the time I reach 5 mana.
Jor Kadeen, the prevailer works extremely well in a high creature number deck.
But back on topic....
I like Myrsmith left unchecked she gives you easy metalcraft, lots of blockers and Motarpod fuel.
Remember the Fallen could come in handy especially with Mortapod
You have no fliers... that can become a problem when your opponent can constantly peck you in the face. Cobbled wings?
I felt that perhaps I should set Titan forge as my plan B, day of judgment proof win con and focus more on getting Steel Hellkite out (traded with a friend for one last night ). I feel that Veldaken infuser and Contagion Engine or of course just using my copious amounts of mana on it works fast enough to use it. The cards that help get me producing faster now also very useful at other things.
Prototype Portal is a fantasitic card...at the very least heaps of fun. I create swams of Silver Myrs as replacable blockers and even more mana.
Even more awesome later on with the treasures.
I keep getting unlucky and never pulling a Grand Architect which is why this deck still has mana ramp incase i don't get him I can still reach 6 mana in a reasonable time.
Planeswalkers are problematic
Curret iteration.
4 X Grand Architect
3 X Vedalkin Creatarch
3 X Thrummingbird
3 X Silver Myr
4 X Treasure Mage
2 X Vedalkin Infuser
1 X Steel Hellkite
3 X Mana leak
3 X Negate
Artifacts
3 X Titan Forge
2 X Sphere of Suns
2 X Tumble Magnet
2 X Prototype Portal
2 X Unwinding Clock
1 X Caged Sun
1 X Contagion Engine
1 X Mindslaver
1 X Spine of Ish Sah
2 X Buried Ruin
2 X Phyrexia's core
15 X Island
Edit: another bad night of testing.... I think I will have to actually set up "budget games" because it just can't keep up with opponents running multiple Plainswalkers, Titans, Wurmcoils and Swords that is what happens when the simulator actually has no limiting resources
Well I just learnt Spellskite can run off with my Surge node counters which I didn't know....
I am not having a good night testing honestly though so I feel it needs a lot of work still :S although it is hard to tell if I am just not experienced enough and I am making mistakes or there are too many holes in the deck since it requires a lot more cards to work than just dropping wurmcoil..
It doesn't help that since this is a simulation that I play against $200 Dollar decks seriously Tezzeret, inkmoth, swords, Solem Salactum metamorph deck and that is just what I saw when he thrashed me twice, I just bet he had Wurmcoil somewhere.
I am getting unlucky a little too often.
I think I might have to resort to Swiftfoot boots, I am often just 1 turn too slow and it might be the cheapest soultion to the problem.
Perilous Myr you can kill Phyrexain crusaders and Vulshock Refugee's with it.
I like Artilerise you can kill a Titan if you use Perilous Myr
hmm I didn't realise spine of Ish Sah was so cheap..
but you end up needing Phyrexia's core to recur it... it is an interesting idea... hmm with these new cards I will have to go back to 4 Treasure mages
I have a play set of Merfolk Looters I'll adjust some things and see how it plays. I did try the Azure Mage but 4 mana really seems like a lot to pay for 1 card.
Tezzerets Gambit is indeed a great card.... but costs the same as Caged Sun and I'll need 4 (probably more because I have other decks planned that need it), I'll try it....
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Argentum Armor[/CARD] takes just as long to play as Titan Forge I don't think it would really improve the deck speed.
Actually my deck isn't actually that weak to sweepers... once I have my factory up and running other than Creeping corrosion they nuke the battle field and I drop a 9/9 golem.
I tried the full Phantasmal Grand Architect with this deck but I don't want to spend all that money for the Phantasmal Image which is required to make that deck really work and the Lord of the Unreal isn't cheap either, (although I drafted 1... plan on trading him for cards in this deck)
Again not paying for Inkmoth Nexus so that Grand Architect Archetype isn't really going to work that well without it.
I don't know how I missed Chimeric Mass as a card to add to the deck but it really fits the theme and I think it can be tutored with Trinket mage.
The deck is getting steadily more expensive :S. thanks for your help though.
I have this type of Deck with a Grand Architect Slant.
I have posted the deck here
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=364085
Since it is very budget.
voltic Key has also rotated out.
Well I was wasn't using them to begin with but then I was finding that my Grand Architect was being Oblivion Ringed, Doom bladed and worse, Surgically Extractioned :S.... Basically you can't play Grand Architect until you have 5 mana not just three. Silver myrs help me get there fast enough... Gritaxian Probe could be an alternative so I know if my opponents have those things before I play him but the myrs as also blockers.
Instant kill with infinite mana
Edit: I just realised you didn't have Myr Superion that has to be in this type of deck.
Splashing blue can really help... you might want Treasure mage and tutor for BIG artifacts.
Edit2: Chimeric Mass will be rediclous with infinite mana
I don't have the deck list in front of me so I think it is slightly off, I am fairly sure I don't have that many lands (played a whole game with only 2 lands once :S)
In any case this is a Boros/Steel deck without any of the important cards for either Archetype....but it is a good deck for Jor-kadeen.
Masters Call works better in this deck than Blade Splicer because it is instant Metalcraft
Win condition Concussive Bolt
hmm Mindslaver works!.. only problem my friends might not want to play against the deck.. but I'll probably add it to my shopping list and sideboard it when I don't want to piss them off. But I can see it as being the solution to playing against more expensive decks.
I plan on getting a blighted agent play set for my infect deck anyway but I am considering dropping blue in that deck since I am only using it for evasion and there are some useful Innstrad artifacts for that. The contagion engine is to beat down agro particularly Innstrads human tribal or token based decks rather than infect win condition
I don't intend to compete in tournaments, but I still want to win, I sometimes play against people that do. just like potential answers against what I might face.
Drei unfortunately your deck is out of standard now it is an extended deck or a deck that was once standard but no longer, which is fine if you are playing just with friends. I guess I don't have to stay Standard but it is the time when I started playing (other than the Alara/Zenikar Dragon devour based deck my friends bought me and I have been playing for several years) and I don't really want to go backwards
Thanks for the Help