Subject: Critique this deck please
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 23:52:32 -0800
From: "Noel Johnson" <lestatv@blarg.net>
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

Hello.  I designed a deck and have been tinkering with it for about a week
now.  I'm looking for any ideas on how to make it better.

Here's the deck:

LAND:

4 Gemstone Mines
4 City Of Brass
2 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Sulfurous Springs
4 Ancient Tombs
1 Mountain
1 Forest
1 Plains

ARTIFACTS:

4 Phyrexian Walkers
3 Ornithopters
4 Urza's Baubles
4 Lotus Petals

WHITE:
4 Enlightened Tutors
4 Enduring Renewals

RED:

4 Goblin Bombardments

BLACK:

4 Vampiric Tutors
4 Doomsday
4 Dark Ritual

Okay, if you can't tell by the specs, here's what the deck does.  The only
objective is to get a Goblin Bombardment and an Enduring Renewal into play,
and then cast one of the 0 cost creatures to infinately sacrifice it to the
bombardment and cause infintate damage to infinate targets.

I have not actually played this deck against a real opponent, but I have
shuffled and dealt myself 30 hands, and out of 30 hands here's how many
turns it took me to kill my opponent (I was playing with the muligan for 1
less card for any reason rule):

3 turns: 3 times
4 turns: 14 times
5 turns: 10 times
6 turns: 2 times
14 turns: 1 time ( mana screwed)

This seems about as fast as bloom, though I don't have much experience with
Bloom, so I am probably mistaken.  Anyway, here's what I'm most interested
in as far as feedback.  It seems to me that 1 counterspell would destroy my
deck.  As I am virtually using all available mana on every turn, one monkey
wrench in the system costs me the game.  My lack of extra mana seems to be
my biggest concern, because with out it I can't do something simple such as
cast Abeyance (which I've thought about adding).  Perhaps a solution would
be to wait an extra turn or two, and then abyance and lay down both
enchantments in one turn.  Blue is usually a slower deck anyway, so I think
I would be able to spare the extra turns.  That would also perhaps be the
solution to my other biggest anticipated problem: Disenchant.  Since White
and Blue tend to be the two slowest colors, perhaps waiting a couple turns
to abeyance could make this deck stronger.  The only problem with waiting is
if I doomsday for my combo, which I often do on my first turn, I may die
waiting... although i guess I could put in a sanctuary, which would be good
against white, since it would draw the disenchant away from my two biggies.
Hmmmm....

Anyway, what do you think?

-Noel