From: hahn@bway.net (hahn)
Subject: Re: PTQ deck, Please Critique!
Date: 18 Jul 1997 09:26:57 GMT

I would use 12 creatures, 20 burn, 24 mountains, and 8 "style" cards:

4 Dwarven Miners
4 Suq'ata Lancers
4 Talruum Minotaurs

4 Incinerate
4 Thunderbolt
4 Hammer
4 Torch
4 Fireblast

2 Bosium Strip (ever seen a Fireblast Bosium Stripped?  It's ugly.)
2 Final Fortune
4 Stone Rain

24 Mountains  (could go 22 and add 2 more cards, perhaps 2 Sandstalkers)

My "style" cards are land destruction and recycling.  The Fortune is
important; it allows you to untap your mana while the opponent is
momentarily tapped out for something big and kill them.  Basically, if you
get them down to about 12-16 with creatures, you can kill them in one turn
with the Final Fortune involved somewhere in there.  More than 2 seems to
clog up the hand early on, unfortunately.

Some people like using Goblin Elite Infantry because they're early 2/2's
but I prefer Miners to kill Quicksands and Gemstone Mines and such things.
And they're 1/2 which is not bad.  Also, the Orcish Settlers are excellent
creatures, all things considered, but I think I prefer the straightforward
Stone Rain in many cases.

My personal sideboard is a little weird, to be honest:

4 Gemstone Mines
4 Abeyance
4 Aether Flash
2 Builder's Bane
1 Dingus Staff

The Aether Flash/Dingus Staff just kills Ertai/graveyard manipulation
decks.  Obviously, you make sure you don't cast your knights with that out
-- just burn them to death.  Abeyance is for Honorable Passage; just
Abeyance before torching them out or doing the double Fireblast thing.

Otherwise, it's a straightforward deck; some LD, some critters, and a LOT
of burn.

-The Sophist

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