Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:47:02 PDT From: Chris Warren Subject: Help! I wanna play in PTChi Howdy, folks. Welp, I've decided to suck it up and give it a shot for the PT again -- this time, PT Chicago, since that's my home town. Translation: I reeeeeeealy want in this time. I've done well in big events, most of them T2, and I've never played MVW. Here's a deck I've been bumping around for MVW, I'm extremely interested in ideas: Land [25] 10 Island 8 Forest 4 Undiscovered Paradise 3 Quicksand Critters [19] 4 River Boa 4 Cloud Elemental 4 Man-o-War 4 Jolrael's Centaur 1 Hazerider Drake 2 Breezekeeper Counter/Control [17] 4 Power Sink 2 Memory Lapse (prob. replace with Dissipates) 1 Dissipate (AIH) 4 Ray of Command 4 Impulse 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Kaervek's Torch ------------------ 61 Cards Since I'm not decking anyone with this thing (due to Impulses) I'd like to cut it down to 6. Some notes on what I'm trying to do: * Use the best creatures available. No question on the Centaurs and River Boa. Cloud Elementals are cheap fliers as are Breezekeepers, and the Hazerider is anti-red and a reasonably-costed flier. Impulses should let me find an Undiscovered if the need arises. * Control with a decent amount of countermagic and Ray of Command. I'd like to get 3 more Dissipates and move Memory Lapse to the side for Counter vs Counter wars. In this environment, there are so many creature decks, I think Ray of Command should nearly always be a good draw. * Add a little touch from the other colors. This is not a 5cg deck... those depend heavily on their off-color spells for control. Think of it as a two-color deck with a spash of a third, and the third color is "any." The blue provides the real control here, I just thought the Hazerider is especially good in the environment, and that a Torch is never a bad thing to have available (why not? and a Tutor to go get it). I'd like to splash especially for the side... I think Odyllic Wraith will just kick butt in the sideboard, as well as Dark Banishing (would only use one or the other... no good DB targets against a black deck), Wildfire Emissary (main deck?), and maybe Scalebane's Elite or Honorable Passage. Things I've been thinking about: * Fog Elemental is ok, but isn't Breezekeeper better? Actually, I know Waterspout Djinn is the current favorite, but I think the stop in mana production would kill me... I need to be able to play and react. * I thought about Cloud Djinn, but it just keeps saying to me "Fireblast, Thunderbolt..." Two cards I can probably plan on seeing quite a bit of, and it's 6 mana. Where have you gone, Joe Mahatmoti... How about a Maro or 3? Only problem is, Maro doesn't fly. * I even considered Stampy and Arctic Wolves, but came across the mana thing again. The Stampy's are no good without another green critter, although the green critters I have are pretty darned resillient. Also thought about Uktabi Efreets. * I'm somewhat weak against flankers and first strikers, except for the Ray of Commands. I was thinking of Triangle of War(!) in the side. Especially good with Maro. In any case, any comments would be much appreciated. Besides, I've always had a hankerin' to play a good U/G deck. Maybe MVW is the format for it... --Chris ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com