Subject: New type 2 Stronghold deck: "New Age Stomp"
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:24:36 -0500
From: JAZIZIAN@HOTMAIL.COM
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

Seeing the power of 3 cards in Stronghold, I set out to make a
killer deck.  The first is Mox Diamond, that combined with Winter Orb,
Harvest Wurm, and fast green is a killer.  The second is Hermit Druid
which combined with Winter Orb, Mox Diamond (makes the drawback
negligible) and Horn of Greed is very effective.  The third is of course
Horn of Greed which I utterly abuse in this deck.

     As you can see, the cards work well with each other.  This is
needed for most tournament decks (except for such decks as fruity
Pebbles where it is strictly combo reliant).  This cluster effect
lessens the chance of getting a horrible, ineffective hand, etc...

On to "New AGe Stompy":

4 Hermit Druid
4 Winter Orb
2 Horn of Greed
4 Mox Diamond
4 Harvest Wurm
4 Lhurgoyf
4 Joreal Centaur
4 River Boa
4 Muscle Sliver
4 Spined Sliver
2 Llanowar Elves
2 Ghost Town
2 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Karplusian Forest
12 Forests

     Notice the duel purpose of the Ghost Towns and the Undiscovereds.
I opted not to play Summer Bloom as it is too combo reliant and not very
usefull by itself.
     Only having 12 basic lands in the deck is not an oversight, it will
just make your Lhurgoyf so much more menacing.
     I thought about having black for Living Death, but the Two black
was discouraging.  Besides, Spined Sliver and Muscle Sliver is beatdown
madness.

E-mail me at Manaflair@aol.com, I welcome any comments.