Subject: Post-Stronghold T2 Psudeo Jank
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 02:00:19 -0600
From: "Patrick J. Aulson" <paulson@flash.net>
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

Howdy,
    What follows are a north-Dallas scrub's thoughts on the current meta
game, and a deck listing with some explanation.
    For several weeks, it seems the meta game has been tending toward
decks that are heavy in non-creature permanents.  Many current popular
decks include various artifacts to run efficiently or even function at
all: nev's disks, mana diamonds, bottle gnomes, steel golems, orbs,
scrolls, puppet strings, the new pseudo-mox or they contain
enchantments: propaganda, megrim, necro, bottomless pit, sylvan library,
empirical armor, pursuit of knowledge, pendral mists... the list goes
on.
    While playing the 1.x "jank" deck in friendly play against some t2
decks, I noticed a card I hadn't really given much thought to before:
Aura of Silence.  I had just thrown it in 'cause the page on the net had
it (remember i'm a scrub) Anyhow, the card gives most decks absolute
fits, I was never sorry to draw it.  The card is both extremely
efficient and versatile.  Aura really fits into the jank deck nicely and
i decided to construct a t2 version.  Here is a rough outline:

Critters (18)
4 Nomads en-Kor
4 White Knights
4 Soltari Priests
4 Freewind Chickens
2 Tradewind Riders

Direct Damage (12)
4 Incinerate
4 Shock
4 Cursed Scroll

Utility (11)
4 Tithe
3 Aura of Silence
2 Disenchant
2 Armageddon

Mana Sources (20)
10 Plains
3 Mox Diamond
3 Gemstone Mine
2 City of Brass
2 Undiscovered Paradise

    (61) Total Cards - a little heavy but I really hate mana-screw

No real sideboard yet - just some thoughts - lots of flexibility due to
multi-color
3 Perish perhaps in lieu of the Auras against stompy
2 Wisdom against sligh - (the deck is already pretty anti - red)
2 more Disenchant vs. propa-orb, etc
Maybe 2 sacred ground vs. other geddons and land kill
Boil or other color hosers???

    There are a few little open ended combos worth mentioning:

    The nomads are great little guys with 12 protection from <color>
critters to pimp off damage to.  Usually whatever critters are on the
table are un-boltable.

    If the deck goes second, this is fun: play mox diamond, pitch the
city of brass, play tithe, get 2 plains, play 1 plains, play nomads or
scroll.

    The deck has a mana curve much like sligh:
            cc1 or less - 20 Cards
            cc2 - 18 Cards
            cc3 - 3 Cards
            cc4 - 4 Cards

Keith - aka - Copenhagen

Please email me with any comments Keith_Aul@Hotmail.com