Subject: Re: my take on Five Blessings
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:46:11 EDT
From: ChronoTFan <ChronoTFan@AOL.COM>

  Okay, my turn to hop with a variant.  ;)  Blessing has been one of my
favorite cards for a while, just because the effect is so subtle that it gets
overlooked easily.  Start Mulching, though, and people tend to get annoyed
very quickly...

   2 Sylvan Library
   4 Gaea's Blessing
   4 Mulch
   2 Endangered Armodon (Thinking about switching to Maro)

   4 Mana Leak
   3 Propaganda
   4 Impulse

   2 Disenchant
   2 Pursuit of Knowledge
   3 Armageddon

   4 Incinerate

   1 Derelor

   2 Scroll Rack

   1 Mountain
   3 Forest
   6 Island
   2 Undiscovered Paradise
   2 Reflecting Pool
   2 Adarkar Wastes
   2 Brushland
   4 Skyshroud Forest
   2 Gemstone Mine

  Sideboard:
    2 Wall of Tears
    2 Disrupting Scepter
    1 Disenchant
    3 Diabolic Edict
    4 Chill
    3 Interdict

   The original version was running WOrbs instead of Geddons, but I didn't
like them as much.  I just want to blast away everything at once, because I
can rebuild faster.  Once I've got 3-4 land back on the table, I don't want to
be slowed down again.  I've found Sylvan to be incredibly key in the deck.  It
just works so well with everything: PoK, Mulch, Blessing, Impulse, whatever.
Haven't had a chance to play it much, but I think the biggest trouble I'm
going to have is going to be weenie decks.  They just blitz me out before I
get a Prop.  The Edicts and Walls from the sideboard might help a bit, though.
It's pretty neat to see all of this variety come out of a single engine.  Just
shows the power of what it can do, I guess.  Bless on!  :)

                                           -Aaron Lewis

       "Helping people is mostly a matter of teaching them to help
themselves."
                                                   -Sisay, journal