Subject: Decks to beat... "TRADE ALARM" or "FIREWALKER ALARM"
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:42:31 EDT
From: TopDraft00 <TopDraft00@aol.com>
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

With the release of stronghold, I have found a really useful card that adds
strength to many of the existing T2 decks: intruder alarm.

There are quite a few people in my area playing Alarm Decks... with variations
using firewalkers (pro red pinger) or the always formidable tradewind... The
deck I constructed below was mainly supposed to deal with all the sligh and
propa orb decks that are very poplular at the local tournies. The deck
revolves around the intruder alarm and either a shrieking drake or man o' war
combo to give you either alot of creature usage or an infinate combo... I use
birds or paradise in the later case. By casting man o' war when I either have
out a tradewind or a firewalker (with the alarm out of course), I can return
the man o war and untap all of my creatures. for added effect I use aluren to
keep casting the man o war and returning it to my hand, each time untapping
all of my creatures with the intruder alarm... the outcome is either being
pinged to death by the firewalker or all of myopponents permanents being
returned to his\her hand. Once the combo is set off, it works very nicely.

Here is the version I am currently using, it's a little rough, but provides
lots of fun.

Blue:
4 intruder alarms
4 man o' wars
3 shrieking drakes
3 suq ata firewalkers
2 tradewind riders
3 counterspells
2 dismiss
3 dissipates
3 propaganda

Green
4 birds of paradise
2 alurens
(sometimes I add elves for speed, and tradewind usage)

White
3 disenchants

Black or Red
4 diablic edicts or
4 incinerates

Lands
3 undiscovered paradises
1 flood plains
1 grass lands
2 reflecting pools
4 gemstone mines
6 islands
2 forests
1 plains

Sideboard
4 honorable passages (sligh)
1 propaganda (weenies)
3 aura of silence (propa\orb, pros bloom)
2 mangara's blessing (sligh, plus necro\discard)
3 sand golems (against necro\discard)
1 disenchant (vs nev's disk)
1 nev's disk (reset)

I have seen other variations of the Alarm deck, either with no tradewinds or
no firewalkers, but I prefer the flexibility of both. The sideboard is set for
local tournies where sligh, necro and propa orb are all very popular... I am
thinking of adding sacred ground due to the increased amount of LD decks I am
encountering.

Please give me your feedback and hope the deck works for you.

Mark Clemens