Subject: email from my son Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 16:03:28 -0600 From: "Bob Bailey" To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com Annoying Little Deck * Robert Bailey I'll be brief. Here it is: 4 Erratic Portal (mmm... tech:) 1 Ball Lightning 3 Anarchist 1 Uktabi Orangutan 4 Wall of Blossoms 4 Stone Rain 3 Creeping Mold 3 Starke of Rath 1 Cartographer 1 Ravenous Baboons 4 Incinerate 4 Shock 1 Kaervek's Torch 2 Survival of the Fittest 2 Gaea's Blessing 4 Wastelands 1 Quicksand 3 Mogg Hollows 3 Mountain Valley 6 Mountain 6 Forest Sideboard 1 Uktabi Orangutan 4 Tsunami (mmm... Anarchist:) 1 Creeping Mold 1 Starke of Rath 2 Shattering Pulse 2 Phyrexian Furnace 4 Spike Feeder This deck kicks ass! It breaks Erratic Portal to the extreme! Anarchist, Cartographer, Uktabi Orangutan, Starke of Rath, Ravenous Baboons, Ball Lightning! BROKEN! Post-sideboarding, you can have 12 anti-artifact/enchantment, 12 land destruction, 16 anti-creature! Max removal. Anarchist and Cartographer give you almost unlimited removal. Starke with Portal is possibly the best creature removal availiable. Once your opponent is completely locked down (and I mean completely), you can kill with an Erratic Ball Lightning. If they have something that screws that up, you can Anarchist-Torch them or Gaea's Blessing Burn them to death. There is one huge problem though: blue. With four Tsunamis in the sideboard and the Anarchist Engine going, you can drain them of all their permission. But sometimes, alas, you never get enough cool stuff and you get outcountered. Land destruction is strong here anyways. Spike Feeder/Wall of Blossoms with Portal is enough to guarantee a victory against Sligh, especially with Uktabi Orangutan or Creeping Anarchist for Scrolls. You don't lose. Sligh is also vulnerable to land destruction. Phyrexian Furnace makes it easy to beat Recurring Nightmare/Survival of the Fittest decks. Plus, your land lock is incredible as this deck dies horribly to land destruction. This deck takes the massive weakness of most type II decks (land destruction) and brings it to an incredibly strong front. It works wonders. Give it a shot. Yours truly, Robert Bailey Team Goats, Captain DCI 759311 "Watashi-wa yagi desu." "I am a goat." *Japanese translation Advocate for Erratic Portal, the new Icy Manipulator.