Subject: R/G Land Destruction w. Raze
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:19:08 EDT
From: Evan969@aol.com
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

[Please put this where you'll put the rest of the new ideas for U.S. Decks]

        I was glancing through the card rumors on mtgnews, and overall, it looks
pretty lame.  However, I didn't think it looked all that bad.  One card that
really grabbed my attention was Raze.  I think anything that lets you destroy
any land for R is going to cause trouble.  In a land destruction deck, you are
mainly trying to gain the land advantage, right?  So let's say you have 3
lands out, and your opponent has 1, on the third turn (because you already
wasted one).  You can then Raze him, bringing the land count to 2-0.  I think
this is more of an advantage, being that they just went from little land
resources to none.
        In addition, Cartographer, a card from exodus would work *extremely* well in
combination with raze.  Here is a deck I designed to work with this concept:

4 Birds of Paradise (turn 2 land kill - multicolored mana)
2 Llanowar Elves (fast mana)
4 Wall of Blossoms (slows down fast creatures - grants cards)
4 Cartographer (return lands that you sac to raze, or discard to diamond)
2 Winter's Grasp (kill land)
4 Eladamri's Vineyard (fast mana - turn 2 land d, etc.)
2 Spike Weaver (stall if needed - medium creature)
2 Spike Feeder (gain life/chump block/whatever)

4 Stone Rain (kill land)
4 Raze (kill land - works well in conjunction with cartographer)
4 Shock (removal)
3 Fireball (take out swarm - kill card in later game)

2 Mox Diamond
4 Karplusan Forest
2 Reflecting Pool
9 Forest
4 Mountain

I haven't really thought about sideboard yet...but it should be pretty easy to
figure out, depending on the area.

Thanks for reading,
Sam Nelson