Subject: A revision to the Green Smoke deck. Snake basket ain't type two. Sorry 'bout that.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:10:29 -0700
From: nruttan@nanaimo.ark.com
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

Hello Dojo-ers

When I first looked over the Urzas Saga Spoiler, I wasn't that impressed. I
mean, not suicidal, but not preaching how it was a migic set, sent from
heaven. But, one card caught my eye: Veild Serpent! The awesome power of a
island home, sleeping enchantment, cycling creature was just too much for me
to handle. I fainted, fell against my computer, and spilled my coffee all
over my hard drive, which subsequently short circuted and caught on fire. It
was several days before I would get another look the Urza's Saga spoiler.
But when I did, I noticed a card that caught my attention, and held it with
whispy, intangable fingertips. The card: Smokestack.

Smokestack [R]
4
Artifact
During your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on Smokestack.
During each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent for each
soot counter on Smokestack.
Illus. Scott Kirschner (309/350)

Being a green fanatic, I promptly drew up a deck that worked around
smokestack. It works something like this: Make a billion tokens, and while
your opponent flounders, smak him around a bit with a verdant force.

4 Gea's Craddles
4 Elemandri's Vineyard
17 Forests
4 harrows
4 Lanowar Elves
4 Quirion Rangers
4 Argothan Elders
4 Smokestacks
3 Verdant Force
4 Survival Of The Fitests
4 Snake Baskets
4 Instill Energies
4 Priest of Titanias

Ok, now, about the deck. It goes for FAST elf mana. Really Fast!

Turn 1: Forest, Llanowar
Trun 2: Craddle, Quirion Ranger, *tap forest, return, untap Llanowar for 2
mana* Priest of Titania, *Tap Craddle* instill energy, Force
Trnu 3: *Tap Craddle For Six! Forest + tap, tap llanowar, Tap Preist, use
quirion ranger, tap priest, use instill, tap priest, that's 20 mana!* find
something to do with that.

Just get out some fungus tokens or little vipers and cast your smokestacks!
It will eat through their permenents like candy, and you can get rid of it
at any upkeep. Yes, I'd use 4 gea's cradles. What you want is one in your
opening hand. In a multiplayer game, with forces and sporlings and elders
out, a cradle can make hundreds of mana. Which is good. Mabye rolling
thunder would... naah.

Obviously this deck is far from polished, and it needs a bit of defence and
library manipulation. So, If you want to rant and rave, just e-mail me at
nruttan@nanaimo.ark.com. Thanx

        "You know in Peking, where they make the ducks?" ~Ron

        ~Wakko The Sane
         Adam The Ruttan