Subject: Stream Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:06:45 EST From: "Quinn Murphy" To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com Hi. I've gotten quite a few e-mail messages requesting information on the decklist that I obtained through the proposed methods that I detailed in my article entitled "Deck Chaos" -first thing I want to say to the people who wrote me is thanks for the positive response. I wasn't ignoring you (had school and all of that fine stuff to worry over). Second thing to say is that I have generated a decklist and played a few times with it, although mostly against "fun" decks... Here's the deck: Mono-Green "Stream" (because it goes with the flow) 2 Puppet String 1 Scroll Rack 1 Moss Diamond 1 Disrupting Sceptre 1 Nevinyrral's Disk 4 Jolrael's Centaur 3 River Boa 2 Pincer Beetle 2 Uktabi Orangutan 2 Wall of Roots 2 Llanowar Elf 1 Quirion Druid 1 Uktabi Wildcat 1 Llurghoyf 3 Nature's Lore 2 Gaia's Blessing 1 Sylvan Library 1 Natural Springs 2 Waiting in the Weeds 2 Barbed Foliage 2 Creeping Mold 1 Desert Twister 3 Quicksand 19 Forest Some comments: Quirion Druid ROCKS. Call me a scrub or whatever stolen rap-slang insult you want, but if you haven't played with this card at all, you can't talk. Quirion Druid is cool because it lets you do something with your land besides make mana, and doesn't make all of your land vulnerable. It's basically green's version of the outpost (in effect, not neccesarily power). The druid allows you to make use of a lot of lands without actually casting a lot of cards -I usually only make two creatures at a time, because five points of damage a turn (with druid attacking as well) is generally sufficient for me. The only card I have four of is Jolrael's Centaur. My rationale is this: One of the strongest creature abilities is protection from a color. If a creature is generally untargetable, it has protection from all colors, and even colorless as well. This makes the Centaurs a strong "meta-creature" against any deck, so it is a must have. I added pincer beetles just to have more. The drawing engine on this is pretty cool. With the mass shuffling and recursion from blessings and lores, it is usually fairly easy to stumble across a sylvan or a rack. Once you do, the game gets fun. You can use the sylvan's pay 4 life for a card a few times easily because of the presence of natural springs to recoup your life loss. I've gotten some sick draws with the sylvan, a rack and a blessing and lore in hand. I just realized that there is so much to say about this rough version of the deck that I just don't have time to talk like I want. I am really enjoying it's use, however, and hope that it illustrates the principles that I discussed in my article. Hope you like it. If you do, try it out. Enjoy. It's apparent your no talent cuz your blazing in your saddles -Lauryn Hill ^^^^This e-mail brought to you by:^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^Insight-A-Riot^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^