Subject: Check this deck out...
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 17:53:09 EDT
From: VSzabo6257 <VSzabo6257@aol.com>
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

      I've found this deck works better than most other black decks
w/Bottomless Pit and/or Ensnaring Bridge as the main cards.  Now, this about
this...Ensnaring Bridge + Maddening Imp.  Doesn't the sound of "T: Destroy all
of target player's non-wall creatures" sound heavenly?  Well, it sure is
possible with that combo.  With that in mind, I present to you, the Gimp deck.
Where'd I get the name?  Well for one, it's a play on words with Imp, and two,
it usually surrenders your opponent helpless.

The Gimp Deck

3x Drain Life
2x Dark Ritual
4x Bottomless Pit
3x Vampiric Tutor
4x Wall of Souls (amazing if played on 2nd-4th turn, and good with Imp if
Bridge-less)
4x Maddening Imp

4x Ensnaring Bridge
4x Cursed Scroll
3x Essence Bottle
2x Nevinyrral's Disk
4x Scalding Tongs

23x Swamp

Sideboard:
1x Nevinyrral's Disk
1x Volrath's Stronghold
3x Perish
2x Dread of Night
2x Spinning Darkness
2x Phyrexian Furnace
2x Touchstone
2x Ankh of Mishra


      Have fun!