Subject: deck
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 20:34:02 -0700
From: Bob Knapp <beknapp@afes.com>
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

    The other day my friend Bee Vue and I signed up for a local tourney in
Davis, CA.  I had a tourney worthy deck, Bee on the other hand hadn't
touched a single Magic card for at least six months.  As the Sunday the
competition was to be held drew nearer, the more I bugged Sr. Vue to design
his deck.  So he finally pulled out some cards and just started throwing
all the really weird blue, green, land and artifact cards he could find
into a pile.  After testing this mess he made with his brother Andre, he
decided the deck was worthless; well, not completely.  By Complete
accident, Bee pulled out one of his two Altar of Dementia, Reigns of Power
and his only Nature's Revolt.  After playing the Altar and Revolt he played
the final card of the game, the Reigns of Power.  He tapped four mana then
sacrificed all of his creatures (including lands) to the Altar.  Andre
began dumping the pile of cards that formed his library into his graveyard
until the whole library was gone.
    Bee came over the next day and played with his goofy little deck.  I
noticed that every time he pulled out the combo he ended the game in a
hurry.  He told me that he wanted to make a deck based on that combo, but
he was too tired to design it.  So I sat down with a pencil and a piece of
paper and began my journey to creating our rockin' deck.  After I was
satisfied with the design, I began trading like a mad man over the next
three days.
    The first version did okay, but after looking at it again, I noticed
some major design flaws.  With four Intuitions, why did I have only two of
some of the cards in the deck?  I added Quicksand changed the Whispers of
the Muse to Impulse and dropped all of the Capsizes.  The deck was
complete!
    Bee ended up not going to the tourney, so I took the deck (I had made
the decision of taking it, the night before the tourney, after I had just
taken out a land destruction and necro deck of some guy).  I should have
won the whole thing, but because of five bone-head plays, I lost five games
the deck should have won.  In other words, the deck did awesome, I played
terrible.  Oh well, what can you expect when you quit magic for five
months, make a new blue and green combo-based deck and then only play with
it five times total before a tourney?  I learned one thing that day, almost
never tap out using this deck.

The Jookie...
Artifacts:
3 Altar of Dementia
Blue:
4 Counterspell
4 Dismiss
3 Impulse
4 Intuition
4 Reigns of Power
Green:
4 Wall of Blossoms
4 Wall of Roots
3 Creeping Mold
3 Gaea's Blessing
3 Nature's Revolt
Land:
5 Forest
9 Island
4 Quicksand
4 Skyshroud Forest
2 Undiscovered Paradise

Later,
Jenkins (Jinx) Mitchell
Team Jookie