Subject: decks
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 01:02:28 -0400
From: battage@banet.net
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

Hi Frank,

        it's been ahwile since i shared some ideas on the dojo so i thought i
would send some decks.  here they are:

"Suicide B-R"

4 sarco's
4 dauthi horror
4 dauthi slayer
2 black knight
1 foul imp
4 paralyze
4 mogg fanatic
4 pups
4 mogg flunkies
4 ball lightning
4 incinerate
4 shock

1 ritual
4 gemstone
2 city of ass
2 undiscovered
1 pool
5 swamp
6 mountain

this deck either kills itself or your opponent in a few turns.  it uses
lots of multilands so it can support the fastest cards from the two
colors.

"red control?!?"

4 wall of disfusion - tech
4 fireslinger
4 bottle gnomes
1 bogarden pheoninx
3 shard pheonix
2 haups
2 earthquake
4 incinerate
4 shock
4 fireblast
3 lightning blast

4 wasteland
21 mountain

i created this deck when one of my friends challenged me to make a
monored control deck.  this deck controls very good and could go into
cheese mode.  wall of disfusion is the third best wall, and sometimes it
is the best.  think about everything it blocks....

"El Nino"

4 tradewind
4 man-o-war
2 ophidian
4 counterspell
4 mana leak
1 disrupt
2 legacy's allure
4 birds
4 wall of blossoms
4 wall of roots
2 uktabi orangutang
4 geddon
1 disenchant

2 city of ass
3 gemstone mine
1 undiscovered paradise
2 reflecting pool
1 plains
7 island
4 forest

just another el nino varient.  it seems to work.  some other cards to
consider adding are terror, firestorm, and earthquake.

"4cW"

4 white knights
3 warrior en-kor
4 soltari priest
4 soltari monk
1 freewind jank
2 terror
4 man-o-war
1 firestorm
4 incinerate
3 uktabi orangutang
4 cursed scroll

4 tithe
4 MOX DIAMOND
4 wasteland
2 city of ass
3 gemstone
1 undiscovered
8 plains

this deck is great, it won 2 tourney's already.  it was originally made
for the regionals (ive been playtesting it since stronghold), but i
couldnt go cuz of work.  the strange part about this deck is the use of
so many lands/tithes/diamonds.  this is importent for many reasons.  you
always want to have a land to chuck for the diamond, u dont want
mana-screw, and you want to have enough land to support wastelands
without screwing yourself.

im open to any questions/comments.

CYA
-Matt Battaglia