Subject: Modern Sligh - Control aspects ? A breakdown
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:41:10 GMT
From: Wingers@home.com (Redraven)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

It seems like there is a lot of confusion here, concerning the nature
of the modern sligh deck. Many people have accussed it of being
nothing more than beat down/burn. While this was certainly true during
the end of the MirViLite, with the addition of cards like thunderbolt,
which served almost no practical use except to bolt your opponent, the
modern sligh deck is much more controlling than people give it credit
for.

The following is a break down of the modern sligh deck

   Card
4 Jackal Pups           (Purely Offensive)

4 Mogg Fanatics (Both offensive and Defensive, can be used as another
                        creature for the beatdown, but is more often
                        used as an extra point of damage to creatures,

                        or to block, buying another turn of in- play
                        firing from other cards)

2 Goblin Vandals        (Control vs. the control Decks. Only really
                        good during the first couple of turns, in
                        which the vandal requires  your opponent to
                        draw so sort of creature kill before playing
                        any artifact portion of their control/lockdown

                        )

4 Ironclaw Orcs (Purely Offensive, considering that they couldn't
                        block if they tried)

4 Fireslingers          (Control vs. almost all decks. Vs. the
                        Creature decks makes up the back bone of
                        creature suppression. Vs. the control decks,
                        continues wittling away at you opponent even
                        after he has the board locked down)

4 Ball Lightning                (Almost entirely offensive. A small
                        portion of fear generated by the potiental of

                        so much damage so quickly)

4 Shocks                (More control  than offensive, most often
                        used to blast a hole in creature defenses

                        to allow attacks to get through, or to get
                        past high toughness creatures, like the Wall
                        of Blossoms. The 1 cc allows you to throw it
                        at early creatures, and still dropp another
                        creature the same turn)

4 Incinerates           (More offensive than control. Given the
                        choice between shock and incinerate, the
                        incinerate more often hits your opponent for
                        obvious reasons)

4 Fireblast             (As offensive as any card can be. The Trump
                        card that allows you to accidently win games
                        "YOU AREN'T TAPPED OUT, ARE YOU?")

4 Cursed Scrolls        (As Broken as this card is, it's balanced
between
                        offensive and control. Used as the major
                        reuseable source of direct damage, Allows
                        sligh to get around prot. red creatures.
                        Serves with the fireslinger to create a
                        blanket of suppression fire to clear the path
                        for your creatures. In the case of mass
                        removal or control lock down, serves as the
                        kill card)

2 Misc cards            (Depends on the field, meta game slots. Often
                        cards like dwarven miner, or invasion plans,
                        almost always some very meta game specific
                        control)

16-17 Mountains (Obvious)

4 Wastelands            (Offensive control. Deny your opponent the
                        opportunity to deal with the offensive
                        creature in your deck)

The Modern Sligh deck played correctly has a large number of control
aspects. Often these are over looked, because the only thing that is
remember when playing sligh are the 5 turn kills and the turns where
you did 16 to an opponent, because he was foolish enough to tap out.
With the speed of most control decks today, such as the Prop-Orb, or
the 5CG Tradewind, without the control aspects, the attack mode of
damage simply is not enough to beat most good decks.

Nickolas Krestoff