Subject: son #3 (of 3) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:26:47 -0600 From: "Bob Bailey" To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com Controlling Bwatdown * Final Version * Robert Bailey 4 Counterspell 3 Dissipate 1 Ertai, Wizard Adept 4 Legacy's Allure 4 Man-'o-War 3 Nomads en-Kor 3 Freewind Falcon 3 Staunch Defenders 3 Disenchant 1 Mangara's Blessing 4 Wall of Blossoms 1 Uktabi Orangutan 4 Incinerate 1 Phyrexian Furnace 1 Volrath's Stronghold 4 Undiscovered Paradise 3 Gemstone Mine 1 City of Brass 7 Island 5 Plains Sideboard 4 Pyroblast 2 Circle of Protection: Red 2 Slight of Mind 2 Propaganda 2 Titania's Song 1 Disenchant 1 Dissipate 1 Phyrexian Furnace The problem decks are Trade'Geddon, SGD, and Nightmare Machine. Trade'Geddon: Counterspell *only* Tradewind Riders, Armageddons, and Legacy's Allures. Nothing else. Sideboard in the four Pyroblast and the Dissipate for the Phyrexian Furnace, Uktabi Orangutan, Mangara's Blessing, and two Wall of Blossoms. SGD: Disenchant Eladamri's Vineyard, Counterspell Land Destruction, and let a Legacy's Allure sit on the table until you can steal a Wildebeest. Sideboard in the Disenchant and Dissipate for the Phyrexian Furnace and Mangara's Blessing. Nightmare Machine: Counterspell Recurring Nightmares only and Disenchant Survival of the Fittest and Oath of Ghouls. Get out a Legacy's Allure and never use it unless you get Spirit of the Night or Verdant Force. If at all possible, don't kill creatures but neutralize them. Sideboard in the Phyrexian Furnace, Dissipate, Disenchant, two Propaganda for Mangara's Blessing, Uktabi Orangutan, one Staunch Defender, one Incinerate, and one Wall of Blossoms. The not problem decks are Sligh, Suicide Black, White Weenie, Bloom, 5CG, and Finkel/Cuneo/CMU Blue. The cards to sideboard out are usually Phyrexian Furnace, Mangara's Blessing, Uktabi Orangutan, Disenchant, Man-'o-War, and Dissipate. The current tournament record for the deck is 5-1, having beaten 5CG, Sligh, Suicide Black, R/B Land Destruction (scrub), and ???, and has lost to a Trade'Geddon. I will post again on the deck after Urza's Saga comes out. The current deck list for that point is the following: 4 Counterspell 3 Mana Leak 1 Ertai, Wizard Adept 4 Legacy's Allure 4 Nomads en-Kor 4 Soltari Priest 4 Soltari Monk 3 Staunch Defenders 3 Disenchant 4 Wall of Blossoms 4 some blue or white anti creature spell that (hopefully) comes out in Urza's Saga (or Bottle Gnomes) 1 Volrath's Stronghold 4 Thalakos Lowlands 3 Vec Township 3 City of Brass 4 Plains 7 Island Sideboard 4 Pyroblast 2 Propaganda 2 Titania's Song 2 Circle of Protection: Red 2 Sleight of Mind (?) and some other good stuff. ...but this is shifty as the environment may not warrant it or there may be better cards for some of the slots. Robert Bailey Team Goats, Captain DCI 759311 Advocate for preying for a new five color land. "Watashi-wa yagi desu." "I am a goat." * Japanese translation.