Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 12:53:45 -0600 From: "R. W. Kindt" Subject: Deck Workshop Hello, I must start out by thanking Eric Taylor for his excellent article about "time", which I found in the 'Best of the Net' section of the dojo. I was attempting to tune a pathetic Agonizing Memories deck when I stumbled upon these words of wisdom. After thinking about the concept of time advantage for a while I completely reworked my deck into what has quickly become the deck to beat. Only a week or so old, it has already claimed a tournament title. The deck works on the idea of putting out some quick threats and delaying the opponent's ability to deal with the threats until it's too late. When it works, it feels as if you have four or five TimeWalks in your deck. So far this deck has dealt well against Senior Stompy, Sligh, Marogeddon, and Big Blue. It has a real problem, however, with other black decks. The 5CB decks really seem to give it a hard time. What am I to do? Here's the deck... thanks... 'AGONY' T2 B/U/r/g 3 Agonizing Memories 2BB 4 Memory Lapse 1U 4 Dark Ritual B 1 Necromancy 2B 2 Zur's Weirding 3U 2 Spinning Darkness 4BB 4 Shadow Guildmage B 4 Skulking Ghost 1B 2 Fallen Askari 1B 4 Black Knight BB 3 Man O' War 2U 2 Hidden Horror 1BB 3 Nekrataal 2BB 1 Morinfen 3BB 1 Gallowbraid 3BB 3 Undiscovered Paradise 3 Gemstone Mine 4 Island 10 Swamp Total = 60 Sideboard: = 15 2 Dark Banishing 2 Nevinyrral's Disk 2 Pyroblast 2 Hydroblast 3 Ebon Charm 2 Uktabi Orangutan 2 Tranquil Domain