Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy
From: schick1@netcom.com (Jason Schickli)
Subject: Re: Wise Necro,or what I thought of card advantage
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 18:29:58 GMT

In my version I utilized the cities of brass for the mana advantage, and 
Undiscovereds for the mana advantage/extra card in hand thing. A necro 
deck without undiscovereds will usually not be able to Wisdom for more 
than 12. The damage from the Cities of Brass usually didn't hurt me at 
all thanks to my mass life gainers. I did test abeyances aswell, and they 
worked very well at stalling my opponents early creature rush so that I 
could set up a good lake drain/necro recursion, at which point I didnt 
really care about creatures. And the abeyances help you to cycle through 
your deck for that Necro WHILE keeping the extra cards in hand.

unlike the other WiseNecro posted, I concentrated on the Card 
Advantage/lake drain aspect of Mcabes Old Necro. With the stupors and 
Coerscions being used to pull counters in order to get my necro out.
The deck did very well in playtesting against burn and heavy creature 
decks, but died horribly to counterpost or counterhammer styles.


WiseNecro

Land:
15 Swamps
1 Plains
3 undiscovered Paradise
4 Cities of Brass
2 Lake of the Dead
4 Dark rituals

4 Drain Life
3 Soul Burn
1 Kaeverk's torch
1 Ishan's Shade

2 Gerrard's Wisdom
2 Abeyance
1 disenchant

3 Stupors
3 Coersion
1 Mind Warp

2 Contagion
4 Nevinyrral's Disk
3 Necro
1 Vampiric tutor

Jason Schickli