Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:40:43 -0500 From: Jon Brown Subject: Type 1.X I'm getting ready for Arena Extended, and I'm considering the following decks (although I'm open to other ideas). Any suggestions? Squandered-Stasis ----------------- 3 Howling Mine 3 Anvil of Bogardan (anti-Necro as well as turbo) 4 Stasis 2 Boomerang 2 Counterspell 2 Arcane Denial 2 Power Sink 2 Force of Will 1 Kismet 2 Gerrard's Wisdom 4 Swords to Plowshares 3 Equipoise (nastier than Kismet) 2 Lim Dul's Vault 2 Squandered Resources 2 Storm Seeker (alternate win method) 2 Gaea's Blessing (recursion/decking) 4 Tundra 4 Underground Sea 4 City of Brass 4 Undiscovered Paradise 2 Rainbow Vale 4 Gemstone Mine Board: Disenchants, Kismets, COPs, ???? Note: I'd like to fit Impulses and Abeyances in the main deck, but can't think of what to drop. It would also be nice to get a Land Tax in (it combos with so many of the cards in the deck), but I don't know if that would work. or Necro ----- 4 Hypnotic Spectre 4 Knights of Stromgald 4 Order of the Ebon Hand 4 Nekrataal (Dirtwaters in the board vs. black) 4 Stupor 4 Hymn to Tourach 4 The Rack 4 Nevinyrral's Disk 4 Dark Ritual 2 Drain Life 18 Swamp 1 Lake of the Dead 3 Mishra's Factory Board: Dirtwaters, Glooms, Serrated Arrows/Biskelions, Dystopias, ??? or Red Speed (Celerity is for wusses) ---------------------------------- 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Thunderbolt 4 Incinerate 4 Fireblast 4 Fork 4 Guerilla Tactics (anti-discard as well as DD) 4 Ball Lightning (?) 4 Hammer of Bogardan 2 Earthquake 4 Eternal Flame 20 Mountains 4 Mishra's Factory Board: Anarchy, Blood Moon, NO PYROBLASTS (I'm convinced an extra threat in this type of deck is better than a Blast), Earthquake, Pyroclasm, ??? On another note, what do you think are the most broken cards in Extended: Fork, Hymn to Tourach, Land Tax, Storm Seeker, Mishra's Factory, any others? Jon Jonathan Brown Corporate Controller Wellsford Real Properties, Inc.