From: nlifer@xmission.com (NightLifer)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy
Subject: Please help me with this mono-blue deck
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 04:15:07 GMT

Hi, all!

Thanks for reading this, which amounts to a serious plea for help.

I've taken this deck to four local tourneys, and I have yet to
finished better than third place.  In fact, I don't finished lower
than third, either.  With this deck, it's third place or nothing.

I've looked at it from every angle, and I can't figure out how to
improve it; I really think I need a fresh look at it to let me know
what I did wrong (so I won't do it again anytime soon).

Here's the deck, which I think could be considered a Big Blue:

14x Island
1x Plains
4x Quicksand
4x Gemstone Mine
1x Adarkar Wastes
2x Thawing Glacier

2x Arcane Denial
4x Counterspell
4x Force of Will
2x Dissipate

3x Impulse

2x Shimmer
2x Flood
3x Binding Grasp

1x Breezekeeper
3x Air Elemental
2x Wall of Air
2x Waterspout Djinn
3x Man-o-War

2x Nevinyrral's Disk
1x Snake Basket
2x Grinning Totem

Sideboard:

2x CoP: Blue
2x CoP: White
2x CoP: Green
2x CoP: Red
2x Cop: Black
3x Millstone
2x Crown of Ages
Any help will be greatly appreciated!  Thanks for reading!

Shane