Subject: Re: Creatureless Glacial Chasm:
Date: 7 Oct 1997 01:13:37 GMT
From: daichid@aol.com (DaichiD)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

In article <34394C9C.E0D93CEE@iona.com>, Bill Burke <wburke@iona.com> writes:

>I know everybody is talking about Tempest now, but here's a still legal
>Type II deck that I played against that was pretty cool.
>
>4 Glacial Chasm
>3 Gerrards Wisdom
>4 Wraths of God
>4 Plowshares
>4 Arcane Denial
>2 Counter
>3 Abeyance
>2 Island Sanctuary
>2 Millstones
>2 Disenchants
>4 Howling Mines
>1 Anvil of Bogardan
>1 Recall
>
>2 Adakar Wastes
>1 Flooded Plains
>11 Plains
>10 Islands
>
>Sideboard:
>2 Disenchants
>1 Jester's Cap
>3 Political Trickery (for counter-post)
>1 COP red
>1 COP green
>I need more for sideboard!
>
>Whats great about the Chasm is that it can't be countered.
>Gerrard Wisdom and the Chasm's just kick ass.  Cast Abeyance before you
>let a Chasm go to the graveyard
>to defense against burn.  Use counter's only to protect the Chasm and
>Gerrards Wisdom since these are the key to
>the deck.

It's a good deck idea that works very well, however 1 problem you have is
that there is far too much creature control in your deck. You don't need
that much especially since once you get the glacial chasm into play they
can't hurt you.My version is posted below. I have only lost with this deck
twice and that was due to bad draws. Try this version and tell me what you
think:

4 glacial chasm
4 gerrards wisdom
1 hallowed ground
1 disenchant
4 counter spell
4 arcane denial
3 force of will
4 boomerang
4 howling mine
3 library of leng
2 feldons cane
2 recall
2 relearn

4 adakar wastes
3 city of brass
17 islands

sideboard:
3 disenchant (millstone)
4 abeyance  (another blue deck)
2 disrupts    (another blue deck)
4 hydroblast (red decks with land destruction)
2 jesters cap (good for capping out land destruction or any other nuisance
cards)

Like I said the deck works well against all deck forms, wether it be burn,
weenie, big critter, or buried alive. The biggest problem that it faces is
millstone decks. Against these deck you really need to watch what your doing.
Hope you have fun with it,
Scott Dail