Subject: Basic Decks
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:12:03 -0400
From: Rick Lay <rlay@mail.ici.net>
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

In Deep Magic by Charle Wolfe and George Baxter, Basic Decks are listed
for test purposes. I'm working on updated test decks. Below I'm
enclosing my thoughts so far. Any comments/criticisms would be
appreciated. Please note that these are post Tempest Type 2.

Basic Burn Deck

Celerity Burn - various

4x Suq'Ata Lancer
3x Viashino Sandstalker
4x Ball Lightning
2x Lava Hounds
4x Talruum Minotaur
4x Incinerate
4x Hammer of Bogardan
4x Fireblast
4x Thunderbolt
2x Earthquake
2x Nevinyrral's Disk
23x Mountain

Sideboard
4x Wildfire Emissary, 2x Aether Flash, 2x Detonate, 2x Nevinyrral's
Disk, 3x Pyroblast, 2x Stone Rain


Basic Counterspell Deck

Big Blue - Various

2x Air Elementa
4x Waterspout Djinn
2x Ophidian
4x Vodalian Illusionist
4x Man-o'-War
4x Manta Riders
4x Sea Sprite
2x Time Elemental
2x Boomerang
2x Dissipate
4x Counterspell
2x Power Sink
19x Island
2x Winding Canyons
3x Quicksand

SideBoard
4x Hydroblast, 3x Memory Lapse, 2x Binding Grasp, 2x Chill, 2x Energy
Flux, 2x Suq'Ata Firewalker


Basic Fast Big Creature Deck

Big Green

4x Llanowar Elves
4x Quirion Elves
1x Eladamri, Lord of Leaves
4x Wall of Roots
4x Whirling Dervish
4x Llanowar Sentinel
2x Lhurgoyf
4x Rootbreaker Wurm
2x Craw Giant
1x Call of the Wild
2x Nature's Revolt
1x Sylvan Library
1x Rowen
2x Lure
23x Forest
2x Winding Canyons

Sideboard
2x City of Solitude, 2x Hall of Gemstone, 2x Overrun, 1x Root Maze, 2x
Seeds of Innocence, 4x Emerald Charm, 2x Vitalize


Basic Fast Small Creature Deck

White Sleight Knight

4x White Knight
4x Order of the White Shield
4x Freewind Falcon
4x Duskrider Falcon
2x Order of the Sacred Torch
4x Crusade
2x Greater Realm of Preservation
4x Mind Bend
2x Counterspell
2x Empyrial Armor
2x Whim of Volrath
2x Armageddon
12x Plains
8x Island
4x Adarkar Wastes

Sideboard
2x Counterspell, 2x Debt of Loyalty, 2x Enlightened Tutor, 2x Flickering
Ward, 2x Gerrard's Wisdom, 2x Bubble Matrix, 1x
Serra's Blessing, 2x Disenchant


Basic Hand Destruction Deck

Look Ma, No Hand!

4x Abyssal Spector
4x Tainted Spector
4x Urborg Mindsucker
4x Mindstab Thrull
4x Stupor
4x Coersion
2x Disrupting Scepter
4x Fire Whip
4x Drain Life
4x Incinerate
9x Mountain
9x Swamp
4x Sulferous Springs

Sideboard
2x Gloom, 4x Pyroblast, 2x Necropotence, 4x Dark Banishing, 1x Kaervek's
Torch, 2x Nevinyrral's Disk


Basic Land Destruction Deck

Orcville

4x Orcish Squatters
4x Orcish Settlers
4x Army Ants
4x Dwarven Miner
4x Conquer
2x Dingus Egg
4x Incinerate
2x Shatter
4x Dark Banishing
4x Rain of Tears
2x Null Rod
4x Sulfurous Springs
9x Mountain
9x Swamp

Sideboard
2x Gloom, 2x Shatter, 3x Fireball, 4x Pyroblast, 4x Scorched Earth

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