Subject: Blue/Green Stasis deck - Would it work?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 16:53:49 GMT
From: jonesev@cadvision.com (Evan Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

I have been turning some ideas around in my head for a blue/green
stasis deck, ever since I saw the green tempest card "Root Maze". Here
is a first edition of this deck idea.

It is based around the classic stasis - bird of paradise - querion
ranger combo.

The lock:
4 Stasis
4 Root Maze
4 Birds of Paradise

Support:
4 Querion Rangers
4 Impulse
4 Boomerangs
4 Memory Lapse
4 Tradewind Riders

Damage:
4 Bay Falcons
4 Zepher Falcons

Land:
11 Islands
9 Forests

I havn't play tested this deck at all, but the biggest problem that I
can forsee is not getting the stasis in your hand off the deal. The
impulses would help, but I could still get screwed.

There are not many sources of damage, with the only real ones being
the bay falcons and zepher falcons, and perhaps a querion ranger.
However if the lock is solid, that should be enough.

The tradewind riders and boomerangs are in there to return the stasis
to my hand to get an untap phase, but perhaps that is not really
needed. The boomerangs would be useful anyways.

Memory lapses are to protect the combo. Once they tap their lands to
cast a spell and get it put back on top of their library they are not
going to be casting anything for the rest of the game. I was hoping to
be able to fit power sinks in as well, since with the tradewind riders
I would be untapping my lands everyturn, and it would prevent my
opponent from casting anything.

The fastest I could get the lock down would be turn 3.
Turn 1: Forest, Bird
Turn 2: Island, Root Maze, Bay Falcon
Turn 3: Island, Stasis, Ranger

That leaves me with 2 mana free to protect my combo, and a 1 point per
turn damage source.

So my question is, would this deck work? And if not, how might I
improve it?
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