Subject: Schoolyard v1.2 (t2 nov1st)
Date: 21 Oct 1997 04:39:10 GMT
From: "Archimede" <Astuce@SPAMBLOCKworldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

 Hey all, I've posted a brainstormed version of this deck
earlier today, and then I played it a bunch on the internet.
After tweaking it a bunch, I realized that it can become very strong,
if played correctly.  So please, give me input on this,
I'd like to hear critiques and comments on it.

//NAME: The SchoolYard
// Black
        3 Abandon Hope

I added this to get the opponent's
hand very low, very early.
// Green
        3 City of Solitude
        4 Eladamri's Vineyard
        4 Gaea's Blessing
Since the Zur's effect is triggered by
drawing a card, it still works under CoS,
and it allows me to do what
I want without worrying about counters,
really good since FoW is gone,
when played on turn two.

// Blue
        2 Capsize
        2 Zur's Weirding
        3 Impulse
        1 Meditate

meditate rocks under the Zur's, impulse is beautiful,
and capsize stalls well under the vineyards.

// White
        2 Enlightened Tutor
        2 Disenchant
        2 Humility
        2 Gerrard's Wisdom
        3 Wrath of God

I replaced blinkies with humility,
since the environment is soo creature
oriented right now.

// Artifacts
        1 Bosium Strip
        2 Scroll Rack
        2 Disrupting Scepter
        1 Jayemdae Tome

Scroll Rack is the #1 card from tempest,
works really well under the Zur's, and
so does the strip, as well as using the
mana from the vineyards.

// Mana Sources
        2 Forest
        3 Plains
        2 Brushland
        2 Adarkar Wastes
        3 City of Brass
        4 Undiscovered Paradise
        1 Wasteland
        4 Reflecting Pool
// Sideboard
SB:  2 Phyrexian Furnace  (BA)
SB:  2 Mystical Tutor  (to get wraths
against green swarm, or lobotomy against bloom)
SB:  1 Winds of Rath (swarm)
SB:  2 Circle of Protection: Green
SB:  2 Circle of Protection: Red
SB:  2 Lobotomy (bloom, mill, other theme decks,
good against opponent's sideboard in game two,
esp. vs. disenchants)
SB:  2 Disenchant (soo many strong enchantments/artifacts in TE)
SB:  1 City of Solitude (blue)
SB:  1 Wrath of God (swarm, again)

60 cards: 15 card sideboard

Ok, if anyone can't see it, the lock is having a zur's weirding
in play, having the opponent down to no cards, paying two life
to make him/her discard the drawn card, and let the vineyard
burn him/her to death.

laterz,

Archimede