Subject: Sharing my Tradeageddon deck
Date: 23 Dec 1997 18:38:19 GMT
From: yankees937@aol.com (Yankees937)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

Below is listed my new concept, an Armageddon/Tradewind Rider lock deck.
Beneath that are comments on each card.

Blue
4 Propaganda
4 Tradewind Rider
4 Man-o-War

White
4 Armageddon

Green
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Quirion Ranger
2 Apes of Rath
2 Root Maze

Black
4 Vampiric Tutor
2 Diabolic Edict
2 Terror

Artifact
4 Winter Orb

Lands
1 City of Brass
3 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Underground Sea
3 Plains
9 Forest
1 Island
1 Adarkar Wastes

Sideboard

4 Disenchant
2 Uktabi Orangutan
4 Chill
3 Pyroblast
2 Pincher Beetles

Propaganda - A great way to slow down creatures.  With Winter Orbs, Armageddon,
and blue mana, it's a requisite to the deck.

Tradewind Rider - After you Armageddon, repeatedly use the LowRider to
boomerang your opponent's land as he plays it.  Of course it's also good for
saving your creatures, holding off an opponent's creature (especially when an
Orb is on the table, or before you Geddon), attacking, and a few other uses I
won't go into.

Man-o-War - Great with Orbs or right before an Armageddon.

Birds of Paradise - A necessary source of mana, or to pay the cost on the
LowRider.  Take your pick.

Apes of Rath - A finishing creature.  It doesn't matter if you can't untap it
once the lock is out.

Quirion Ranger - Can help out in any situation - getting an extra green mana,
untapping an Apes of Rath, boomeranging a land in response to Armageddon, great
with Winter Orb, or Untap a LowRider to attack or block with it.

Root Maze - Great stall tactic: 1st turn Maze, 3rd turn Winter Orb.  Also, when
on the table during a Rider/Armageddon Lock, completes the combination.

Vampiric Tutor - I want such-and-such NOW!

Diabolic Edict/Terror: Creature elimination is split between the two for
variety.

Winter Orb - Is this not the most widely used card in Type II?  If you haven't
played it yet, this is the prime deck to try it in.

Sideboard -
Disenchants - I don't know, they're just useful.
Uktabi Orangutan - Disk = bad
Chill - With this and a Propaganda or Orb, slows a Sligh deck to a crawl.
City of Solitude - counters
Pincher Beetles - creatureless decks

I really believe that this deck, with your own personal tailoring to your
playing style, can do well at tournaments.

Andrew Levine

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