Subject: 5cG Redux
Date: 12 Feb 98 22:16:03 EST
From: John.P.Wiggins@Dartmouth.EDU (John P. Wiggins)
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

I have been playing and playtesting A. Isaksson's deck(Deck Workshop-Current).
I like the versatility of the deck and the speed of the Tradewind/Geddon combo.
The one thing that I find problematic is the lack of Winter Orbs.  This really
hurts the deck against many other decktypes(Necro, Counterburn, Canyon Stasis,
and oddly enough, Sligh).

I do believe that his deck is a _very_ good tool against most Cursed Scroll
decks and the other 5color decks(green, white, and black).  With this in mind I
tried to put my money where my mouth is and construct something that has the
advantages of his 5cG without the aforementioned disadvantages of going sans
Winter Orb.

Here's what I made and have been playtesting extensively.  It currently is my
most winning deck(defeats all the february "Decks to beat,"  as friends and I
have playtested), but admittedly has a problem when facing decks which use 3-4
Perish.  The SB has tried to correct for this, but as always, it's the luck of
the draw.  Other than that, I am more confident with this deck than anything
else at the moment:

4 Birds of Paradise
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Granger Guildmage
4 River Boa
4 Jolrael's Centaur
4 Wall of Roots
2 Uktabi Orangutan

2 Disenchant
4 Armageddon

4 Incinerate

3 Tradewind Rider

3 Winter Orb

4 Undiscovered Paradise
3 Gemstone Mine
2 City of Brass
9 Forest

SB:
3 Honorable Passage
3 Pyroblast
2 Disenchant
1 Uktabi Orangutan
2 Terror
4 Sleight of Mind

JP
john.p.wiggins@dartmouth.edu