Subject: [G-Tech] Breaking Limited
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 98 03:01:00 +0100
From: etrangerns@genesis8.frmug.org (ETRANGERNS)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

From: etrangerns@aol.com (EtrangerNS)

hi everyone~

in preparing for the PT Chicago Qualifier in Boston this weekend, myself and
the rest of my teammates got together to make decks and throw around ideas. my
goal is to break Limited Resources.

i've figured out that if you can manage to get lots of land out quickly, in a
deck with a high land count, Limited Resources becomes a very dangerous card.
here's my decklist:

3 Soltari Priest
3 Soltari Monk
3 Paladin en-Vec
2 Soltari Visionary
1 Orim, Samite Healer
4 Limited Resources
3 Disenchant

4 Rampant Growth
4 Wood Elves
2 Wall of Blossoms

4 Tradewind Rider
3 Mana Leak

16 Plains
5 Forest
5 Island

the first thing to note is the amount of land in the deck (26) - this assures
me that i will be laying a land every turn for the first four or five turns,
usually. none of the off-color cards are too color-intensive, and the presence
of Rampant Growth and Wood Elves allows me to have lots of land, and quickly.
in one game tonight, i had six land on the third turn - the turn sequence was:

T1: Play Plains (land #1), done.
T2: Play Forest (land #2), cast Rampant Growth for an Island (land #3), done.
T3: Play Forest (land #4), cast Rampant Growth #2 for a Forest (land #5), cast
Rampant Growth #3 for an Island (land #6), done.

and then i dropped a Resources soon afterwards. the large amount of Shadow
creatures in the deck allows me to deal lots of quick damage - and the presence
of Soltari Monk allows me some much-needed defense against the ubiquitous
Suicide Black decks i'm sure i'll be seeing.

Tradewind Rider is the crux of the deck, however. under the original design of
this deck, i envisioned it as a G/r/w deck with lots of landkill. the thing i
failed to realise was that if i did not get Limited Resources out quickly, i
would get my arse handed to me. what the T-Wind allows me to do is stall my
opponent's land development until i get a Resources, and then start to lock
them down - bounce a land during their discard, drop one of mine. repeat until
opponent has no land in play.

it seems like a solid deck, for all the testing i've done with it. but this is
just the opening version. other ideas i want to incorporate are: some of the
Tempest "delay" lands (Thalakos Lowlands, Vec Township), Wasteland (maybe? i'm
not sure how this combos with LR), perhaps my original W/g/r variant with Stone
Rain and maybe even the dubious Flowstone Flood.... it's all up in the air
right now.

as far as a sideboard, i'm still undecided. here's what the early SB is:

3 CoP: Red
3 Propaganda (as opposed to CoP: Black)
2 Scragnoth (gotta love him)
1 Disenchant
2 Needle Storm (anti-Tradewind)
4 Undecided cards.....

and that's it, folks. any random comments, like spare change, will be greatly
appreciated.

sincerely~

Nicolas Sabin
Proud to be the Green Mage of Les Enfants du Noir
Come see our homepage at http://hail.icestorm.com/lesenfants/
Guerilla Tech Mage
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