Cruel hearted tactics, MtG discussion

[CycloneWolf]

I used to play way too much - had about 6 decks, but one or two that I found most enjoyable or rewarding.

My main was a green/white mana-rushing deck that made good use of 4 Living Hives. I used plenty of mana-boosting cards like Llanowar Elves to crank out enough mana for a hive (6/6, trample, each damage point done to players results in a 1/1 bug token, as I recall) while the opponent was still struggling for mana.

That deck had a ridiculous number of rares (which I probably wasn't using to their full capacity, but what the hell, it was fun) - two Mirari's Wake to boost my mana acquisition and turn those hordes of 1/1 tokens into 2/2, a Darksteel Colossus and Krosan Cloudscraper to make use of all that surplus mana, Silver Seraph to cover the skies, a Mindslaver or two in case things got dicey, a Sword of Kaldra to give to my hives, and a Nantuko Primus to boost whichever bug tokens the opponent decided to allow through.

Hardly cunning or smart, and it didn't always work out too well, but that was just about the most fun deck I've ever played, and extremely satisfying ordering the final attack with all my epic-scale creatures and winning the game.


EDIT: Oh, and Krosan Drovers. Those are awesome.

 

[GloatingSwine]

I used to use Llanowars when I swapped out blue/red to green/red. Forest and Llanowar first turn and a mountain or Balduvian Trading Post out second and you can fireball squish most any critter that can come out before it starts to be a problem, and later on you can use them as batteries for the big hits.

Also, it was always fun to take down some great big monster with a Giant Trapdoor Spider. Om nom nom nom.

 

[Ultrajoe]

Im currently building a Grixis/Pandamonium Deck.

Burn through the deck with Null profusion to burst out turn 5 for lethal with an undead unearth horde. Playtesting with proxies looks promising, control and combo just have no way to stop it, and unless a beats deck can handle losing most of their creatures then it runs over them too.

Add in Hell's Caretaker to rip up massive power creatures early on and i laugh all the way to the bank. For a retro rare nobody ever loved, grab a fistful of Stalking Vengeance to break unearth 5 ways to narnia. Enter for 3 damage, swing for 3 damage, leave for 3 damage? Do this with 5 of your buddies? Yes sir, i will take that in big steaming handfuls.

I'm a white player. But when i deviate, i Deviate

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

Elf.... 1/1... that is all.

Don't knock Llanowar Elves. Yeah, only 1/1, but you can tap them for a green. Forest and a Llanowar elves in turn one and you have three mana by turn two and can start pulling out some big chunky mobs to ruin people's face when they're still figuring out how to afford half their stuff.

I only have one...

 

[Syntax Error]

Rak, is your deck a beast deck? I think you can punch in a Krosan Cloudscraper there for the intimidation factor.

Oh yeah, another loss was when I fought a reanimator deck that I got down to one life. It was his turn. He had a lot of big creatures in his graveyard. He suddenly played a Living Dead and was able to discard Anger. I got killed in one fell swoop, even I had a lot of creatures in play. So sad.

Also from another reanimator deck: Animate Dead + Worldgorger Dragon + Ambassador Lacquatus. I wept.

 

[SargentToughie]

You could porably make an RP about this.

That's actually not a bad idea, but I've allready got my next 3 RPs that I'm going to host planned out, sorry

 

[the monopoly guy]

You could porably make an RP about this.

That's actually not a bad idea, but I've allready got my next 3 RPs that I'm going to host planned out, sorry

I wouldn't participate, I'm just saying you (and by you I mean you the reader of this post) could make a Magic the Gathering RP.

 

[almo]

I was blue/white. I also did white/red, white/black/blue, and a few pure white and pure blue decks.

Some of my best victories came from Balance, Hand of Justice, Deep Spawn and Combat Medic. (Yeah, I played a long time ago).

 

[CoziestPigeon]

I play red and black usually, but I want to try blue. I had a deck I really liked, but lost it while moving, and haven't found it yet

It was a hellbent deck or something like that.

 

[Limasol]

Back when i played i used black and white together. Towards the end i used a spectrum deck with coalition victory to hilarious effect. Haven't played in a while however.

 

[WhitemageofDOOM]

What color Deck do you play with?

Whatever wins. But generally control decks, aggro control is a lot of fun too but they aren't often that good.

What special cards do you own?

Demonic tutor
Yawgmoths Bargain
Some pre ice age stuff in a box somewhere include some revised(i think its revised).

What's your most glorious victory?

Off the top of my head?
Last gasping birds of paradise in response to a pact of negation when they had 4 lands and the birds.

 

[Syntax Error]

No one mentioned slivers yet?

 

[Vigormortis]

I can't believe I forgot one of my favorite cards in my previous list. The Rack. I ran that thing is so many decks I had to rebuy full sets of them twice. (they had a lot of wear and tear, even with covers)

As for crazy combos, here's one of the most ridiculous. Hulk Flash. Basically, you'd use Flash to cheat Protean Hulk into play. Then, as per the wording of Flash, you'd have to sacrifice the Hulk. Upon doing so, you'd use it's ability to search your library for four Disciples of the Vault, four Phyrexian Marauders, and four Shifting Walls and then put them all into play. Instant win as 20 to 32 points damage goes directly to your opponents dome, and they couldn't respond to it with any spell as the Walls and Marauders died instantly as they entered play because they have toughness's of zero. This thing could win, consistently, on turns one or two every single game. It could even win on turn zero (playing the combo on your opponents first upkeep if they're going first) if you had a Gemstone Caverns and an Elvish Spirit Guide in your opening hand. Once Future Sight hit, it used Pact of Negation and Summoner's Pact to find and protect the combo pieces for free without fear of their downsides. This was a deck that floated around the Legacy tournaments for a short time and was just as quickly destroyed by the banning of the card Flash in all formats but Vintage. It's still a force to be reckoned with in Vintage. There were other versions of the deck that could withstand disruption and were almost as fast, but couldn't achieve that turn zero kill. By far one of the most powerful, fastest, and least fun decks to play with or play against.

 

[flatearth]

When I still played, I used to play mostly green or zoo.
I had a great RGU zoo, serendib efreet, erhnam djinns and kird apes did the attacks, blue gave counterspells and red gave some burn. Perfect balance of win.

I used to own the entire Antiquities, Dark and Revised sets. I had then some cards from the sets after that, but those were only cards I used in decks. Oh the memories, how many of you have opened original English Legends boosters, I have, back in the days...
Something worth mentioning, 4x beta counterspell, 4x beta lightning bolt, 4x dual-land set, most black bordered.

Glorious moments: I used a lot one green deck that in the third turn could attack with 52/13 trample creature. It was just a fast green that brought Krosan cloudscraper to play with Natural order and boosted it with a couple of Berserks.

 

[SargentToughie]

My friend has a nasty comby, now that I think about it

He had Milamo the shapeshifter (I think that's the name of it), well with about eight forests in play it was an 8/8... allready fearce enough, right

wrong

slap a blanchwood armor on it and it's power doubles

and he recently got a card, can't think of the name of it right now, but it reads:

All creatures you controll gain +1/+1 for each forest you controll and trample untill the end of the turn

now that's pretty grusome...

 

[Aumichan]

I have my black deck that I mixed with a white artifact deck. Surprisingly it works very well. My Zombies and monsters beat up the player while my angels and lions slowly beef them selves up and then go for the kill.