Type I

Here we have perhaps one of the more annoying decks I've built. Copy, steal and counter are it's mainstays, but it's not afraid to curl up behind a Greater Realm of Preservation, and what's worse, Sleight of Mind it to match your deck. I'd been noticing my decks slipping towards the slightly slower side in order to gain more power. On The Wings of Angels and Devils was the beginning, it got even worse with Sadomasochistic Djinn, where more cards cost 4 mana than not. Next I'll have to circle back and build faster powerful decks, with more distributed roads to victory than these control decks with 2 large creatures (serra/sergir, juzam/erhnam). Sounds like my original type I actually.

Hope I'm not establishing a precedent here, but this situation was amusing enough to warrant a screenshot. Check out these Scrybe Sprites who think they're all bad. There only 2 Djinn's in the deck, the rest are Clones and Dopplegangers.

On a side note, I tried it out and the card Lich does work in this game. Mirror Universe and Dark Heart of the Wood do not, which is a shame, but I'll have to figure out how to build a Lich deck anyway.

posted by Nils T. Devine  # Sunday, November 28, 2004