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Title: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 02, 2012, 02:11:36 PM
Another article attempt.

Today is an interactive article. The first person to post will be the one I choose.

Pick any rare card in standard an I will attempt to make a deck around it.
The only rules are no {Battle of Wits} and no {Door to Nothingness}.
Also please do not pick already popular cards.
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Coffee Vampire on August 02, 2012, 02:13:22 PM
Me

{Shimian Specter}
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 02, 2012, 02:17:21 PM
Ok lets do this!

4x {Shimian Specter}
4x {Artful Dodge}
4x {Neurok Invisomancer}
4x {Invisible Stalker}
4x {Runechanter's Pike}
4x {Duress}
4x {Distress}
4x {Dispise}
4x {Murder}
1x {Essence Scatter}
1x {Negate}

4x {Darkslick Shores}
4x {Drowned Catacombs}
2x {Evolving Wilds}
7x {Swamp}
5x {Island}


Alright!
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 02, 2012, 02:30:07 PM
Can I be a playtester? lol
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Coffee Vampire on August 02, 2012, 02:31:42 PM
No extractions? With so much discard I would def want 4 of those!
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 02, 2012, 02:32:58 PM
Actually I was kinda joking, but now that I think about it, it would be fun to test decks built on an article like this.  So, seriously, if you want them tested, I'm up for it! :)
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Xanzurth on August 02, 2012, 02:52:05 PM
Can it only be rares? Or can it be a mythic rare? If so I pick { Chandra, the firebrand}.
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Xanzurth on August 02, 2012, 02:53:34 PM
For the rare I pick {Norns' Annex}
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 02, 2012, 03:09:37 PM
Please playtest these I would really appreciate it. 
Ok and for the other request.
4x {Norn's Annex}
4x {Curse of Stalked Prey}
4x {Rage Extractor}
4x {Porcelain Legonaire}
4x {Whitesun's Passage}
4x {Gut Shot}
4x {Chandra the Firebrand}
4x {Slash Panther}
4x {Act of Agression}
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Prophylaxis on August 02, 2012, 05:34:42 PM
{Glistening Oil}
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 02, 2012, 06:44:42 PM
Alright, give me an hour or so and I will! 
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Xanzurth on August 02, 2012, 06:57:24 PM
I have a perfect one for you {world slayer}!
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 02, 2012, 07:11:51 PM
Quote from: Xanzurth on August 02, 2012, 06:57:24 PM
I have a perfect one for you {world slayer}!
Avacyn :P
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Xanzurth on August 02, 2012, 07:19:02 PM
He only said rares from standard and {worldslayer} is legal til oct 5th. 😝
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 02, 2012, 07:20:14 PM
Quote from: Xanzurth on August 02, 2012, 07:19:02 PM
He only said rares from standard and {worldslayer} is legal til oct 5th. 😝

I know, I meant Worldslayer equipped to {Avacyn, Angel of Hope} :P
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 02, 2012, 07:29:58 PM
4x {Glistening Oil}
4x {Assult Strobe}
4x {Artful Dodge}
4x {Tainted Strike}
4x {Chambreaker Devils}
4x {Snapcaster Mage}
4x {Murder}
4x {Stuffy Doll}
4x {Blasphemous Act}

4x {Drowned Catacombs}
4x {Sulfur Falls}
4x {Dragonskull Sumit}
3x {Darkslick Shores}
3x {Darkcleave Cliffs}
2x Island
2x Mountain
2x Swamp
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 02, 2012, 07:54:32 PM
Played the Annex deck against the Specter deck and the results were:
G1 - Specter (15/15 Specter while Annex was top decking lands)
G2 - Annex (7/5 Slash Panther and Specter was drawing nothing of consequence.  Invisible Stalker couldn't keep up)
G3 - Specter (A close game.  Specter at 7 life and Annex dropped a Chandra.  Both were top decking and Specter pulled a Specter with a Runechanter's Pike out, making him a 9/9 while Annex had nothing but Chandra and Norn's Annex out)

Specter goes on to play against Oil!
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 02, 2012, 08:15:16 PM
Specter Vs. Oil

G1 - Specter won.  Oil was getting really high CMC cards while Specter was moving quickly with {Invisible Stalker} and {Shimian Specter}.  Oil didn't even get a creature out for more than a turn.
G2 - Specter wins again.  Oil was stuck with 2 {Stuffy Doll}s and a {Snapcaster Mage} on the field and just couldn't do enough damage (infect or reg) to keep up with the {Invisible Stalker} and {Shimian Specter} (which won the game with {Runechanter's Pike} as a 9/9)

So far, {Shimian Specter}, {Invisible Stalker}, and {Runechanter's Pike} are amazing! 
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 02, 2012, 08:16:39 PM
I have 2 that I would be interested to see, Thorn.
{Bazaar Trader} or {Ravenous Demon}
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 02, 2012, 08:26:53 PM
4x {Bazaar Trader}
4x {Jinxed Idol}
4x {Bronze Bombshell}
4x {Lightning Bolt}
4x {Chromeshell Crab}
4x {Switcheroo}
4x {Mindslaver}
4x {Kraken Hatchling}
4x {Fog Bank}

I do not know any non-standard dual lands so put whatever you want in.
(within reason)
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 02, 2012, 08:28:44 PM
The {Mindslaver} is so that you can give them a {Bazaar Trader} then take over their turn and then use their {bazaar trader} (formally yous) to give you their best permanenet.
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 02, 2012, 08:30:26 PM
I don't either.  I use scars through Innistrad duals
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 02, 2012, 08:32:21 PM
4x {Ravenous Demon}
4x {Thraben Doomsayer}
4x {Skirsdag High Priest}
4x {Gather the Townsfolk}
4x {Skirsdag Flayer}
4x {Tragic Slip}
4x {Elder Cathar}
4x {Falkenrath Aristocrat}
4x {Increasing Devotion}

4x {Clifftop Retreat}
4x {Isolated Chapel}
4x {Dragonskull Summit}
6x {Swamp}
6x {Plains}
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: JaCe BeLeReN on August 02, 2012, 09:17:33 PM
{Arcane Melee} :P
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 02, 2012, 09:33:57 PM
Quote from: JaCe BeLeReN on August 02, 2012, 09:17:33 PM
{Arcane Melee} :P
Already did.

4x {Archangel's Light}
4x {Armored Skaab}
4x {Screeching Skaab}
4x {Ambush Viper}
4x {Gnaw to the Bone}
4x {Arcane Mele}
4x {Chalice of Life}
4x {Mindshrieker}
4x {Dream Twist}

Lands


Simple. Mill yourself
then cast {Arcane Mele} into {Archangel's Light} then flip your {Chalice of Life} and win.
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: AgrusKos on August 03, 2012, 01:55:47 AM
{Stormtide Levithan}
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 03, 2012, 12:11:12 PM

4x {Stormtide Leviathan}
4x {Harbor Serpent}
4x {Mana Leak}
4x {Vapor Snag}
4x {Negate}
4x {Esscence Scatter}
4x {Γ†ther Adept}
4x {Psychic Barriar}
4x {Snapcaster Mage}

24x {Island}
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 03, 2012, 02:39:08 PM
Hm, looks like I have some testing to do lol
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: AgrusKos on August 03, 2012, 02:47:02 PM
Quote from: Silent1236 on August 03, 2012, 02:39:08 PM
Hm, looks like I have some testing to do lol
Looks like it😁
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 03, 2012, 02:47:55 PM
Quote from: Silent1236 on August 03, 2012, 02:39:08 PM
Hm, looks like I have some testing to do lol
Yes!
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Prophylaxis on August 04, 2012, 02:53:40 AM
{Faith's Reward}
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 04, 2012, 02:59:29 AM
Ok, my Internet took a  earlier, so playtests will be done tomorrow!
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 04, 2012, 08:36:33 AM
4x {Avacyn's Pilgrim}
4x {Birds of Paradise}
4x {Arbor Elf}
4x {Planar Clensing}
4x {Day of Judgement}
4x {Rampant Growth}
4x {Paaladium Myr}
4x {Fath's Reward}
4x {Avacyn Angel of Hope}

4x {Razorverge Thicket}
4x {Sunpetal Grove}
8x {Forest}
8x {Plains}
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Thorn on August 04, 2012, 10:07:34 AM
Only the last 3 seconds...

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=3aNV36WJLBA

:)
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 07, 2012, 02:23:14 AM
Woah, distractions galore!  But I'm on it now!
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Silent1236 on August 07, 2012, 02:39:03 AM
Ok, I'm uber tired for some reason, but the Bazaar deck didn't fare so well against the Shimian Specter deck.  Bazaar lost twice in a row due to the {Invisible Stalker}s and {Runechanter's Pike}.  The Specter deck is becoming increasingly fun to use! :P  I'll try to finish these tomorrow without all the distractions of the weekend!
Title: Re: Lets Try Again
Post by: Poof on August 07, 2012, 03:17:28 AM
{djinn of wishes}