Zeddicuus
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- Posted: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:12:05 +0000
Yeah, I'm doing the same as a few others. It's easier than attempting to get a response in that Jaggid thread that no one reads anymore. This way I can keep tabs on what I've made that fails and passes so far in games.
This first deck is an attempt at a deck type I've never built before: The Artifact deck. The only problem is I don't have a lot of good artifact equipment or creatures that really stand out. So I'll just make due with what I have at the moment and see what works and what doesn't. Maybe someone will have some good ideas to toss on the table.
This deck is designed for Casual Duels. about half of my play group is new or just returning to the game, so I didn't want anything to overpowering, but has enough going on to keep a Nny amused.
Planeswalkers: 1
Tezzeret the Seeker
Lands: 19
3x Cloudpost (can't find my fourth one. Argh)
4x Vault of Whispers
4x Seat of Synod
4x Ancient Den
2x Sunken Ruins
1x Underground River
1x River of Tears (mostly because I have one and the art is cool)
Artifact Creatures: 14
2x Silver Myr
1x Leaden Myr
1x Gold Myr
3x Glaze Fiend
2x Duplicant
2x Sanctum Gargoyle
2x Sarcomite Myr
1x Sharding Sphinx
Non Artifact Creatures: 5
4x Disciple of the Vault
1x Vermiculos
Equipment: 6
1x Jitte
1x Vulshok Battlegear
3x Cranial Plating
1x Loxodon Warhammer
Regular Artifacts: 8
1x Mind Stone
3x Courier's Capsule
1x Credit Voucher
1x Phyrexian Vault
1x Etherium Astrolabe (Probably try to get more of these)
1x Sculpting Steel
Instants/Sorceries: 7
2x Diabolic Intent
2x Esper Charm
2x Diabolic Vision
1x Brilliant Ultimatum (Just because I got one in a pack)
Total Deck Size: 60
Strategy is rather simplistic, yet seems to be rather tricky in a Casual sort of way. I play a load of artifacts, use a lot of card draw to either:
A) Get a Disciple out and start sacrificing artifacts for card draw and life loss on opponent
B) Pump a creature to hugeness with equipment than smash in the face
C) Get Tezzeret out and, if he manages to survive long enough, use him to make all my artifacts into big nasties to smash face.
D) Have a bunch of little artifact critters with equipment scattered among them to swarm in.
E) Any combination of the above four.
Probably the main problem is I have almost no answers to anything in the deck besides the Duplicants for creatures. But since I'm mostly playing people with small cardpools currently, I don't have a lot to answer to at this point in time besides the fact the one player has a couple Planar Chaos Dragons. Sarcomites can be used to block them, then sac to draw cards to hope I get what I need to win.
I didn't want to build the deck in a way requiring Tezzeret to win, as typically artifact decks aren't my style. I got one in a pack and just thought it'd be interesting to try him out since this is the first Planeswalker I got a hold of. Only one other person in the playgroup has a Planeswalker but he refuses to use his Liliana Vess in any way so I'll just use one myself and see what they do.
I know it's not much to look at currently, but I just built it and haven't tested yet so any comments or suggestions are welcome.
This first deck is an attempt at a deck type I've never built before: The Artifact deck. The only problem is I don't have a lot of good artifact equipment or creatures that really stand out. So I'll just make due with what I have at the moment and see what works and what doesn't. Maybe someone will have some good ideas to toss on the table.
This deck is designed for Casual Duels. about half of my play group is new or just returning to the game, so I didn't want anything to overpowering, but has enough going on to keep a Nny amused.
Planeswalkers: 1
Tezzeret the Seeker
Lands: 19
3x Cloudpost (can't find my fourth one. Argh)
4x Vault of Whispers
4x Seat of Synod
4x Ancient Den
2x Sunken Ruins
1x Underground River
1x River of Tears (mostly because I have one and the art is cool)
Artifact Creatures: 14
2x Silver Myr
1x Leaden Myr
1x Gold Myr
3x Glaze Fiend
2x Duplicant
2x Sanctum Gargoyle
2x Sarcomite Myr
1x Sharding Sphinx
Non Artifact Creatures: 5
4x Disciple of the Vault
1x Vermiculos
Equipment: 6
1x Jitte
1x Vulshok Battlegear
3x Cranial Plating
1x Loxodon Warhammer
Regular Artifacts: 8
1x Mind Stone
3x Courier's Capsule
1x Credit Voucher
1x Phyrexian Vault
1x Etherium Astrolabe (Probably try to get more of these)
1x Sculpting Steel
Instants/Sorceries: 7
2x Diabolic Intent
2x Esper Charm
2x Diabolic Vision
1x Brilliant Ultimatum (Just because I got one in a pack)
Total Deck Size: 60
Strategy is rather simplistic, yet seems to be rather tricky in a Casual sort of way. I play a load of artifacts, use a lot of card draw to either:
A) Get a Disciple out and start sacrificing artifacts for card draw and life loss on opponent
B) Pump a creature to hugeness with equipment than smash in the face
C) Get Tezzeret out and, if he manages to survive long enough, use him to make all my artifacts into big nasties to smash face.
D) Have a bunch of little artifact critters with equipment scattered among them to swarm in.
E) Any combination of the above four.
Probably the main problem is I have almost no answers to anything in the deck besides the Duplicants for creatures. But since I'm mostly playing people with small cardpools currently, I don't have a lot to answer to at this point in time besides the fact the one player has a couple Planar Chaos Dragons. Sarcomites can be used to block them, then sac to draw cards to hope I get what I need to win.
I didn't want to build the deck in a way requiring Tezzeret to win, as typically artifact decks aren't my style. I got one in a pack and just thought it'd be interesting to try him out since this is the first Planeswalker I got a hold of. Only one other person in the playgroup has a Planeswalker but he refuses to use his Liliana Vess in any way so I'll just use one myself and see what they do.
I know it's not much to look at currently, but I just built it and haven't tested yet so any comments or suggestions are welcome.