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[7eeveelutions]

Does anyone else here play Magic?

I played a little a few years ago but didn't own many of my own cards until about three weeks ago when I moved back into some college dorms and bought a deck, so the only kinds of cards I have are either the most recent sets (Core 2015 and Khans/Dragons of Tarkir) or stuff from a few years ago (New Phyrexia, which I think was from 2011).

Currently I only have two decks, both primarily dragons. My favorite is a Blue-White deck with lots of drakes and dragons and lots of counterspells, along with plenty of other spells that let me control what's going on (tapping opposing creatures or returning them to your hand, for instance). It's led by two copies of "Ojutai, Soul of Winter" which is a legendary blue-white dragon with 5 power/6 toughness, flying, vigilance, and a passive ability that lets me tap an opposing creature whenever any dragon I control attacks.

The other deck is a red-green-white deck with somewhat fewer dragons and spells, which mostly revolves around the Trample and Formidable abilities. Until today it had no real leader, but I bought some more cards earlier and managed to pull Dragonlord Atarka, the legendary elder dragon! He's an 8/8 with flying and trample, and whenever he hits the field he allows me to do 5 damage divided up among any number of creatures and players.

I have trouble narrowing down what cards to use in those decks, so instead of the standard 60 cards they both contain 80. This does at least make them a bit harder to mill. If anyone wants a list of the actual cards in either deck, just say so.

So, if you happen to also be a Magic player, what kinds of decks do you own?

This post has been edited by 7eeveelutions: May 23 2015, 12:54 AM

[Letan]

I first got into MTG back in my first year of college, but that was also when I stopped. It was great, but it was also a maaaajor distraction, not to mention a money sink. Still super fun though.

The only deck I ran was a mono blue control deck with some cloning gimmicks. It was full of things like Mana Leak, Diminish, Unsummon, Twitch, Frost Titan, Lorthos the Tidemaker, Rite of Replication, Echo Mage, Leyline of Anticipation, Gomazoa, and Jace Beleren. I've still got all my cards sitting around, I just haven't bought anymore or played since college.

[nitrodog96]

I do play the game but I don't have the time or the money to go out and buy cards for Standard. If I do ever get into FNM, it'll be modern or booster draft.

tl;dr Built a cube*, in the process of refining and test-drafting it.

Until I get the money, I'll just be playing Modern.

If anyone wants a list of my Cube's cards, I'll post it.

Very honestly, my best deck currently is a Khans Temur Aggro deck. It's meant to be budget, but I could probably add my Surrak, the Hunt Caller and Yasova Dragonclaw in if it'd make sense with the deck, as well as my Thunderbreak Regent.

My other decks vary. I have a Vorel of the Hull Clade EDH**, which can also be used as a Highlander*** deck, as well as an on-and-off crappy blue/black Modern deck based around pulling out Consuming Aberration and milling.





*Cube: A list of any cards from the entire history of Magic that are chosen by one or multiple people, put together and then drafted. Sizes vary from 360 to 720 cards. Some build Pauper (commons only), Peasant (commons/uncommons), Powered (power nine - Black Lotus, Mox gems, Time Skip etc), Unpowered (any cards except power nine) or other themed Cubes including Ravnica and Mirrodin cubes.

**EDH: "Elder Dragon Highlander;" a deck made with one or more Legendary Creature cards, one of which is called the "Commander" or "General." The only cards usable in the deck are cards that share a color with the Commander; e.g. Thunderbreak Regent can't be used in a Dragonlord Ojutai deck. The deck is made up of 100 cards, and there may be no more than a single copy of any given card with the exception of basic lands.

***Highlander: A deck made of 100 cards, with no more than a single copy of any given card with the exception of basic lands.

[7eeveelutions]

Until yesterday I didn't have enough cards for an EDH deck. I probably do now, but I don't really have the time to build one. Both of my decks are Modern decks.

Here's the card list for my blue/white control-dragon deck, ordered by mana cost-
...... I was bored so that's why I'm posting it. Hopefully it isn't too hard to read.

7 mana- (5 cards)
2x Ojutai, Soul of Winter (legendary creature-dragon, 5/6 flying vigilance, whenever any dragon under my control attacks I can tap an opposing creature)
2x Phyrexian Ingester (creature-beast, exiles one other creature and adds its power/toughness to its own, it's normally a 3/3)
1x Profound Journey (instant, returns target permanent from my graveyard to the battlefield, and rebounds next turn to do it again)

6 mana- (5 cards)
2x Resupply (instant, gain 6 life, draw a card)
1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage (planeswalker, main ability is to untap 4 permanents, even lands for -2 counters)
2x Pristine Skywise (creature-dragon, 6/4 flying, when I cast a noncreature spell he untaps and gets protection from the color of my choice)

5 mana- (9 cards)
2x Icefall Regent (creature-dragon, 4/3 flying, whenever it enters the battlefield I can tap one opposing creature and that creature doesn't untap for as long as Icefall remains on the field. A great control card)
2x Sunscorch Regent (creature-dragon, 4/3 flying, whenever an opponent casts ANY spell it gets a +1/+1 counter nd I gain one life. This card is amazing)
1x Bribery (sorcery, search an opponent's library for any creature card and put it on the battlefield under my control)
1x Cloudheath Drake (creature-drake, 3/3 flying, tap effect for 1 white/1 colorless- he gains vigilance for a turn)
2x Mercurial Pretender (creature-shapeshifter, copies any creature I control and can be returned to my hand for 2 blue and 2 colorless)
1x Illusory Gains (enchantment-aura, control enchanted creature, and the enchantment automatically attaches to any new creatures opponents summon giving them back their previously enchanted creature)

4 mana- (8 cards)
4x Student of Ojutai (creature-human monk, 2/4, whenever I cast a noncreature spell I gain 2 life)
2x Learn from the Past (instant, shuffle graveyard into library and draw a card)
1x Into the Void (sorcery, return two creatures to their owners hand)
1x Ojutai's Command (instant, choose two- return creature with mana cost 2 or less from my graveyard to my battlefield, gain 4 life, counter target creature spell, or draw a card)

3 mana- (18 cards)
3x Arctic Aven (creature-bird wizard, 2/1 flying, gets +1/+1 as long as I own a Plains, tap effect for 1 white- he gains lifelink)
2x Wind Drake (creature-drake, 3/3 flying)
1x Chariot of Victory (artifact-equipment, equipped creature gets first strike, trample, and haste, equip cost 1)
4x Frost Lynx (creature-elemental cat, 2/2, whens he enters the battlefield tap target creature and that creature does't untap during the next turn)
3x Ojutai Monument (artifact, taps for blue or white mana, or you can tap 1 blue, 1 white, and 4 colorless mana to turn it into a 4/4 flying dragon for one turn)
2x Fate Forgotten (instant, exile target artifact or enchantment)
1x Dissipate (instant, counter target spell and exile it if the counter was successful)
2x Rakshasa's Disdain (instant, counter target spell unless its controller pays 1 colorless for every card in my graveyard)

2 mana- (10 cards)
3x Negate (instant, counter noncreature spell)
2x Territorial Roc (creature-bird, 1/3 flying)
2x Artful Manuver (instant, target creature gets +2/+2, rebounds next turn)
1x Peace Talks (sorcery, during this turn and the next turn players can't declare an attack or cast spells/use abilities that target any player or permanent)
1x Crypsis (instant, target creature you control gain protection from creatures your opponents control for 1 turn and you may untap target creature)
1x Silumgar's Scorn (instant, counter target spell unless controller pays 1 colorless, or I can reveal a dragon card from my hand and simply counter target spell)

1 mana- (2 cards)
2x Vapor Snag (instant, return target creature to its controller's hand, that player takes 1 damage)

Land- (25 cards)
2x Tranquil Cove (blue or white, gain one life when it is played)
14x Island
9x Plains

Total- 82 cards
28 ceatures, 28 non-creature spells and artifacts, 1 planeswalker, and 25 land

The deck plays a little slow, but by using the 4 Students of Ojutai to gain life while I use the multitude of counterspells to mess up my opponents, it isn't too hard to buy enough time to get one of the four Regent Dragons out. Many of the creatures have flying too, which definitely helps. A few spells have Rebound, which means I can cast them normally once, then cast them again for no mana cost on the following turn- and gets the life benefits of Student of Ojutai both times!

Also, I really hate mill decks, which is why there are two cards to put my graveyard back into my deck and a few counterspells that get harder to counter if my graveyard is bigger.

The deck does especially well in a two-headed giant (or three-headed giant) multiplayer game, where my ally can protect me for the first few turns until I can start summoning dragons.

This post has been edited by 7eeveelutions: May 23 2015, 03:23 PM

[nitrodog96]

Ahaha, now that you've posted that I feel obligated to post my Cube's list. I'll, uh, be a while on this.


EDIT: Added Blue.

Cause, you know, otherwise this post'd be a mile long.

Cathedral Sanctifier: When it enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.
Doomed Traveller: When it dies, you get a 1/1 Spirit token with Flying.
Elite Vanguard: 1 mana for a 2/1.
Soul's Attendant: When another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
Cloistered Youth: 1/1 that can transform in upkeep into a 3/3 that deals 1 damage to you in end step.
Suture Priest: Has the effect of Soul's Attendant. When a creature enters the battlefield under your opponent's control, they lose 1 life.
Syndic of Tithes: Extort mechanic. (Pay 1 white or 1 black while casting a spell; your opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.)
Wall of Omens: Defender. When it enters the battlefield, you draw a card.
Cathedral Membrane: White/artifact. 0/3 for 1 and either 2 life or 1 white. Defender. When destroyed in combat it deals 6 damage to the monsters it blocked that turn.
Aven Sunstriker: Flying, double strike, megamorph for 4+W. (Play facedown for 3. Turn up for its megamorph cost and give it a +1/+1 token.)
Court Street Denizen: Whenever another white creature enters under your control, tap a target creature your opponent controls.
Fiend Hunter: When entering, you may exile another target creature. When exiting, return exiled creature to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Kor Sanctifiers: 2+W, kicker W (Can pay the kicker cost while casting) - When entering, if kicked, destroy target enchantment or artifact.
Calciderm: Vanishing 4 (Comes into play with 4 time counters; remove 1 at upkeep; sacrifice when last is removed) Hexproof.
Mausoleum Guard: When it dies, you get two 1/1 Spirit tokens with Flying.
Midvast Protector: When entering, target creature you control gets protection from a color of your choice until end of turn.
Student of Ojutai: Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, gain 2 life.
Battleflight Eagle: Flying; when entering the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 and flying until end of turn.
Cloudgoat Ranger: When entering the battlefield, you get 3 1/1 Kithkin Soldier tokens. Tap 3 Kithkin you control and the card gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Loxodon Partisan: When it attacks, all other attackers get +1/+0 until end of turn.
Serra Angel: Flying, vigilance.
Maze Sentinel: Vigilance, multicolored creatures you control have vigilance.

Glyph of Life: Damage done to target wall by attacking creatures is added to your life total.
Shielded Passage: Prevent all damage that would be done to target creature until end of turn.
Smite: Destroy target blocked creature.
Apostle's Blessing: 1 plus either white or two life - Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or the color of your choice until end of turn.
Artful Maneuver: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Exile while resolving. In your next upkeep, you may cast it from exile for free.
Feat of Resistance: Target creature gets a +1/+1 token and gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Hope and Glory: Untap up to two target creatures. Each one gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Moment of Heroism: Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink until end of turn.
Kill Shot: Destroy target attacking creature.
Angel's Mercy: Gain 7 life.
Diving Verdict: Destroy target attacking or blocking creature.
Smite the Monstrous: Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

Righteous Charge: Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
Spectral Procession: You get 3 1/1 white Spirit tokens with Flying.
Great Teacher's Decree: Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Exile while resolving. In your next upkeep, you may cast it from exile for free.

Ethereal Armor: Enchanted creature has first strike and gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you own.
Glaring Aegis: When entering the battlefield, tap target creature under opponent's control. Equipped creature gets +1/+3.
Hyena Umbra: Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and first strike. If enchanted creature would die, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.
Brave the Sands: Creatures you control have vigilance. Each creature you control can block an additional creature.
Oblivion Ring: When coming into play, remove another target nonland permanent from game. When leaving play, return said permament under its owner's control.
Siegecraft: Enchanted creature gets +2/+4.
Knightly Valor: When entering the battlefield, you get a 2/2 Knight token with vigilance. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance.
Mammoth Umbra: Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and vigilance. If enchanted creature would die, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.

Cloudfin Raptor: 0/1 with Evolve. (when a creature enters the battlefield with higher power or toughness, it gains a +1/+1 counter)
Hedron Crab: 0/2. Landfall - Target player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Jace's Phantasm: 1/1. Flying. +4/+4 as long as an opponent has ten or more cards in their graveyard.
Azure Mage: 2/1. 3+B: Draw a card.
Dragon's Eye Savants: 0/6. Morph (cost: reveal a blue card in your hand) When turned face up, look at target opponent's hand.
Aether Adept: 2/2. When it enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.
Calcite Snapper: Shroud (Hexproof, for you and your opponents); Landfall - Switch its power and toughness until end of turn.
Fettergeist: 3/4. Flying. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice unless you pay 1 for each other creature you control.
Guard Gomazoa: 1/3. Defender, flying. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to it.
Man-o'-War: 2/2. When it enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.
Sage's Row Denizen: 2/3. Whenever another blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, target opponent mills 2 cards.
Sea Gate Oracle: 1/3. When it enters the battlefield, look at the top two cards of your deck. Put one into your hand and the other on the bottom of your deck.
Archaeomancer: 1/2. When it enters the battlefield, return target instant/sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
Lotus Path Djinn: 2/3. Flying. Prowess (non-creature spells give it +1/+1 until end of turn)
Chasm Drake: 3/3. Flying. When it attacks, target creature you control gains flying until end of turn.
Mnemonic Wall: 0/4. Defender. When it enters the battlefield, you may return target instant/sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
Murder of Crows: 4/4. Flying. Whenever another creature dies, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Maze Glider: 3/5. Flying. Multicolored creatures you control have flying.

Brainstorm: Draw three cards. Put any two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Force Spike: One blue mana. Counter target spell unless its owner pays an additional 1.
Mind Games: Buyback - 2+B. (if paid, put card into hand after resolving) Tap target artifact, creature or land.
Rapid Hybridization: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller gets a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.
Thought Scour: Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard. Draw a card.
Vapor Snag: Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.
Disdainful Stroke: Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
Downpour: Tap up to three target creatures.
Into the Roil: Kicker 1+B. Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If kicked, draw a card.
Negate: Counter target noncreature spell.
Snap: Return target creature to owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.
Telling Time: Look at the top three cards of your deck. Put one in your hand, one on top of and one on the bottom of your deck.
Cancel: Counter target spell.
Dissipate: Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Frantic Search: Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Halt Order: Counter target artifact spell. Draw a card.
Ojutai's Breath: Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Rebound.
Rakshasa's Disdain: Counter target spell unless its controller pays 1 for each card in your graveyard.
Dismiss: Counter target spell. Draw a card.
Fact or Fiction: Reveal the top 5 cards of your deck. An opponent separates them into two piles. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Repeal: X+B - Return target nonland permanent with converted mana cost X to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Preordain: Scry 2 (look at top 2 cards of deck; put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order); Draw a card.
Tome Scour: Target player puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Encase in Ice: Castable when instants are castable. Enchant red or green creature. When entering, tap enchanted creature; it doesn't untap in its controller's untap step.
Runner's Bane: Enchant creature with power 3 or less. When entering, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Singing Bell Strike: Tap enchanted creature; it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step; it has "(6): Untap this creature."
Curse of the Bloody Tome: Enchant player. At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.
Control Magic: Gain control of enchanted creature.

...Holy crap, that's a lot. I don't have any time left atm but I'll add in the rest of the cards gradually.

This post has been edited by nitrodog96: May 28 2015, 08:26 PM

[7eeveelutions]

So you're using Artful Maneuver too? I love that card. Used to run a full set of four in my deck, but I took some of them out to make room for other instants. I also have Kill Shot and Great Teacher's Decree in one of my other decks and I own but am not using both Glaring Aegis and Siegecraft. I'm a big noncreature spell user, if you can't tell.

As far as the creatures go, I think Student of Ojutai is the only one I currently own that you're using...... and considering I'm running a full set of 4 Students, you might be able to tell how much I like its effects. I own Suture Priest as well, and at one time had it in the Ojutai deck, but am not using it anymore.




As for my own Blue/White, I traded for a few cards and made some changes today. The three Negates are out, replaced with other counterspells that cost two mana but counter all spells (with minor drawbacks), and the two Resupplys are out as well because they're just too expensive to cast.

Replacing those cards is Archtype of Intellegence (I think), which is a small creature that gives all of my creatures flying and takes flying away from all opposing creatures- only 1 copy though. And coupled with that is Stormtide Leviathan, and 8-cost 8/8 creature with some nasty abilities- It has Islandwalk, so it can't be blocked by anyone who owns an Island land card, and it also makes every land card on the field an Island in addition to their regular type (so essentially it can't be blocked by anyone who owns land, which is essentially everyone). More importantly, it also prevents all creatures who lack either Islandwalk or Flying from attacking- and if Archtype of Intellegence takes away Flying from all opposing creatures and gives Flying to everything I own, that prettymuch is the end of the game right there.

In addition to that, I also now have in the deck the 4 cost blue white planeswalker Narset Transcendent. Her abilities are nasty- the last one gives me an emblem for -9 loyalty counters which prevents all of my opponents from casting noncreature spells, period, and her second ability allows me to give any noncreature spell I cast Rebound for -2 counters. Her first ability lets me look at the top card of my library and put it in my hand if it is a noncreature, nonland card (instant, sorcery, enchantment, or artifact) for +1. And she starts with 6 counters.