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The MonoWhite Suspend Aggro-Control
(Taxes Variant)

Mana:
20 Plains
4 Zhalfirin Void

Creatures & Tokens:
4 Beckon Apparition
4 Knight of Sursi

Building blue deck on budget is little harder than in other colors, because:
1. Blue is naturally reactive color - requirements for card economy are higher
2. The most effective blue cards are...

I think people don't understand what true original Sligh deck has been supposed to be. The true Sligh deck doesn't sacrifice resources for speed and prefers utility stuff over one-shot aggression...

13 DWARVES SUICIDE (the horror fairy tale about 1st - 3rd turn kill)

Mana:
21 Mountain
4 Simian Spirit Guide

Dwarven Shell:
4 Spark Mage
4 Dwarven Blastminer
1 Dwarven Warriors

Mono-Blue Delver

8 Island
4 Ash Barrens
4 Esper Panorama
4 Wasteland

4 Delver of Secrets
2 Nimble Obstructionist
2 Dominating Licid

An older idea:

Mono-White Midrange Aggro-Control

23 Plains

4 Beckon Apparition
4 Knight of Sursi
4 Ivory Giant
4 Knight of the Holy Nimbus

Playing in Forge vs BUG_Delver and Miracles, I tuned the black deck. DRS is no longer a threat, so 4x Phyrexian Revoker maindeck is not necessary.

23 Swamp

1 Death Cultist
3 Fume Spitter
1...

Some ideas

Painter + Grindstone variation:
(not very budget)

PAINTER'S TAXES :w:

Aggrocombocontrol :wink:

17 Plains

Back to the "Suspend" theme

ANT'S BALANCE

21 Plains

4 Guardian Idol
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Darksteel Pendant
3 Spawning Pit

Test Deck in Forge: STASIS

20 Island
4 Forsaken City

1 Vedalken Mastermind
1 Wall of Frost
1 Serra Sphinx

1 Jace, Memory Adept

Updated version of monoblack suicide deck:

BLOOD BATS

21 Swamp

4 Fume Spitter
1 Death Cultist
3 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Augur of Skulls

Another idea (not working very well yet, but ...):

Relentless Sphinx

4 Lotus Petal
4 Polluted Delta
4 Underground Sea
2 Swamp
1 Island

OK, I have decided to explore a small lock-combo Reassembling Skeleton + Contamination a bit.

22 Swamp

4 Thoughtpicker Witch
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Reassembling Skeleton
4 Nezumi Bone-Reader...

Well, the following decks I have built in Mtg_Forge program only, because I don't own some cards. The first one is fun, the idea isn't mine, but I have made some tuning.

Ashes of Haakon

18...

Monowhite Weenie/Aggro-Control

23 Plains
4 Judge's Familiar
4 Beckon Apparition
4 Ivory Giant
4 Darksteel Axe
2 Darksteel Pendant
4 Whipcorder
4 Knight of the Holy Nimbus

And here - another deck, white weenie exploring suspend, tapping, flying, rebels call and surprise:

White Weenie Roar

20 Plains

4 Judge's Familiar
4 Ramosian Sergeant
2 Children of Korlis...

Searching in my box of crappy, unused cards, I think I found a golden nugget there: playset of Cry of Contrition. This card really fits into my black deck and pushes it over the edge. Thus, here is...

A fun note: I have "playtested" the new black deck in MtG Forge just now and won vs Schonegger's Miracle Control 2-0 :wink:

Game 1
On the play I hit Jace with Duress (saw 2 StP and lands only),...

I made some changes in my black deck.

First of all, I realized Darksteel Axe doesn't perform enough for its equip cost. The beatdown plan with equipped Grimclaw Bats and Yotian Soldiers isn't that...

Indeed there is a lot of room for alternatives.



Green deck runs manaelves as accelerators and contains almost no non-creature cards, so Thorn of Amethyst affects opponent more. Early mass...

OK

All these decks are sort of aggro-control type.

Red one and green one are almost twins. They both use direct damage from deathtouch creatures to control board and both suspend beaters as...

I. Licilisk

Main:
Mana // Speed:
18 Forest
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Quirion Ranger

Beatdown // Board control:
4 Viridian Longbow