Your Fave deck?

[Bignasty197]

Favorites
1. Reanimator- first Legacy deck ever.
2. Merfolk- beating up on all those CB and Landstill decks back in the day was awesome.
3. Any Bant variant- Almost effortless to play now since it has been my deck of choice for the better part of 2 years

Hate
1. Delver decks of any kind. Seriously, a blue common that you can build a deck around? Go away.
2. Affinity- Fracturing Gust, suck it.
3. Enchantress- See Affinity^

[Mostly_Harmless]

I love me some Doomsday, TES, Armageddon Stax, Solidarity and It's The Fear. (It's possible that I'm that guy.)

I hate ANT. Why would you play it over another storm deck? Also Belcher. I'm pretty sure that anyone who thinks it's consistent hasn't played against blue.

[kwis]

I personally love the Manaless Ichorid deck because I think it's incredibly cool to be able to play a deck that relies that much on triggers and can still be incredibly explosive.

Other decks I enjoy are Storm Combo and some decks like Deadguy.


Overall I enjoy doing broken things and I appreciate the powerhouse cards of whatever format I'm playing in.

[obituary 95]

decks i love

counterbalence uw with enlightened tutor
dreadstill Paul cheon style
thopter balance

decks I despise
anything with show and tell or emrakul
uw miracles.it is so slow.

[Chimera87]

Like (love :D):
Landstill - BUG in particular
Any other Pernicious Deed deck

Hate
Stoneforge decks

Same, plus love most die-hard control decks.

[Pinoy Goblin]

1.GOBLINS
2.GOBLINS
3.GOBLINS

[god_campbell]

FAV:
BUG Landstill
Uw miaricles
Uwb stone blade

Hate:
goblins
Merfolk
Show and tell variants

[paeng4983]

10-Land Stompy, obviously. Y U NO competitive?

It is brother. Its just they're all drawing good cards whenever we're facing them. lols

1.GOBLINS
2.GOBLINS
3.GOBLINS

GOBLINS - standard headed by krenko
GOBLINS - modern headed by chieftain and king
GOBLINS - legacy headed by lacky and pile

:P

FAV:
berserk stumpy
dutch stax
burn
TES

DISLIKE:
counterTOP variants
enchantress
show and tell base decks

[tezzerator69]

Fav decks in no particular order:
UWr Miracle/Any countertop variant
Canthresh
New Horizon
UGr Faeries
NO RUG
Bant
Punishing Maverick
Goblins

Hate:
Any combo deck
Black-based decks

[wizard_of_gore]

The most favorite decks:

G/W/B Goodstuff based decks (Rock, maverick, deadguy ale)
UW control based decks (sometimes with red or black splash)


I hate:
Burn
any vial decks (except maybe goblins)
RUG delver / threshold

[joemauer]

My favorite decks are the ones that break the traditional rules of Magic: Stax, Dredge, TES, Lands.

My least favorite are Show and Tell decks & burn. Much too linear for me.

[chinitoz30]

Favorites:
1. MBC
2. U/R Delver
3. Merfolk
4. Rug Tempo
5. U/W Variants

Hates:
1. Enchantress
2. Dredge
3. Combo Decks - Ant, Tes and Belcher

[sco0ter]

Favorites:

• Any Survival variants (Full English Breakfast, Welder Survival, Angry Tradewind Survival, RGb SA, ...)
  They were clearly the most fun decks for me. Especially because you could already put so many thoughts and variants into the deckbuilding process.
• Eternal Garden
  Because I like the weirdness of playing so many lands AND having a land toolbox, which also makes the deckbuilding process more fun.
• Goblin Welder decks
  Fun to repeatitively reanimate robots.
• Madness
  Because of the synergies and challenge to balance discard outlets with madness cards. I guess Zombardment is similar.
• UGW Blink (EDH)
  Because of the synergies and card advantage it generates throught creatures entering the battlefield.

I generally think toolbox decks with a lot of options and lines of play and decks with lots of synergies offer the most long-term fun.
I guess Reanimator could be fun as well, because of its odd game plan and Death and Taxes too, because of it's tricks and weenie nature. But I've never played it.

Fails:

• Dredge has synergies, but nonetheless really boring. Rightly called the "anti-magic" deck.
• Belcher
  Mulligan. Mulligan. FoW? no? Ok, I win. yes? Ok. next game.
• Affinity
  My build ended up winning with Cranial Plating most of the games, which became boring very fast.

[Richard Cheese]

I tend to like decks that have something to do every turn, interact with the opponent, and are consistent. Some of my favorites over the years have been Deadguy (especially vial lists), Aggro Loam, and Zoo. Maverick satisfies all the criteria, but I rarely play it because it's the Toyota Camry of decks.

I like playing combo sometimes because it's so powerful, but I can't seem to stick with it very long because I just lose to variance too often. There's nothing I hate worse than going through a half dozen draw spells looking for one of 6+ cards and coming up empty. That's probably just me being crappy though.

[slave]

Great replies here everyone.
I'm noticing a bit of a trend in a lot of the replies too.
A lot of you are naming your fave few decks, and the ones you don't like seem to be the ones your favourite decks don't do so well against.
The hated seem to be mostly the very linear "this deck has one trick to win" kinda decks, I feel pretty similarly here concerning decks like Reanimator, Show n Tell Variants & Hypergenesis, as they play out literally the same way game after game, and I don't find very fun to play with or against.

Decks that punish you for not playing blue, like Storm, can suck my balls, just not fun to play against.
Even if you are playing blue - you Force. Wow, that was showing my skills!!!

I'm surprised some of you said you don't like POX?
I like playing against Pox, as it's always a challenge to see how your deck, and strategy, stands up against so much hate.
That said, I don't think I could play it, it's a very expensive deck for something so slow and punishing when you misplay.

Decks I like;
Manaless Dredge - my fave right now - been playing it quite a bit, and despite what some people may say, if your build is good, you'll have more answers than they have hate.
Goblins - building this deck for a friend, and it's gonna be hard to hand it over when I've got the numbers/slots finalised! Such a fun deck for multiplayer too!
Maverick - good ole Mav, easy to pilot and has maindeck answers for most matchups. It's a classic for a reason I guess!
Pact SI - very nerve wracking/skill intensive deck to play, not too hard to kill yourself too. I like playing it, but understand when opponents groan ".....not storm..."

I hate ...... basicly anything that drags the game out for 50mins.

LOL, yeah I'm pretty similar. Quick games' a good game.

To be honest, there only a couple decks I really despise playing against with a passion, and they're the ones that totally lock the game up for the next 30 minutes with NOTHING HAPPENING!!!!
I can't attack you, I can't deal damage to you, I can't play my combo pieces, I can't activate my artifacts etc etc.
I admire those decks - but I hate playing against them in every way!!! Especially when their only path to win is so slow to eventaute.

[woremak]

My favorite deck I ever played was the Burning Wish loam builds from a few years ago that cast Devastating Dreams. Casting that card and winning was always fun. Goblins is a fun deck, and I like playing dredge a lot too.
For non-legacy, I've always loved playing Teachings (when it was in standard and now that it's in modern).
The only decks I consistently dislike playing against are Sneak and Show and Belcher, although I really don't mind playing against anything once per tournament. Really, what I like least is playing the same deck round after round. The last big legacy tournament I played in I played 3 goblin mirrors, which really made me hate the little green men.

[Pinoy Goblin]

It is brother. Its just they're all drawing good cards whenever we're facing them. lols



GOBLINS - standard headed by krenko
GOBLINS - modern headed by chieftain and king
GOBLINS - legacy headed by lacky and pile

:P

FAV:
berserk stumpy
dutch stax
burn
TES

DISLIKE:
counterTOP variants
enchantress
show and tell base decks

PAENG = King of killer Rogue decks

[door]

My sweet decks are:
Cephalid Breakfast - it was my first legacy deck, which seemed to me godlike at that time.
Sea Stompy - because it is so oldschool and still able to punish those who rely on 1cc cards too much. Also I love to be challenged when it is about keeping or taking a mull. With Sea Stompy it's always challenging =)
U/R painted stone - this is a quintessence of synergy, though it went to oblivion after mental misstep was banned. I still love playing it in kitchen.
Also I love to play lands.dec, but I hate to play against it =) Because it's so powerfull and takes a lot of skill to play for and against, I admire those, who play it.

Interesting though, if you ask me, how often do I play those decks, I will answer rarely. They are too metagame dependent, so it is all about a special enlightenment or magnetic storm which make me pick them up. And in a usual day you would find me playing maverick, or reanimator, or some BUG control.

Those I always hate to play against:
Elves! - for a billion of years it was always around 1 thing: green manadorks + glimpse of nature. If I'm playing any creature deck, than I'm always fucked up, unless I'm prepared. But usually I am not, because it shows up once in 2 months. And their comboing-off is so boring to watch.
Enchantress and Belcher - these are better than Elves, but I also hate them. The decks that rely only on you being unprepared.
Sensei's Diving Top decks piloted by weak players. You know why.

[lavafrogg]

I love this thread!

Favorite decks:
1. Reset High Tide
2. Dredge-a-tog
3. Survival before vengevines when nobody played it

Decks I just don't get:
1. Burn
2. Midrange Board Control

Hated Decks
1. Goblins
2. Madness...fuck wild mongrel
3. Mono White Control

[Jenni]

3. Survival before vengevines when nobody played it

Wasn't the Tradewind Rider + Survival of the fittest deck one of the best decks in legacy well before vengevines were a thing? I wouldn't say nobody played it...