What's the hardest and coolest good deck I can play?

[joemauer]

Battle of the Wits.

[JPoJohnson]

Battle of the Wits.

The deck that hard counters Show N' Tell.

[DarkJester]

I'm toying with the idea of 'selling all my stuff'; i.e. keeping one serious deck and just playing shitty casual decks over beer and wings, with some pre-releases here and there. Just don't have the desire to invest any more, nor the desire to keep around thousands of dollars that can be wast-, er, invested in other things, like old German cars or travelling.

I did this a few months ago for exactly the same reasons you mentioned while keeping my Dredge-Stuff + Playset Bazaar if a Vintage-Event should show up. Pretty happy with my decision at this point. So +1 to Final Fortune mentioning Dredge.

[Phelix]

This for sure. It's cool, hard to play, and everyone gets to come watch you beat people with expensive cards.

Tripletruth.

And ppl often read you cards

[Lemnear]

Tripletruth.

And ppl often read you cards

Is it a good thing if a million people pick up and read your cards, so you Jace to replace filthy sleeves every second tourney and games drag into the overtime because of checking cards and grave over and over?

[YamiJoey]

UW CONTROOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL!!!!!

Seriously. Deck is super complex and super fun and super powerful. It's also really good right now, except that you will get crushed in the mirror because you've only just picked it up.

Apart from that you should flat out win every other game because it's the best deck in the format.

[Koby]

If you want to keep invested in a bunch of real estate, then pick Lands.
If you want to keep a powerful deck, then pick Storm variants (they are all mostly the same core, just mana bases are different).
If you want to practice an exercise in futility, pick DDFT.

[clavio]

Isn't doomsday terrible?

[Koby]

Isn't doomsday terrible?

Doomsday Deck is Fucking Terrible = DDFT

[Phelix]

Is it a good thing if a million people pick up and read your cards, so you Jace to replace filthy sleeves every second tourney and games drag into the overtime because of checking cards and grave over and over?

I always think its fun to level players w. unknown Cards.

And no, I dont think i get into timetrouble.

My 39 rounds of playing lands at major events.

Amsterdam: 10-3-3
Ghent: 12-2-2
BoM secondary event: 5-1-1

I dont think thats alot of draws. But its very true that time is a factor, both for good and bad.

But w. new builds, you pack instawin combo, to make that alot less true.

[ph88]

i vote lands, too. it's not hard to play in the way that DDFT is, but it's challenging in other ways. and it's really powerful.

i go to time with 4 color control lands about the same amount i go to time with my other decks -- mav and 12-post -- which isn't much. since the stage/depths combo became a thing, the deck plays at a very reasonable pace. i would say that the ole glacial chasm lock + punishing fire kill happens in maaaaybe 5% of games. the majority of the time you are killing with marit lage sometime in the first 10 or 12 turns.

[FTW]

Sounds like you're looking for Johnny thrills.

If you're not looking to play Tournament Magic, then play 4 Horsemen. This deck is so good (/terrible but fun for Johnny) that it's banned from Tournament play. But you can play it anywhere else. If you want to spend 40 minutes masturbating and having the opponent ask you what in the *** you're doing, this is the deck to play. If you want to have them read your cards 20 times too, get the whole deck in Japanese.