Bad deck ideas

[Pastorofmuppets]

Have you ever come up with something and then 10 minutes later think "god why did I even allow that thought to enter the world?" I know I have. Don't be flamers and list stuff like Hexmage/Depths.

Welder Universe:
Think Welder Suvival, only using Mirror Universe as a control condition, manipulating life totals to constantly recur Pulse of the Forge and burninate your opponent.

EDIT: Also, UWg Pulsemage Reanimator, and, for the Vintage crew, Fastbond Horn of Greed Rampaging Baloths.dec (name pending)

[HdH_Cthulhu]

Realy bad was my 4 Furnace of (W)rath.deck. But hey its not easy to desinge a deck arround 4 Furnaces...

Also: my phase destruction.deck rarely won. Was with eon hub stasis blinding angel and stuff :)

[Iare]

Funny thing I've been working on a deck I'm almost positive is junk... Trying to use every black creature in the game that kills something. Example of mono black kill everything.deck

Lands -
20x Swamps

Creatures
4x Fleshbag marauder
4x Gatekeeper
4x Big Game hunter
4x Vampire Nighthawk
4x Ichorid
4x Bloodghast

Enchantments
4x Zombie infestation

Instants
4x Dark Ritual

Sorcery
4x Cabal therapy
4x Duress

[Float4WeldSlaver]

Way back when in 2003, I thought Mirrodin's Sylvan Scrying meant the return of Academy.dec in type 1.

I was wrong.

[conboy31]

Building an extended deck with the shell of: 4 phrexian arena, 4 chrome mox, 4 shadowmage infiltrator, 4 looter il-kor, and jittes + swords.

[Digital Devil]

I'm probably the creator of the worst deck ever:


7x Swamp
4x Barren Moor
4x Bayou
3x Bloodstained Mire
2x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Cabal Pit
1x Polluted Delta

4x Tombstalker
4x Ichorid
4x Ashen Ghoul
3x Stinkweed Imp
1x Oona's Prowler
1x Big Game Hunter

4x Mox Diamond
4x Dark Ritual
4x Smallpox
4x Zombie Infestation
3x Life from the Loam
2x Raven's Crime


SIDEBOARD
4x Cabal Therapy
3x Choke
3x Krosan Grip
2x Pithing Needle
2x Perish
1x Reverent SilenceI think I deserve a prize for this awful pile of cards!!!

[Ectoplasm]

I'm probably the creator of the worst deck ever:


7x Swamp
4x Barren Moor
4x Bayou
3x Bloodstained Mire
2x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Cabal Pit
1x Polluted Delta

4x Tombstalker
4x Ichorid
4x Ashen Ghoul
3x Stinkweed Imp
1x Oona's Prowler
1x Big Game Hunter

4x Mox Diamond
4x Dark Ritual
4x Smallpox
4x Zombie Infestation
3x Life from the Loam
2x Raven's Crime


SIDEBOARD
4x Cabal Therapy
3x Choke
3x Krosan Grip
2x Pithing Needle
2x Perish
1x Reverent SilenceI think I deserve a prize for this awful pile of cards!!!

Don't knock yourself too badly, you're also the creator of reverse angel stompy! :laugh:

[Digital Devil]

Don't knock yourself too badly, you're also the creator of reverse angel stompy! :laugh:
XD XD That was hilarious XD XD
An Angel Stompy build which loses against Goblins and wins against TES is something you can't see that often. We're a step closer to the end of the world.

[KillemallCFH]

Despite the fact that I never have and most likely never will play it in a tournament, I for some reason keep trying to make different, usually awful, Affinity builds. Here's a short list of the random shit I've tried:

WU Affinity w/ 4 Steelshaper's Gift
WU AfFOWnity with 4 Path/4 Swords (this one was especially terrible)
Mono-red Affinity with Welder and Moon (and Atog) (this one was actually pretty cool)
Mono-U AfFOWity with 4 Neurok Familiar
Mono-W Affinity with 4 Second Sunrise
UBG(w) Affinity with 3 Worldy Tutor


Also, when Entomb was unbanned, I immediately made a Ugb CB/Top list with 4 Entomb. It took me one real game until I realized it only had 13 blue cards (and, you know, Entomb doesn't fit into CB/Top AT ALL).

[santeria]

this guy had this pretty bad new format idea a week or two ago...

[Pastorofmuppets]

this guy had this pretty bad new format idea a week or two ago...

dude, I don't know what you've been smoking; breakme.format, that shit was absolute genius.

[DownSyndromeKarl]

-4x Thrumming Stone, 4x Dark Ritual, 32x Relentless Rats and 20x Swamps-

Phayl.

[Pastorofmuppets]

-4x Thrumming Stone, 4x Dark Ritual, 32x Relentless Rats and 20x Swamps-

Phayl.

Every player has thought of this deck at one point in their career. And they think that they're a genius because of it. But you missed 4x Desperate Research.

[rocketrae21]

My deck idea is F*** Board Position

Red or Red and Green
Basically any creature that has haste and then dies at the end of the turn. green is for the green version of ball lightning but I think mono red is better

[Cthuloo]

I remember trying to build an "underworld dreams + discard" deck when conflux came out, with

4x Underworld Dreams
4x Kederect Parasite
4x Storm World
| =>(to make parasite work O_O)
4x Grim Lavamancer

Then some discard and the rack. Fortunately I didn't also include megrim...

[MattH]

My Mulch/Book Burning threshold deck was INTENSE.

[Ectoplasm]

My Mulch/Book Burning threshold deck was INTENSE.

That's savage :eek:
The worst abomination I've ever created has to be the altar golem/elemental mastery combodeck.
Casual, but still fucking horrible.

[TotallySweet]

Dream Halls.

God, what was I thinking?

[Michael Keller]

I could pwn this thread if I wanted to.

[Pastorofmuppets]

Dream Halls.

God, what was I thinking?
If my old computer didn't crash, I'd post my Construct Stompy featuring Gathan Raiders as (unfortunately) the strongest beater in the deck

[iamajellydonut]

Zombie Infestation+Bearscape

I still like it...

[Aleksandr]

Jokulhaups
Obliterate
phasing Efreets
Paralax Tide
Iceberg
lands
_________

60






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[Loxodon Baileyarch]

Izzet Guildmage + Lava Spike + Desperate Ritual.

I miss the olden days.

[rockout]

That doesn't seem old in my mind. I guess in getting old.

[Loxodon Baileyarch]

Yeah i know it's not old. That's just when i started playing seriously Type2 Magic. My re-birth i guess.

[Pulp_Fiction]

I tried to get Enduring Ideal and Death Cloud to work in legacy ..... that went well. Enduring Ideal really fucked up my rating! Not that I give a shit about my rating at all, I just went from top 5 to 17-20 in 2 short tournaments. I thought it was quite amusing and I still like Ideal in the format but it ... just sucks.

[Otter]

Friend of mine tried a Mycosynth Lattice + Null Rod prison deck, downright hilarious, yet so terrible.

[MMogg]

I tried to get Enduring Ideal and Death Cloud to work in legacy ..... that went well. Enduring Ideal really fucked up my rating! Not that I give a shit about my rating at all, I just went from top 5 to 17-20 in 2 short tournaments. I thought it was quite amusing and I still like Ideal in the format but it ... just sucks.

I'm interested in that Enduring Ideal deck, namely, what enchantments/win conditions you tried. True, it sounds like it would get thrashed in Legacy, but it sounds like a great card to base a casual deck around.

[Nessaja]

Avatar of Will/Tombstalker with mass discard and permission.

It was actualy semi decent. But won't make it.

[eq.firemind]

Izzet Guildmage + Lava Spike + Desperate Ritual.

I miss the olden days.

+1 to this.
Also, Izzet Guildmage + Reset

[DrJones]

16 blasts + laces.dec

Also 4 timetwister to replenish your hand.

[Offler]

Well when I started with blue there was Highlander deck reccomended to me:

Voidmage Prodigy
Spiketail hatchling
Spiketail Drakeling
Spiketail Drake
Wizard Replica
Cursecatcher
(and some other sacrifical and countering effects)

then approximately 10 other counterspells.

I didnt really know... then somebody asked me "And how this deck kills?" Well I believe that its main purpose was to be "Boring to death" since it utilized Platinum angel, Darksteel forge and Nevynirrals disk :D

[rocketrae21]

16 blasts + laces.dec

Also 4 timetwister to replenish your hand.

And what format allows 4 time twister? And when you answer casual or for fun...what casual player owns 4 time twister?

[DrJones]

And what format allows 4 time twister? And when you answer casual or for fun...what casual player owns 4 time twister?Shandalar. :tongue:

[Draener]

ancient tomb 4
city of traitors 4
chrome mox 4
mox diamond 4
plains 8
maze of ith 4
ensnaring bridge 4
ghostly prison 4
trinisphere 4
chalice of the void 4
dovescape 4
oblivion ring 4
Idyllic Tutor 4
eternal dragon 4

Most obnoxious deck when it actually did work (once or twice)

[troopatroop]

Braids + Squirrel Nest + Earthcraft

Brings a tear to my eye...

[Pulp_Fiction]

I'm interested in that Enduring Ideal deck, namely, what enchantments/win conditions you tried. True, it sounds like it would get thrashed in Legacy, but it sounds like a great card to base a casual deck around.

This is what I ended up playing but it turned out to be a little too slow. Overall the deck was hella fun to play and SO consistent but it just lacked the speed and was usually ripped apart by Goblins. Here is the list:

3x Enduring Ideal
4x Burning Wish
4x Fire/Ice
3x Mystical Tutor
3x Orim's Chant

3x Coalition Relic
4x Seething Song
4x Pentad Prism

1x Pernicious Deed
2x Solitari Confinement
2x Form of the Dragon
1x Dovescape
1x Honden of Seeing Winds
1x Moat
1x (alternate kill source slot could be Take Possession/Confiscate. I also considered Dragon Roost and Debtor's Knell but never tested)

Lands: 23
4x Ancient Spring
2x Boseiju who Shelters All
3x Dwarven Ruins
4x Ruins of Trokair
4x Flooded Strand
1x Windswept Heath
1x Plains
1x Island
1x Mountain
1x Tundra
1x Plateau

Sideboard:
1x Enduring Ideal
1x Pyroclasm
1x Rite of Flame
1x Replenish
1x Terashi's Grasp (Disenchant Slot)
3x Chalice of the Void/Orim's Chant
3x Sacred Ground (has to be here, this deck just loses to Armageddon, Devastating Dreams, recurring Wastelands)
4x Pithing Needle/Tormod's Crypt

The deck is so cool and the list looks incredibly solid. It still pisses me off that the damn thing doesn't work against savage aggro. And I really like it because with the help of Coalition Relic is just becomes BigManaDropaThreatYouCan'tAnswer.dec and its pretty fucking cool. I still like it and would play it if I hadn't sold my cards! But it just seems there isn't a spot for it in Legacy :(

[Pastorofmuppets]

Uwb Crabcore (Aka Sebastian and Friends) (Aka Under the Sea) (Aka Nautical Puns.dec)

Creatures (8)
4 Hedron Crab
4 Wall of Denial

Spells (19)
3 Archive Trap
2 Mind Funeral
4 Glimpse the Unthinkable
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
2 Stifle

Artifacts (5)
3 Crucible of Worlds
2 Winter Orb

Enchantments (6)
2 Mana Vortex
4 Standstill

Lands (22)
2 Ghost Quarter
3 Wasteland
3 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
1 Plains
1 Swamp
3 Underground Sea
3 Island
2 Tundra

Basically, mana denial and slow-rolling your opponent's deck. I realized a little too late that I ran out of room for Countertop or Brainstorm and didn't know what to add.

[MMogg]

This is what I ended up playing but it turned out to be a little too slow. Overall the deck was hella fun to play and SO consistent but it just lacked the speed and was usually ripped apart by Goblins. Here is the list:
[snip]
The deck is so cool and the list looks incredibly solid. It still pisses me off that the damn thing doesn't work against savage aggro. And I really like it because with the help of Coalition Relic is just becomes BigManaDropaThreatYouCan'tAnswer.dec and its pretty fucking cool. I still like it and would play it if I hadn't sold my cards! But it just seems there isn't a spot for it in Legacy :(

What's the Fire/Ice for? :confused:

You sold your cards? You mean this pile is worth something? :wink: :tongue:

So what turn could you consistently cast EI?

[Pulp_Fiction]

Fire/Ice was originally Brainstorm but I realized I needed some form of removal in the deck and it acts as a Teeg/Canonist/Piledriver killer and it timewalks the opponent if necessary and cantrips. Super-versatile card that I really liked in the deck.

Yeah, I sold my cards because I realized the only thing I really play is combo. So I sold every card I owned that didn't have to do with casting Tendrils of Agony and now, really don't regret it. I bought back a few, and after losing to bullshit I thought .. eh, combo is better, this is what I play, then sold them again and haven't cared since :)

It consistently casts Ideal turns 3-4 without disruption. But 2 wasteland can really slow the deck down, hand destruction is annoying but largely irrelevant unless its turn 1 Hippie, turn 2 Hymn etc, or something brutal and not that common.

[TheKinglsayer]

Nantuko Husk + Birds of Paradise + Pattern of Rebirth + Symbiotic wurm...

I want it to work so bad. :(

[swats0n]

I want to make coinflip lockdown

4 Krark's Thumb
4 Planar Chaos (the card, not the set)
4 Fiery Gambit
4 Stitch in Time
4 Odds (Odds/Ends)

Maybe win with Chance Encounter or something?

[dahcmai]

I made this deck a long time ago and it got errata'ed out of existence. Recently they took the errata off Sorrow's Path and made it work again. I still get a laugh out of this one since it's my favorite deck to post in the "pimp" threads.


Just click the pics to enlarge them.



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[shaneswa]

1) mistform creatures + cryptic gateway+ big nasties from across all 5 colors

2) underworld dreams + tefiri's puzzle box

3) false cure + beacon of immortality... this was the first deck i ever took to a tournament. There was a big OHHHHH! from all the spectators when i dropped beacon naming my opponent then played false cure. There was a bigger OHHHHH! when he misdirected my beacon.

[TheKingslayer]

Ha, a while back (when mirrodin and kamigawa made up type II) I took some plow under/ eternal witnes/ otherwordly journey/ ischochron scepter deck to a random standard tournament. It faired pretty well for an unknown meta and a first dip into standard. My friend, however, built a deck around..........



Door to Nothingness!!!!!!
He went 1-3. You can only imagine how humiliated that one person was.

[Digital Devil]

I just walked into a thread I opened a few months ago on an Italian forum. This list deserves mentioning as it is even worse than the one I posted on the very first page of the topic:

4x Wasteland
4x Bloodstained Mire
4x Badlands
3x Swamp
3x Mountain
1x Volrath's Stronghold
1x Wooded Foothills
1x Polluted Delta
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

4x Imperial Recruiter
4x Magus of the Moon
4x Mesmeric Fiend
2x Braids, Cabal Minion
1x Stinkweed Imp
1x Faerie Macabre
1x Goblin Tinkerer
1x Bone Shredder
1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

4x Cabal Therapy
4x Oath of Ghouls
4x Bitterblossom
4x Aether Vial
3x Phyrexian Arena


SIDEBOARD
4x Engineered Plague
2x Pithing Needle
2x Leyline of the Void
2x Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
1x Meddling Mage
1x Gaddock Teeg
1x Squee, Goblin Nabob
1x Red Elemental Blast
1x Pyroblast

[AngryTroll]

I really, really, really want to make a deck with Evershrike at least playable.

Unfortunately, the couple best enchantments to throw on him are probably Edge of the Divinity and Strength of Lunacy, and then a Daybreak Coronet to back them up. See the problem? Really, why can't there be a card that's a cross between lifelink and some power and toughness boost in black for one or two mana? Unholy Strength and Vampiric Link are both on color.

Anyways, if you want Evershrike in the yard and are running Strength of Lunacy anyways, something like Wild Mongrel, Oona's Prowler, or Putrid Imp is can probably go in. Stinkweed Imp is removal and a way to dredge Evershrike all in one!

So...yup, bad deck goes in Bad Deck thread. Is there any way to make this at least casually playable?

[Leftconsin]

Looking back on my old deck files I found I once wrote out a terrible Psychogenic Probe deck with four of Mindblaze. Total of eight mana for two damage with some chance of 10? YAY!?

[MMogg]

Humility + Caltrops. You know you wanna make it. :wink:

[LostButSeeking]

I really, really, really want to make a deck with Evershrike at least playable.

Unfortunately, the couple best enchantments to throw on him are probably Edge of the Divinity and Strength of Lunacy

Wait. If you have an evershrike in your graveyard and a edge of divinity in the hand, you have a self-recurring 7/7 with flying for three mana, and you're saying that's not good enough for casual? I might build that, it looks beautiful. Although it really, really wants the white version of Academy ruins, a land that says "1W,T: Return target enchantment from your graveyard to the top of your library. I can't really think of a good way of getting the edge of divinity back to your hand if your evershrike dies.

I have a couple of these. I have a W/B deck that runs two synergistic engines that are extremely tight but just do not belong in the same deck. The first is Overgrown Cemetary and Oriss, Samite Mistress, and the other is phyrexian etchings and flickerwisp. I don't think the deck's won a game yet.

I also have a great (casual) aggro deck with fungal behemoth and graft, The deck loses so hard to any creature destruction it's mildly absurd.

[Pastorofmuppets]

Wait. If you have an evershrike in your graveyard and a edge of divinity in the hand, you have a self-recurring 7/7 with flying for three mana, and you're saying that's not good enough for casual? I might build that, it looks beautiful. Although it really, really wants the white version of Academy ruins, a land that says "1W,T: Return target enchantment from your graveyard to the top of your library. I can't really think of a good way of getting the edge of divinity back to your hand if your evershrike dies.

I have a couple of these. I have a W/B deck that runs two synergistic engines that are extremely tight but just do not belong in the same deck. The first is Overgrown Cemetary and Oriss, Samite Mistress, and the other is phyrexian etchings and flickerwisp. I don't think the deck's won a game yet.

I also have a great (casual) aggro deck with fungal behemoth and graft, The deck loses so hard to any creature destruction it's mildly absurd.

How does 'shrike play with Animate Dead?

[tpnp]

Looking back on my old deck files I found I once wrote out a terrible Psychogenic Probe deck with four of Mindblaze. Total of eight mana for two damage with some chance of 10? YAY!?
How about Psychogenic Probe (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=46582) and Soldier of Fortune (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=3182)? I tried it in casual for a little while.