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eq.firemind
10-06-2010, 08:49 AM
And again I have some free time at work, so making a casual deck should make my day a little better.
Many casual players love counters of all kind and shape, and new Scars mechanic Proliferate helps to get even more, more and of them in short time.
Unfortunately, the only nice card with that mechanic is Contagion Clasp. It kills small creatures, slowrolls bigger ones and costs only :2:.
Another cool thing from Scars is Ornithopter/Memnite/Mox Opal acceleration. Finally we can recieve permanent manasource for :0: mana and only one card.
Thopters and Memnites want some help to be usefull. Master of Etherium and Steel Overseer should do the job.
Now, to abuse cards like Overseer we want Voltaic Key and Tezzeret the Seeker. Planeswalker also helps us to find Clasp when we are ready to shit awful lots of counters.
Now, it looks like Grim Monolith will not suck in this deck and Esperzoa has synergy with Monolith, Clasp and lots of :0: - spells.
Oh, it seems that we have no way do draw cards. What a shame! Mindless Automaton is synergetic with our pile of cards and can get rid of useless stuff like Moxes and lategame lands.
Now, to make it funny, we need something absurd, but not absolutely useless. The answer is again in the new set: Lux Cannon. It has synergy with the deck and damn, it's fucking satellite orbital artillery (at least it looks so)! Excelent choice for casual deck!
So the deck is ready:
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
2 Island
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Mox Opal

4 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Steel Overseer
4 Master of Etherium
4 Esperzoa
2 Mindless Automaton

4 Grim Monolith
4 Voltaic Key
4 Contagion Clasp
3 Lux Cannon
3 Tezzeret the Seeker

Thanks for reading and tell me what you think about the idea.

edgewalker
10-10-2010, 11:04 PM
Have you considered throne of Geth?

Mystical_Jackass
10-11-2010, 05:57 PM
Memnite & Thopter are just horrible though by themselves without the Overseer, you probably need Cranial Plating or something to make them not suck if Overseer gets removed or countered.

Personally I'm not really a fan of the whole Affinity style of the deck, doesn't seem to be the best way to abuse proliferate. I'd abuse it in a control shell with stuff like Jace the Mind Scultor & Ensnaring Bridge or maybe with other black creatures that can infest or something. In a ramp deck Spike Weaver would be pretty awesome for like a Turbo Fog control.

I like the Grim Monolitha and Key and Ancient Tombs and such, but I think a more Blue Stax/Control would be better. You could even consider using the new "artifact Polymorph" on mid-game Voltaic Keys/Monoliths to get out a MoE or a singleton Darksteel Collossus/Sundering Titan to wreck your opponent. You could run no creatures and just one of those too. That's my 2-cents