Hireax
09-11-2013, 02:46 PM
I love myself a fun kitchen-table game of Magic, moreover I like decks that don't pull the money out of your pocket to assemble them.
Therefore I've taken the AVR Event Deck: Humanity's Vengeance as a starting point. I'd like some tips for optimizing my deck and see whether or not there's other tips and tricks that I might have looked over.
Firstly I'll post the decklist of the Humanity's Vengeance deck and start making adjustments after that:
AVR Humanity's Vengeance:
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/967
Now there are obviously a lot of cards in there that aren't very good. So I've started cutting away the dead wood and the cards that don't fit the theme that I want to play.
So actually the theme I aim for is a control based deck with a human sub-theme which is still Modern legal to play. So basically I cut the following cards:
-1 Divine Deflection
-2 Dismember
-2 Mental Misstep
-1 Blade Splicer
-2 Nephalia Smuggler
-2 Gideon's Lawkeeper
-4 Porcelain Legionnaire
This frees up fourteen deck spaces. Since I'm holding on to the Human subtheme filled with control elements the following cards are almost auto-includes:
+3 Meddling Mage
+3 Lavinia of the Tenth
+2 Deputy of Acquittals
+2 Wingcrafter
+4 Blind Obiedience
Although I agree that some of these cards might not be the toughest of them all, they pretty much all have the flavor to be in the deck. The only thing I want to change about the mana base is:
-1 Plains
-1 Moorland Haunt
+2 Glacial Fortress
That will leave me up with this list for now:
Humanity's Control
Land 24
11 Plains
9 Island
4 Glacial Fortress
Creature 26
4 Wingcrafter
2 Gideon's Lawkeeper
3 Tandem Lookout
3 Nearheath Pilgrim
3 Meddling Mage
2 Deputy if Acquittals
4 Fiend Hunter
1 Mirran Crusader
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Lavinia of the Tenth
Rest 10
3 Righteous Blow
4 Blind Obedience
3 Oblivion Ring
So yeah, further tips and tricks are more than welcome! Any nice tech for the kitchentable is well received!
Therefore I've taken the AVR Event Deck: Humanity's Vengeance as a starting point. I'd like some tips for optimizing my deck and see whether or not there's other tips and tricks that I might have looked over.
Firstly I'll post the decklist of the Humanity's Vengeance deck and start making adjustments after that:
AVR Humanity's Vengeance:
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/967
Now there are obviously a lot of cards in there that aren't very good. So I've started cutting away the dead wood and the cards that don't fit the theme that I want to play.
So actually the theme I aim for is a control based deck with a human sub-theme which is still Modern legal to play. So basically I cut the following cards:
-1 Divine Deflection
-2 Dismember
-2 Mental Misstep
-1 Blade Splicer
-2 Nephalia Smuggler
-2 Gideon's Lawkeeper
-4 Porcelain Legionnaire
This frees up fourteen deck spaces. Since I'm holding on to the Human subtheme filled with control elements the following cards are almost auto-includes:
+3 Meddling Mage
+3 Lavinia of the Tenth
+2 Deputy of Acquittals
+2 Wingcrafter
+4 Blind Obiedience
Although I agree that some of these cards might not be the toughest of them all, they pretty much all have the flavor to be in the deck. The only thing I want to change about the mana base is:
-1 Plains
-1 Moorland Haunt
+2 Glacial Fortress
That will leave me up with this list for now:
Humanity's Control
Land 24
11 Plains
9 Island
4 Glacial Fortress
Creature 26
4 Wingcrafter
2 Gideon's Lawkeeper
3 Tandem Lookout
3 Nearheath Pilgrim
3 Meddling Mage
2 Deputy if Acquittals
4 Fiend Hunter
1 Mirran Crusader
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Lavinia of the Tenth
Rest 10
3 Righteous Blow
4 Blind Obedience
3 Oblivion Ring
So yeah, further tips and tricks are more than welcome! Any nice tech for the kitchentable is well received!