dkrocka

You gotta check out my first standard deck! It's called Prey to the Paci-Fish.

http://www.mtgvault.com/dkrocka/decks/prey-to-the-pacifish/

not enough cards that give flying. The only ones you have are the Predator and that's just gonna be instagibbed.

Black Cherry Crush. Started out with Sadistic Hypnotist and Threaten. Ended up making it totally different.

hey man, I finally made an agro deck. I'm usually more of a control guy. I also made some other potentially surprising decks. Check em out...
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F Haters.

Momma says life is like a box of chocolates. Ya never know what ya gonna git:

http://www.mtgvault.com/dkrocka/decks/8-hands-9-tails/

I think the card is Argovian or Argothian Enchantress. There's also a green enchantment that does the same thing: Play an enchantment, draw a card. This kind of deck is the exact reason why my favorite kill card is Grave Pact. Adding some creatures might help against sacrifice.

With all that said, I'm disappointed. I find this deck rather shallow and pedantic.

Don't bogart the man's deck with spam. The least you could have done is make a comment on this deck.

Can't tell you how many times I've come across Force of Will and Mana Drain, and thought to myself, man I wish I had me some of that.

Anytime.
I saw some guy make a deck with Gelectrode and Curiosity, and I thought man that'd be perfect in my deck. On another note, you could probably remove the Cyclops. Lots of players tend to block ground creatures fairly well. Gotta figure out what to do on turns 1 and 2. Mogg Fanatic seems cost effective. He'd kind of be like a bank for when you get the spitfire out and attacking all the while. Or he could be used to clear a creature out. You could go that kind of route or you could move towards red mana ramp to get the combo out quicker. Cards like Rite of Flame or Seething Song.

probably the best response here.

the point I was trying to make is that what beats u is in A LOT of decks normally: artifact/enchantment removal.

Because you have a only a few cards to protect your crucial cards, no tutors, no draw... it's going to be difficult for you to win if they happen to kill 1 or 2 of your 8 golden cards.

I may be brazen, that doesn't discredit good information.

Also, Sun Titan could be a very good card for you: could bring back your stuff if it dies. Green has eternal witness which does something similar.

If you want to make a great deck you have to anticipate what would beat you. Put answers for that in your deck.

If you have the money for it, Land Tax and Sylvan Safekeeper combo very nicely.

In my opinion you could splash in green or blue. But blue is so anti-fun, there wouldn't be much to discuss there... Starts with C and rhymes with hell.

I feel like he made the deck because holy day only delayed the inevitable/ couldn't get enough done next turn. Privileged Position for one would be a nice addition to this deck. He's gotta protect his offense since there's so little... Or eternal witness can recur stuff that gets removed.

tangle over holy day. Enlightened tutor since the deck relies on so few cards for offense. Nature of magic my ass any combo deck/control deck will stomp this... Control decks can handle controlling 4 cards off the board. Combo decks offer so much more than luminarch. Any combo deck packs a bigger combo punch than a handful of flyers each turn. What 2 or 3 flyers per turn? Try Grave Pact and Awakening Zone. And that's not even a big combo compared to others.

and then a simic deck with inundate, eternal witness, naturalize and a handful of counterspells comes along. Or grave pact and natural affinity with a sadistic hypnotist pops its head up. Or even a simple raking canopy.

The best way to use protection/prevention is as hexproof on creatures you need to live. I'm not saying creature-based decks are best. I'm just saying prevention/protection does not beat card advantage.

Card advantage is you each start with 7 cards. If by turn 5 one guy draws an extra 5 cards. He has 5 potential extra answers at his disposal.

Knocking off two cards with 1 is the best advantage you can get. removal/hexproof won't win you games. They just protect against a disadvantage temporarily.

Most control decks want you to fill your deck with prevent damage cards because they are trying to survive so they can unleash something that is much more devastating than an Isochron Scepter and Entreat Angels. They're also likely to have some mechanic that gives them card advantage. Like draw. One of my control decks is just that.

Most combo decks have tutors. They're just going to tutor something to destroy scepter or the other piece to a much more devastating combo.

Your only offense is Entreat the Angels? There's no draw, there's no tutor. What happens if there isn't one in your first 30 cards? What happens if the other guy also has 4 Wrath of Gods?

Every sideboard will beat this deck.
Red: sideboards have damage can't be prevented cards because that's the not so common card that cripples a red deck.
Green: will have naturalize and co because most deck are creature-based
Blue: can already beat you with control
Black: Damnation beats you
White: Wrath of God beats you.

yea, but why plays mill decks.

too soon man, too soon.

But yep, I'm goin to hell.

I still feel like the best deck that someone will one day make will be some sort of inclusion of Zombies and Wizards.

I still love love love Natural Affinity. It's a sneaky good card that your opponent probably hasn't prepped for.
1. It's great in a Grave Pact deck as an answer for Wrath of God. You cast it after the GP triggers are put on stack, and your opponent has to start sac'ing lands. Any creature-less deck relies on something like Wrath of God 9/10 times.
2. If opponent taps out, every untapped land you have can attack and do 2 damage each... Sneaky
3. Vitalize: basically doubling cube.

There are many many more things you can do with it. Just think of all the cards that have to do with creatures on the battlefield.

I have a deck similar to this. I went mono red so I could use Cinder Pyromancer and Flamekin Harbringer. Once I saw Gelectrode, I always wanted to swap it with Cinder Pyromancer.

Spitfire is A LOT better than Wee Dragonauts. In fact, I would replace Wee Dragonauts with Guttersnipe. If you think about it, they both do the same thing damage wise EXCEPT Guttersnipe also pumps up the Spitfire.

You may want to consider these cards:

Gelectrode pumps up that Spitfire a LOT, I'd put it in. It also can clear out little weenies that might get in your way.
Grapeshot pumps up Spitfire a LOT.
Browbeat: Draw 3 cards will happen more often if it pumps up Spitfire.
Curiosity: put it on Gelectrode or Guttersnipe to draw a card every time you cast a burn spell.
Flamekin Harbringer: to tutor a Spitfire

The only problem with the Chandra Spitfire/Gelectrode/Guttersnipe combo is they are all 3 drops. With that said, if you have 1 of each. A simple incinerate does this:
Gelectrode pings for 1
Spitfire: 4/3
Incinerate for 3
Spitfire: 7/3
Guttersnipe pings for 2 from cast
Spitefire: 10/3
Untap Gelectrode, pings for 1
Spitfire: 13/3

If your keeping count that's 20 damage.

Cast another bolt and it's an extra 15 damage, up to 35.

Cast a Grapeshot, and 35 turns into 56.
If you have that Electromancer out you've only spent 3 mana. Even if they cast something like Fog, you're still burning a handful of damage... You're also burning your hand. Take advantage of blue's drawing capability and pump up the spitfire all the while.

Any Green or Blue deck can crush this strategy.
Naturalize?
Counterspell?