mymobbsdeep

wow ive never seen that card! that's sick, thanks for the info. And the hedron crab is just a nice bonus to get the ball rolling, I don't want to add anything that doesn't strictly do what this deck does. Cause if I don't get the crab out in the first couple of turns, I don't want to be drawing fetch land cards instead of something more important. know what I mean? I do really like the vision idea though, im gonna make some space for it, thanks much!

yea a slow aggro is pretty much a useless idea. That defeats the purpose of aggro in general. This is just a deck with red and white cards in it. And 4 Auriella is about 2-3 more than you want, seeing as most games you wont be able to play her. You don't want her in your opening hand, nor do you want to draw her in your first few draws seeing as you have no way to get her out early. I see why you would think this is aggro, your one and two drops have haste and what not so you may draw first blood, but after second turn or so, unless your playing another slow deck, your not much of a threat.
IMO
The problem with battalion is that you end up waiting to attack with 3 creatures. Because most battalion creatures aren't threatening by themselves, any type of interrupt or removal is an incredible pain for you. Not to mention all the turns you might end up wasting doing nothing because you want that battalion affect. I know this from watching my friend do the same thing. if 1/3 die, the other 2 become useless.

I just played with this tonight for the first time since I got my cards. went 4-0 against my friends with it :p

now if you want to do just a life gain deck, let me know, im not sure what your going for

http://www.mtgvault.com/mymobbsdeep/decks/extort-for-max/

I didn't make it public, so you have to use the link to see it, let me know what you think

well for starters you only have one extort card Crypt Ghast who looks a bit lost in here. Double swamps doesn't help you that much especially when you only have 8 swamps in the deck, so I would say this isnt really an extortion deck, more along the lines of a lifelink deck. Secondly, it looks like your not going to be doing anything for the first two turns, you have a very low number of one drop cards and only 2 of them being an actual creature. Same with your two drops. Your start is really a third turn game, and with some creature requiring two of the same color mana, you might not even be able to play those. So quite possibly you might not be able to do anything until 4th turn. But by then that's too late to start pumping out cratures seeing as after turn 3 you can only play one per round, leaving you wide open for attack turn after turn. Im gonna put something together for you to sample, il use the same lands your using now so it doesn't get too expensive. You have a decent idea but still too much useless stuff that clogs your deck up too much.

you have the theme down and the right idea, but there is way too much of little in here.. There are way to many things that you have two of. Condense more, what do you want in your opening hand? What do you hope to draw early or later? Game plan is what you are lacking my friend.

any thoughts on improvement?

Your welcome, it looks much stronger now :p good work

I found a couple cool cards that might help you a lot for this. Heretics Punishment and Eratic Explosion. I also found an artifact that will help you know when an expensive creature is on top of your library. Sensei's Divining Top. I would definitely run the Top and Eratic Explosion. Could make this deck really powerful :P

id sack the goblin king, not very good. Add some goblin warstrikes and do some serious damage with all those goblins. good job on the combo :p

decent substitutes, I kinda like Idyllic tutor better than enlightened anyway, puts it into your hand instead of library. nice work

idk how to make this work better... To be honest I think its going to be incredibly hard for this to work, and quite possibly very slow. Your whole deck relies on that one card, and an expensive card at that. Your biggest problem is that you will literally have zero defense for the whole game. While it is possible for you to get an absolutely 1 in a million perfect draw and kill someone turn 2 or 3, id say that most likely wont happen. And what happens if you exhaust your resources and do manage to play undying flames, but you end up drawing a gamble, rite of flame, or seething song instead? Without any stalling or back up plans, I think this deck is just going to stay a cool idea. Im not sure how to make it work better without putting too many cheaper costing cards in the deck and ruining what its supposed to do. If you could find a card that allows you to put a specific card on top of your library to ensure that you hit hard with undying flame, then I would most definitely use it. But even then, after you do, you cant kill your opponent with just one of those cards, you need two. making this twice as unlikely to work in any sort of hustle. Its a really cool idea man, sorry to be blunt with you, I just don't see how to make it work. Il look around and let you know if I find something. good luck

yea I was just thinking if you ran blasting station, you could cut out Blood Artist and Illness in the Ranks. Its a slightly pricey addition, but since your decks biggest threat is Midnight Guard and Presence of Gond, Maybe run some Enlightened Tutors and/or Eladamri's Call? Might help make the combo a sure thing every game

Blasting station would be pretty cool in here too

ohhh didn't see that

Very cool, nice work. What do you think about adding fog or moment's peace to sustain you? As back up for rootborn

well its hard to run a standard reanimate deck. I wouldn't exactly consider this to be one. more like a deck with a reanimate card in it lol. If your okay with ditching standard format, check out entomb, exhume, buried alive, reanimate dead, soul exchange, doomed necromancer, unearth etc. Remember, in a reanimate deck, you typically don't need multiples of one creature, more like 5 or six of some really amazing creatures that you wouldn't normally get out as early. Dark Ritual is a must have too, Turn one, swamp-dark ritual-entomb-exhume-= any creature you want out first turn of the game :p good luck

well apparently your just as good at picking up on sarcasm as you are at using it, so maybe lolz is the way for you to go. The reason people add smiley faces is so you know not to read the comment in a negative way. some comments come off looking like an asshole, but if you put a face on it, the comment loses its edge. Im not surprised that this requires an explanation in order for you to comprehend it. You seem like your trying too hard to make me look immature, when in reality your making yourself look rather stupid. And yes I know that by continuing to respond to you, I am making myself look bad as well, but this is just too irresistible.

At least my joke had a smiley face in it. Your just being defensive Sally. Public Forums may give you the option to be an ass, doesn't mean you have to be! :p Every deck and every combo may have an answer, so why not patch as many answers as possible without ruining the deck? Sounds logical doesn't it?