planestalker

Hi Chewrida,

I also made a spirit deck. Actually, its part of a set of 4 decks based on the Gold Captain cards; Drogskol Captain, Diregraf Captain Deck, Stromkirk Captain Deck, Immerwolf Deck.

Here's the deck list to my Drogskol Captain deck maybe it will give you ideas.

Artifacts

Creatures
4x Phantasmal Image
2x Doomed Traveler
2x Delver of Secrets
4x Snapcaster Mage
2x Geist of Saint Traft
4x Drogskol Captain
Land
4x Seachrome Coast
2x Evolving Wilds
4x Glacial Fortress
4x Plains
5x Island
1x Swamp
2x Moorland Haunt
Spells
4x Vapor Snag
1x Gut Shot
3x Mana Leak
4x Ponder
2x Midnight Haunting
4x Lingering Souls

Sideboard
4x Revoke Existence
4x Surgical Extraction
3x Timely Reinforcements
4x Flashfreeze

If you compare my deck list to your typical tournament winnning elver list there is alot of over lapping.
Delver tends to play Restoration Angel or Invisible Stalker instead of Drogskol Captain and Sword of War and Peace and/or Sword of Feast and Famine instead of 2x Runechanter's Pike.

taken from:http://www.magic-league.com/deck/77433/standard_t2.html#UW Delver163290
Typical tournament winning Delver list.
Lands - 22
4 Glacial Fortress
8 Island
1 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast
2 Moorland Haunt
3 Cavern of Souls

Creatures -16
4 Restoration Angel
4 Delver of Secrets/Insectile Aberration
4 Geist of Saint Traft
4 Snapcaster Mage

Spells - 22
1 Dismember
3 Gitaxian Probe
2 Gut Shot
4 Mana Leak
4 Ponder
4 Vapor Snag
2 Thought Scour
2 Sword of War and Peace

Sideboard - 15
1 Dismember
2 Phantasmal Image
2 Dissipate
1 Divine Offering
3 Hero of Bladehold
2 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
3 Celestial Purge
1 Mental Misstep

May you always make your own good luck,

Planestalker

Hi GuTTeRaLSLaM,

Ok why can't work. I've got lots of websites that say the combo works. Why can't it work on turn one?
I've given a step by step outline why it should work what step doesn't doesn't work?

Yeah, you could replace Dross Harvester with Bitter Ordeal. But I use Dross Harvester because I wanted to catch attention with the deck by showing how it can get infinite life on turn 1. I some how skipped Bitter Ordeal in my list of storm combo cards. I've added it to the list. Thanks for the reminding me. If you have any decks you'd like me to look at post it here.

Hi raginggoblin,

Like Chewrida says Simian Spirit Guide and Manamorphose can help provide red mana first turn for Grapeshot.

I've taken a look at your Intruder Alarm deck and left a couple comments and suggestions.

Hi Back_in_Black88,

Left some comments and suggestions on your Zombie Rush deck.

Hi Back_in_Black88,

Hi thought I'd take a look at your deck and make a few comments and suggestions since you took the time to comment on one of my zombie decks.

First off,

BU zombie hasn't been doing so well lately in big standard tournaments because every one seems to be is running hexproof and sword of War and Peace and Feast and Famine. And fighting hexproof blue black protection is not much fun with this deck.

The solution is lots of non targeting destruction cards. Killing wave, ratchet bomb, Black Sun's Zenith or possibly move out of blue into white for day of judgement or red for Slagstorm and Bonfire of the Damned.

Anyway here's a deck B/U Zombie deck that got a 1st place way back in early may.

A Standard Magic deck, by Hayden Bedsole
1st place at a StarCityGames.com Invitational Qualifier tournament in Tallahassee, Florida, United States on 2012-05-06
As reported at www.starcitygames.com
http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/deckshow.php?&t%5BC1%5D=1&start_date=2012-04-01&end_date=2012-06-24&start=1&finish=1&start_num=25&start_num=50&limit=25
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Maindeck:

Artifacts
2 Mortarpod

Creatures
4 Blood Artist
2 Crypt Creeper
4 Diregraf Captain
4 Diregraf Ghoul
4 Geralf's Messenger
4 Gravecrawler
3 Phantasmal Image
3 Soulcage Fiend

Sorceries
4 Bone Splinters
3 Killing Wave

Basic Lands
11 Swamp

Lands
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Drowned Catacomb

Sideboard:
3 Ratchet Bomb
2 Witchbane Orb
2 Crypt Creeper
2 Act of Aggression
2 Human Frailty
2 Negate
2 Memoricide

Hope I've given you something useful.

May always make your own good luck.

Planestalker

Surely your jesting surewhynot,

All combos except Doomsday? MTG reduced to just control, aggro, and aggro-control!?!

Aren't you just a little tired of looking at variations of Delver, UW tokens, BU Zombie, and GR Aggro decks in Standard because there really isn't any really good combo decks in Standard?

Imagine if Wizards banned Sneak and Show, Belcher, TES, ANT, Hivemind, Dreadstill, Dredge, etc. why all these combo decks that easily fall to extractor (well maybe not Hivemind) would be gone and you'd wouldn't have it so easy.

And remember even Reanimator could be considered a combo deck. Just remember Dark Ritual, Duress, Entomb, (Jin, Iona or Gris), Reanimate = most likely game. That sure seems like a combo to me. (unless they are playing someone like you who goes surgical extraction to all that nonsense ;-)) and that is exactly why entomb was banned for a while I think.

Anyway, without Reanimator in Legacy the joy of putting a giant obscene monster by turn two would be gone. And we certainlly don't want to lose that joy do we?

Imagine no combo decks. Legacy would become Goblins, Merfolk, Zoo (that is if they rule Zoo isn't a combo deck) and maybe some variation of RUG Delver or maybe white weenie now that Land Tax is back.

But most importantly, so many of my decks would become banned, and that would hurt my feelings.

So please just say your kidding.

May you always make your own good luck,

Planestalker

Hi Tremorth,

Left comments and suggestions on your reanimator deck

Hi Tremorth,

Left comments and suggestions on your reanimator deck.

Hi Tremorth,

You asked me to take a look at your deck
Now that Wizards of the Coast has published Graveborn all of us have the making of a good reanimator deck.

Recently (June 13, 2012), mchosa ,won a major legacy tournament with reanimator.
Here's his deck.
Taken from:http://www.magic-league.com/deck/77432/legacy_t15.html#Reanimator102593

1st - mchosa
Main Deck
1 Marsh Flats
2 Verdant Catacombs
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
3 Swamp
2 Island

4 Griselbrand
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Blazing Archon
1 Hapless Researcher
1 Angel of Despair
3 Ponder
3 Thoughtseize
4 Entomb
4 Careful Study
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Exhume
4 Reanimate

Sideboard
1 Blazing Archon
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
3 Pithing Needle
2 Echoing Truth
2 Massacre
2 Show and Tell
2 Perish
2 Tormod's Crypt

I've posted alot of reanimator decks here at the Vault. Most of my reanimator decks are made for a certain environment, casual play, where banned cards are often not restricted. Your decks are clever in that it is trying for a for transformational sideboard and changing the deck into an illusionary force deck. If this is for casual play great, very fun idea, but if this is for tournament I suggest you think again.

Legacy tournament side board is about trying to disrupt the current top tier decks there are very good reasons why mchosa has the cards he does in his sideboard. If you want to win tournament's learn why mchosa choose the cards he did for his sideboard and emulate him.

Casual play can both be a lot more forgiving but also maddeningly more brutal because in casual groups players often allow other players to play banned or restricted cards. For example, its not usual to see in my gaming group that has a few old timers like myself playing with Bazaar of Baghdad in their reanimator deck. Bazaar is banned in legacy because its just unfair in a reanimator deck. So if you want to improve your casual play deck adding cards like Bazaar of Baghdad, Frantic Search, Windfall could be massively beneficial. The only problem being Bazaar of Baghdad is a $200-$300 card. But you can get Frantic search or Windfall for as little as 25 - 50 cents.

Your deck seems to be build for dualing. Many people think Griselbrand kicks ass in duals.

Finally, If you haven't read Surewhynot recent front page post Dead Remnant
Deck link: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=349498
you really should give it a glance it has many good comments about reanimator from some of the best
deck builders on this site.

Hi raginggoblin,

Took a look at your spirit deck and left some comments and suggestions.

Hi Alchamire,

Glad you like the deck. Lately I've been on a sort of infnite loop kick. If you like this deck you also might want to check out these other infinite loop decks I've recently created.

My current pride and joy
16 Infinite Loops in One Deck!!!!
Deck link: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=353096

3 Ways to Infinite Direct Damage 2 ways to Infinite tokens
Deck link: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=351935

4 Ways To Infinite Damage Deck
Deck link: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=351911

Heartless 1st Turn Kill - No Vintage Power Cards
Deck link: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=326987

Cloudstone Curio Deck (The Blue/Black version of this deck)
Deck link: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=353107

If you have any decks you'd like be to look at just post the links here.

Hi KennyGrixis,

Glad you like the deck. If you have created a similiar deck please copy a link to it here and I'll have a look at it and make comments and suggestions.

Your idea of Visera seer is very interesting.

The Myr Retrievers need the Ashnods Altar
The Nether Traitor needs the Phyrexian Altar
Therefore I guess I could replace a couple of the Altar of Dementia with Visera Seer and that would increase the number of combos in the deck to around 20. But it would also decrease the number of ways to kill the opponent by half. So though the idea has some merit. I think I'll keep the deck the way it is.
Thanks for the suggestion. If you have any decks you'd like me to look at post a link to them here.

Hi KJSJ3,

Glad you like this deck. Interesting to learn that a deck needs 50 likes to get to be on Top Deck page.
If you have any decks you'd like to look at post them here.

Hi towband,

Here's a sideboard for your deck:
1 Shichifukujin Dragon (there is only one in existance)
1 1996 World Champion (there is only one in existance)
3 Richard Garfield's Proposal card (there are only 3 known to exist)
4 Summer Magic Blue Hurricane
4 Splendid Genesis
2 Fraternal Exaltation


following info copied taken from
http://www.magiclibrarities.net/rarities-garfield.html

If you want the two truly most expensive cards in Magic: The Gathering, they unfortunately have no set price. This is because they are unique, and only one copy of each exist. These cards are:

1996 World Champion

and

Shichifukujin Dragon

both illustrated by Christopher Rush.

"The 1996 World Champion was given to Tom Chanpheng of Australia for winning the 1996 World Championship. The card is encased in lucite, apparently floating above a silver globe. In 2001 it was sold to a private collector. One sheet of this card was printed, but all other copies were destroyed. Rumor has it that artist proofs of this card exist.

The Shichifukujin Dragon was created to celebrate the opening of the Japan DCI Tournament Center in Tokyo, Japan. All copies except for one were destroyed. The remaining Shichifukujin Dragon has been encased at the Tournament Center for public view together with the original artwork of the card. The Tournament Center was closed on February, the 28th in 2003, and the card was moved to the Hobby Japan Head Office where it currently resides. Shichifukujin is the name of the Seven Deities of Good Fortune of Japanese mythology."

The 1996 World Champion Card was sold for approximately $10,000 USD still in the trophy (keep in mind this is not adjusted for inflation, which increases the price even more). Serious Magic collectors nowadays would ostensibly pay far more for either card today, given the thriving popularity of Magic.

following info copied taken from
http://www.magiclibrarities.net/rarities-garfield.html

One of the advantages of being the creator of Magic: the Gathering is that you get to make your own cards. Richard Garfield has used this privilege thrice, celebrating different aspects of his life.

Proposal is not a real card but a color copy sticker glued to a basic land. It was created to be given to Garfield's girlfriend Lily Wu to propose marriage during a game of Magic. The legend goes that it took four games for Richard to draw the card, but when he finally played it, she accepted.

There are 9 Proposal cards in existence. One of them was given to Quinton Hoover, creator of the artwork and one of Lily Wu's favored artists, but was stolen off the table at a convention in Tokyo in 1999 and never reappeared. Another copy was handed to Dave Howell, at that time production manager of Wizards of the Coast and technical creator of the card. The other cards were given to members of the Garfield family and are kept in privacy, as Richard Garfield does not want images of this card to appear in public.

Splendid Genesis and Fraternal Exaltation were created to commemorate the births of Richard's and Lily's children. These cards were included in the birth announcements sent to their friends. Additional copies were distributed to Wizards of the Coast employees. It is estimated that one sheet of Splendid Genesis cards and two sheets of Fraternal Exaltation cards were printed, indicating 110 copies of the former card and and 220 copies of the latter card to exist.

The first birth announcement came with a card-sized square-cornered glossy sticker of a Spendid Genesis card glued on the front.


info copied taken from
http://www.magiclibrarities.net/rarities-garfield.html

Hi Gaspartacus,

I left comments and suggestions on your deck.

Hi Gaspartacus,

You asked me to take a look at your deck.
Well first off most GR Aggor standard decks seem to be playing with Swords in main deck if they can
1 or 2 Sword of War and Peace and 1 or 2 Sword of Feast and Famine would be fine.
Take out 2 - 4 Flayer of the Hatebound

Second, I'd add 4 Birds of Paradise and 2 Wolfir Silverheart take out 4 dawn Treader elk and 2 Pyrewolf

Third, Everyone seems to love running Huntmaster of the Fells/Ravager of the Fells and Bonfire of the Damned in Red Green Agrro decks maybe their right or maybe your idea of bunch of undying creatures and Rolling Tremblor is better (but I wouldn't bet on it)

Third adding 4 Green Sun Zenith may be of more help than 4 caravan virgil.

In the side board I'd probably put 2 acid slimes, 2 slagstorm, 2 Ancient Grudge, 2 Thrun, the Last Troll, 2 Dismember and 5 cards for what ever your local metagame is and if not sure 2 Surgical Extractions and 3 Ratchet bombs probably is a safe bet.

May you always make your own good luck,

Planestalker

Hi Gaspartacus,

Glad you like the deck. One trick I constantly use to help me make decks and give suggestions is to use
MTG card info database site:
http://magiccards.info/search.html
Use it and soon you'll be making decks and giving advise like you've been playing since Limited Edtion Alpha.

If you have any decks you'd like me to look at post them here.

Hi Rustedbucket,

Oh, how I hate to play against decks like this!!!!!

This type of deck almost made me quit Magic.

Almost creatureless, all control.

Fortunately, Wizards of the Coast started to listen to player's complaints about decks like this and started making cards that can't be countered and creatures with shroud or hexproof or protection blue and now there is Cavern of Soul's that sort of shouts screw blue. But in reality the only good solution I found to stasis decks was a really good solid counter burn deck or my own draw go control deck.

Thanks for bringing back horrible, horrible memories.

I think need to schedule my therapist again ;-))

The main deck is a classic nothing to add or change. Though I probably play with one less Wrath of God and add 1 Enlightened Tutor. And maybe replace 1 Morphling with Snapcaster Mage.

I'd probably add Ratchet Bomb and Surgical Extraction to the the sideboard and maybe Flashfreeze or Leyline of the Void depending on meta-game environment.

Here's my take on abusing Stasis + Chronotog combo
tp://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=215211

Here's one example of my idea of abusing Isochron Scepter
Deck link: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=319654

Hi NoobGod,

Nice deck. Really like the main engine of the combo Cloudstone Curio + Kobolds. I definately will be looking forward to making a deck to abuse it, but I think I'll do my in deck will be in R/U or R/B so as to not steal your idea.

Only suggestion is maybe Silence or orm's Chant instead of Mana Tithe.

In the meantime, if you have a chance check out my latest crazy deck with 16 different Infinite Combos in it. Deck link: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=352392