Puschkin

Well, apathy is not my thang^^
My son is 4 1/2 now and grows up trilingual (german, mandarin and english). It won't be that long until I can teach him Magic. And either way, there will come a time when I have more time again. A definately want to return.

Wickeddarkman said something about a community project with elitism deckbuilding so I redirected him here / reminded him that we already had that :)

And you can't see anything except mill ;)

Drownyard Temple is amazing for many strategies (at least in casual terms), it's good discard and sacrifice material, it's expendable when using land animation, it's good with landfall - something this deck didn't even touch because I found so many other uses.
Maybe it's easier for us to see because we grew up in an era where Zuran Orb was a card so strong it got banned in Type II ... younglings these days :)

You might have one or two cards that make the trick work too many. I understand you want to make sure you draw one and that you want backup in case one gets destroyed, however, you run 11 of those cards and 8 of them (Assault Formation and High Alert) don't add anything if you got more than once. If you drop one each and replace it with some filter cards, the deck would run more consistent. Commune with the Gods seems perfect for this.

I also think that Tasseled Dromedary can be replaced with somethinge else, since you do have both enough high toughness guys and early drops. I would add some utility instead, something your deck can't handle yet (you don't run any removal whatsoever). Something like Qasali Pridemage.

It's not just for turn 1, though. Having some one-drops also helps out smoothening the mana curve. This deck has lots of 2-drops but only few 3-drops. So you could also play a Typhoid Rat in addition to a Rat Colony in turn 3.

I still don't know, for 7 mana you could Mind Twist his entire hand (and are more flexible to cast it earlier) or you could play cards like Sorin's Vengeance. Just saying.

There are actually 10 one-mana-Rats, but only 2 of them don't suck:
- Typhoid Rats
- Drainpipe Vermin

Are you aware that you can include more than 4 Rat Colony in your deck?
Since Rat Colony is strictly better than Swarm of Rats, you should at the very least replace the latter with the former.

Plague of Vermins is a very bad card. 7 mana for a symmetrical effect that merely produces tokens at the additional cost of 1 life per token? It's also way beyond your mana curve.

Swarmyard comes into mind.

I am not really working on this site anymore. Having a 4 year old son does that to you ... summoning him was fun but he has a cumulative upkeep :)

Crypt Rats aren't *bad* and I wouldn't cut them alltogether, the Artists/Cultists DO trigger even if they die along with everything else due to a Rat going kaboom. But you also run 4 Killing Waves and 2 Innocent Blood ... It also depends on what your opponent is doing.
One technique to become a better deck builder: In cases like this, only replace 2 rats with something like Yahenni (it's a legend anyway) and se yourself what works better and why. If you just replace all rats you'll never know the difference.

Hi Muktol, nice to see you are still around and active giving good advice :)

On the deck:
If you don't want to add another colour there isn't that much you could improve. Here my suggestions:

* You might want to replace one or two of the mass killers with a sacrifice outlet where you can sac specific creatures. The problem being that those Crypt Rats for example also kill your Cutthroats and Artists. But these will be you main damage sources, especially in multiplayer. Once you have more than one of them out, every creature you sac will count as as many.
So, if you add a creature like YAHENNI, UNDYING PARTISAN, you get both a powerful attacker/blocker that grows with every enemy that dies (an alternte win Condition!) AND a way to cherry-pick what will die.

* Death Cultists are very weak. Maybe consider to repalce them with Tenacious Dead. They can come back again and again and therefore deal much more damage via Cultists/Cutthroats than Death Cultists.

* I'd feel naked with out some Bojuka Bogs.

* You might want to try Tombstone Stairwell, it'll end games in no time. Might be a bit dangerous but hey. The potential is just too tempting. In fact it's so powerful it might warp this deck into a Stairwell deck. So maybe don't :P

Uff, Heroic Intervention is ... wow! And here I thought powercreep is limited to creatures ...
Haven't played much since I got a kid and stopped buying cards. Catching up will be painful I guess.

Oh, Spellskite is affordable by now, so, yeah, I will get some for this :)

I haven't changed, I never liked it when my threads get spammed but I tolerated it as long as I can see the merit and the frequency doesn't exceed a certain limit. But in here I explicitly told you that you are crossing a line and yet you keep on going. You claim to fight trolls but at this point, from an outside perspective that isn't you, you are acting like a troll yourself.
Last warning, further posts about trolls in this deck will get deleted!

Not enough goblins.

So you did it again - twisting the topic until you can talk about your trolls again. Please stop and let this deck rest in peace.

Vault might be more casual than most deckbuilding sites, nevertheless, less competitiveness is still competitiveness. "Artistic hobby" or not, the goal of a deck is still to win the game. Phyrexia, however, was built around the LORE of Magic and there simply is zero competition in that.

Also, tell me why a deck with "1st turn kill" in the title gets more views and a deck description with flashy openings gets more likes. Or why budget is such a big issue here. Heck, even battle for attention here is competitive, who gets more replies and likes, who makes it front page etc. You can't deny that. You have complained about it yourself time and again. The entire place's structure is fostering competition. And they crowd here is eating this up. NOBODY uses tags to search for older decks - otherwise I would get replies for older Decks. I have almost 100 public decks, all of them with detailed descriptions and proper deck tags and they date back as far as 2013. But they only receive comments when they are new. And that means nobody ever searches for anything, nobody looks back. If they truly cared, if they really were artists, they would. Because there are gems buried there and in casual decks don't really age. But alas, that's not the case. You have one shot when you publicize the deck for the first time and when it doesn't crate a buzz immediatedly, it'll get buried. Which is why there is a competition for attention and indirectly also for quality of the decks because casual or not, you won't get that critical mass of attention with a shitty deck or an incoherent pile.

So don't tell me there is no difference.

Does Reset work in here? Looks like you woull never have enough lands to make it worthwhile.

I don't know if Blood Moon is good in here since it will also strip you off 6 of your blue mana sources, making it hard to keep up a Stasis. I would consider a white splash instead of red for Damping Field. Because, if your opponents are powered as well, those Winter Orbs aren't doing that much.

Hurkyll's Recall should also be considered. It can seriously screw your opponent but could also be used to "untap" your mana artifacts.

You can't force communities. And the community of Phyrexia was already established when you came around. Most importantly: Deckbuilding was only one of the Nine Spheres and not even the most important one. That place was build on stories and as such it attracted different folks with different mindsets and very different needs.
MTGVault, however, has a single purpose and focus on deckbuilding. Even without the wolrd around us changing, generation clash and all, that's still a huge difference. Deckbuilding means competitiveness, even in a more casual setting like Vault, and that has huge impact on community building.

Well, if this is your new hobby, then don't complain about it, ok? And maybe don't weaponize other users, dragging them into it.
See, Phyrexia died, which is something that really struck me. You came here to one of my decks and wrote something comforting about this topic - a single sentence. Then you started ranting about your personal troll and that's what we are discussing now, in one of my decks. Can't you see the problem here? That would have been thread-hijacking in a forum like Phyexia. And I am in no mood for your troll infestation problems right now when I am mourning Phyrexia.
And no, you haven't become less ranty. You just split them up now and veil them more. Again, a friend here telling you maybe uncomfortable truths:
I much much prefer an occasional big but coherent and on point rant about a specific topic, preferably in it's own thread/deck, over dozens of smaller ranty snippets across as many threads and other people's works.
EDIT:
And yes, I am aware that these replies suddenly catapult this deck on top of hot decks and therefore might get attention but that's not what I want.