Mana Screw

by Brewski on 10 November 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Mana Screw

Hi, this looks so oldschool, I just HAD to comment^^ I'll try to keep this in theme and as oldschool as possible.

* There really is no reason to run Stone Rain and Ice Storm if you could use Pillage instead. You run BoPs and enough duals and fetchies so that the double-red won't be troublesome.

* Earth Rift is weak - you'll never flash that thing back. Try Icefall instead - hey, Coldsnap is technically oldschool! ;)

* Wildfire is a card you should be prepared for yourself. This deck isn't. You run zero mana artifacts and half of your creatures die to it, including all mana-producers. Yes, Wildfire and the Centaurs are fun, but I still think it's not worth the risk, especially at 2 copies. Wildfire is a card that you run 4 times or not at all.

* Good old Ernham. His days of glory are long gone. You'd have to look back as much as 1995 if you want him to rule supreme. He barely survived Kurt Cobain ... but his fall was less glamorous ... I'd rather have something nasty in here that fits the theme. For example I miss Avalanche Riders in this deck. I guess because you were aiming for the Wildfire? I would also consider Terravore.

Sideboard:
* Stream of Life is (and always was!) a bad card! Seriously, it does way too few for what it costs and when you are so desperate that you fetch it via a Burning Wish, chances are that it won't help you! At best case it will buy you one more turn before you die. A turn to draw the card that you should have fetched instead of the Stream of Life. At the very least you should upgrade it to Taste of Paradise!

* Pillage, Creeping Mold: Should be in the main board. If there are no artifacts or enchantments, you can always use them to hit a land, so why hide them in the sideboard? Instead you should have Flashfire and Tsunami in the sideboard!

* Whipflare: Whipflare? Why not Pyroclasm? Oldschool! Also, you don't run artifact creatures. But I wouldn't go with Pyroclasm either ... you run Earthquake in the side, but no Hurricane, please fix that :)

* Crush of Wurms, Roar of the Wurm: Don't aim for mana costs THAT high ... I think Grizzly Fate would do better.

* Earth Rift: This is even more useless in the side. What would be the situation you would Wish for this? I don't think we need more land destruction, lets look for something else ... Anarchy for example, white weenie decks are hard to beat with LD.


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Posted 10 November 2014 at 22:09

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Yeah I played a deck similar to this almost 15+ years ago and still have it sleeved up so figured it'd be fun to look at. I had a couple magnivore in it . Wildfire I'd usually cast with a mana dork and forest in hand waiting to be played. The deck at the time needed a reset for when a turn 2 land destruction didn't go off. Plus with mana dork and land in hand figured it could recover faster than the opponent for the most part.

I figured it would be interesting to tweak considering how much havoc Blood moon seems to cause decks that have almost no basic lands. I have the pillages and the ice storms so I could play either. I need to take a look at the side but hurricane was definitely in the mix. I doubt it could be competitive but with the right draw it gave people fits in the past. Stashing a creeping mold and pillage in the side was mainly so I could wish for them. I was thinking of the wishes as either getting additional LD out of the tool box as well as finishers/problem solvers.

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Posted 11 November 2014 at 03:21

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