its 2 to 1 ratio actualy, or close to it, rarely do i get mana screwed playing this deck, and the realy there are no huge creatures, with 4 mana you can play all but 6 cards in the deck, and you get huge creatures with the counter engine in the deck ec: liflink=gain X life, pay 2 mana put X +1+1 counters on target creature, pay 2 manaduplicate counter triger and put X +1+1 counters on target creature, end turn step gain life (Z)= power of target creature, pay 2 put Z +1+1 counters on target creature, pay 2 duplicare counter effect and put Z counters on target creature so for 8 max you can not only tripple the strength of any creature, but gain that much life in the prosess, the more mana you have out the more you can do it, you could even use the duplicate activated ability for 2 mana to double the life gained from liflink and at end of turn
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its only emrakul, the eaons torn that shuffles the grave yard into the library, to counter it you just need to add a card to search a players deck for the named card and remove it from the game sorry i dont know the names off hand
this is my life gain deck, let me know what you think http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=126070
i just have one issue with this deck, rules say, atleast to my understanding that you can only have 1 plainswalker of any given name other than that looks pretty good
not to bad of advice, ive never lost with this deck, even beat a jace mill deck with it, made the guy deck out lol typicly i do but if i do go over a always keep the mana to spell ratio at 2 spells 1 mana and typicly a get eldrazi out turn 4 or sooner, depending on the draw order, ive been playing on and off sence 94, and realy tho only time i loose is when i get mana screwed, so maybe 1 out of 20 games give or take, this deck hasnt lost yet but to poison counters, hate those
seems a bit under mana but it should play ok