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*sigh* It seems whenever I put up a challange or ask for help it is almost never answered. I wonder why :P

It's too constraining a challenge. "Make a deck around Drop of Honey and Sorceress Queen" seems fun. Add the Arabian Nights (only?) constraint and people who aren't familiar with Arabian Nights cards (like me) won't be as willing to do it. Add the "Earthbind" constraint and you're just asking us to make bad decks. Earthbind doesn't synergize with the other two at all, and forces you to add a third color.

Well this is what I came up with:

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=209307

Also, your 'challenge' is not really in the spirit of this sub forum. This sub forum is about posting a synergy or a creativity restraint and asking people to design a deck around it. Your restrictions are difficult to build around, require people use an obscure and old set, and more or less makes it impossible to build something good, even by kitchen table standards.

Well I asked before to build a deck around my favorite card Earthbind without any other restrictions. Free to do what they will. But no... That simple thing is too hard.

[QUOTE=Pauliuk]Well I asked before to build a deck around my favorite card Earthbind without any other restrictions. Free to do what they will. But no... That simple thing is too hard.[/QUOTE]

Well, how exactly do you build a deck around Earthbound? A deck based around giving your opponents evasion doesn't exactly seem too smart... Besides, its color and wording makes it very awkward to use. Since it deals damage instead of giving -2/-2 or -0/-2, you should probably run it in a burn-ish deck. Which is fine in red. Except, you need targets with flying, so your basically forced to run blue to actually make Earthbind useful. But then you hit the question of why not just go UG and actually kill things instead of damaging them?

Your current challenge make this worse, by requiring 2 more cards (which, although they are good together, do nothing with Earthbind) in 2 more colors, with doesn't include blue, but does include a color where there are plenty of better cards to play than Earthbind (search green cards with text: "with flying").

EDIT: I'm unsure how you will take this, so let me say I mean no insult or attack by the above. I am simply listing the reasons why I personally, along with most deck builders, would likely not attempt such a challenge

Finally, flying is not that common in eternal play. I would hazard a guess that Exalted is the most common keyword in extended play, but no one would play "destroy target creature with exalted", let alone build a deck based around it