Gothy

You're a control deck, you don't actually want blockers, you want removal, murderous cuts, downfall, bile blight and silence the believers are all good cards for you, Prognasty Sphinx is filthy here, and until fate reforged, Aether Spouts can be your mass removal spell. Creature wise I would suggest Prognostic Sphinx, Caryatid and Courser, possibly Sidisi for value, and I love a 1 of Garruk Apex Pred just for pure value

You don't need to drop in low cmc blockers, you just want road blocks and enough removal before you hit something huge and out-class them, lose the low toughness creatures and put in Drown in Sorrows, to get the best from wealth it is great in a devotion shell, so cards like arbor colossus, which is a big old road block, Kiora handles the midrange big threats, tighten up the one drops, cut the chaff and reap that wheat!

The Jeskai deck will be the player, watch someone like Jadine Klomparens playing it, she plays so gracefully, it is very impressive! Blue control is not in the meta to my knowledge, but villainous wealth, empty the pits and hand disruption would take it down. Heroic, its worth going into a more controlling shell- courser caryatid with the anti-aggro all-star Drown in Sorrow. What else do you want to beat?

Having a decent discard suite of thoughtseize and despise is powerful, I like a 3-2 split, but that is enough disruption, Empty the Pits can be a FANTASTIC card, but you need the right meta for it? Whats your meta? Like the decks I described or is it different?

The ghost of Gothy compels you! Basically the deck is a bit all over the place, the deck would do better to warp closer to a Sultai Whip/control list, Ashiok would slip in well, and if you want to get competitive, take a moment to think of the decks you will face and how to beat them: Sultai Whip, Abzan aggro/midrange/whip, Mardu Midrange, W/U heroic and Jeskai Tokens/fireworks. It seems that you would struggle with most of these decks, but the card that knocks most of these decks onto the ropes is hornet queen, also another move it to go down the Bennie Hill style path of villainous wealth, because if the tier 1 decks can play a range of amazing cards, why not just have their's? Also if a card is good (looking at you empty the pits) its worth playing more than 1, even if you are controlling

Cheers Puschkin, have a great one

OK, it was nice using the vault, but I'm gonna stop now, good bye everyone

I do do a lot of that, thanks for the points though, seems crazy that genuinely powerful decks that could do awesome on the competitive scene not getting any credit, which makes me a bit sad

Don't you love double posts xD

Ye I see what you mean man, I have had similar experiences as you, although yikes those 3 guys sound good!!! The thing is, I want to stay on the vault and see non-pros put twists on decks (something I try to do a lot) and it just makes me feel a tad out of place on the site, which doesn't feel right

someone literally just showed me one lol

Spark Jolt though? 1 mana for a damage and a scry? Sounds like a waste of space, i'd be using magma jet, and would soulfire work with volcanic fallout?

Cheers, which one is it?

Sorry, I did kinda realise but I wanted to show that I don't want magic to become: my wallet is bigger than yours

The money wasn't the issue, its the deck quality, and that is illegal everywhere

That is my biggest bug-bear though, casual should be judged as any other format, similar to EDH I would have said, is this series for new players? If it is, casual might not be the best format for a new player, I had a friend who joined me as a tourney buddy, but then I didn't play for a while because of exams, when I got back he was getting into casual, and slowly but surely his game play decreased, the last tournament he played in, he came dead last using Boss Sligh in a decent meta game for the deck to prey on, playing casual had ruined the edge he had had, the number of errors and blunders he made was shocking comparing him to before, that's why casual is soured to me.

I think you're wrong that standard doesn't bring laughter, the most fun in magic I have is around my friends at FNM playing standard or modern, sure during a close game we get serious because we're thinking of outs, there is a reason that Wizards pushes standard (apart from to line their own pockets) because that's how they see it being played, and I'm inclined to agree. Whenever someone says casual deck, it usually seems a by-word for not very good, and I actually love budget decks, but its not like we can all be Jacob Van Oouton (Probably mis-spelt his name). As I (probably) stated previously budget decks can be great, I went 3-1 at FNM with something that cost like £15, but the thing was it was powerful. I'm not saying never ever build budget or casual decks, I just feel that being budget is an excuse to not be good, and this eldrazi deck isn't good. It is such a shame we haven't had similar tournament experience, because I've made good friends out of opponents at WMCQs and PTQs, and maybe during the game we didn't laugh, but afterwards we laugh, exchange stories and invite each other to events and lament our losses and possible outs, and try and help each other. I remember playing a lvl 2 judge at a Theros PTQ (so it was M14 packs) in round one, first thing he did was get out his playmat: Theros PTQ Top 8, I asked him about it, he had come 2nd... I shat myself! We played 3 wonderful games of magic, with serious counter spell bluffing from me, but when the dust settled and I had won, he came with me to my friend (it was his birthday) and helped him improve his deck, even though there was a chance he might be about to play him. The TO actually gave my friend boosters for free because it was his birthday (Axion games if you're wondering who ran it) but that judge and I are still friends to this day, and I look forward to my next judged tournament so that I can catch up with him. I have hundreds of stories like this, I've never experienced someone rude, overly competitive or arrogant at a big tournament, but maybe I'm just lucky. If we may come to an agreement? Maybe I can try and hunt down some budget decks (I did a series of £5 decks for last standard) and you could try and experience some standard or modern tournaments and I'm sure that we would find that both have a lot of good stuff

Honestly, if new players just play casual, I can't see them improving, and while budget decks reign supreme, vault won't reach its potential

I only have my crazy version of going infinite with Mikaeus and Triskelion, but I'll build one tomorrow morning, it uses urza's tower, mine and power plant to generate 7 mana allowing t3 Karn or wurmcoil and turn 6 emrakul after oblivion stoning their board, it also uses cards to find those lands so it is more consistent, the deck is amazing!

Damn it man you make the clear points I was trying to make sound beautiful! You wordsmith you! But I have tried to do that, all my decks try and educate and introduce the meta and I would be happy to invest the time, but people ignore it, sure I always get 1-2 likes but not enough to be on the hot age to reach the highest number of people