You want to play? That's cute

Lol i just love how you could totally lock somebody starting turn 6
Turn 1: Forest
2: Island and Murmuring Phantasm
3: Forest and Axebane (fog f needed)
4: Plains, Elite Arcanist, Exile Silence (fog if needed)
5: Island, Elite Arcanist, Exile Silence, Angelic Wall/Murming Phantasm/gatecreeper (fog if needed)

Wow I didn't notice that. Good work!

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wow. the best I can do is 15 mana starting on turn six

nice deck, you may add cyclonic rift to bounce the creatures of your opponent

turn 5 opponent plays supreme verdict

i would drop the murmmering phantasm and add dissipate or negates

yes the deck can be countered, so can any other deck

instead there must be better draw card instead of divination something that would let you draw on your oppenents turn so you can have mana for your arcanist or fog

until sept i would pick sphinxs revelation or think twice

if i have defenders with axebane i shoudl have all the mana i need, if i don't im probably dead anyways, and i only need 1 mana saved for arcanist

ad curiosity for mizzt

add lol .

thats not the infinite combo Niv....Curiosity isnt bad on him, but its better on Firemind

Not to mention in the same set as a creature version of isochron scepter and thanks

You know there were a few ppl from woc were laughing when they did that, they just went, you know what i hate isochron scepter, lets make it standard and throw silence in there ha

EXACTLY!!!!

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hmm fair enough, ill make 6 of the other 3 and 2 gates with red

They still get to cast one spell, where here i can theoretically lock them completely

Curse of Exhaustion could be a good backup, since if you're playing against control they only get 1 spell per turn, in case your Silence gets countered or the mage dies. It also keeps you from banking too heavily on a single creature with a single spell.

Nono they cast a spell and because of possibiity storm the spell gets exiled, and then they search for a spell in their library for a spell that shares the same type, and cast it for free. But becasue of curse of exhaustion they do not get to cast it at all. With Silence if they have any instant speed spells they can play them on top of silence.

well the one spell they do get to cast for sure with possibility storm and that could be death where as instants have a much harder time of doing that

when you have both enchantments out, they do not get to cast anything at all, they cast the spell then it is exiled off the stack and because they can't cast more than one spell a turn via curse of exhaustion they are locked down with nothing but what is on the field

Daylight speaks the truth.

the opponent can still cast spells while silence is on the stack, so it is not a complete lock, making posibility storm/curse of exhaustion a better lockout. I have a buddy running a Possibility storm deck. it doesnt win often, but its funny when it does.

thank you

I like having those 2 drop defenders, easier to get out, and forbidden alchemy will be cycling out in september, this is made with m14 and return to ravnica block only

in that case, would rather have oppurtunity than sylvan primordial. that pure card advantage is king

i think i agree so to Morgoth above Hover Barrier is in

ooo that mana curve got thrown off a bit though :/

im hoping itll be fine, plus this deck is a huge longshot anyways so i dont really mind

the more gimmicky the deck the more it needs to be on point with the curve in my experience. other goodstuffs decks can roll with it cause of their inherent card advantage, but you're playing with walls mate. consistency will win you more games than your gameplan unless elite arcanist is just so mindblowingly broken that it doesnt matter.

Since it's a defender deck with its win-condition at the high end, I don't think the mana curve is going to be a problem. If this were an aggro/fast deck that wants to drop something every single turn I could see more cause for concern, but once that Hover Barrier lands, it's going to stop just about anything they can throw at you and is almost impossible to burn without wasting a damn good card.

good point. the axebane guardians do a lot of work in this deck

Precisely guys

The Axebane Guardians can definitely push out one of the 3 huge creatures rather quickly, while your walls hold things in place. It's possible that a very early aggro push could do some serious damage but if you can get up 2 or 3 walls you can probably keep yourself alive long enough to drop one of the monsters.

They realize it, but It could still be fun, that's the point of it. Not just to win, fun as well

Fair enough. I cant deny its pretty cool a combo like this exists in standard now. >:D

That's also why there's the giant monsters at the top of the mana curve. If they spend their removal trying to stop you from getting the Elite Arcanist working, it'll clear the way for things like Utvara.

Sure i get that. All i'm saying is that A) its not an actual "lock" and B) you have to be more precise when playing silence than just saying " on your turn i silence you" Unfortunately some knowledge of the stack and timing are needed, and i was only trying to help.

I don't see this deck being super competitive, though i admit the combo is pretty cool for standard. But like Daylight said, a real lock already exists in standard.

I dont understand why someone posting "this is great idea lulz!!!' gets an upvote, but someone explaining how the card works so we dont have a standard format full of kids trying to use Silence like a counterspell gets downvoted....THAT, my friends, is whats wrong with this site.

i voted it up, so now they are 0

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every build has flaws. yours wont be perfect either. thats how the game was designed, and why its the perfect model of a CCG that has withstood the test of time

What about a couple fog banks ? a couple quicker good blockers ! Check a couple of my recent decks if you have a moment thanks !

they're cycling out

sounds good to me

yep. Fog Bank is a smaller drop and a better card.
:)

Fog bank is cycling out come september as far as we know

ya but it's very good for now in this deck.

Use it till September then, and put hover barrier on sideboard when fog bank goes out !

Sure, y not. :)

fog bank is not strictly better than hover barrier. you seem to forget that its 0/2 makes it VERY vulnerable to Pillar, Shock, spear, ect. sure, fog bank absorbs all combat damage, but think about what happens between turn 2 and 3. not much. getting the extra 4 toughness on turn 3 can stop creatures up until about turn 6-7, when they can play something serious enough to hurt Hover Barrier, and its much tougher to burn out, costing 2 spears or 3 shocks...

i would much rather have 2 fog banks out by turn 3 then 1 hover barrier. But I agree with what u said. :)

and then Boros Charm.....whats your point?

http://www.mtgvault.com/xxxeleshnornxxx/decks/a-storm-to-remember/
http://www.mtgvault.com/blackrazz/decks/you-make-my-sliver-deck/

I think you have this page mixed up with general M's page.

Iso
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2009/10/22/elliott/666px-Trainwreck_Strain.jpg
Scepter

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oops, sry, was typing too fast. isochron scepter XP

Won't be standard

No problem

u should add jace

freed from the reel isnt standard. if he wanted to combo off for infinite mana in a gimmicky deck, he fwould have build Axebane Guardian/Galvanic Alchemist with defenders.

been there done that

And fog for syncopate. Needed some countering

Hey Landon can u check out my decks

Sure thing but how do u know my name? Lol

Sorry bro but u don't have any decks that I really know a lot about. Try looking for decks similar to yours with a lot of likes. That's what I do

Noy standard and I already know bout infinite mana and this deck doesn't need it