Jessie

I will honestly just have to play it by ear.
Between college, wife, and kids...it is hard to pen down a certain time. It is 1:00am here.
I am usually on at nights. Meaning, I am usually on around this time.
But I am sure we can find enough time to play a game.

Who knows. But i like it for it being original. Have to hand it him for that.

I might be able to find the time, sure.

http://www.mtgvault.com/hipponox/decks/pikachu-i-choose-you/

Not smoking anything, at this moment, Hydra.

Yeah. Most places want money in order for you to play online. Others are illegal/unreliable.

Other ways like using Skype...or this website...is very tedious and impractical.
Possible...just tedious and impractical.

What i do, if i see a really good deck...that i think can beat one of my better decks is:
I use Magic Vault. I do sample draw on my deck and their decks. And I play both sides. Try to be fair. And see which one wins. But that is flawed...because they may play their own decks different than how I would.

Some of these decks make my head hurt too...lol. What happened to good old decks that ran 4/4 and 5/5 creatures with Trample or Flying?

Joking aside, loops and combos can be fun.

Nice, Gothy. :)

So, I am guessing that you have or need to build a snake deck, kazzong. You seem to be on the right path, for sure!!

Didn't notice at first, so focused on the Snake Basket idea..that the lorescale card was so strong. But looking at it now, Howling Mine rocks with him.

But yes, since the Snake Basket is gone...i probably have too much mana ramp...and it could be replaced with some of the cards you suggested.

I really am so lazy...built dozens of decks in the last 2 months...and have tested very little of them, and haven't really even tried to make them better.

I do not play yogioh...so this is an honest question, is that a real card?

And actually, a well liked deck on this site, has pikachu (i think) as the main win condition. Pretty sure i am not making that up. The guy has pikachu in the deck, and is playing a magic card that reads, "add any mana to your mana pool." And he is adding thunder mana...or some crap.

Maybe i am mistaking, and it is on another site. Because I don't even think pokemon/yugioh cards are options on this site.

Will look into them.

That is why, by far, my favorite decks/cards are blue bounce. And that is why Mtg does not make really amazing bounce cards like they did in the past.

Bounce absolutely destroys combos/designed decks. For sure, for sure.

Okay. Took out Snake Basket, added in Divination. It is Modern Legal now...not that I worry about such stuff.

That does suck.

Hell yeah!

Very possible card.

In theory, that could work. You put it on your opponent's creatures. Then, when you cast Shared Fate and your opponent gets to use Runner's Bane against you...he won't have any creatures to cast it against. At least until, Puschkin starts casting creatures from his opponent's deck.

I definitely like his idea. It shows much promise.

" I tried to discourage them picking my library by not including anything useful. Then I realized how devastating this concept would be in a 1-on-1 situation where my opponent has no other choice than to pick me ..."

That is brilliant. You build a deck of nothing, for them to play, and you let them build an amazing deck...and play from it.

It needs small changes...the biggest being what you said an issue was...how to put in cards that kill/bounce their threats they got out BEFORE you cast Shared Fate. As you said, if you put in a lot of good removal spells...they can use them too, once the Shared Fate is out. Almost...just maybe...you could look at something that disrupts basic land/mana from being used? Allowing you to use your bounce/removal cards without fear that they may use them back on you.

Another small issue...all of your artifacts that produce mana...they will get to access them after you cast Shared Fate. Not sure how big of an issue that is/will be.

Definitely, as you noted, you need some sort of removal or bounce. 4 turn until you have you card...that is a lot of turns for them to put some nice cards on the board.

Would Divination pump up caotl once or twice?

I do not own it...just designed it on this site :)

It looks super good, i think, looking at the deck list. But i haven't even tested it. Sad but true.
Think is, i have been on this made rush to make decks. Several decks. I think I have ran out of ideas/steam though. What i need to go and do is test all of the new decks against each other, and see which ones are strong/need work. I did that with my Creature Challenge decks...and gave up on it. Blah. Need to go back to them too.

Thanks, if you enjoyed the deck. Ravenclaw was too difficult! The colors are blue and gold. Animal is eagles. Wise. Smart.

Thing is, the only eagles in Magic are white. No blue eagles. So...got stuck with doing all 4 houses of Harry Potter.