They rush across the battlefield, enraged warriors with weapons raised, shouting a battle cry as they rush towards the citadel of their enemy. Inside, another shout goes up, not a cry of battle, but a chant. Powerful spells are summoned and unleashed on the charging horde.
When brute strength is met with cunning tactics, who will emerge victorious? That, planeswalker, is up to you....
It's a familiar matchup in MtG: a creature-heavy deck trying to smack around a controlling deck on the other side of the table, trying to get in blows between countering and deflecting spells and abilities. This deck is the creature-heavy, bullrushing one. (The opposing deck is here: http://www.mtgvault.com/jre47/decks/duel-decks-wizards-vs-warriors)
Just like Wizards' Duel Decks, this is centered around one feature rare and contains primarily Modern-legal cards with some older ones mixed in (which, if printed, would get the new, current border and in some cases updated art as well). It also sticks to just a handful of rares and tends to go with a lot of one-ofs among other cards, with a small handful of key cards that may get multiple copies (and even then, usually only two). Each deck has the same number of rares and even uncommons in an attempt to keep them balanced. Also, unlike Event Decks and other feature decks from Wizards, Duel Decks lack sideboards. I tried very hard to keep with all those restrictions here... believe me, if this were your more typical constructed deck, it would look a lot different!
Unlike most of my Duel Decks thus far, neither of these decks feature a mythic rare as the "face" card. Wasn't my plan, but unfortunately there are no mythic Warriors that were A.) in the right colors for what I wanted to do or B.) interesting enough to headline the deck. So instead I settled on Lovisa Coldeyes as the primary rare (who would get new art if this were actually printed); her +2/+2 boost makes her sort of a super-lord and can really blow the opponent out of the water, which is what you want from your "general". The other rares are Ruric Thar the Unbowed, Radha Heir to Keld, Vengeful Firebrand, Unstoppable Ash, Petrified Wood-Kin, Stomping Ground, Raging Ravine, and Cavern of Souls. Definately some decent chase cards in there (especially the lands), but they're mainly all here to fit the Warrior theme; other than the lands, they ARE all Warriors!
There is some awesome tribal unity among Warriors, making parts of this deck very easy to assemble. Bramblewood Paragon not only boosts them, but gives them trample. Mudbutton Clanger and Winnower Patrol get bigger by having them on top of your library. Brighthearth Banneret makes them cheaper. Sosuke, Son of Seshiro basically gives them all deathtouch during your turn. And Boldwyr Intimidator can make them unblockable.
Lots of cards generate Elf Warrior tokens as well, allowing you to quickly grow your army to sizes even the best Wizard can't keep up with. Imagine a bunch of those tokens with Imperious Perfect around. Or even better, with Lovisa giving them all a +2/+2 boost. Ouch!
There's some specific hate for the opposing deck--Ruric Thar shuts down their tricks, Petrified Wood-Kin is very anti-blue, Mudbrawler Raiders can't be blocked by blue, Fever Charm is great at picking off Wizards specifically, etc.--but for the most part this deck attacks everyone the same way: brute strength. It bashes face until there is no more face to bash. The other deck has ways to slow it down, but eventually, a skilled player can use this deck to break through...and then break stuff.
I appreciate anyedback you can provide here, good or bad. How's the balance between the two decks? Anything I can improve? Any gaping holes that you see? Useful comments will get you +1 rep points and a virtual slap on the back. :-P
If you liked this, check out my other duel decks at "http://www.mtgvault.com/jre47/duel-deck". I have many already and they're expanding quickly. If you have any specific requests (planeswalker vs. planeswalker, theme vs. theme, race vs. race, or anything else), let me know and I'll see what I can put together.
Thanks for reading!