Kazzong

interesting. hadn't taken planeswalkers into account, as most of my playgroup doesn't like/use them. hm... um... spell pierce should be ok, but perhaps I will sideboard a hard counter for those in particular. :)

my biggest issue with hard counters is that they are usually more expensive mana-wise if you want the same flexibility as something like spell pierce or mana leak.

that is what I keep hearing. :(
win some and lose some I guess. perhaps another card will come out to replace it.

1 mana. :) interesting choice for standard. I like it.

interesting take on splinter twin.
I like Kiki-Jiki with deceiver exarch. pretty cool.

I designed a splinter twin deck as well. but it probably isn't as competitive as this one.

Interesting. I like aven mindcensor. very useful card.

I know that Blood moon is good here, but I am wondering if the hindrance that it gives you is worth it. (not denying the impact at all.)
personally I really like to run Mana Web for land control, which I think might be good here as well. unless you are keeping this modern... :(

oh yeah. Linvala is such an amazing card.

yeah, that is what I mean. a lot of Zendikar has become staple cards. and it isn't really the block stuff, but the individual cards that have made an impact. (minus allies, as they are only good in ally decks. still powerful though.)

the funny thing is this is version one of this, and he is working on a faster and hopefully more... competitive version. should be good. :)

I made a deck similar to this. discard can be very fun.

you could run steel sabotage or stifle in SB instead.

stifle for if you have a way to destroy it after it is out. I think Steel sabotage would be better.

perhaps personal tutor?

yeah... that was another thing that I didn't get when I first started playing... I felt almost cheated when I opened a fetch land or other rare land. I traded most of them without realizing how valuable they are/were/were going to be.

stupid me. same with progenitus and Nicol Bolas, planeswalker... yeah, traded that essentially for garbage. felt so stupid... :(

Puschkin, the further back that I look, the less recursion I see, and the more solid and permanent the graveyard is with a few exceptions. I guess that I can kinda see how it is in response to that...

either way I think that both are too commonplace.

To Gothy.
O.o... those are good, but they can't win the game by themselves. they are purely support cards that allow you to make everything better.

also, I never said Zendikar block was the best, just that on a per card basis, it had the most powerful single cards. emrakul and Iona say hi.

that is what I was told.

and see, I felt the same way about allies and landfall, and look how wrong I was about that...
that block was considered the most OP block to have been printed.

Lol... I know the feeling.

however, as far am aware, only certain things can be manifested. or I could be wrong.

wow... that is crazy lucky my friend. :)

I guess we shall see what becomes of it. it is, at the very least, interesting. :)

I see that is the best combo, but anything with spot removal should have no trouble beating that at all. and RDW should be running lots of burn spells that can hit creatures as well as players.

Not that there is anything particularly wrong with this build. :) I have never really been able to create good Standard decks myself. closest that I came was a Selesnya populate deck that was semi-decent. never got the best cards for it either. :(

either way this deck gets a like from me.