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This deck features surprise burst card draw combos to overwhelm with CA and one-shot combat tricks. It is a budget deck (~$30) and I do not expect it to win tournaments. The deck will be used to teach advanced MTG rules and strategies to middle and high school students (they love shiny combos). Given that, I would love suggestions, provided they do not alter the deck's cost (teacher's salary, remember?).
Step 1: Get creatures out and get them counters through Evolve, card draw (Lorescale), and spells.Step 2: Then begin the combos...[Lorescale + card draw]- used with Take it will draw cards and return your counters. For 3CMC it will often draw 4-6 cards. Fuse Give onto a Fathom Mage for even more fun.[Fathom Mage + counters]- Evolve or 4 spell options to get bigger and draw a little.[Fathom Mage + double counters]- with Invigorating Surge or Tanazir can make her massive and draw a silly amount of cards.Combat tricks:Attack then add counters with instants. (+3 to Fathom Mage is also +3 to Lorescale).Attack then Bioshift counters to an unblocked attacker (Cloudfin Raptor).Attack with Tanazir and others (maintain priority) then Bioshift counters to Tanazir. They all become as big as he is.Ranger's Guile and Inspiring Call give some protection with a touch of synergy.If someone exiles your Fathom Mage with 8 counters on it just Momentous Fall and draw 8+ cards and heal for 8+. Then watch your Lorescale that was a 2/2 seconds ago still swing in for 10.
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NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.
I wish I had a teacher that taught MTG, also I would swap thornwood falls with the temple it's only 35 euros
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Love it; it has been switched. The amount of math and thinking involved in MTG is underappreciated.
Depends how advanced you are and the kind of deck, like a casual burn player probably won't think all that much but a really competitive scales player will do a lot of math.
I have a deck progression I work students through that builds the complexity of thinking and math, and you are exactly right. I even have separate burn decks; one is all sorceries (Magnivore and Lava Axe, oh yeah) and the next builds in instants. The complexity spike that being able to respond at instant speed, and having to hold back your mana for the chance, is something I have seen many new players struggle with. Its like in chess when you learn to start thinking moves ahead and seeing your opponents perspective. I have several decks with complex math on purpose. One is a ridiculous defender deck with lots of X mana costs (Axebane Guardian, Overgrown Battlement, Clan Defiance) where I require the player to keep a chart with a record of how much mana they have available each turn.
So you work this into your math class and it's not just an afterschool thing? Just wondering what type of school do you teach at? ex Middle school
Middle school. And I wish, but no, it is before school, during study hall, sometimes lunch, and in an afterschool club or program. Currently I don't do it any time, because of COVID. I follow Arena to stay current, but its the cards in my hands and the person across from me that I enjoy about this game, aside from the deck-building theory crafting endless timesink nonsense.
Still I wish I had a teacher like that.