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I am married to a Taiwanese woman :)

Good to see you laughing, I was dead-serious, though.

I would have cut the Spirit Links first. You should have the bigger creatures and the the opponent should be busy chump-blocking. I don't know about your card pool and budget contraints but if you have them, you could replace the Spirit Links with Vindicate and call it a day.

There are actually a lot of frogs in Magic. Plaxcaster Frogling, Whiptongue Frog, Crocanarua, Frogmite (which might fit in the actual build and most importantly: All the Anurid creatures have been errata'd and are frogs now. A quick database check says there are 18 different Frogs in Magic :)

Lightning Greaves - makes the deck both faster and more resilent. Artifact creatures aren't exactly hard to kill.

My request would be:
Do a budget-meta-deck: A budget deck that is made specifically to beat other budget decks! :)

Nobody stumbled over good halves? Or nobody ever actually tried to combine them?

First time I see a deck like this without running Electrolyze ...
... to make room I would cut Infinite Reflection (too expensive) and Burning Sands which is way too risky (read it again, it's an older card, it affects all players including yourself!).

Have a look at Gelectrode.

Wow, Polymorphist's Jest is an outstanding card! It will drive many players nuts in multiplayer.

He is correct again, you don't have to sacrirfice anything in this case. Phyrexian Dreadnought should go up in price once again.

He is correct. However, that creature still "enters play on your side" which means the creature has summoning sickness again.

If my wife ever wants to make a vacation in the states we could visit you and tap all night.

Oh ... just re-read Aura of Silence, it also affects all players now? Holy Moly, it does so since 2004 and nobody ever told me ...

Maybe because the cards that Zuran Orb goes will with (stuff like Balance and Armageddon) have been gone out of fashion as well. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I'll take the shot at the price tag of this deck as a challange to create a cheap lockdown deck^^

You know how it goes on this site, likes and comments flock together to some random decks and then just keep piling up.

But to be fair I forgot to add tags (which surely isn't the reason why this deck got unnoticed but I'll give the benefit of doubt :) )

There are also a lot of fake ones, so the number of Black Loti in circulation is not countable. But I am pretty sure the number of unopened displays is. And only displays count since boosters from Revised/Fallen Empires and earlier had different wrappings that allowed "scanning" for the rare.

Magic is a hobby, not a job. What you describe is a job. And I doubt you really make any profit if you count the hours you invest against it - unless you do that as a fulltime job. But there are so many people trying just that, the market is truly saturated. And most of them DO open boosters - tons of them.

Did you know that packs have patterns that aren't random? When you opened a few dozen displays you can do a "map". With that, you can open a sealed display, pick a certain booster that is on the indicator spot of that display (for example middle row, fifth on top), open it and then you know that is is display type #18 which contains rares X, Y and Z including their location. Sure, opening so many displays is a huge investment but the first one to do it can sell that map.
Then hundreds of shops and retailers open these displays, pick the good boosters and sell the remaining boosters in their shop or online. (That's why you should NEVER buy single boosters, especially not on Ebay, only SEALED displays!). And then the specualtion begins. By the time Joe Average opens his first packs, a big portion of the production is already in the binders of retailers and scalpers. And they open up with high prices. Almost EVERY hot card starts out high, maybe peaks a bit and then loses a lot of value in the coming weeks. (That's when I sell my hot cards).

In fact, this process means that WotC sells more product than is actually needed. The speculators and retailes open so many displays that the price for commons, uncommons and even average rares is so low these days, even if the card is standard legal. And the only way to win as a player is to not care about standard at all.

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About standard (still "Type II" for me :) ), I never really liked it, especially since block mechanics dictate what you can play so much.

No, that's what everybody does, if you play the market right, you don't play standard at all and sell all the expensive cards right after pulling them out of the booster. I usually sell the 5 or 6 most expensive cards right away when they are still about 10 euro each and then get rest of the display basically for free. Some years later I pick those that I like up again for a tenth of what I got.

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Of course, if I see a card that I know will probably play a role in Legacy or stay expensive for other reasons, I don't sell them right away.

On Stuffy Doll being cheap: It might combo well with lots of things but nothing of that is tournament worthy with the possible exception of Guilty Conscience. It costs 5 mana and that's too much for a card that doesn't do much on it's own (in the formats it is legal in). And in multiplayer, EDH and so on it gets overshadowed by the abundance of ridiculous creatures we have meanwhile, especially those pesky tramplers (they literally just run over a Stuffy Doll).

Having said that, 2 bucks is still a solid price - at least it is worth *something*. Most older cards have lost their value, the average rare costs a few cents. Look at Reins of Power, a card that turns every multiplayer game upside down, what is it worth? 60-70 US cents ...

Ugh? Why would you go for Pestilence AND Pyrohemia!? Both require colored mana to work, the result will be that you won't have enough mana for either. If you think that 4 Pestilence isn't enough you could add Thrashing Wumpus (but you don't even run 4 so what's the point?).

Also, both Pestilence and Pyrohemia require you to have creatures in play, otherwise they will be sacrificed at the end of turn. Your Magma Phoenix is no solution for that problem. And you run Soul Warden? AURIOK CHAMPION!!! But even with Auriok Champions you will still run into problems of maintaining the Pestilences. Yes, there is Light of Sanction, but honestly, that's one card too much just get running and way too fragile. You want to drive people nuts in multiplayer? Run Stuffy Doll in this ...

Blistegrub is fine but Guttersnipe? He will die the first time you activate your Pestilence and with just 9 sorceries he won't pay off until then. Grim Guardian would make more sense.

Then I don't see why you need 4 Holy Day. Either your deck works in which case your oppnents won't have much to attack with or it doesn't and if that's the case, Holy Day won't help you and just prolong the beating. Since you rely heavily on enchantments, I would expect Enlightened Tutor (Idyllic Tutor if on budget) in this slot. Or Academy Rector.

And you should probably run some enchantment/artifact removal yourself.

I had a hangover from celebrating :)