wickeddarkman

Now you notice ;)

Damn that's a big hammer
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Boredom is the mother of all invention.
We are bored, so invent with intent till our boredom is spent.

Yeah, no problem. I'll probably haunt you for a while. Such stalking. Much comment.

Heh, with 25 years in the game I see plenty of noob errors even in my friends decks and he's been both a Danish and a Swedish champion several times.

I have no idea why people forget those basic things!

But I've always been a harsh teacher, so you must be dissed too when I catch you.

There, I've made my first noobcamp deck.
It uses 16 lands, 44 common creatures and have so many lessons.

You're welcome.
I'm thinking about making some "new players" decks to cover the basics,
The vault is flooded with people who haven't got a clue
(No offence)

I've met so many new players at tournaments that got crushed because they were raised with kitchen table magic.

26 mana for some of the heavies, maybe even more

You need mana as high as 26 for those costly spells.

Okay, that mana is as tight as the bra of a bathing nymph!
With cost Angel's like that you need 24 lands at minimum, but you will be better of with 25-26.

Loxodon warhammer for life.

Martyr of frost for more countering.

I recommend the usual.
Steal some tech from my "project highlander" to squeeze in some added aggro.
I'd replace 6 swamps with the following:
1 æthervial
4 mutavault
1 blinkmoth nexus

Heh, and that might be the solution for the red part as well, there's barbarian ring and a cousin red land ind the Egyptian series as well :)

Also, supermagapanda, evolution favors symmetry, so as long as no color is a splash color, it pays to have an equal number of colors in the manadepartment.
Especially because any color needs at least 12 mana that produces their kind of mana if you want it to be rock solid. Go with 9 blue mana, 9 red mana and the 4 dials to have 13 sources in each color. Also don't go below 5 of each basic land, if your meta has bloodmoon.

You are slowing down mekkakat!
Build more decks...

Your call on the mana needed is actually good, but can be improved upon. I'd say 22 lands based on 10 years of experience with computer made manabase.

I can also refer to my own project highlander where the concept is to have 13 basic lands and the rest of the lands will be manlands and a single æthervial. Take a look at it to add more aggression to your deck.

Eidolon is fine, the secret to it is to cast it as the last card in hand to avoid it's effect, but if you face a deck that casts lots of cheap cards you cast eidolon early and take the suffering, knowing that the opponent suffers more.

Lackey and piledrivers will also fit the manland theme.

Browbeat is one of the worst cards in magic. First of all, it costs you 3 mana, which translates into a turn lost where you could have played something else. Second, odds will be that you draw 1 land and two other cards. You don't need that land so netgain is that you draw 2 cards, one of these will probably be something useless (another browbeat, sething song an extra mogg or similar)

About the mogg. It's a combo piece at best, so you don't want to draw it too often, and you don't want to miss out on it, which means that the perfect number is 3 moggs. That number is also based on experience. I've been playing since unlimited.

Damn phone, etymologist, not entomologist!
Proof of concept would be to see how many cities with Bern is by the ocean.

I'd also be interested in reading the assignment:)

Aw come on :)
It's not often that an entomologist gets to brag...

In European countries the word "bern" is part of several cities. The closest reference to what it means is the phrase "bernstein" which is amber.

In Danish books about etymology they tell you that Bernstein was probably once "burn stone" because amber can be burned as an incense. I pretty much disagree on this and refer to words like contubernalis (tentpartner) gubern (leader), hibern (vintercamp) and taberna (inn) all words with Bern in them and all sort of connected to a living space.

That means my take on Bernstein is that it's far more likely a camp-stone, because Roman settlements were pretty much all by the sea, and that's where you find amber!

I've been eating a bit so double check the text. I'm on a phone and it constantly autocorrects which could become a future breeding ground for memes.

I destinguish memes in two categories, wild and designed, and for some reason wild memes are much more powerfull but they also tend to spread less.

Glad you can use it, I have more similar stuff.

The weekdays of the latin era have influenced the modern times, but have become weakened. I can quickly write up a summation.

The closest thing in modern day to any latin references in language is "diablo" which means devil in Spanish. Looking through the Latin book we have "de abo leo" which in latin meant annihilation in every days tongue, but directly meant the Abyss of the lion. In modern view the devil is also referred to as "lucifer" which means "light bringer" Luci meant light, fer meant to bring. In latin 200 years after christ the only reference to a Lucifer by name is venus as a planet. At that time a thief/scoundrel was called a fur, so someone not so learned in latin might hear lucifer as lucifur (light thief) and think of a darker thing than venus. Thieves and their likes were often put in a cipher (a shouldershackle) people punished like that were called furcipher (a shackled thief) another close word was lucifugus (someone hiding from the light) so heathens learning latin and about Roman deities like hades might blend these words together, but we still miss a little more. Inferno means bring to, inferi are people in hades underworld, inferus means lower laying and nos means we or ego, so inferno would over time be blended together as hell. Lou means to pay for your debt/sins diaboluo would be the Abyss where you pay for all your sins.

Put it all together and you can see how the devil was born from language distortion and beliefs about hades and his underworld.

That my friend is a true example of how powerful memes are when not being controlled. Small changes in concepts and ideals bring total war to the world.

Another more known example is how Hitler misunderstood darwinism because of the phrase "survival of the fittest" if anything his unnatural selection lead to more fit Jewish DNA, which is hilariously funny if it wasn't so tragic.

And darwin didn't even coin the phrase "survival of the fittest"

The big question is what other concepts are out there to wreak havoc on the world?

I've found one in the Norwegian language, a word destroyed by christianity which if resurrected could revive the ways of the Vikings within modern frames.

But that's a story for another day.