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Or I could use the green leyline that gives +0/+1, it stands a chance of being played for free :p

Early defence is a problem, but this deck was designed for multiplayer where politics should keep me alive long enough to get the combo out :p

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into them

Lol, that'd be funny :p

The best part about Liquimetal + artifact hate is that I can kill almost anything, but I'll try lower the number for some Ancient Stirrings :p

They're both good cards and I'll use the Ancient Grudge (if I can get any).

One of the state based affects make it so that if a creature has -1/-1 counters and it gets +1/+1 counters then you remove equal amounts of each from the creature, so the persister will come back from the grave with a -1/-1 counter and Juniper will put a +1/+1 counter on it resulting in it losing both.

Normally I'm against that artifact, but it'll work very nicely in this deck, thanks for the suggestion.

But with Shatter I can target creatures if need be.

Glad to see I've got some fans :D I originally designed this to prove that land destruction can be done in standard, but now that I'm actually going to build it I'll be modifying it ALOT to get speed and consistancy (with the help of playtesting). Speed and consitancy are the biggest hurdles for most decks :p

Like I said earlier, I wasn't planning on actually making this deck, but seeing as how popular it's gotten I'll put it together and try out some of the ideas I've been given here. Pyroclasm will be one of the 1st.

From what I can see, the familiars make things cheaper and because of this, Priest of Gix and Recurring Nightmare make a mana loop that then gets pumped into Exsanguinate.

The cards you suggested aren't standard and that the challenge I set myself with this deck 'standard' land destruction.

I see what you mean. I'll play around with a few ideas and see how they turn out.

Valakut ramp can't do much without the Valakuts out and Liquimetal Coating + artifact hate should take care of most anything else Valakut ramp can use to hurt me (like the green titan) :p

I'm going to actually try put this deck together and try out some of the things people suggested here, so I'll take a look at some other artifact mana and try get a balance that doesn't affect the speed of the deck.

I lol'd at the deck name :p

Thanks, I like it when people like my deck ideas :p

I currently can't afford any so they don't make it into any of my deck designs.

I already knew about it, but the challenge I put to myself in this deck was to make it standard.