The Ultimate Deckbuild Challen

Looking forward to it

He (She? It?) works too, but I wanted to see what crazy counter decks people could come up with vs a really cool mana engine

yeah. which is why I didn't post it here. I am, however, working on a gilder bairn deck to post here.

Booyah!!!!

let me know what you think.

Hey kazzong let me know what you think of this
http://www.mtgvault.com/vizardmaster21/decks/gilder-saproling-reactor/

I already built a deck using this combo. I'm asking YOU to make your own and post it here. Get crackin!

oohhhhh.... I was thinking everyone was helping to build a single deck.
you where still editing the description when I posted.... I think... maybe.

ok here's mine then.
http://www.mtgvault.com/n810/decks/gilder-grounds/

Aside from Helix Pinnacle not working with the combo (damn that pesky shroud!), it looks fun! I do suggest upping the land count a bit and picking the better creature options in your deck to make it run smoother. Makes it more reliable

Really more land ?
I typically use 20 land when my average CC is 3.

Dang I thought I picked quality creatures a well....
any suggestions ?

was goofing around on youtube yesterday and found this guide on how many lands to put in your deck. thought it was interesting. it certainly is going to help me in my deck building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2LNWCpooY

Interesting, so he suggest 28 for my deck ... (seems a bit excessive IMHO)
but what do I discount for an infinite green mana combo ?

well mana producers each count as half a land. so...

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I managed To whittle it down to 26 land....
after limiting all the legendry's to 1 copy and reducing some of the
more mana intensive cards to 1 or 2 copies.

Curiously this also puts my creature count as 26 as well.
also I seem to have an equal amount of artifacts and enchantments.

Much better looking I think. You'll have less problems with drawing too little land and too expensive creatures now.

That, good sir, is savage. I was wondering what you were going for when I saw the Thallid, and then I was chuckling like a proud mad scientist when I saw your artifact selection. A+!!

my thanks. I am glad you approve.

can you check out my other training grounds deck? I won't post it here since it doesn't fit the deck challenge, but some feedback would be nice.
it is called suspended training.

if not, no problems. this was a fun challenge. :)

I shall go give it a peek. The name intrigues me

thanks. :)

In that case, make a deck that uses that combo and post it here. That's the point of this "deck", to get people to share ideas!

That my good sir, is a well put together piece of sexy. I like the usage of crackdown construct. I would suggest a different hydra though. There are many different selections that are much better, such as Mistcutter Hydra, which has the awesome bonus of haste and pro blue. Or you could go with Endless One and bypass the mana requirement entirely, at the cost of protection for the creature. Just my two cents

Your ideas are great, but the emphasis of the deck is abilities. Feral Hydra has a 3 mana ability to give itself a +1/+1 counter which works well with Crackdown. Also, if I combine that with the Bracers it will allow to trigger the ability twice for one mana.

Fair point. Was just my thoughts on it

They were still nice ideas ;)

http://www.mtgvault.com/keegang/decks/bairncoco-modern/ if you want it to be modern legal

I like them both. I'm a bit more intrigued with the possibilities in the second one

Yea tutor of the vault is less "serious" for sure. It can work but it's probably not going to be as fluid as the saproling deck. It can work though. Basically if it goes off it should do "everything" infinitely more or less.
I am pretty sure now having thought about it I will build a third one that focuses on artifact creatures that use counters like walking ballista.

I've also been toying with a new build myself. But every time a new deck gets shared here it makes me question what I'm doing with my own. It's wonderfully infuriating lol

lol... I know the feeling.

Got two more decks coming around this concept. It occurred to me that you can make a big rainbow deck by using utopia mycon and cryptolith right (or perhaps just utopia mycon). There is always also gemstone array and astral coronucopia which I have already used but I may try going with just one color production mechanic and seeing how it works. Would give me more slots for the nasty things.

So it will be that and the hangerback+ballista deck.