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As the title says, my first attempt at a Standard deck in 12 years. Two decks that gave me ideas: Northyhttp://www.mtgvault.com/northernwarlord/decks/budget-decks-jessies-m15/craigareyhttp://www.mtgvault.com/craigarey/decks/shandalar-doom/Mad props out for them. Tried to take, from each of their decks, the best of the best. FYI: this deck is entirely done in M15 cards. So, if you want to suggest cards...keep that in mind.
Win conditions:1) Ensoul Artifact. Pop him (preferably on your Darksteel Citadel) on your artifacts, and go to town!2) Shrapnel Blast. Pop him (preferably on your Scuttling Doom Engine) on your artifacts, and go to town! 3) Scuttling Doom Engine. Him and Polymorphist's Jest are best friends. Makes him unblockable. 4) Make your stuff indestructible. Soul of New Phyrexia can make all of your cards indestructible, even from the grave. Combos well with Ensoul Artifact. Fun!Things that help my Win condition:1) Draw power. Topdecking sucks so I added Divination.2) Creature hate. Circle Flame/Polymorphist's Jest will nuke ALL OPPONENT'S CREATURES. 3) Counterspells/Bounce. No Blue Mage goes home without them. Dissipate will counter those pesky threats your opponent has. Void Snare will bounce their threats (and save your best cards).
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Tell me what you think. Be kind...it has been a long time. lolJoking aside, this is my first attempt at standard in 12 years.And positive advice would rock!
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I like this standard deck a whole bunch! It is pretty affordable even! You have some good combo's in here too
A lot of people are trying to make Artifacts a thing in Standard, me included. If I had to say a few things it would be that Circle of Flame and Polymorphist's Jest are more sideboard cards as they don't have a lot of guaranteed reach, you'd usually board them in for game two and/or three depending on what you're playing against. Dissipate, Divination, and Void Snare are good cards, but those slots could be used a bit more productively to make your way for your bigger creatures, and could even be replaced with cards that would make your creatures much bigger threats like Haunted Plate Mail.http://www.mtgvault.com/alayjo95/decks/rug-artifacts/Here's a list of an Artifact deck I've been working on, it's more heavily centered on R/G with a splash of U, but there are some things in it that you may want to consider, heck maybe we can even help each other with our decks.
I need to test play mine first. I love the Circle of Flame/Polymorphist combo. Potentially board swipe their creatures for 5 mana. Not too shabby. Will check out your deck, for sure.I hope you didn't think my deck sucked too badly. I never make Standard decks. :)
No not at all, I like it. The Cirlce of Flame/Polymorphist's Jest combo is great, but doesn't exactly hit everything. I use it too, but I sideboard it so I can put them in game two and/or three if I'm versing a deck that they're better suited for.
Actually if you're looking more into the Cirlce of Flame/Polymorphist's Jest combo, a great card that can be used alongside them that also gives you draw power is Bident of Thassa. For two mana you can force your opponent's creatures to attack, and whenever you deal damage with a creature you draw a card, not to mention it's also an Artifact that you can sacrifice to Shrapnel Blast and enchant with Ensoul Artifact.
Trying to keep the deck fully M15. But yes, that would be a brutal card in this deck. For sure! Nice suggestion.
In that case, Haunted Plate Mail would be a great card for this deck. It can be a 4/4 body to block and/or attack when you have no other creatures. It can equip to your Ornithopters to make them 4/6 Flyers or even make them 9/9 Flyers if you have Ensoul Artifact on them. You can equip it to make your Ensoul Artifact-ed Darksteel Citadels into 9/9's with indestructible, your Soul of New Phyrexia into a 10/10 with trample! It's such a good card for the deck that I'd highly recommend.
Well, it is still a standard card, if that is your requirement. Or are you just building an M15 set deck, and not standard in general?I shall look at M15 add see if I can help you out with this deck. :)
I seen it in your deck. Very nice. Will sideboard it so i can play test it.
I was going with M15...but honestly, it was just an attempt at Standard. I haven't done one in a really long time. Any suggestions Kazzong, you are a really solid deck builder...so you recommend good cards. It doesn't have to be from M15...I guess. Same with Alayjo95. He gave some solid advice, which I appreciate. His deck and mine are close alike, for the most part.
I find aqueous form to be useful with ornithopter and ensoul artifact. Turn 1, ornithopter, island, aqueous form on ornithopter, turn 2, ensoul artifact. 5/5 flying unblockable that let's you scry when you attack. Bident of thassa also works very well for draw card with this combo. Really like your deck and I love the polymorphist's jest/circle of flame combo.
Thank you. Will return the favor and look at a few of your decks.
nice combo de engine and the jest, adding it to my deck
I don't think that you have quite enough removal to deal with things like aggro and tokens. That being said though, overall this looks like a relatively good deck. Building standard isn't all that different from building any other legality, the only real difference is the restrictions on the cards you can use
Problem is that removal is hard for Blue and Red. For Blue we have Rapid Hybridization but that's going out soon, and Red's burns just miss so many targets in Standard. With Mizzium Mortars rotating out Red is losing its range. Lightning Strike's miss Courser of Kruphix, Polukranos, Stormbreath Dragon, Desecration Demon/Master of the Feast. Unless you're playing burn removal is hard for these kind of decks, so we have to take different approaches.
Yeah. I would have said try some Lightning Strike, Cyclonic rift, Magma Jet, Voyage's End... All the common control/burn items but it's M15 only. Being a black player, I always have access to massive amounts of removal and torture an opponent ust for the lols. All that said, a burn spell in replace for Shrapnel Blast could be nice, or use 2 of each
Well the thing is Shrapnel Blast is this deck's best potential removal spell. With so many artifacts to target, casting it is not difficult. It's 5 damage that can be dealt straight to the opponent or to one of their big creatures, not to mention its synergy with Scuttling Doom Engine and Soul of New Phyrexia.
Thanks for discussing this :) Glad to get both of your intakes. S0rin, yeah...maybe I am relying too much on Dissipate and Void Snare as well as the Jest/Circle of Flame combo. But i do need the Shrapnel Blast in the deck. Thanks for both of your takes on it.
Any time! You kind of made a hard thing to improve on using only M15, but I would still suggest looking for more control/removal even if it's Theros and RTR and sideboarding them for now
Glad to help in any way. Really want to see more decks like this instead of the typical metagame decks that are boring to play with and against
An interesting format and decks are the Standard Prince decks. Not only are they budget, it is also a fairly fast and exiting game mode! I have a standard constellation for a Prince league that hasn't lost yet against other Prince decks and others are using things like America scry and Junk (what I can only assume to be) Weenies. Although the Boros Heroic is just very popular everywhere
I'm not too familiar with 15 core set so I can't offer too much advise but it looks like its a awesome deck
Thank you.
This deck would be a lot more powerfully if you used other sets that are in standard , just saying
I am sure you are right :)
This is actually quite competative... ...very nice for a 1st try!.. :)Your really should use other sets, cuz there isn't a format called M15 constructed... :)
Me and Northernwarlord challenged each other to make decks using only Urza Saga expansion (my favorite expansion, fyi) cards. THEN someone asked me to make a Standard deck. So, I thought why not do the same thing, why not make a Standard deck using only M15 cards (the newest expansion, before Khans came out).
I see... ...for a deck only using core set cards, it's amazing!.. ...love the comboe with Jest & Circle....... :)You should really try & perfect it using other sets...
Also check the combo out with Jest and Doom Engine. Jest makes Doom Engine unblockable. :)Have Doom Engine in play.And 5 mana.Pay 3 mana for Jest. Attack with Doom Engine (he is unblockable). Opponent takes 6 damage.Pay 2 mana for Shrapnel Blast on Doom Engine. Opponent takes 5 damage.The Doom Engine goes to the graveyard. Opponent takes 6 more damage. 17 damage!
Since you focus on Standard, thank you for giving the deck a look/critique!!
WOW... ...haven't thought about that be4... ...amazing combo!...& you're most wellcome... ;)