75th Deck. Portal Expansion

by Jessie on 08 August 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (4 cards)

Creatures (4)

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Deck Description

My 75th deck. Wanted to go back to when I started playing Magic. I bought my first cards back around 2000. It was a Portal Starter Set. It had a Wrath of God! I remember the card getting lost behind my dresser for over a year.

The Entire concept behind Portal was to teach players how to play Magic. And in that spirit, a lot of the game/cards were simplified. Even though the game/cards may of been "dumbed" down doesn't mean there weren't some very powerful cards in the Portal expansion.

Fun facts about Portal:
--Creatures had no creature type.
--There were no Instants, Enchantments, or Artifacts in Portal!!!
--Creatures had sword/shield symbol to represent for power/toughness.
--215 cards (55 rare, 55 uncommon, 85 common)
--Older set, so no gold symbol for rare/silver for uncommon.
--Nicknamed "Harvey" after the famous play/movie because team who designed Portal Expansion was confused about the expectations/what Portal was trying to achieve.
--Magazines did not have price guides (for the most part) for Portal cards, in the early days, even though now some Portal Cards are pricey.
--Not a legal expansion until 2005 when the expansion was sanctioned for Legacy and Vintage tourneys.
--Portal cards/expansion was actually seen on MTV in commercials designed to introduce people to Magic the Gathering.

So, Deck Description:
Deck designed around Portal expansion.

How to Play

Black/Blue Control.
Very crude and simple version of control for a beginning player.

1) You have major interaction with Man-o'-War/Gravedigger/Dry Spell in this deck. Use them correctly to keep destroying then bouncing your creatures from your hand/graveyard into the game doing various effects against your opponents.

2) Cruel Tutor is amazing. Also 50 dollars of the decks 80 dollar price tag. Remove if you want to go budget. He basically fetches you any of your 23 sorcery cards. He gets you what you NEED.

3) Black Control with 9 discard spells and 7 creature hate cards.

4) Blue Control with 9 disruption spells that hinder/slow down your opponent.

How to Win:

Keep stalling your opponent through forcing your opponent to discard/disrupting their spells/destroying their creatures as well as using Man-o'-war/Gravedigger/Dry Spell to keep recycling your creatures to control the board.

Winning creature is your pretty Ebon Dragon.

Deck Tags

  • Beginner
  • Portal
  • learning
  • magic

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

0192400

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for 75th Deck. Portal Expansion

Each Portal booster contained one of ten different strategy cards with deck-building tips. There are 5 strategies described in all, one for each of the five friendly color pairs. Each of these five strategies has two different versions. :

White/Blue — Air Superiority
Blue/Black — Card Domination
Black/Red — Fiery Doom
Red/Green — Gargantuans
Green/White — The Horde

Obviously, if you looked over the "How to Play" section you know I went with the Card Domination strategy.
Anyone card to try your hand at one of the other 4 strategies?

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 19:25

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I choose G/W of course anyday #populate

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 20:29

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Can't populate in Portal. Dork. Populate wasn't even around back then.

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 20:30

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I know but still the old is new/ new is old #populatebitches #befanofselesnya

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 20:32

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I hear you. I suck at populating decks.

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 20:33

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so what are you good at anyway

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 20:34

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Bounce decks.

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 20:36

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Theme decks.

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 20:36

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what kind of deck re those? #seriously #idontknow

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 20:37

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A theme deck:

http://www.mtgvault.com/jessie/decks/mutant-ninja-turtle-in-magic/

A bounce deck:

http://www.mtgvault.com/jessie/decks/best-20-deck-on-the-vault/

Don't try to take all that amazing stuff in at one time...take it a little at the time...or it will blow your mind!

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 20:46

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Bleh, Portal...One of my least favorite sets of all time. Not saying the deck is bad, just saying I have a great dislike towards Portal =]

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 22:10

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its cool deck to me

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 22:12

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I know if i ever get a like from you, surewhynot, I have did something right :)

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 22:19

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But you seem like a deep fellow, and might enjoy this.
Next deck is Literary Themed.

Thinking a deck with Shakespeare/Poe flavor text.
That is different and original.

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 22:20

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ohhhhhhhhhhhhh cant wait. now listen to this Shakespeare #expectation is the root of all heartache

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 22:29

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Very nice comment.

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Posted 09 August 2014 at 00:13

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Shakespeare trilogy #romanticperiod

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Posted 09 August 2014 at 15:01

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