Mcholypotato

I like this post but I've come to the realization that usually only shitty decks get on the 'Hot' list, especially these past two weeks.

I'd drop Emeria, the sky ruin. It seems like a good card but you'd have to have 7 fucking plains on the battlefield in a deck that's only running 16 plains. Even if you use path to exile as a tutor for plains on your own 1/1 tokens or creatures, it's just not worth it.

I like it, reminds me of my burn deck using Kiln Fiend.

http://www.mtgvault.com/mcholypotato/decks/flashburn/

So many things should be changed, but the glaring one is why are you using elvish piper?

Drop the dual lands and it's within budget, the only tutors I have are transmute cards. Dreadfully slow? 30 cards in the deck are two drops which matches with transmute.

This deck would play so horribly if you didn't get the combo out: no real life gain besides shitty extort, no way to deal with threats, no card draw mechanics, and no search mechanics. If you don't get an ideal hand the game will be over before it begins.

I built a deck with this combo but for FFA multiplayer; http://www.mtgvault.com/mcholypotato/decks/memory-lapse/

Traumatize is such a terrible card, I don't understand why so many people use it in mill decks. Assuming you're stacking a typical build and using 33% of the deck as mana and no mana acceleration, by the time you have enough mana for Traumatize it really isn't worth the mana cost. If by turn 5 you don't have an opponents deck more than half gone, it's probably over anyway.

Knight of Meadowgrain instead of Ajani's Sunstriker would be cool.

wtf are you trying to do with this deck? I see you have the thopter/meek combo with disciple and time sieve which is really nice synergy, but everything else doesn't make any sense. There's so much inconsistency in this deck, a couple exalted here, a couple life gainers there. You have Shirei which is a nice card but costs a lot of mana to cast and it doesn't work on tokens so I don't see the point of it. Then you have the mentor that allows you to draw cards, I guess he's cool but I would find a better creature or spell that you could use to draw cards.

Seems like you're trying to do too much with the deck and it makes it pretty unplayable.

I don't understand decks like this, maybe you could say it's...counter intuitive. But seriously what's the benefit of running only one of each card you want; it makes decks horribly inconsistent? I see non-EDH decks posted on MTGVault all the time that run 1 maybe 2 copies of a card and it just makes no sense, I'm legitimately looking for an answer. WHAT IS THE POINT?!

I agree with everyone that said you need Rage Nimbus; that creature is far more powerful than you know. Just think about it, if an opponent has a 1/1 creature and you make that 1/1 attack you, simply stack block with all your creatures and you will gain tons of life with a perimeter captain out and you're killing off their creatures in the process.

I have a defender deck myself that I run every now and again and it's definitely fun.

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=371330

I have a deck that's similar to yours, though instead of Master of Etherium I use Steel Overseer; which is a 2 mana cost 1/1 creature with the ability "Tap: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control." You can take a look at what I have below.

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=371321

You have a card in here that breaks your own combo! If Master of Etherium is on the board and you sac sword of the Meek to get a thopter from Thopter Foundry, it comes into the field as a 2/2 and Sword of the Meek will see it as such and will not come back into play.

No Welkin Hawk?

http://magiccards.info/ex/en/25.html

I have a deck similar to this, what I don't understand about this deck is why have Screams from Within in the deck at all? It doesn't put -1/-1 counters on creatures, it just gives them -1/-1 but not in the form of counters.

I have a deck similar to this, what I don't understand about this deck is why have Screams from Within in the deck at all? It doesn't put -1/-1 counters on creatures, it just gives them -1/-1 but not in the form of counters.

I was wondering what land destruction deck you've had the most success with? I am wanting to build my own land destruction deck for casual play but I've never had experience with them.