So m12 had the motto "gather your allies"
they made the illusions, and the goblins, and the vamps. all awesome.
however, the vamps take a bit too long, and although they're very fun and generally awesome, it's just not worth while with the new beats that will be coming in, espeically post rotation when inquisition is gone. Though I expect to see a lot of gideon in esper control and UW control, and doom blade / throat are nice for that, hexproof cards like thrun mean that black won't be aweesome.
with tumble magnet and gideon's lawkeeper, as well as lavamancer, i really don't think that the illusions stand a chance as a "beat down" deck, though they could see play in a mono blue mid-range deck. however, valakut and splinter twin destroy midrange, so there's no point really.
...Soooo..........
my only option is to go aggro, and that leaves me with the goblins. So I'll throw together a deck around goblins. :) I know that goblin guide is going out, and so is bolt, but those can be easily replaced with koth (maybe) and incenerate.
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I've gotten some people asking me about my choices. So here ya go:
-- Chieftan and Automaton are there to help buff my guys up to get past walls and help with bloodghasts and vengevins, also against inferno titan and (sometimes) VtMP
-- Gaveleer + infiltration lens is awesome, and the draw is even better if i'm saccing things at sorc. speed with groblin grenade. War and peace is here to help against non-aggro decks and to give me a bit of life up b/c i obviously won't be blocking at all, plus, war and peace on a gavaleer is a 5/3 trample... that's not to be taken very lightly
-- arsonist works with an extra ping damage after being blocked to take out something a bit too strong, and as a 6 damage pewpew with grenade
-- guide and bushwhacker are obvious, as is teetering peaks and bolt
-- wardriver is wicked and i've actually seen a lot of decks leak it, only to have me follow up their leak with a war and peace the next turn.
-- basilisk collar is against titans and shit
-- combust is for splinter twin
-- body and mind is for other aggro decks and against green to get more creatures out to block with and be pro colors.
-- gut shot is good against a lot of things, koth, steel overseer, tezzeret, etc... mostly fun against holding back people from going up with planeswalkers, but also for other things I guess.
-- shatter is against people playing things like, well, any creature thing really...