Umoonpuca

A concise example of how one can begin w/ a budget deck, then work to upgrade it as their means/opportunities allow.

Yeah especially when the Blood Moon rises...

Salvage Titan would be good in this deck, too. (Now I want to go build an affinity deck, & I haven't even started on the other one yet...DOES THIS MADNESS NEVER END???)

Well, your Nacatl strategy definitely seems to have paid off! Congratulations! And thanks for providing the illustrative blow-by-blow, it's like a mini-tutorial in "this is why you play such-&-such", & therefore more instructive than just posting your results. Again, congrats!

lol...you sure weren't kidding! Reminds me of a casual UB deck I put together; manlands w/ evasion, Ebb Tide + Duskmantle + Relic of Progenitus, stuff like that, + lots of draw/control. Right now, I'm wanting to do a RG deck w/ Molten Vortex & creatures/spells that fill my hand w/ lands...good times.

Plus, they let you put Genesis Chamber & Norn's Annex on the BF. Even 1x1, that could make a big difference.

Doing this was a cool thing to do (I saw your comments on Aidancheese1's deck). ++1.

So, did you play it? How did it do? (+1, original!)

So, contrary to the nay-sayers, innovation lives on...good times.

This deck is a breath of fresh air, pure & simple. +1.

Great! Also, this is the kind of deck where I'd like to see a brief tutorial in the "How To Play" section, for the benefit of people newer to the game...things like drawing attention to the fact that Simian Spirit Guide is part of the mana-base, or the fact that Locket of Yesterdays reduces non-colored costs only (something the card itself doesn't point out). +1!

It's really well thought-out. I like.

Yeah, you both are.

GDOO, no, because my points were correct. I didn't pull any of the stats I referred to out of hat; you can look them up (& burn, as I'm sure you know, simply refers to direct damage, to a creature OR a player). The reason I got trolled - by you, no doubt, as well as little jay-bird & at least 1 other can think of - is because I called the latter out on his cock-of-the-walk attitude toward someone else's idea. If you think it's all fine & well for someone to come strutting in, w/ their little chest puffed out, blowing their little tin horn, for no other purpose than to shoot someone else down, I certainly can't change that. But that kind of conduct, imho, is the exact polar opposite of what anyone needs or wants in a forum like this. Even having been here for a very short time, I've seen you do good mentoring...about 50% of the time. I've seen other good mentoring as well. That doesn't expunge the boorishness of the huffing little jay-birds. The fact of the matter is, having taken a moment to reflect on it, I could give a flying rat's ass if I get down-voted to China, so long I'm square w/ what I've said & why I said it. I admit, I take umbrage easily when I perceive someone as being preyed upon, & my perceptions may not always be correct. But w/ all due respect - please read that twice for emphasis - little jay-bird's intentions were quite clear: shoot someone down to puff himself up. I find it ironic in the extreme that he referred to me as a troll, when his was the behavior that exemplified one.

Yeah, maybe not so much...I've just spent the last hour or so getting trolled for going to bat for someone else's idea. I went from 9 reputation to -10 at the speed of flash. I'll probably pop-in for the sake of you guys & other like-minded souls, but for the moment, I'm outta here.

Same back to you.

Oh my brother, please get your facts straight before you post. They've all run ELECTROLYZE; 1 ran Lightning Bolt; 1 ran Flame Slash; & the 1 that ran LB also ran Roast. *the more you know*

No go for launch, big guy. I didn't insult cheese's ideas. I took this community to task for not supporting them.

So, I'm taking it that's a "yes" to the latter.

ebaskes Wow, did I just read that right? - that by running burn cards in Twin, you're reducing the likelihood that you'll be able to stay alive to combo off? Every Twin deck that's top-8'd in recent history ran burn. Where exactly do you get your information from? And as for you, GDOO, the one thing you've definitely gotten right so far as that all those decks also ran 2 Pestermites alongside 4 Exarchs. So don't blow what credibility you've managed to accrue now.