bwike@dejazzd.com wrote:
Hello, I need your help with my
"Affinty Artifact" deck it
preforms pretty well (94 wins
per 100 games on avreage) but
the people have figured it and
its weakness out now and are
starting to exploit them. Here
is a Deck list with side board.
Main Deck:
Lands:
Acient Den 3x
Great Furnace 2x
Darksteel Citadel 3x
Tree of Tales 3x
Vault of Whispers 4x
Seat of the Synod 4x
Urza's Power Plant 4x
Urza's Tower 4x
Urza's Mine 4x
Creatures:
Broodstar 4x
Ornithopter 4x
Memnarch 1x
Leonin Elder 1x
Taj-Nar Swordsmith 1x
Sundering Titan 1x
Steel Wall 4x
Myr Enforcer 4x
Arcbound Worker 4x
Frogmite 4x
Artifacts:
Tower of Eons 1x
Darksteel Forge 1x
Gate to the Aether 1x
Dead-Iron Sledge 1x
Aether Vail 2x
Welding Jar 2x
Cranial Plating 4x
Instants:
Irradiate 4x
Nourish 4x
Electrostatic Bolt 3x
Forge Armor 2x
Sorceries:
Thoughtcast 4x
Sideboard:
Lands:
None
Creatures:
None
Artifacts:
None
Instants:
None
Sorceries:
Blaze 4x
I play the deck fast,short
broodstar + Cranial Plating +
lots of artifacts.
Thanks.
-- Foster Wike V
Okay, first of all, this E-mail
does not make my job easy at
all. Number One, you said that
your win record is 94%. My job
is to fix decks that have
trouble winning. When I saw that
stat, I was about to delete this
message, until I read that
everyone figured out your
weaknesses. Which brings me to
Problem Number Two, you didn't
say what those weaknesses were
or how they're being exploited.
If I know what's consistently
beating a deck, I know how to
fix it. But I'll try anyway.
Now, your deck has 94 cards, and
all five colors plus the Urza
lands. This doesn't bode well.
An Affinity deck should have no
nonartifact lands, and probably
three colors. Most Affinity
decks are blue, black, and red,
but just to be rogue we'll make
yours blue, white, and green.
So, drop the Urzatron, the
Furnace, and all black and red
cards(leave Cranial Plating in,
and leave Vault of Whispers for
its ability.). This should
satisfactorily "re-confuse" your
opponents. Then increase your
counts of all remaining lands to
4, giving you 20 lands.
Next, drop Steel Wall, Tower of
Eons, Dead-Iron Sledge, Gate to
the Aether, and Taj-Nar
Swordsmith. These cards are all
either too slow or not powerful
enough. We need to get the total
number of cards down, and we
want a faster deck. Affinity is
a deck renowned on its ability
to win on turn 3. Also, with the
Urzatron gone, drop Sundering
Titan. It isn't worth 8 mana to
us anymore.
Now, add four Ritual of
Restoration. No white deck with
artifacts should be without it.
Next, add some Assert Authority
so that those who would exploit
your weaknesses may fail to.
Finally, add a few Sylvan
Scrying to fix your mana. Sylvan
Scrying is one of the few green
mana-search cards that can find
artifact lands.
That should be enough. The deck
is still focused on Broodstar
and Cranial plating, but now
it's been changed around so as
to throw anti-decks off the
scent. Good luck!
~BMoor