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BMoor's Magic
The
Gathering
Deck Garage
It's gratifying to see that I'm not the only one who liked Mirrodin block.
Some people said that
blue and artifacts were just too powerful of a
combination in Mirrodin block. If that is the case,
then why isn't this deck ta
 pping
into that alleged uber-power? My first guess is the
mana base. You're supposed to run Cloudpost OR the
Urza-tron, not both. In your case, I'm voting for
Cloudpost. Take out the Urza lands, and add in 4 Vesuva
(in conjunction with Cloudpost, they form a mana engine
as powerful as the "Tron), and 8 Islands. You're still
a bit low on lands, but we'll find a few useless cards
to pull to fix that.
Since we're starting
on the mana first today, let's look at your mana rocks
next. I'd say none of these are optimal. Coalition
Relic is best when its 3-mana cost is less of a
hindrance than its ability to produce all five colors.
Coldsteel Heart comes into play tapped, but is useful if
you need snow mana. And Gilded Lotus... just plain
isn't that useful. Heck, Ur-Golem's Eye was pushing
it. The Relic and Heart can each come out for four Mind
Stone and one Academy Ruins. The Mind Stones are best
here, since they start tapping for Myr Servitors as
easrly as turn two, and can be recycled when you no
longer need them. And the Academy Ruins, aside from
being that extra land that should solve your mana
problems, will also bring back any artifact you need to
reuse.
Gilded Lotus, and
also Quicksilver Fountain now that you've got real
Islands, can become something else. When I looked
through the deck and saw Memnarch, I thought, "Are there
any other artifacts that are better in a blue deck?"
The one I thought of was Proteus Staff. And Proteus
Staff works wonders here, because you've got a few
singleton copies of big, powerful artifact creatures.
Proteus Staff can be invaluable at helping you find
them. If you can't get a Fabricate, or won't have
enough mana for a while, you can use Proteus Staff to
blink out one of your small dorks and hope that the
first creature you hit is Darksteel Colossus or
Mycosynth Golem, which will then come into play for
free. And if you happened to put one of those on top of
your library with Academy Ruins, or leave it there when
you saw it via Machinate, all the better!
Finally, I'm not sure
Pact of Negation is what you want for
 a
counterspell. Yes, it's free, but five mana the next
turn or you lose the game? I'd say Assert Authority
would work just as well if not better. Or Override, if
you still have problems getting [UU].
Well, that brings us
to the end of another Deck Garage article, and it also
leaves me in an interesting position. You see, when I
had to leave town a few weeks ago for family concerns, I
asked the webmasters to take my E-mail address off the
front page. As it turns out, it's been gone ever
since. I only just noticed this last night, because the
number of decks in my inbox had been dwindling while
usually I can just match the rate at which they come in.
A side note: thank
you very much to everyone who E-mailed me to wish me
well and say how much they appreciate my work. You'll
be gratified to know that the issue-- my grandmother's
failing health-- had in fact already cleared up by the
time I got there, so I spent that week helping the
family adjust and doing small errands for my
grandfather. I don't know how you still had my address,
but I appreciate your regards. It really makes me feel
like I'm accomplishing something.
But at any rate, now
I have only one deck left in my inbox, and it's an Elf
deck. Since the Lorwyn prerelease is on the horizon,
and it promises a slew of Elf-theme cards, I'm just
going to take the rest of the week off rather than fix
an Elf deck mere days before a new influx of Elf cards
are released. While I'm gone, you can send your E-mails
to me at
bemore4096@yahoo.com, or you can send them to
Mattedesa or Sean of course (hope they didn't get
swamped while I was unreachable). I'll be back probably
on Tuesday or Wednesday. In the meantime, I'll be at
the UMass Boston prerelease on Saturday, getting cards
autographed by Rebecca Guay and Cyril Van Der Haegen.
I'll be wearing my white Pojo.com T-shirt, so if you see
me, feel free to say hello!
Until next time, (or
Saturday perhaps)
~BMoor
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