One of my favorite cards in magis is gilded drake

This is what it does

Guilded Drake                    1U

Summon Drake            Urza's Saga

Flying

When Guilded Drake comes into play,

exchange control of Gilded Drake for

target creature one of your opponents

control or sacrifice Gilded Drake.

                                              3/3

So you can control very good creatures just for 2 mana. But your thinking, I'm not giving my opponent a 3/3 flying. But their are a lot of cards that can work with guilded drake

Boomerang                        UU

Instant                             4th

Return target permanent to owners

hand.

It's easy, just play glided drake, gain control of target creature, bounce guilded drake, and you can use it again. This is quite good, but you can only use it a few times, because you only can have 4 boomerangs, and if you combine it with unsummon 8 times, but it will cost alot of cards. So you could better use Capsize.

Capsize                            1UU

Instant                           Tempest

Buyback 3

Return target permanent to owners

hand.

So now you can do it as much as you want. But you need to have alot of mana, so this way is not ideal. So why not look for a permanent.

Tradewind Rider                 3U

Summon Spirit                 Tempest

Flying

T, tap two creatures you control:

return target permanent to owner's

hand.

                                       1/4

This mean just for 2 mana a to take a creature. Combine with intruder alarm, and you can use it as much in your turn if you want( that is how much mana you'v got), or you combinr it with elfs, and you've got no futher drawback. Only this will mean you will need a lot of cards, will my last combo is just 2 cards.

Equilibrium                        1UU

Enchantment                  Exodus

Whenever you successfully cast a

creature spell, you may pay 1 to

return target creature to owner's hand.

This way you have to pay 2 mana to gain control of a creature, than pay another mana to bounce your gilded drake. If I made a mistake with Equilibrium you have to tell me because I don't know for sure this combo works.

My deck is with the last combo( and know ever complaint that is was wrong, so i think it isn't.) Further in that deck I got some more take over/ exchange cards, like Thalakos Deceiver and Legerdemain. and then some fleeting images, it are good blockers and if you play them again for 4 mana you can bounce a creature. As kill I've got 2 morphlings in the deck, and two sengir vamprires.

The rest is just extra, cards like counterspell( duh), Rayne, Academy chancellor( you can draw more cards), Bubble matrix( you playing blue so you can bounce creature and this way you don't have to worry your creatures die while blocking or burning, and you can exchange it with Legerdemain for artifacts with local abilities), Sengir Autocrat( gives you also cards to exchange, and gives you with bubble matrix, 3 extra blockers), Lobotomy( just to remove a card forever, you can bounce a creature to be sure he got that card,example, bounce a Darksteel collosus and remove up to four of them from the game), Volrath's Stronghold( give your creatures life again, very funny with Thalakos Deceiver) and diabolic Edict( get rid of indestructible creatures or with protection)

With this deck you can win against lots of decks, specially creature decks. I hope I helped you and if their are any questions or something

Benie de Beder

beertje100@hotmail.com