Though sadly, that will just spiral into a series of unwanted events. Casual play is supposed to be fun. Enlighten him about said rule frictions, and see what happens. Perfection is an illusion, and as such, I believe there is no "Most broken deck ever", (I might be wrong) but those kinds of decks that claim to be are by type uninteractable, boring and far too narrow-minded.
Primordial Hydra wastes their turn when stumbling over a Doom Blade if they tap out for it, tokens are easily dispatchable by means such as Consume the Meek or Wrath of God . From what I gather from his deck, it seems amateurish and meant to be fun for him. What is fun is a question of perspective. Some like having to play around/with Counterspell , others like infinite combos such as Deceiver Exarch / Splinter Twin and others like unconsistent, flavour-loaded thematic decks.
Now, if you want to show him how to control a game, why not make a black-centered control deck? You can easily massacre his creatures with your creature removal, make sure he never gets back on his feet with discard such as Shrine of Limitless Power or Mind Sludge and ultimately finish him off with a Sheoldred, Whispering One or a sinister Exsanguinate fueled by Caged Sun or the like.
I want to build the ultimate broken deck. I'll call it "Vengence." Yes. It will have a name. Thing is, I'm a noob and have no idea where to start. Any suggestion is a good suggestion. Fire away! (Please an thank you :3 )
I feel that the deck you described doesn't warrant the kind of specific hate some Posters have been recommending, so I encourage you to build a solid general deck instead. Mainlky because, if this guy leaves the playgroup (or stops playing the deck) then you are now stuck with a highly specific hate deck.
Here is a budget list of (something resembling) Affinity: Spoiler:Show
This is $58.32 at CoolStuffInc (not including Shipping or Basic Lands). The Artifact Lands are easily the most expensive thing here and while they are synergystic, they could be cut without damaging the deck too much.
See, the problem with him is that... This was a random deck he put together in ten minutes at my boyfriend's house, right before they came in and we had a huge doom match. (The three of us like to play Magic together.) ALL of his decks are like that. (He runs decks of every color, a LOT of Planeswalkers, Eldarazi, everything unfair against beginners.) They ALL have cards that do rediculous things like get him up to 300 health, have a creature with 400/400, etc... That's his play style. He has thousands of cards.
I spent $28 at a store today and got help from the employees to build a decent deck against him, and it is this:
that is a brief look over, and I apologise if it seems overly critical. I think that with a few tweaks this could be a strong deck, did you say that you have an angel deck?
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How many planeswalkers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Spoiler:Show
Better question, what does Nicol Bolas want with the lightbulb?
I played a non official tournament with some guys at my local card shop and he guy who hosts uses a deck that can mill your entire deck on turn 2 the guy who came second didnt even bother playing him he used a brain freeze combo where he'd use high tide then Cloud of Faeries and other cards to shuffle hand and graveyard back into deck he'd keep doing this till he cast enough spells so that brain freeze would mill enough cards to be your entire deck if you look up high tide on card kingdom you can see alot of cards he used (shows how original the deck is) and maby peice that deck together.
Your suggestions are amazing, but sadly, I'm the one running a green-white deck and he runs decks of all colors, with a particular fondness of black cards ahaha.
There is no such a thing. Sure, some decks can be more complex to understand and to play with, but it just seems he's playing combo decks and there's nothing unfair in that. If he were using more expensive cards, it could seem even more unfair, but still, he bought them and so can you. If the strategy he's using is solid, it's up to you to break it. You shouldn't try to bring his powerlevel down, you should bring yours up, like you are currently trying.
Ask him for a breakdown on how it works, I'm curious as there are several points that seem to be fundamental to how you describe it that really really really DON'T work, as vektor stated.
For linking a card to Gatherer without writting the name of said card for readers, use the autocard brackets together with and equal sign and right the name of the real card. Then put the message you want inside the tags, like you would do with autocarding. Like this:
I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
@cogminded That deck does look like a very good idea! I was trying my best ti stick to things that'll give me a lot of life though ahaha. A lot of life fast, and spells that exile my opponent's cards.
If my current deck fails, by all means, I'll try that one
If there's any really nice cards to increase life and add +1/+1 (or more, preferably +x/+x with x being a mana cost) to all creatures, I'd love to know.
I feel like I should have more instants, too... Instants are such a bitch to deal with, so I wanna kill him with them.
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