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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 8:04AM
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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 8:52AM
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You can list an entire deck like this: [deck*] 1 x Storm Crow  2 x Brainstorm  [/deck*] that looks like this: 1 x Storm Crow 2 x Brainstorm as far as your deck goes: You want to focus on keeping just about everything in your deck at 3 mana or less. off the top of my head, this might be good: I'm going to assume you are on something of a budget, so no Sword of Feast and Famine  or it's ilk. 4 x Kor duelist  4 x Puresteel Paladin  4 x Stoneforge Mystic  2 x Spellskite  4 x Etched Champion  4 x Porcelain Legionnaire  2 x Oblivion Ring  3 x Dispatch  2 x Honor of the Pure  1 x Argentum Armor  1 x Mortarpod  1 x Moonsilver Spear  1 x Bonesplitter  2 x Cranial Plating  1 x No-dachi  1 x Swiftfoot Boots  4 x Ancient Den  19 x Plains  By far not the best list, but a good template. If you do have 4 stoneforge mystic, you don't need a lot of equipment. Instead, you should add individual equipment that all serve a purpose. Most of that involves the sword of x and y's, along with things like Umezawa's Jitte  and Batterskull  , but those are all fairly pricey. In my list, Mortarpod gives you reach late-game (with paladin & metalcraft, it turns into a machine gun that can easily do 3-6 damage in a turn), Argentum is a game-ender and Swiftfoot boots protects your attacker of choice. Hope that helps!
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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 7:19PM
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Oct 25, 2009
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I'd like to stick with keeping my creatures either kor or soldiers for the synergy bonuses. One functionality I really like is the the kor skyfisher's  "return target permanent you control' so I can get a second shot at the laydown ability of the other cards or reclaim a tapped land. Love the Land and Equipment though! What if I take some of yours and keep my original premise? 4 x Kor Duelist  3 x Puresteel Paladin 3 x Stoneforge Mystic 4 x Armament Master  4 x Kitesail Apprentice  3 x Kor Outfitter  4 x Kor Skyfisher  2 x Ornithopter  2 x Holy Day  2 x Pacifism  2 x Dispatch 1 x Conqueror's Pledge  2 x Infiltration Lens  4 x Spidersilk Net  1 x Argentum Armor 1 x Moonsilver Spear 1 x Bonesplitter 2 x Cranial Plating 1 x No-dachi 1 x Swiftfoot Boots ---------------------------47 x cards  4 x Ancient Den 24 x Plains Should I aim for exactly 60 cards or is acceptable to go over as much as I have? I'm also still hoping that this deck will be legal for just about any tournament type (I'm not sure of rules as I have only drafted) but I'm not sure that's the case
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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 8:32PM
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Mar 31, 2011
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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 10:34PM
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10 months ago ::
Aug 02, 2012 - 12:22AM
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I'm sure this is a basic question I should ask somewhere else but what is the reasoning behind an exact 60 card deck?
Here's the first relevant thing I could find on DailyMTG
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In addition to focusing your deck around two colors, you are also going to want to try and stick to the 60 card minimum deck size for Constructed. There are numerous reasons why this is a good idea, but the primary one has to do with math. Lest I cause unneeded panic attacks or send you shrieking into the woods at this early juncture, allow me to couch said math in a metaphor so that it is more easily palatable. My mother, saint of a woman that she is, swears that she loves all of her children equally. I have no reason to believe my mother is lying, but I also know that I am the oldest, smartest, funniest, and most dashingly handsome of her children, and therefore suspect that in spite of her protestations to the contrary, my mother still loves me the most. Since my mother (secretly) loves me the most, she also wants to see me the most, therefore I am made deeply aware that not showing up at family functions saddens her. She only birthed three children instead of sixty, but I choose to believe that is because she knew she'd want to see me frequently from an early age, and if she had sixty kids I'd be a lot more likely to get lost in the crowd.
Like my mother, you may swear that you love all of your Magic cards equally, but I also suspect that you probably favor certain cards more than others, even if you don't tell them that. (You certainly can though, they like to hear it.) There are cards in your collection that you would be happy to see game after game, because like me, those cards are smart and devastatingly handsome. But, with the exception of basic lands, you can only have up to four copies of any given card in your deck. By only playing 60 cards in your deck, you make it more likely that those favorite cards show up at family gatherings (in Magic, we call them games and matches), thus making your deck more consistent in the way that it plays, and hopefully helping you win more. If you run more than 60 cards, you are making it less likely that you will see your favorite cards over the course of a game.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 02, 2012 - 1:08AM
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Kor outfitter is redundant with puresteel (and puresteel is better). If you are going to try and activate purestel you should run as many artifatcs as you can. This means your one drop should almost certainly be flayer husk  and furthermore you should use a couple of mortarpod  . The soldier angle is not helpful being substantially worse then other equipment or creature types. Try and just give that up if you can. If you like the skyfisher you should probably run him as the angel instead so as not to intefere so much with the 2 cmc slot for stoneforge or puresteel. You should try and run exactly 60 cards and if you keep it all down o the 3 cmc or less category you can run with 21 land. Honor of the pure should be more equipment. 4 flayer husk 4 stoneforge mystic  4 puresteel paladin  1 mortarpod 4 etched champion  4 emancipation angel  4 dispatch  4 oblivion ring  10 more equipment, I would go with lots of good and multipurpose stuff. (or 6 more equip and 4 remember the fallen  ) 1 batterskull  the pricey bit you really really want. 1 argentum armor  alternate way of removing stubborn threats 1 Umezawa's Jitte best 2 cmc equip 1 lightning greaves  best shroud equip 1 infiltration lens  1 skullclamp  1 ring of thune  1 bonesplitter  1 ogre's cleaver  1 ronin warclub  17 plains  4 ancient den 
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