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10 months ago  ::  Aug 09, 2012 - 12:41AM #1
HonorBasquiat
Date Joined: Feb 28, 2012
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I've been trying to do something with mono blue for awhile and I like this. The premise is to just bounce everything and stall until you can win with Black Vise or Ebony Owl Netsuke . Muddle the Mixture  is for tutoring Trade Secrets and Arcane Laboratory . I know about Remand , Acadamy Ruins and The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale  but those cards are out of my price range. I am at on a ~$50 budget. I'm curious what other cards I could include in a deck like this? What could stop it, I'm thinking burn, how would I deal with burn? Help please? 

Notes: The deck is named Mardi Gras after the genre of music called "bounce" that originated in New Orleans. I'm playing casual, and our play group isn't very serious, but I want the deck to be good, it's for multiplayer and one on one, and I want it to be Vintage legal if possible.



Bounce (16)
Boomerang
Overburden
Echoing Truth
Into the Roil

Card Draw (4)

Howling Mine
2 Trade Secrets

Control (9)
3 Counterspell

Muddle the Mixture  
4 Arcane Laboratory

Land (24)
Buried Ruin
18  Island
Tectonic Edge
Sol Ring

Win Conditions (7)
Black Vise
Ebony Owl Netsuke






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Swag Flu (Mono Black Infect) http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29788619/Swag_Flu_(Mono_Black_Infect)
American Super Friends (White/Blue/Red Planeswalker Control) http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29772319/American_Super_Friends_(Budget_WhiteBlueRed_Planeswalker_Control)
Hong Kong (White/Red Norin Tokens)http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29636557/Hong_Kong_(WhiteRed_Norin_Tokens)
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10 months ago  ::  Aug 09, 2012 - 1:22AM #2
DocGrog
Date Joined: Aug 19, 2010
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Could use some mass bounce ( Evacuation , Devastation Tide ).

Vs burn: are you running sideboards? if yes -> Chill , maybe Deep-Sea Kraken . And the Arcane Laboratory you already run shouldn't make burn that hard to survive.

You could also try Storm Cauldron but it's not helping much vs burn either (at least it will clog their hand with land (hopefully) and will make it hard to sac 2 mountains for Fireblast (if we are talking about THAT type of fast burn, but then again it'll probably just come to late).

The deck looks a little light on the draw. could use a lot more since it is your wincon to give them full hands.
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10 months ago  ::  Aug 09, 2012 - 2:23AM #3
HonorBasquiat
Date Joined: Feb 28, 2012
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Nah, we are pretty casual, so no sideboard, like my play group would hate something like Chill . What could I do against mill out of curiosity? Yeah, Evacuation is smooth, maybe I could fit a couple of those in. The multiplayer games I play with my friends are small though, 3-4 players.
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My Causal Modern Decks
Swag Flu (Mono Black Infect) http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29788619/Swag_Flu_(Mono_Black_Infect)
American Super Friends (White/Blue/Red Planeswalker Control) http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29772319/American_Super_Friends_(Budget_WhiteBlueRed_Planeswalker_Control)
Hong Kong (White/Red Norin Tokens)http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29636557/Hong_Kong_(WhiteRed_Norin_Tokens)
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10 months ago  ::  Aug 09, 2012 - 3:10AM #4
DocGrog
Date Joined: Aug 19, 2010
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Try Trinket Mage + Elixir of Immortality (+ Buried Ruin in case the Elixir gets milled)
(if you can find room, also include Expedition Map to get the Ruin if needed).
Or include one of the legendary eldrazi (+a way to discard him, if need be/you drew him).
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10 months ago  ::  Aug 09, 2012 - 10:35AM #5
forumbrowser
Date Joined: Feb 5, 2010
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This deck screams for Mana Breach .  Might even be better than Overburden if they're playing creature-lite or -less.  Of course...it slows you down too, but that's what Venser's Journal is for.
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10 months ago  ::  Aug 09, 2012 - 11:16AM #6
HonorBasquiat
Date Joined: Feb 28, 2012
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Aug 9, 2012 -- 10:35AM, forumbrowser wrote:

This deck screams for Mana Breach .  Might even be better than Overburden if they're playing creature-lite or -less.  Of course...it slows you down too, but that's what Venser's Journal is for.


What would you cut to make those additions?

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My Causal Modern Decks
Swag Flu (Mono Black Infect) http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29788619/Swag_Flu_(Mono_Black_Infect)
American Super Friends (White/Blue/Red Planeswalker Control) http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29772319/American_Super_Friends_(Budget_WhiteBlueRed_Planeswalker_Control)
Hong Kong (White/Red Norin Tokens)http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29636557/Hong_Kong_(WhiteRed_Norin_Tokens)
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10 months ago  ::  Aug 09, 2012 - 12:23PM #7
forumbrowser
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Maybe some Arcane Laboratory...having more than 1 in play doesn't really help you; if you end up drawing more than one, you're going to have dead cards.  I don't know though.  I just saw the theme of the deck and thought of Mana Breach.
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10 months ago  ::  Aug 10, 2012 - 12:28AM #8
HonorBasquiat
Date Joined: Feb 28, 2012
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Anything else guys?
I don't bite, don't hesitate to message me if you have any questions or thoughts about deck ideas I post or anything Magic the Gathering related.

My Causal Modern Decks
Swag Flu (Mono Black Infect) http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29788619/Swag_Flu_(Mono_Black_Infect)
American Super Friends (White/Blue/Red Planeswalker Control) http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29772319/American_Super_Friends_(Budget_WhiteBlueRed_Planeswalker_Control)
Hong Kong (White/Red Norin Tokens)http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29636557/Hong_Kong_(WhiteRed_Norin_Tokens)
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10 months ago  ::  Aug 10, 2012 - 12:56AM #9
DocGrog
Date Joined: Aug 19, 2010
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Only other thing that comes to my mind is leaving mono-blue and going abusing Forbidden Orchard   and Tainted Æther (link). But that seems to be another deck.
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10 months ago  ::  Aug 10, 2012 - 3:44AM #10
HonorBasquiat
Date Joined: Feb 28, 2012
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Aug 10, 2012 -- 12:56AM, DocGrog wrote:

Only other thing that comes to my mind is leaving mono-blue and going abusing Forbidden Orchard   and Tainted Æther (link). But that seems to be another deck.


 Yeah that would be a very different deck.

I don't bite, don't hesitate to message me if you have any questions or thoughts about deck ideas I post or anything Magic the Gathering related.

My Causal Modern Decks
Swag Flu (Mono Black Infect) http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29788619/Swag_Flu_(Mono_Black_Infect)
American Super Friends (White/Blue/Red Planeswalker Control) http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29772319/American_Super_Friends_(Budget_WhiteBlueRed_Planeswalker_Control)
Hong Kong (White/Red Norin Tokens)http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29636557/Hong_Kong_(WhiteRed_Norin_Tokens)
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