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9 months ago  ::  Sep 19, 2012 - 7:40PM #1
Living_Wings
Date Joined: Oct 31, 2010
Posts: 438
I wanted to make a causal deck that I can play against my friends decks.

Here's my first attempt

Creatures (27)
Sen Triplets   x1
Inkwell Leviathan   x1
Filigree Angel x1
Sharuum the Hegemon   x1
Sphinx Summoner x4
Master Transmuter   x4
Esperzoa x3
Etherium Sculptor   x4
Baleful Strix   x4
Tidehollow Sculler   x4

Instant (4)
Thirst for Knowledge x4

Noncreature Artifacts (4)
Scourglass   x4

Planeswalkers (1)
Tezzeret the Seeker   x1 

Land (24)
Arcane Sanctum   x4
Hallowed Fountain   x2
Glacial Fortress x2
Watery Grave   x2
Drowned Catacomb x2
Godless Shrine   x2
Isolated Chapel x2
Ancient Den  x4
Vault of Whispers  x4
Seat of the Synod x4
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9 months ago  ::  Sep 20, 2012 - 12:57AM #2
Sleeping
Date Joined: Sep 23, 2011
Posts: 4,302

Artifact lands would help with the Master Transmuter , Court Homunculus , and Glaze Fiend . And I'd go with Buried Ruin over Phyrexia's Core if you're going to include colorless lands at all.


Thoughtcast would be a great draw spell.


Ethersworn Canonist and Master of Etherium are really solid creatures, but they might cost some money being rares.


Inquisition of Kozilek is something I generally include in my black decks. It stacks well with Tidehallow Sculler .

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9 months ago  ::  Sep 20, 2012 - 2:00AM #3
DocGrog
Date Joined: Aug 19, 2010
Posts: 656
Try Steel Overseer and Lodestone Golem .
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9 months ago  ::  Sep 20, 2012 - 5:56AM #4
alzabo
Date Joined: Sep 16, 2010
Posts: 564
I have a pretty good deck that uses Master Transmuter .  I think she works very well with "enters the battlefield" type effects.  Here's what I would change:
Cut the aggro, or go all in aggro -- but that would mean cutting most everything else.
- 4x court homunculus
- 4x glaze fiend

Add more cards like Master Transmuter.
+ 3-4x Esperzoa
I actually use 4x Esperzoa and 3x Master Transmuter just because the jellyfish comes out quicker and has a bigger body.  That said, Master Transmuter is golden late game.

I would strongly suggest adding a package of cards to get stuff into your hand so that Master Transmuter has something to transmute into. Add any number of the following (along with baleful strix -- which I've not used but I imagine is nuts in this deck).
+ faerie mechanist
+ Sphinx Summoner
These are good because their abilities are ETB effects which you can exploit repeatedly with Master Transmuter (and Esperzoa).  Some people really like the following as well:
trinket mage
treasure mage
thoughtcast
thirst for knowledge

I think you can cut the lands down to 24.  I wouldn't use artifact lands unless your play-group is ok with it.  Atleast one Academy Ruins is nice to have.  I would also make the following changes/additions; although, these are really just personal preference:
- Sen Triplets
+ Sharuum the Hegemon
She's bigger, gets stuff out of the graveyard and her ability is ETB which is easy to exploit with the Transmuter.
- esper battlemage
+ ethersworn shieldmage  
Again, I would go with the ETB ability over the tap ability -- she's fantastic with esperzoa.
Consider these:
solemn simulacrum
spellskite
scarecrone
duplicant

Also, if you don't already know this, you can actually cast tidehollow sculler , then while its ability is on the stack, use the transmuter's ability to replay it which allows you to exile two cards from your opponents hand.  One of those is exiled permanently.


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9 months ago  ::  Sep 20, 2012 - 9:15AM #5
Living_Wings
Date Joined: Oct 31, 2010
Posts: 438
Changed a few things.
I went wth Thirst for Knowledge over Thoughtcast because I'm pretty sure my friends would kill me if I ran affinity cards with artifact lands.
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9 months ago  ::  Sep 20, 2012 - 7:07PM #6
oatmealftw
Date Joined: Sep 17, 2012
Posts: 94
Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
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