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Dec 22 2014 1:00pm
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 Casual Plays # 1

                Hello again and good day to all the patrons of MTGOTraders and readers of PureMTGO. It’s been a long time since I last wrote an article. If you’re wondering why the long hiatus, I have two main reasons: the 1st thing is, I was writing mostly Silver black articles and MTGOTraders have decided that they will not feature Silver black articles anymore. I am not arguing with that decision but I was a little disappointed because I was actually getting good in that fringe format. The 2nd reason is that my family (my wife and daughter) came home and I have no more time to be busy in MTGO anymore. I loss in touch with my weekly routine of joining standard, modern, and legacy tribal wars and have miss a lot. I never stop reading articles from PureMTGO though especially from my two favorite column namely state of the program by Pete and Tribal Apocalypse by Mr. Kumagoro (aka. My Mentor in writing for PureMTGO)

                I know that I lure you with new decks and plays in front of this one and I am getting to it. Well I was looking at what is missing in MTGOTraders and PureMTGO article and casual decks is not the usual theme that you can read.  I hope that this will be the start of a platform where casual players can share their ideas on decks that they are thinking to build without the thought of winning but rather for the fun of it. (Okay it feels good when you win but battling a usual NET deck with a FUN deck that you made out of $5.00 dollars will make anyone feel better)

                Without further ado let me show you my casual musings on decks. I have four decks for you to ponder or massacre in the comments and I hope you give me the input. Some of you have probably made the same deck so feel free to bash my take on the deck.

Standard 

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The White One
 
Creatures
4 Ajani's Pridemate
3 Cavalry Pegasus
2 Celestial Archon
2 Favored Hoplite
3 Hopeful Eidolon
3 Phalanx Leader
3 Soulmender
3 Wingsteed Rider
2 Abzan Falconer
1 Archetype of Courage
26 cards

Other Spells
3 Divine Favor
4 Erase
4 Gods Willing
2 Spear of Heliod
3 Ordeal of Heliod
16 cards

Lands
18 Plains
18 cards
Ajani's Pridemate

 

This deck is a double edge deck that I have put together after I saw that Ajani’s Pridemate have return to standard. It is mostly an aggro deck where you pump your creature with life gain and counters while trying to protect them with Gods Willing. Evasion is also a key point here that is why we have the Pegasus and the Falconer to lift all of our creatures against the usual monsters that you will find in standard.

The Mardu Clan (KTK Block)

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Mardu Clan
 
Creatures
2 Jeering Instigator
3 High Sentinels of Arashin
3 Herald of Anafenza
2 Abzan Falconer
2 Master of Pearls
4 Abzan Battle Priest
4 Ankle Shanker
1 Butcher of the Horde
21 cards

Other Spells
3 Arc Lightning
4 Deflecting Palm
1 Hordeling Outburst
1 Tormenting Voice
1 Trumpet Blast
2 Suspension Field
2 Mardu Ascendancy
3 Mardu Charm
17 cards

Lands
3 Wind-Scarred Crag
6 Plains
5 Mountain
4 Nomad Outpost
2 Bloodfell Caves
2 Scoured Barrens
22 cards
Deflecting Palm

 

When I started this deck it was called Boros KTK because the idea started with the Deflecting Palm card. It was so cool in the spoilers and suddenly I hardly see anyone using it and that is kind of sad. My idea for the win is to have more creatures than your opponent then attack with them and a Trumpet blast while protecting yourself. I actually won against a constellation themed deck and then I started to be hammered by the Bullies of KTK (Sorin and Sarkhan) and I started to think of the butcher from the Mardu clan and this is the deck I come up with.

Modern (Blippy's Slugapalooza)

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My Undying Aristocrat
 
Creatures
3 Cartel Aristocrat
3 Young Wolf
3 Strangleroot Geist
4 Doomed Traveler
13 cards

Other Spells
2 Intangible Virtue
2 Undying Evil
2 Orzhov Charm
4 Gather the Townsfolk
4 Blood Artist
4 Lingering Souls
3 Golgari Charm
2 Day of Judgment
23 cards

Lands
4 Orzhov Guildgate
4 Blossoming Sands
4 Jungle Hollow
4 Scoured Barrens
2 Sunpetal Grove
2 Forest
2 Swamp
2 Plains
24 cards
Blood Artist

 

If you have read my previous articles from my Going Silver Black column you’ll probably remember them. Now that they are only legal in Modern and the older formats so I tried to actually use my old winning Silver Black deck in Blippy’s Slugapalooza. I was really sorry that I forgot how to use it properly. I could probably have won a round but winning a single game is good enough for now, as you will see in my video later. This deck is actually a more improved version than the one in the video.

Standard Pauper

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Akroan RDW
 
Creatures
4 Akroan Crusader
4 Foundry Street Denizen
2 Minotaur Skullcleaver
4 Bladetusk Boar
2 Satyr Rambler
16 cards

Other Spells
4 Magma Spray
4 Dragon Mantle
4 Lightning Strike
4 Trumpet Blast
4 Titan's Strength
4 Act of Treason
24 cards

Lands
20 Mountain
20 cards
Akroan Crusader

 

I keep seeing the name of Akroan Crusader in other articles I have read so I decided to make him my main guy in the deck I build. I wish I could play in a PRE with this one to try him out for a tourney but since this is casual plays the one you will see in the video is a game in the Casual Room (Now Just for Fun Room).

Here are the links to my videos: (I tried to comment on the Akroan game and man do I suck in commentating. Feel free to comment about it as well)

The White One

The Mardu Clan

My Undying Aristocrat

Akroan RDW

 

I Hope to read your comments below and I hope to see you in the Just for Fun room with my new brews. Till next Time. Peace MTGO Peeps!

 

4 Comments

Just a word of advice for by Flippers_Giraffe at Mon, 12/22/2014 - 16:54
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Just a word of advice for future articles. I think you need to expand more on the construction of your decks, Why you choose certain cards and how they interact with others in the deck. Also add the cards picture as this helps grab peoples attention instead of having a wall of text. I don't know half the cards you choose so am none the wiser after reading your article on what I've actually missed out on and need to pick up for my collection.

You also need to double check that your deck html code isn't missing something other wise you end up with raw code in your article which doesn't look good. This can easily be checked before submitting.

Looking forward to the next article :)

tnx for the advice by bdgp009 at Wed, 12/24/2014 - 04:14
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I was actually using a deck maker by jamuraa. The deck looks good in preview but when i save it for submission it comes out as in the article. I sure will try to explain the card choices next time but I might only show a couple of decks or one of the four decks would have the card choices explanation. It took me 3 weeks to edit this one because of time constraint irl but i sure will try to make the next article a better one.

Thank You for the comment.. I would also love it if you can make a comment on my commentary trial on the Akroan deck...

Hey, BD! Thanks for the by Kumagoro42 at Sat, 12/27/2014 - 04:53
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Hey, BD! Thanks for the shout-out!
Glad to see you back, hope you'll be able to play in TribAp one of these days, too!

I miss playing in Tribal but by bdgp009 at Wed, 12/31/2014 - 10:54
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I miss playing in Tribal but I just can't find the time since it starts at 12 or 1 am here in the Philippines. With the baby and all. I have to be really alert when she wakes up.