Hello and welcome to a new article series that I randomly chose to start writing in additon to my '12 Uncommons' series. Don't expect more frequent articles from me just because I give you this, since.. this is is for my 'Random Content'.

So, I guess you want to know why we are here and/or got lured in here by the title and expect me to show you some major tech for your STD decks. Not totally wrong, but also not completly right. See, I was hanging arround the casual room and... well.. people are getting feed up with all those tribal decks, not that that is a big new revelation.

Players on a budget normally can't easily deal with hordes of creatures because Wrath of God, Sunscour, Damnation, and Austere Command tend to cost a little more then what they are comfortable with spending on a digital object.

I think I can help those folks, and myself, by showing you how I deal with this. Having playsets of staple uncommons helps a lot, and when you are tired of seeing the one hundreth and fiffty fourth kithkin deck, you pack Pyroclasm. Sometimes this also helps versus faeries and elfs and goblins and merfolk. In other words: most of the time this card is going to be very good!

10th edition versions cost .48 cent at the moment, that is mostly because they are the first black border version we have of that card. Buuuut.. lets see, the 7th, 8th and 9th versions come for .19 cents each. So, what are you waiting for?

Timespiral gave us some more answers against hordes of little creatures, Sulfurous Blast and Hail Storm. The blast goes for eight cents. Sure it hurts you too.. but it can deal three damage, which can be the difference between winning and losing. The storm is easier to cast, but it only works on attacking creatures and pings your own guys too. I'll add the blasts to my pile.

We are heavy in red now, and there is another red card that can deal with lots of noisy creatures just fine. Flowstone Slide, it's harder on the mana then the normal boardsweepers, but it works nonetheless just fine. Since it is a +X/-X effect it kills indestructable or untargetable creatures too. Protection isn't an issue either. Plus at .14 cents a pop it's definitly worth your attention. Casual sweepers are usally a little more pricy, so.. get them. Added to my pile. So far my deck to survive, and maybe win, against the tribes that run rampant in STD contains playsets of two uncommons and a rare. 12 cards total, not a fullfledged deck yet. Let's keep going on with this. We are at $1.64 now, time to think about creatures and how we can cast our almost-wraths in time. Green is usally the answer to all problems concerning mana and lands, well, a playset Llanowar Elves from 9th is 32 cents, 8 cents each. That sounds weird since it's going to die to our sweepers, but we just need to be able to cast them and they will help with that. Plus, if things get awry they can just attack and all that.. Civic Wayfinder grabs a land from the deck and the Ravnica version is one cent cheaper then the 10th one, so lets add a playset of those too. Thats another eight cents and with any luck we will actually play them on turn two most of the time. Now we need creatures that actually survive our blasts and clasms, green offers those too. Spined Wurm and Craw Wurm will do, no one will accuse us of beeing all tribal-y with them. They are also pretty cheap, funny fact: 10th Spined Wurm is a cent cheaper then 9th. Another eight cents for a playset of each, sixteen cen for casual beef.

Kills better then you think.

Surviving the Tribes

Random Content Deck by Jan 'Hollow0n3' Zemlin

Creatures 4 Llanowar Elves 4 Civic Wayfinder 4 Goatnapper 4 Spined Wurm 4 Craw Wurm Other Spells 4 Gaea's Blessing 4 Pyroclasm 4 Flowstone Slide 4 Sulfurous Blast

Lands 10 Forest 10 Mountain 4 Terramorphic Expanse Sideboard Sideboard? We don't need no stinking Sideboards in casual. ... Unless we want to pwn n00bz with wishes.

Surviving the Tribes Plus

Random Content Deck by Jan 'Hollow0n3' Zemlin

Creatures 4 Llanowar Elves 4 Citanul Woodreaders 4 Goatnapper 4 Civic Wayfinder 4 Pouncing Wurm Other Spells 4 Gaea's Blessing 4 Pyroclasm 4 Flowstone Slide 4 Sulfurous Blast

Lands 10 Forest 10 Mountain 4 Terramorphic Expanse Sideboard Sideboard? We still don't need no stinking Sideboards in casual. ... Unless we want to pwn n00bz with wishes.

P.S.: The "Plus" version only costs eight cent more, is more flexible and might result in people wondering if you play a druid deck..