Showing posts with label sleeves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sleeves. Show all posts

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Hello! No, I have not given up. In fact, I have created a slew of decks since my last post. I just haven't found the time to post until recently. Let me start with the updates:

Completed:
Eight-and-a-Half-Tails (pro-white / turn everything white)
Sygg, River Cutthroat (Rogue tribal)
Sedris, the Traitor King (self-mill / Unearth-Sundial combo)
Kresh the Bloodbraided (sacrifice / kill theme)
Dralnu, Lich Lord (Grim Monolith / Power Artifact combo with flashback)
Adun Oakenshield (CITB creature recursion)
Skyfire Kirin (stealy Spirits / Arcane)
Kasimir the Lone Wolf (Exalted Voltron... because, you know... Lone Wolf)
Baru, Fist of Krosa (Mono-green Landfall)
Ayumi, the Last Visitor (Power 5+ / slight voltrony)
Gwendlyn Di Corci (Discards and Draw 7s with Megrim and Underworld Dream effects)
Starke of Rath (Mono-R threaten effects: steal and sacrifice!)
Glissa, the Traitor (B/G artifact recursion)

Started:
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
Heidar, Rimewind Master

There are a couple other piles of cards with interesting interactions that I am still looking for good generals to take advantage of, too. My completed decks now stand at 91, and I am hoping to hit at least one hundred by the new year.

Inventories of important cards are starting to run down. Some of my more recent decklists have certainly been lacking in certain cards that could make them better. The decision on whether or not to switch cards out from older decks to put them to better use in later ones is a tough one, and I have done it on a few occasions. This has had the effect of averaging the power level of my decks somewhat. I think at some point down the line I may have to do a comparison; it would be an interesting thing to look at.

Here's a decklist that I typed up for something else. It's Asmira, Holy Avenger, who was deck #55, back when I still had Eternal Witnesses and such to use.
Asmira, Holy Avenger

Land
27 Forest
10 Plains
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
Selesnya Sanctuary

Creatures
Birds of Paradise
Spore Frog
Fauna Shaman
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Lotus Cobra
Melira, Sylvok Outcast
Viridian Emissary
Qasali Pridemage
Wood Elves
Spike Feeder
Yavimaya Elder
Eternal Witness
Kitchen Finks
Dauntless Escort
Lumberknot
Stonehorn Dignitary
Ravenous Baloth
Heartmender
Radiant's Dragoons
Juniper Order Ranger
Archon of Justice
Woodripper
Kithkin Spellduster
Aerie Ouphes
Acidic Slime
Mitotic Slime
Nacatl War-Pride
Duplicant
Wurmcoil Engine
Twilight Shepherd
Krosan Tusker
Woodfall Primus

Instants
Fracturing Gust
Momentous Fall
Beast Within
Fresh Meat
Krosan Grip
Swords to Plowshares


Sorceries
Green Sun's Zenith
Make a Wish
Genesis Wave

Enchantments
Night Soil
Greater Good
Ooze Garden
Gutter Grime
Sylvan Library
Fecundity
Cream of the Crop
Abundance

Artifacts
Marble Diamond
Birthing Pod
Whispersilk Cloak
Talisman of Unity
Cauldron of Souls
Culling Dais
Dreamstone Hedron
Mind Stone
Darksteel Ingot
Skullclamp

Planswalkers
Garruk Wildspeaker


That's all for now. Maybe another decklist (probably Starke) later on.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Update!

Too bouncy to sit and play FNM for a few hours, so I stayed home and finished up work on a couple of decks.

Just completed:
Atalya, Samite Master
Morinfen
Oyobi, Who Split The Heavens
Soramaro, First to Dream

Nearly finished:
Hakim, Loreweaver (50%)
Sisters of Stone Death (50%)

Begun construction:
Circu, Dimir Lobotomist
Rhys, the Redeemed
Uril, the Miststalker

Yeah, I'm going for a couple easier ones to work on at the moment. I've managed to get some really bad generals out of the way (Jasmine Boreal, Oyobi, Autumn Willow, Atalya), and some of those turned out to be pretty fun decks. Jasmine Boreal is a G/W "vanilla" deck, with power/toughness boosting auras and equipment and Muraganda Petroglyphs to round it out. Autumn Willow is a strange green Voltron with lots of pump spells and graveyard recursion. I just finished Atalya and Oyobi, so I haven't tested them yet, but Atalya looks fun to play (or at least frustrating to play against) with all her damage prevention/life gain (topped off with Felidar Sovereign of course). Oyobi, well, just looks bad, frankly. Not one of my stronger efforts. There are quite a number of good spirits in mono-W out there, but most of them that I own are in other decks, and I don't want to break my quest rules. I think I'll run her out on EDH night next week and see how she plays. I don't have high hopes.

I would have been much further along this week, but I spent some time doing two other things for the quest beyond deckbuilding: One, I searched out all my sleeves that I still have and sorted them so that I knew what I was going to need; and Two, I've actually been pre-planning a bunch more decks. I've got preliminary decklists ready for another dozen decks beyond what I'm working on now. Some of them are way too big, others far too small, but they are good starts. Generals with these decklists right now include Garza Zol, Tobias Andrion, Ob-Nixilis, Endrek Sahr, Mistform Ultimus, Experiment Kraj, Adamaro, and Glissa the Traitor, among others just begun. I don't plan to build all of those soon, but as I pull together cards for other decks, I'll set aside cards that I know I've put on those lists so that I can start prepping them.