By Behold Wacky Mod (Bwm) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:35 pm:

A couple of days ago my brother held a little tournament for some of his friends and invited me to join in and make a T2-ish deck (darn)...

so I figured I should build affinity, but I don't really have Ravagers, so I went with Broodstar...

This was the decklist:

4 Seat of the Synod
4 Vault of Whispers
4 Great Furnace
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Cloudpost
2 Island
1 Swamp
1 Mountain

3 Atog
3 Shrapnel Blast

4 Broodstar
4 Thoughtcast
3 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Artificer's Intuition

4 Disciple of the Vault

4 Pentad Prism
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Myr Servitor
4 Frogmite
4 Myr Enforcer
4 Talisman of Dominance
4 Talisman of Indulgence
4 Myr Moonvessel
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Cranial Plating
1 Chrome Mox

Sideboard:
4 Pyroclasm
4 Electrostatic Bolt
4 Echoing Ruin
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Rebuild

Like: after 5 minutes I figured out that for "the fastest T2-deck around", this monstrosity was slow as hell... (round: turn -goldfish-kills)

By Behold Wacky Mod (Bwm) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:40 pm:

Because the deck was so slow, I figured I could as well make it a little more consistent and I started looking for other cards to somehow make the deck more reliable (and possibly cut down the number of cards a little)

My searching got rewarded with Genesis Chamber and Masticore... I removed Myr Moonvessel and 2 Talisman for them... I also changed the cloudposts into normal basic lands...

4 Seat of the Synod
4 Vault of Whispers
4 Great Furnace
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Island
3 Swamp
3 Mountain

3 Atog
3 Shrapnel Blast

4 Broodstar
4 Thoughtcast
3 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Artificer's Intuition

4 Disciple of the Vault

4 Pentad Prism
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Myr Servitor
4 Frogmite
4 Myr Enforcer
3 Talisman of Dominance
3 Talisman of Indulgence
4 Myr Moonvessel
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Cranial Plating
3 Genesis Chamber
2 Masticore
1 Chrome Mox

By Behold Wacky Mod (Bwm) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:42 pm:

the first game that I got my Masticore in play I was left without cards in my hand (sucks), so I figured I needed a draw-engine... Because I had so many little guys my choice fell on Skullclamp. I removed the Myr Enforcer for them, since I probably couldn't reliably clamp those to dead and the deck had enough options to win already anyways...

4 Seat of the Synod
4 Vault of Whispers
4 Great Furnace
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Island
3 Swamp
3 Mountain

3 Atog
3 Shrapnel Blast

4 Broodstar
4 Thoughtcast
3 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Artificer's Intuition

4 Disciple of the Vault

4 Pentad Prism
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Myr Servitor
4 Frogmite
4 Skullclamp
3 Talisman of Dominance
3 Talisman of Indulgence
4 Myr Moonvessel
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Cranial Plating
3 Genesis Chamber
2 Masticore
1 Chrome Mox

At this moment I also changed Chrome Mox for Mox Diamond, the diamond is sooo much better, in fact, chrome mox kind'a smells in combo, because well, good combodecks contain artifacts and the non-artifacts in this deck were all too cool to remove...

By Behold Wacky Mod (Bwm) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:46 pm:

I really liked the Skullclamp-draw-engine, but I figured that the rest of the deck now couldn't keep up with the speed of the skullclamp, so I removed some of the slower cards... Broodstar is, in fact, not really good in affinity, the stupid thing is slow as hell and it really doesn't do anything, each time I drew it, I'd rather have had a Shrapnell Blast or an Atog... Besides of that, I couldn't clamp it, so it went away... Masticore went away too, I just wanted to have my Clamp-engine...
I also added Ornithopter, because I liked the idea of Plated Ornithopters around...

4 Seat of the Synod
4 Vault of Whispers
4 Great Furnace
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Island
3 Swamp
3 Mountain

3 Atog
3 Shrapnel Blast

4 Thoughtcast
1 Artificer's Intuition

4 Disciple of the Vault

4 Pentad Prism
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Myr Servitor
4 Skullclamp
4 Ornithopter
2 Talisman of Dominance
2 Talisman of Indulgence
4 Myr Moonvessel
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Cranial Plating
3 Genesis Chamber
1 Mox Diamond

By Behold Wacky Mod (Bwm) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:49 pm:

okay, so really, Ornithopter doesn't do anything, off it goes... I figured that when I got the Clamp-engine running, I was casting quite a lot of spells... So I decided to add in a Storm-engine too... I also added an Ineffable's Will, because I figured that it would be nice to redo it all...

4 Seat of the Synod
4 Vault of Whispers
4 Great Furnace
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Island
3 Swamp
3 Mountain

3 Atog
3 Shrapnel Blast

4 Thoughtcast
1 Artificer's Intuition
1 Mind's Desire

4 Disciple of the Vault
4 Dark Ritual
2 Tendrils of Agony
1 Y@wgmoth's Will

4 Pentad Prism
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Myr Servitor
4 Skullclamp
4 Myr Moonvessel
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Cranial Plating
3 Genesis Chamber
2 Talisman of Dominance
2 Talisman of Indulgence
1 Mox Diamond

By Behold Wacky Mod (Bwm) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:51 pm:

Wait, what am I doing?? I'm making a T2-deck here when there aren't any restrictions to sets and stuff...

Why not throw in all the T1-goodies??

4 Seat of the Synod
4 Vault of Whispers
4 Great Furnace
2 Darksteel Citadel
1 Tolarian Academy

3 Atog
3 Shrapnel Blast

4 Thoughtcast
1 Artificer's Intuition
1 Mind's Desire
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker

4 Disciple of the Vault
4 Dark Ritual
2 Tendrils of Agony
1 Y@wgmoth's Will

4 Pentad Prism
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Myr Servitor
4 Skullclamp
4 Myr Moonvessel
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Cranial Plating
3 Genesis Chamber
2 Talisman of Dominance
2 Talisman of Indulgence
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring

By Behold Wacky Mod (Bwm) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:53 pm:

And after some more testing (we're now arrived at yesterday afternoon) I figured that creatures suck anyways and that attacking was not a cool thing... I trimmed down the deck to 60 cards and removed most of the slower ways of winning (including the storm-cards)...

4 Seat of the Synod
4 Vault of Whispers
4 Great Furnace
2 Darksteel Citadel
1 Tolarian Academy

3 Atog

4 Thoughtcast
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker

4 Disciple of the Vault
1 Y@wgmoth's Will

4 Pentad Prism
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Myr Servitor
4 Skullclamp
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring

By Behold Wacky Mod (Bwm) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 01:06 pm:

and now skullclamp stopped working effectively...

So I threw the deck in a corner and cut it in pieces... The rest of the night I was thinking of how to improve the deck, because I really wanted it to work correctly...

So today I came up with this:

the last change that was when this evening I figured that Y@wgmoth's Will didn't really speed me up, but set me back a turn (trying to win with a Disciple is hard when all the stuff gets removed from the game)...
Can somebody clear me up on that one, rules-wise...
"Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from play"
and
"Cards put into a graveyard this turn are removed from the game instead."

4 Great Furnace
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Tree of Tales
4 Vault of Whispers
R Tolarian Academy

R Chrome Mox
R Lion's Eye Diamond
R Lotus Petal
R Mana Crypt
R Mana Vault
R Mox Diamond
R Mox Ruby
R Sol Ring

4 Krark-Clan Ironworks
4 Chromatic Sphere
3 Pentad Prism
1 Blinkmoth Urn
R Memory Jar

4 Thoughtcast
2 Meditate
R Ancestral Recall
R Frantic Search
R Time Spiral
R Time Walk
R Tinker
R Windfall

4 Disciple of the Vault
R Demonic Tutor
R Vampiric Tutor

R Wheel of Fortune

R Fastbond
R Regrowth

yep, I know, that's 21 restricted cards out of 60 cards...
It's also 37 artifacts on 60 cards...

By Homelands rules! (Psycho) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:55 pm:

You got owned by Jorn's gang??

Don't spam in my thread while I'm not finished yet ;)

FYI: Offcourse not, it's just that they had better affinity-cards, like ravagers... On the other hand, one of them played Spikeshot-affinity, which is, just a bad deck idea (he was a good player though and I think he won)

By Homelands rules! (Psycho) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 01:24 pm:

Will makes a replacement, the replacement doesn't trigger the disciple. So Will beats Disc. Sorry, no lifeloss for opponent.

By Hotfryman on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 05:03 pm:

ya this is not sounding anything like affinity in the least anymore, and with the well of cards u seem to have y dont u just make a really good type 1 deck and stop w/ affinity (its supposed to be just T2, maybe 1x anyway)

By Behold Wacky Mod (Bwm) on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 05:05 pm:

because I'm not able to make the top T1 decks...

and originality is fun, although combo lacks fun :S