2 Centaur Glade
4 Custody Battle
2 Dragon Roost
4 Enchantress's Presence
4 Lightning Rift
3 Naturalize
4 Slice and Dice
4 Solar Blast
4 Starstorm
4 Words of War
6 Forest
4 Forgotten Cave
4 Grand Coliseum
7 Mountain
4 Wooded Foothills |
  Who
casts creatures anyway?
Description of deck by Jay
Moldenhauer-Salazar @ www.magicthegathering.com
(quoted):
After those first three tribes, people showed great creativity in
exploring morph and cycling. As you would expect, most morph decks used
Ixidor, Reality Sculptor as their centerpieces, often using morph
creatures they could never otherwise cast. Frequent targets for Ixidor
were Exalted Angel, Quicksilver Dragon, Grinning Demon, Silent Specter,
and Krosan Colossus. Of these decks, I particularly liked Frank Myers's
use of Future Sight in combination with Dream Chisel to really crank out
the 3/3s. I also liked Scott Seville's combination Wizard/morph deck,
which actually used Crafty Pathmage as a key card (unblockable face-down
2/2s, Riptide Entrancer, Cabal Executioner, and so on). I also give
major kudos to Peter Vieren for a monogreen morph deck whose only
noncreature, nonland card was Kamahl's Summons.
The cycling decks were truly inspired and fell into three basic
categories. Several decks used cycling in conjunction with Words of
Wilding to create a ton of Bears. I particularly liked X_calibur's
(sheesh . . . why can't people use their names?) use of Kamahl, Fist of
Krosa with Slice and Dice's cycle-trigger to animate lands and then kill
them off. Another type of deck used Astral Slide and morph creatures,
taking advantage of the ruling that face-down critters removed from the
game return face up. With some well-timed cycling, these decks hoped to
put Krosan Colossus or Quicksilver Dragon into beatdown mode on Turn 4.
Of these decks, Andy Jacks's impressed me the most. The third category
of cycling decks used both Words of War and Lightning Rift to send
damage straight to the face of an opponent. These decks used some of the
best cycling cards in Onslaught, including Starstorm, Solar Blast, and
Slice and Dice. DragonKain3 (sigh) used white-red. Matthew Koelbl used
blue for Read the Runes, Trade Secrets, and Complicate. And Laura Mills
-- fast becoming one of my favorite deckbuilders -- had the insight to
use Enchantress's Presence.
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