Alara Shard Singleton Decks

[gos]

I took every card from Shards of Alara block, divided them equally between shards (which means the 5-colored cards got left out), then removed cards not implemented in forge yet, and added basic lands. There were a few exceptions to this rule: all decks got 4 of their respective panoramas, obelisks, tri-color lands, and borderposts.

So, if you like varied, bloated, thematic singleton decks, I thought I'd share

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Alara - Bant
[general]
constructed
[main]
17 Plains
17 Island
17 Forest
4 Bant Panorama
4 Obelisk of Bant
4 Seaside Citadel
4 Fieldmist Borderpost
4 Wildfield Borderpost
1 Ardent Plea
1 Bant Charm
1 Bant Sojourners
1 Bant Sureblade
1 Captured Sunlight
1 Crystallization
1 Dauntless Escort
1 Deft Duelist
1 Finest Hour
1 Flurry of Wings
1 Giltspire Avenger
1 Grizzled Leotau
1 Hindering Light
1 Jenara, Asura of War
1 Jhessian Infiltrator
1 Kiss of the Amesha
1 Knight of New Alara
1 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Leonin Armorguard
1 Lorescale Coatl
1 Messenger Falcons
1 Nulltread Gargantuan
1 Offering to Asha
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Rafiq of the Many
1 Rhox Bodyguard
1 Rhox War Monk
1 Sigil Blessing
1 Sigil Captain
1 Sovereigns of Lost Alara
1 Stoic Angel
1 Stormcaller's Boon
1 Talon Trooper
1 Vedalken Heretic
1 Wall of Denial
1 Wargate
1 Waveskimmer Aven
1 Winged Coatl
1 Aerie Mystics
1 Akrasan Squire
1 Angelic Benediction
1 Angelsong
1 Asha's Favor
1 Aven Squire
1 Aven Trailblazer
1 Bant Battlemage
1 Battlegrace Angel
1 Call to Heel
1 Celestial Purge
1 Constricting Tendrils
1 Court Archers
1 Dawnray Archer
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
1 Excommunicate
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Frontline Sage
1 Gleam of Resistance
1 Guardians of Akrasa
1 Invincible Hymn
1 Jhessian Lookout
1 Knight of the Skyward Eye
1 Knight of the White Orchid
1 Knight-Captain of Eos
1 Lapse of Certainty
1 Mana Cylix
1 Mark of Asylum
1 Martial Coup
1 Mirror-Sigil Sergeant
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Obelisk of Alara
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Outrider of Jhess
1 Paragon of the Amesha
1 Path to Exile
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Resounding Silence
1 Rhox Charger
1 Rhox Meditant
1 Rockcaster Platoon
1 Sighted-Caste Sorcerer
1 Sigil of the Empty Throne
1 Sigiled Paladin
1 Sylvan Bounty
1 Topan Ascetic
1 Tortoise Formation
1 Unsummon
1 Valiant Guard
1 Wall of Reverence
1 Welkin Guide
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Alara - Esper
[general]
constructed
[main]
13 Plains
13 Island
13 Swamp
4 Arcane Sanctum
4 Esper Panorama
4 Obelisk of Esper
4 Fieldmist Borderpost
4 Mistvein Borderpost
1 Architects of Will
1 Armillary Sphere
1 Brainbite
1 Brilliant Ultimatum
1 Cancel
1 Cathartic Adept
1 Cloudheath Drake
1 Countersquall
1 Courier's Capsule
1 Court Homunculus
1 Cumber Stone
1 Darklit Gargoyle
1 Dispeller's Capsule
1 Enigma Sphinx
1 Esper Charm
1 Esper Cormorants
1 Esper Sojourners
1 Esper Stormblade
1 Esperzoa
1 Ethercaste Knight
1 Etherium Abomination
1 Etherium Astrolabe
1 Etherium Sculptor
1 Ethersworn Adjudicator
1 Executioner's Capsule
1 Filigree Angel
1 Filigree Sages
1 Glassdust Hulk
1 Glaze Fiend
1 Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
1 Identity Crisis
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Magister Sphinx
1 Marble Chalice
1 Mask of Riddles
1 Master of Etherium
1 Master Transmuter
1 Meddling Mage
1 Metallurgeon
1 Mind Funeral
1 Obelisk of Alara
1 Onyx Goblet
1 Parasitic Strix
1 Protomatter Powder
1 Punish Ignorance
1 Puppet Conjurer
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Resounding Wave
1 Salvage Slasher
1 Salvage Titan
1 Sanctum Gargoyle
1 Sanctum Plowbeast
1 Scepter of Dominance
1 Scepter of Fugue
1 Scepter of Insight
1 Scornful AEther-Lich
1 Scourglass
1 Sharding Sphinx
1 Sharuum the Hegemon
1 Sludge Strider
1 Spell Snip
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Sphinx Sovereign
1 Sphinx Summoner
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Thopter Foundry
1 Thoughtcutter Agent
1 Tidehollow Strix
1 Time Sieve
1 Tower Gargoyle
1 Traumatic Visions
1 Unbender Tine
1 Vectis Agents
1 Vectis Silencers
1 Vedalken Outlander
1 Windwright Mage
1 Zealous Persecution
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Alara - Grixis
[general]
constructed
[main]
13 Island
13 Swamp
13 Mountain
4 Crumbling Necropolis
4 Grixis Panorama
4 Obelisk of Grixis
4 Mistvein Borderpost
4 Veinfire Borderpost
1 Absorb Vis
1 Agony Warp
1 Archdemon of Unx
1 Blightning
1 Blood Cultist
1 Blood Tyrant
1 Bone Saw
1 Bone Splinters
1 Brackwater Elemental
1 Breath of Malfegor
1 Corpse Connoisseur
1 Cruel Ultimatum
1 Cunning Lethemancer
1 Death Baron
1 Deathbringer Thoctar
1 Deathgreeter
1 Defiler of Souls
1 Demonic Dread
1 Demonspine Whip
1 Deny Reality
1 Drastic Revelation
1 Dreadwing
1 Dreg Reaver
1 Dregscape Zombie
1 Elder Mastery
1 Extractor Demon
1 Fatestitcher
1 Fire-Field Ogre
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Fleshformer
1 Font of Mythos
1 Grixis Battlemage
1 Grixis Charm
1 Grixis Grimblade
1 Grixis Slavedriver
1 Grixis Sojourners
1 Hell's Thunder
1 Hellspark Elemental
1 Illusory Demon
1 Infectious Horror
1 Infest
1 Jhessian Zombies
1 Kathari Remnant
1 Kathari Screecher
1 Kederekt Leviathan
1 Kederekt Parasite
1 Lich Lord of Unx
1 Lightning Reaver
1 Lightning Talons
1 Magefire Wings
1 Nemesis of Reason
1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
1 Nyxathid
1 Obelisk of Alara
1 Pestilent Kathari
1 Quietus Spike
1 Resounding Scream
1 Rotting Rats
1 Scourge Devil
1 Sedraxis Alchemist
1 Sedraxis Specter
1 Sewn-Eye Drake
1 Shadowfeed
1 Shambling Remains
1 Shore Snapper
1 Skeletal Kathari
1 Slave of Bolas
1 Soul Manipulation
1 Soulquake
1 Thraximundar
1 Undead Leotau
1 Vedalken Ghoul
1 Viscera Dragger
1 Vithian Stinger
1 Voices from the Void
1 Zombie Outlander
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Alara - Jund
[general]
constructed
[main]
14 Mountain
14 Swamp
14 Forest
4 Jund Panorama
4 Obelisk of Jund
4 Savage Lands
4 Firewild Borderpost
4 Veinfire Borderpost
1 Algae Gharial
1 Bituminous Blast
1 Blister Beetle
1 Bloodhall Ooze
1 Bloodpyre Elemental
1 Broodmate Dragon
1 Caldera Hellion
1 Canyon Minotaur
1 Carrion Thrash
1 Charnelhoard Wurm
1 Crucible of Fire
1 Deadshot Minotaur
1 Drag Down
1 Dragon Appeasement
1 Dragon Broodmother
1 Dragon Fodder
1 Dragonsoul Knight
1 Fiery Fall
1 Flameblast Dragon
1 Gluttonous Slime
1 Goblin Assault
1 Goblin Deathraiders
1 Goblin Mountaineer
1 Goblin Outlander
1 Goblin Razerunners
1 Godtracker of Jund
1 Gorger Wurm
1 Hellkite Overlord
1 Hissing Iguanar
1 Igneous Pouncer
1 Ignite Disorder
1 Jund Battlemage
1 Jund Charm
1 Jund Hackblade
1 Jund Sojourners
1 Kathari Bomber
1 Kresh the Bloodbraided
1 Lavalanche
1 Lord of Extinction
1 Madrush Cyclops
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Mage Slayer
1 Magma Spray
1 Manaforce Mace
1 Manaplasm
1 Maniacal Rage
1 Matca Rioters
1 Molten Frame
1 Monstrous Carabid
1 Morbid Bloom
1 Mycoloth
1 Necrogenesis
1 Obelisk of Alara
1 Predator Dragon
1 Predatory Advantage
1 Putrid Leech
1 Rakka Mar
1 Resounding Thunder
1 Rhox Brute
1 Rip-Clan Crasher
1 Rockslide Elemental
1 Sangrite Backlash
1 Sangrite Surge
1 Sanity Gnawers
1 Sarkhan Vol
1 Scarland Thrinax
1 Scavenger Drake
1 Shard Convergence
1 Singe-Mind Ogre
1 Skullmulcher
1 Spore Burst
1 Sprouting Thrinax
1 Suicidal Charge
1 Terminate
1 Thorn-Thrash Viashino
1 Thornling
1 Thunder-Thrash Elder
1 Toxic Iguanar
1 Tukatongue Thallid
1 Viashino Skeleton
1 Viashino Slaughtermaster
1 Violent Outburst
1 Violent Ultimatum
1 Volcanic Submersion
1 Wandering Goblins
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Alara - Naya
[general]
constructed
[main]
13 Plains
13 Mountain
13 Forest
4 Jungle Shrine
4 Naya Panorama
4 Obelisk of Naya
4 Firewild Borderpost
4 Wildfield Borderpost
1 Ajani Vengeant
1 Apocalypse Hydra
1 Beacon Behemoth
1 Behemoth Sledge
1 Blitz Hellion
1 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Bloodthorn Taunter
1 Branching Bolt
1 Bull Cerodon
1 Cavern Thoctar
1 Cerodon Yearling
1 Cliffrunner Behemoth
1 Colossal Might
1 Cradle of Vitality
1 Cylian Elf
1 Cylian Sunsinger
1 Druid of the Anima
1 Drumhunter
1 Elvish Visionary
1 Ember Weaver
1 Enlisted Wurm
1 Exploding Borders
1 Exuberant Firestoker
1 Feral Hydra
1 Fight to the Death
1 Glory of Warfare
1 Gloryscale Viashino
1 Godsire
1 Godtoucher
1 Gustrider Exuberant
1 Incurable Ogre
1 Jungle Weaver
1 Kaleidostone
1 Knotvine Mystic
1 Knotvine Paladin
1 Kranioceros
1 Marisi's Twinclaws
1 Mayael the Anima
1 Meglonoth
1 Might of Alara
1 Mighty Emergence
1 Mosstodon
1 Mycoid Shepherd
1 Nacatl Outlander
1 Nacatl Savage
1 Naturalize
1 Naya Battlemage
1 Naya Hushblade
1 Naya Sojourners
1 Obelisk of Alara
1 Pale Recluse
1 Paleoloth
1 Rakeclaw Gargantuan
1 Reborn Hope
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Resounding Roar
1 Ridge Rannet
1 Sacellum Archers
1 Savage Hunger
1 Scattershot Archer
1 Sigil of the Nayan Gods
1 Sigiled Behemoth
1 Soul's Might
1 Spearbreaker Behemoth
1 Spellbreaker Behemoth
1 Steward of Valeron
1 Stun Sniper
1 Sunseed Nurturer
1 Titanic Ultimatum
1 Uril, the Miststalker
1 Vagrant Plowbeasts
1 Valeron Outlander
1 Valley Rannet
1 Vithian Renegades
1 Volcanic Fallout
1 Where Ancients Tread
1 Wild Leotau
1 Wild Nacatl
1 Woolly Thoctar
1 Yoked Plowbeast
[sideboard]

[Sloth]

I saw that you post a lot of decks gos. If you want, you can tune decks that have a remarkable theme to be playable well by the AI and we can include them as a quest opponents. See the new quest deck topic for more details.

[Chris H.]

"Remarkable" might not be the best term to use while describing a quest AI type of deck. As far as themes go a better word might be detectable and/or noticeable.

Good examples of themes could include decks based on spell countering, or milling or discard, etc.

Tribal decks can also be a good theme: dwarves or elves or dragons or giants or fairies or demons, etc.

[Sloth]

"Remarkable" might not be the best term to use while describing a quest AI type of deck. As far as themes go a better word might be detectable and/or noticeable.

Yea, not a native speaker here. Thanks for clearing things up Chris.

[gos]

I saw that you post a lot of decks gos. If you want, you can tune decks that have a remarkable theme to be playable well by the AI and we can include them as a quest opponents. See the new quest deck topic for more details.

Thanks for the invitation. How do you go about tuning a deck for the AI?

[Chris H.]

Yea, not a native speaker here. Thanks for clearing things up Chris.

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Your english is perfect as far as I or anyone else can tell.

[Sloth]

I saw that you post a lot of decks gos. If you want, you can tune decks that have a remarkable theme to be playable well by the AI and we can include them as a quest opponents. See the new quest deck topic for more details.

Thanks for the invitation. How do you go about tuning a deck for the AI?

Just give the AI the deck and see which cards work good together.

Yea, not a native speaker here. Thanks for clearing things up Chris.

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Your english is perfect as far as I or anyone else can tell.

Thanks Chris. Good to hear.

[Chris H.]

Thanks for the invitation. How do you go about tuning a deck for the AI?

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You can now glance at the column named "AI" in the deck editor. Cards with a "No" are not likely to be usable by the AI.

Cards with a "?" tend to be cards that work in combination with other cards.

You can create a small several card deck which has the card that you want to test and you can include just enough mana in the deck to power it up.

Assign the deck to the AI and play a game to see if the AI can make effective use of the card or not. Make sure that you select the developer mode check box to insure that the AI does not lose the game when it runs out of cards in it's library.