[REL]loookaz's decks 1.4 - help needed!!!(17-12-2012)

[loookaz]

hi guys.

it is my first attempt to create a deck. a was a magic player years ago during Urza's and Mercadian Masks age, but now due to the Dotp game I indulge myself from time to time and play it again:)

the genesis of this deck are basically 3 cards - Primeval Titan, Flickerwisp and Cloudshift. I just thought that they are enormously powerful and that there is a great synergy between them. so I decided to build a deck around them. Firstly, inspired by the deck On a Pale Horse made by Soul Storm, I thought about building a deck with "Debtors Knell" as the main winning condition and the powerhouse to reuse all the creatures come-into-play abilities, while putting some nasty creatures and "Wraths of God" for control, but then I realized that "Emeria the Sky Ruin" can work similarly, while I still can fetch it with Primeval Titan, theoretically few turns earlier. The deck is still in the alpha stage as I am still trying to make it more balanced and a little bit faster. I tried to squeeze inside more Wraths of God, but decided to put them into sideboard for everyone to change some cards as they wish.

as it is my first attempt to build a deck I really appreciate some constructive criticism.
in my opinion the deck(as it is a combo deck) sometimes is to slow and can be overpowered in the first few turns. what do you think? maybe some Howling Mines could do the trick? or maybe Fauna Shaman is worth considering?

but still, with a perfect hand the deck is able to kill on turn 5 or 6 and it simply has a bunch of really neat combos:)

I just cannot help myself and mention few of them:
- Eternal Witness + Strip Mine - just ping the Witness with Cloudshift of Flickerwisp and watch your enemy's mana base shrink dramatically:)
- In the late game, if you play Sun Titan from the Sideboard - you can use Strip Mine twice a turn, just by getting it back with the Titan's ability:)
- another neat thing is Fiend Hunter + Cloudshift - if you cloudshift Fiendhunter as it comes into play, after you chose the first target for his ability(but before it resolves), and then choose another target creature - the first target gets removed from the game permanently:) you can just turn Cloudshift into another Swords to Plowshares:)I just freakin love it:)
- Cloudshift itself is just extremely potent card, you can use it to remove your creature after declaring block to avoid literally any damage, even from some monstrous creatures with trample ect, ping Eternal Witness for some removal spell, ping Flickerwisp to further develop some combos, some many uses:) and in the middle to late game use it on Primeval Titan or Armada Wurm, it just nor fair it's so nice:P
- late game Flickerwisp + Wrath of God combo anyone? hide your Armada Wurm and demolish your opponent next turn:)
- Flickerwhisp + Thragtusk. +5 life and a new 3/3 beast sounds quite nice for 3 mana:)

i tried to put Fyndhorn Elves instead of Yavimaya Elders, but Elders are just 3:1 card advantage and secondly there aren't many basic lands in the deck, you just need 4 or 6 mana to play Natural Order or the Titan to get the deck winning, and Natural Order on turn 3 or Titan cast from hand on Turn 4 are quite common due to all mana acceleration:)

anyway - what do you think about my idea and how would you improve the deck?

REQUEST!! I am really stupid if it comes to graphic editing, I tried to use a tool provided in the forum to make deck templates, but it gave me some errors and made my deck impossible to load in the game. so could someone make same basic template with the Cloudshift of Primeval Titan graphic for me? i know I am a noob, but I am trying to learn:) (great Firemind has already helped me:))

you need all other mods provided in this forum to play my deck.

i am looking forward to your feedback

cheers

lukas

p.s. I know that the deck is a little messy, but it works for me:)

1.1. very small changes to the deck. consider it the final version

1.2. well i got a new deck ready, but i still do not know how to make my own deck templates, can someone direct me to some tutorial or is willing to share his knowledge on how to do it? it's embarrassing to ask others for help every time I have a new deck...

1.3
2 kinds of Braids Cabal Minion decks added. as I am ultimately unable to do even basic graphic editing, i kindly ask someone for help with the deck templates, as both decks are missing them. please let me know if everything else seems to work. i might missed something while building the decks.
1.4
Bant Show and Tell added. Still in dire need of someone with some graphic skills to make templates for my decks!!!
http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=9033&p=105581#p105581

[skullblakka]

i can do that for you if you want for tomorrow, it's late in Europe for now :p

Or if you want to learn, i can give you my templates and so you can try it easily. Let me know


anyway thx to begin to share your work

[loookaz]

i would like to know how to do it myself.

btw:: is there any good dotp 2013 deck manager? the only one that i found that work only generates all the deck folder structure, all the rest i had to do manually.
i tried at least 3 different managers here from the forum, but they do not seem to work, maybe it is because I have windows 7 64?
anyway, i greatly appreciate any help you could give me.
cheers

lukas

[hansondon]

I have a deckbuilder which I think is good enough for me. Basically it automatically obtains the card pool by reading all the wad files you have in the game directory, which means it can be updated easily, and then you can just edit your own deck in the UI by drag and drop. Most of the cards can be viewed with image and description, and it got a simple filter too. You can build ten decks in one wad file, which the deckbuilder will pack up for you. It seems to be developed by a user called "snowrabbit00" of a Chinese MTG forum, but I really don't know if anyone has posted it here or not.

[loookaz]

I am interested, could you post a link?.
although we are getting a little off-topic.

one way or the other I really appreciate the help and feedback, and probably by the end of the week the deck will reach it's final version:)

[thefiremind]

I added the missing graphics, see if you like the result:
http://www25.zippyshare.com/v/97254613/file.html
I also gave another ID to the LAND_POOL: you shouldn't use the same ID for deck and land pool, or the game will probably crash when the AI uses the deck.
About how to do that, for the graphics I use a mix of Photoshop and Paint.NET. I'm not a graphics expert myself, but as long as I only have to copy/paste/resize and I can start from good templates, I get good results.

[hansondon]

http://bbs.3dmgame.com/thread-3231365-1-1.html
I think you don't have to register to download these files.

[loookaz]

I am so positively surprised by the quickness of the responses by the other members of this forum.

so thanks to the help of Firemind I think that the deck is finished.

I feel really proud to have made my first Dotp deck:)

and great thanks to you Firemind, you're the man!

but still - any links to your favourite deck editing software and some tutorial how to make a proper deck template?
I only found info how to make a the graphic for a card, but not the deck template:(

I still have an idea for some black and green Rock-style control deck and some old fashioned blue and white control, but especially with the later - it is too difficult in the era of populate and Wizards favouring fast decks to build a control deck being able to survive. Skullbacka's Zealot Fury can really attack for around 20 damage on turn 4... that's so cool, but also very annoying when you are trying to come up with a white/blue control deck:P

happy playing guys

i hope that you enjoy my deck

still waiting for your feedback

[hansondon]

by the way, when you loaded the wad files with the deckbuilder, it takes a long time(depends on how many mods you installed), and sometimes the unziped xml may have errors so there will be warnings, just ignore them.

[thefiremind]

but still - any links to your favourite deck editing software and some tutorial how to make a proper deck template?
I only found info how to make a the graphic for a card, but not the deck template:(

For AI avatars and backplates I still use the templates from DotP2012:
viewtopic.php?f=65&t=5987#p91553
For the deck, I use the template from DotP2012 then I resize it to the DotP2013 size (the deck pictures were bigger in DotP2012). It takes longer, but I still think that kevlahnota's DotP2012 deck template is the best because of the very smooth edges near the transparent parts.

[loookaz]

ok, so a new deck is ready. can someone as I've written in the first post(bottom) can either help with the templates or provide a link to a tutorial?

[loookaz]

anyone?

[Dionigi]

ok, so a new deck is ready. can someone as I've written in the first post(bottom) can either help with the templates or provide a link to a tutorial?

here is the tutorial

[loookaz]

I have a request. I do not have Photoshop software and I am not able to follow the tutorial earlier mentioned, can someone help me and make the templates for the decks that I built?

[loookaz]

anyone willing to establish - let's say - some kind of cooperation?

i have a lot of ideas, but I need someone with graphic knowledge to make the decks look as they should

please, help