Tom's (Powerful) Decks **Update: 4/4/2013

[tomy0619lee]

UPDATE (4/4/2013) -> If you are experiencing problems - e.g. missing pictures, misfiring effects, etc. - then download the new "Mad Dog" and "Nayan Invasion" decks posted below (the file should be dated Apr 4).

Hello everyone,

I have been lurking in the forums and immensely enjoying some of the decks I created thanks to its posters (esp. thefiremind, sumomole, RiiakShiNal, and kevlahnota).

With their help I created some decks to share below (all are 60 cards).

I tested decks against other mods' and revenge decks to meet following criteria:

I) Skill intensive
Couple are very skill intensive, but only from perspective of Standard and Dotp - probably above average for modern and average for legacy.

II) Powerful
equivalent to Modern Tier 1.5 to 2 -- I mostly play Modern IRL

III) Fun, interesting, and hopefully somewhat original
But: few decks are derivative

Also: NO cards which do not work as intended are included.

Also #2: All cards are legacy legal and there are no cards included which are obviously broken.
(I largely stuck to modern-legal cards except for couple decks)

Play online with friends or play against other modded decks -- Playing against Liliana, Krenko, or Odric Revenge decks are pretty fun as well (though you will usually win with decent play).

Any criticisms, encouragements, and any other input very welcome! (As long as civil...)

Decks:
Preview image with mana curve in spoilers (0 cmc's are generally lands)

Download all - http://www75.zippyshare.com/v/66401814/file.html
*Note: file sizes are from 20-25mb for most except "Mad Dog" which is 35mb.

Mad Dog (Difficulty - Very High) **NOTE: MUST download this (o.w. other decks will have problems)
Download - http://www75.zippyshare.com/v/99103244/file.html
Description - UG Aggro-control-combo with Wild Mongrel, Basking Rootwalla, Fauna Shaman, plus Brainstorm, Intuition, and Vengevine

| Open

Nayan Invasion (Difficulty - Very High)
Download - http://www22.zippyshare.com/v/76339891/file.html
Description - RWG Aggro with 16 lands, 16 one cmc mana dorks, and can kill on turn 3 and consistently on 4!

| Open

Cratervenge (Difficulty - High)
Download - http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/8998220/file.html
Description - BMWG Ramp-combo inspired by recent reanimator decks with Craterhoof Behemoth, but also Tidehollow Sculler, Bird of Paradise, and Fetch-/Dual-lands across 4 colours

| Open

Sunny Image (Difficulty - High)
Download - http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/12782566/file.html
Description - UW Control deck featuring Sun Titan, Phantasmal Image, with Detention Sphere, Aven Riftwatcher, Compulsive Research, Sphinx's Revelation, and more.

| Open

All is Dusted (Difficulty - Somewhat High)
Download - http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/33095068/file.html
Description - UWG Ramp-Control deck with All is Dust, Primal Titan, a Stomping Ground, Supreme verdict, Sphinx's Revelation -- It's win-con kills in 1-2 turns.

| Open

Haunted Men (Difficulty - Moderate)
Download - http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/24451711/file.html
Description - Wb Aggro humans deck including Geist of Saint Traft's Angel token + Silverblade Paladin as an alternative win-con. Skill comes in with the Mother of Runes. Only 20 lands and 4 non-creature spells.

| Open

Elvish Ambush (Difficulty - Moderate)
Download - http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/50666225/file.html
Description - BG Elf-Warrior deck based on kev's Community mod version, except with Green Sun's Zenith, generally more combo-tastic, and cut down to 60 cards.

| Open

Please enjoy & I love (civil) comments!

[thedoo]

With the Mad Dog deck, Hinterland Harbor seems to missing its illustration. Otherwise these seem like pretty fun decks.

[tomy0619lee]

With the Mad Dog deck, Hinterland Harbor seems to missing its illustration. Otherwise these seem like pretty fun decks.

Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix it when I'm home tonight.

And: thanks for the compliment!

Edit: Fixed (But not for the combined zip file -- having some uploading issues)

[thedoo]

Ran into some other issues. Precinct Captain from the Haunted Men deck doesn't create tokens when he hits a player. It goes through the effect but nothing is made. Also, I am running into a lot of cards that don't have text for their abilities. Most of them say CARD_QUERY_stuff here, just some ones I've run into: Mother of Runes, all of the dual lands have CARD_QUERY_OPTION_MANA instead of the actual color name.

[tomy0619lee]

Ran into some other issues... (snip)

Thanks for the reports.

I'm not sure what could be causing the problems with Precinct Captain. Perhaps you have another mod with broken code? I will try to fix it on my end if I can.
**Edit: I found the problem -> will be fixed in next release tonight

For the lack of localizations: that was an oversight on my part. I'll fix it ASAP.

[thedoo]

Another report: Blackcleave Cliffs and Dragonskull Summit are missing their illustrations from the Goblin Sacs deck, which is also missing from your main post. Also from that deck, Warren Weirding doesn't make the tokens if you sac a goblin. Mudbutton Torchrunner seems that it has to block? I don't see that rules text on the card anywhere. Keep up the good work .

[tomy0619lee]

Another report: Blackcleave Cliffs and Dragonskull Summit are missing their illustrations from the Goblin Sacs deck, which is also missing from your main post. Also from that deck, Warren Weirding doesn't make the tokens if you sac a goblin. Mudbutton Torchrunner seems that it has to block? I don't see that rules text on the card anywhere. Keep up the good work .

Oops, that deck wasn't supposed to be released yet...

But, if anyone's enjoying that deck I will be upload the fixes for that as well.

[thedoo]

Hmm I'm not sure what it is, but I still get the CARD_QUERY_OPTION_MANA prompt instead of the text, although I see that you added that phrase to the text permanent, so I'm not sure what else could be wrong. I'm only running your mod, so I don't believe it can be another mod overwriting it. Oh and I think I ran into an issue with Burning Tree Emmissary, had an untapped Sacred Foundry, Noble Hierarch, played the Emmissary using some of my other lands, but was unable to play a Boros Reckoner in my hand even though I should have had the red from the Emmissary, a white from the Hierarch, and a red from the Foundry.

[tomy0619lee]

Hmm I'm not sure what it is (snip)

I will look into the problems tonight -> for the shaman I might have forgotten to include mana tokens.

Edit: Also, is it just that one line that's showing without localization or are all of them still having problems?

[tomy0619lee]

Just fixes Burning Tree Emissary not providing mana (if you had some other mods then it would have worked anyhow).

Just download "Mad Dog" deck again.