Walls

[DennisBergkamp]

Here's a fun deck, start out by playing some innocent-looking walls. Then try to get Doran, the Siege Tower and Rolling Stones into play. Shield Sphere suddenly turns into a 6/6 for 0 mana, wow!

60 Total Cards

21 Creatures
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3x Angelic Wall
3x Doran, the Siege Tower
3x Eternal Witness
2x Phyrexian Walker
4x Shield Sphere
2x Vine Trellis
4x Wall of Blossoms

18 Spells
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1x Demonic Tutor
2x Duress
2x Eladamri's Call
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
4x Rolling Stones
3x Thoughtseize
1x Vampiric Tutor
2x Vindicate

21 Land
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4x Bayou
1x Flagstones of Trokair
3x Forest
2x Godless Shrine
1x Overgrown Tomb
1x Plains
4x Savannah
4x Scrubland
1x Swamp

[Chris H.]

I was playing your wall deck and had Rolling Stones and Doran, the Siege Tower in play. The computer had one of your new cards in its hand - Nature' Ruin.

[jpb]

Download here.

[DennisBergkamp]

Thanks jpb, I keep forgetting to attach the .deck files to the decks I post.

But yes, Doran, the Siege Tower and Rolling Stones are definitely your winning condition. To improve the survivability of those cards a little bit, I added Eternal Witness, Thoughtseize and Duress.

[mtgrares]

Fun idea, I'm glad that MTG Forge has the enough of the right cards to support wierd, wacky decks. Also Battle of Wits is another wierd, wacky card.

[Chris H.]

Here is a version of the wall deck that the computer can put to good use.

The walls and the Doran, the Siege Tower need the 4 anthems or they will only block and not attack. With 4 Rolling Stones I decided to add 4 Enchantress's Presence and this helps to speed up this deck.

EDIT:

I hav made a slight modification that I hope will be for the best. Find the next version at:

http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=818&p=9457#p9457



60 Total Cards

22 Creatures
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4x Angelic Wall
3x Doran, the Siege Tower
2x Eternal Witness
2x Phyrexian Walker
4x Shield Sphere
2x Vine Trellis
4x Wall of Blossoms
1x Wall of Swords

17 Spells
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2x Eladamri's Call
4x Enchantress's Presence
2x Gaea's Anthem
2x Glorious Anthem
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
4x Rolling Stones

21 Land
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3x Bayou
5x Forest
4x Plains
3x Savannah
3x Scrubland
3x Swamp
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[Chris H.]

This is a slight modification of the AI Enchanted Wall deck. It can be difficult to find the cards which will work as expected. Sometimes this deck can be fairly quick and other times it can take a while to develop. This might make a fun Quest deck to play against.

Wizzard Doran is defended by his walled castle. A few archers occasionally will send forth a volley of arrows into the attacking army. Wizard Doran, sensing victory, casts a spell and his army, the walled castle itself, ventures forth to do battle.

This deck has been modified for the computer's AI to use against a human opponent. The non-basic lands have been replaced with basic lands. Several additional sources of non land based mana have been added.

60 Total Cards

22 Creatures
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4x Angelic Wall
3x Doran, the Siege Tower
2x Eternal Witness
2x Phyrexian Walker
4x Shield Sphere
3x Vine Trellis
4x Wall of Blossoms

23 Spells
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3x Enchantress's Presence
2x Gaea's Anthem
2x Glorious Anthem
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
1x Naturalize
1x Needle Storm
4x Rolling Stones
4x Spectral Searchlight
1x Terror
2x Vindicate

15 Land
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5x Forest
5x Plains
5x Swamp

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[GandoTheBard]

Why Spectral Searchlight? (I try to avoid cards that are clearly incomplete) Darksteel Ingot is vastly superior. '

It seems like there could be a more optimal build for this. I will post one shortly.

As promised the deck:

60 Total Cards

20 Creatures
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4x Birds of Paradise
4x Doran, the Siege Tower
4x Shield Sphere
4x Wall of Blossoms
4x Wall of Swords

26 Spells
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2x Armageddon
4x Darksteel Ingot
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Eladamri's Call
1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
2x Enlightened Tutor
3x Kodama's Reach
2x Mox Diamond
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
3x Rolling Stones
4x Wrath of God

14 Land
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5x Forest
5x Plains
4x Swamp

It is not as robust as the WW and Gobbog decks are but it does win I think. (I say I think because I housed it severely using my other decks but was able to guide it to win playing it against those same decks.)

[DennisBergkamp]

I'd go for Angelic Walls instead of Wall of Swords, other than that, this looks great

[GandoTheBard]

Trust me Angelic Wall has nothing on Wall of Swords. a 3/5 that can attack if you dont get Doran out is better than a 0/4 that can attack. Plus you will very rarely (if ever) notice a game where the AI can't play this 3rd or 4th turn. I can't think of a single reason why Angelic Wall would be better.

[Chris H.]

Why Spectral Searchlight? (I try to avoid cards that are clearly incomplete) Darksteel Ingot is vastly superior. '

Argh, I'll go back and replace them.

Thanks for the pointer. I'll take care of it.

[DennisBergkamp]

Trust me Angelic Wall has nothing on Wall of Swords. a 3/5 that can attack if you dont get Doran out is better than a 0/4 that can attack. Plus you will very rarely (if ever) notice a game where the AI can't play this 3rd or 4th turn. I can't think of a single reason why Angelic Wall would be better.

Hmm, well Angelic Wall is twice as cheap But you may be right, and if there's no Doran, Angelic Wall is pretty much useless.
However, Sunweb would probably beat both! I'll try and see if I can program it.

EDIT: Sunweb is very easy, I just finished it in 2 minutes, it will be in the next version