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I'll kick it off with a Manalink version of Ravager/Affinity.

Spells
4 Thoughtcast
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Shrapnel Blast

Creatures
1 Broodstar
4 Disciple of the Vault
4 Frogmite
4 Myr Enforcer
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Ornithopter

Artifacts
4 Skullclamp
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Cranial Plating
1 Sol Ring

Land
2 Darksteel Citadel
4 Great Furnace
4 Vault of Whispers
4 Seat of the Synod

I've played with Wheel of Fortune and Timetwister, but I don't like refilling the other hand if I don't have to. Let's see some more decks!

Finally found my way here after the old ML 2.0 forums went down! thank y'all for your splendid work.

as all of my MTG with the Microprose game is vs the AI I like to have it less clicky. flashing Protean Hulk into play and clicking on 12 (?) creatures is a bit annoying when you can win just as easy and get to cast big dudes. well.... get them into play.

here is my current favourite, not yet optimized:

4 Maelstrom Archangel
2 Angel of Despair
2 Cruel Ultimatum
1 Progenitus
1 Vindicate
2 Fire // Ice
2 Birds of Paradise (only recently added and a big help)
2 Tooth and Nail (gawds this is one nasty spell)
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain (has to be 4)
1 Show and Tell (assuming it is restricetd, haven't checked)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Martial Coup (this would be the first card to cut but it is bff with Mana Drain along with Tooth and Nail)
4 Path to Exile (Swords might even be better)
2 Kokusho, the Evening Star
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
2 Wooded Foothills
4 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tropical Island
2 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
1 Savannah
1 Scrubland
1 Taiga
1 Bayou
1 Plateau
1 Badlands

to do: bring it down from 62 to 60 while adding another Mana Drain, a third Tooth and Nail would be nice as would be another Birds of Paradise. thank God Academy Rector is bugged to hell or I would have loved to somehow get 3-4 Hondens in there as well....

;affinity 4
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;#oldgames
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;18/04/2009
;1
;4th Edition
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.1687 4 Disciple of the Vault
.1724 4 Cranial Plating
.1706 4 Master of Etherium
.1677 4 Arcbound Ravager
.1676 4 Arcbound Worker
.1714 4 Skullclamp
.1666 4 Thoughtcast
.17 1 Black Lotus
.165 1 Mox Emerald
.166 1 Mox Jet
.167 1 Mox Pearl
.168 1 Mox Ruby
.169 1 Mox Sapphire
.230 1 Sol Ring
.1216 4 Seat of the Synod
.1215 4 Vault of Whispers
.1 1 Ancestral Recall
.249 1 Time Walk
.250 1 Timetwister
.309 1 Windfall
.317 1 Tolarian Academy
.1547 4 Frogmite
.1548 4 Myr Enforcer
.1682 4 Darksteel Citadel

It's called 'affinity 4' because there were 3 other versions I made. The older ones don't have things like disciple or skullclamp because they hadn't been done yet. I think it was this affinity version I won over 40 games in a row in gauntlet.

;keeper insect
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;#oldgames
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;20/04/2009
;1
;4th Edition
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.720 4 Mana Drain
.1717 4 Force of Will
.1 1 Ancestral Recall
.528 1 Strip Mine
.249 1 Time Walk
.62 1 Demonic Tutor
.812 1 The Abyss
.499 1 Brainstorm
.312 1 Ponder
.162 4 Mind Twist
.17 1 Black Lotus
.166 1 Mox Jet
.169 1 Mox Sapphire
.165 1 Mox Emerald
.230 1 Sol Ring
.1484 1 Diabolic Edict
.1704 1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
.1607 4 Deadly Insect
.438 1 Library of Alexandria
.1487 4 Polluted Delta
.1728 4 Wasteland
.258 4 Underground Sea
.252 4 Tropical Island
.402 1 Sensei's Divining Top
.403 2 City of Brass
.80 1 Fastbond
.1751 1 Gush
.1096 1 Naturalize
.202 1 Regrowth
.1750 2 Daze
.301 2 Putrefy
.1175 1 Trade Routes
.1501 1 Zuran Orb

This one's kind of silly :p Since Morphling doesn't interact correctly with The Abyss on the computer, I needed some other creature, and so I went with the shrouded Deadly Insect. This deck can definitely be optimized, but it should provide at least a general idea of what can be done.

;499 new
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;#oldgames
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;09/04/2009
;1
;4th Edition
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.1206 4 Arcane Sanctum
.9 4 Badlands
.12 4 Bayou
.1638 4 Blood Crypt
.1489 4 Bloodstained Mire
.1639 4 Breeding Pool
.403 4 City of Brass
.962 4 Coastal Tower
.1202 4 Crumbling Necropolis
.960 4 Elfhame Palace
.1537 4 Exotic Orchard
.1488 4 Flooded Strand
.319 1 Gaea's Cradle
.1635 4 Godless Shrine
.1637 4 Hallowed Fountain
.665 1 Hammerheim
.1203 4 Jungle Shrine
.694 1 Karakas
.438 1 Library of Alexandria
.1631 4 Overgrown Tomb
.740 1 Pendelhaven
.189 4 Plateau
.1487 4 Polluted Delta
.1632 4 Sacred Foundry
.963 4 Salt Marsh
.1204 4 Savage Lands
.212 4 Savannah
.216 4 Scrubland
.1205 4 Seaside Citadel
.961 4 Shivan Oasis
.1636 4 Steam Vents
.1634 4 Stomping Ground
.528 1 Strip Mine
.241 4 Taiga
.1499 4 Temple Garden
.819 1 Tolaria
.317 1 Tolarian Academy
.252 4 Tropical Island
.254 4 Tundra
.258 4 Underground Sea
.833 1 Urborg
.959 4 Urborg Volcano
.266 4 Volcanic Island
.1633 4 Watery Grave
.1473 4 Windswept Heath
.1474 4 Wooded Foothills
.467 4 Argivian Archaeologist
.1539 4 Sanctum Gargoyle
.1 1 Ancestral Recall
.974 4 Archivist
.499 1 Brainstorm
.1536 4 Man-o'-War
.312 1 Ponder
.249 1 Time Walk
.250 1 Timetwister
.309 1 Windfall
.62 1 Demonic Tutor
.1050 1 Grave Pact
.1535 4 Gravedigger
.594 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
.1705 1 Necropotence*
.1098 4 Nekrataal
.1110 4 Phyrexian Arena
.379 1 Bogardan Hellkite
.1690 4 Fire Imp
.1689 4 Flametongue Kavu
.1688 4 Ogre Arsonist
.452 4 Rukh Egg
.282 1 Wheel of Fortune
.986 2 Call of the Wild
.1223 4 Eternal Witness
.1532 4 Indrik Stomphowler
.202 1 Regrowth
.1698 2 Survival of the Fittest
.803 1 Sylvan Library
.1485 2 Symbiotic Wurm
.517 2 Tooth and Nail*
.1621 4 Uktabi Orangutan
.554 1 Adun Oakenshield
.1531 4 Angel of Despair
.1443 4 Broodmate Dragon
.1504 4 Cruel Ultimatum
.566 4 Electrolyze
.1518 2 Godsire
.1324 4 Kiss of the Amesha
.1328 4 Lightning Helix
.1368 4 Loxodon Hierarch
.1675 1 Progenitus*
.301 4 Putrefy
.952 1 Rubinia Soulsinger
.1438 1 Sliver Queen
.1472 4 Terminate
.1482 1 Tolsimir Wolfblood
.1302 4 Vindicate
.1529 1 Akroma's Memorial
.17 1 Black Lotus
.1629 4 Bottle Gnomes
.725 1 Mirror Universe
.457 1 Mox Diamond
.165 1 Mox Emerald
.166 1 Mox Jet
.167 1 Mox Pearl
.168 1 Mox Ruby
.169 1 Mox Sapphire
.1619 1 Obelisk of Alara
.1308 1 Platinum Angel
.230 1 Sol Ring
.538 4 Triskelion
.1501 1 Zuran Orb
.1663 4 Ancestor's Chosen
.956 4 Aven Cloudchaser
.369 1 Beacon of Immortality
.1464 4 Cloudgoat Ranger
.1704 1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
.263 4 Vesuvan Doppelganger
.1618 4 Mulldrifter
.84 1 Fireball
.1220 4 Shadowmage Infiltrator
.1670 4 Ohran Viper
.1172 4 Thieving Magpie
.378 2 Hellkite Overlord*
.608 1 Dakkon Blackblade
.1278 4 Wrecking Ball
.1113 1 Phyrexian Plaguelord
.1718 1 Chrome Mox*
.1717 4 Force of Will
.1370 4 Fusion Elemental
.1741 1 Gaddock Teeg
.1291 1 Iridescent Angel
.1721 2 Kjeldoran Outpost*
.1733 4 Tarmogoyf
.1728 4 Wasteland
.1743 4 Æther Vial
.1842 1 Arcanis the Omnipotent
.10 1 Balance
.1830 4 Barbarian Ring
.1766 4 Bringer of the Black Dawn
.1765 4 Bringer of the Blue Dawn
.1767 4 Bringer of the Green Dawn
.1778 4 Courier's Capsule
.1844 1 Dark Depths
.1812 1 Draco
.1780 4 Empyrial Plate
.629 2 Eureka
.1782 4 Fire // Ice
.1813 4 Goblin Tutor
.1744 1 Honden of Cleansing Fire
.1749 1 Honden of Infinite Rage
.1747 1 Honden of Life's Web
.1748 1 Honden of Night's Reach
.1745 1 Honden of Seeing Winds
.1781 4 Loxodon Warhammer
.1768 4 Maelstrom Archangel
.1815 4 Master Transmuter
.1831 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
.1793 1 Nezumi Shortfang*
.1622 1 Sol'kanar the Swamp King
.1833 4 Sword of Fire and Ice
.1814 4 Wall of Reverence
.1116 1 Planar Portal
.503 4 Ivory Tower
.349 1 Enlightened Tutor
.352 1 Mystical Tutor
.1839 4 Pernicious Deed
.1764 4 Gerrard's Verdict
.1753 4 Rumbling Slum
.720 4 Mana Drain
.1849 1 Anger
.1425 1 Time Stretch
.1776 1 Helldozer
.1857 1 Tombstalker
.1226 1 Visara the Dreadful
.1853 2 Protean Hulk
.1268 1 Silvos, Rogue Elemental
.1862 1 Jenara, Asura of War
.1861 4 Qasali Pridemage
.1770 1 Wydwen, the Biting Gale
.1859 4 Goblin Sharpshooter
.1595 2 Wildfire Emissary
.1880 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
.1881 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
.1876 4 Reflecting Pool
.1506 2 Cabal Coffers
.1561 1 Eron the Relentless
.1603 1 Jeska, Warrior Adept
.1269 1 Rorix Bladewing
.1673 1 Tahngarth, Talruum Hero
.1198 1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
.1512 1 Kongming, Sleeping Dragon
.1239 1 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
.663 1 Gwendlyn Di Corci
.687 1 Jacques le Vert
.707 1 Lady Evangela
.758 1 Ragnar

This one changes every time someone codes new cards or when I get bored of something in it. It's not optimized at all, but there is a bit of a theme to it. Yes, it really is 499 cards, and it even wins some games against the AI :p It's a blast to play as long as you don't get manascrewed, which with the size happens all too often, but the new mulligan rule helps somewhat. I'd probably use a lot more one-ofs and less four-ofs to make it even more varied, except that in addition to a hard coded 499 deck size limit somewhere, you cannot have more than 200 distinct cards in the deck.

;nevvy's red deck
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;#oldgames
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;February 24, 2005
;1
;4th Edition
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.295 4 Ball Lightning
.583 4 Blood Lust
.145 4 Lightning Bolt
.452 4 Rukh Egg
.236 4 Stone Rain
.282 1 Wheel of Fortune
.261 4 Uthden Troll
.17 1 Black Lotus
.168 1 Mox Ruby
.173 4 Nevinyrral's Disk
.230 1 Sol Ring
.75 4 Earthquake
.84 4 Fireball
.438 1 Library of Alexandria
.528 1 Strip Mine
.508 4 Mishra's Factory
.164 14 Mountain

This one probably isn't much anymore, as it was constructed solely with SotA/DotP, but until I found this community, it was the deck that I had the longest winning streak with. (30-some games) I'm not entirely sure why it did so well, because the 30+ wasn't an accident, as I had many other long streaks with this deck. I'll bet at least part of it was AI error against Nevinyrral's Disk and Earthquake, though, plus the fact that even at 3am, it's hard to make a mistake with a deck this simple to play!

;Show&tell
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;Underdogs
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;26/04/2009
;1
;4th Edition
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.1424 1 Lotus Petal
.166 1 Mox Jet
.167 1 Mox Pearl
.169 1 Mox Sapphire
.230 1 Sol Ring
.17 1 Black Lotus
.1198 4 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
.10 1 Balance
.1 1 Ancestral Recall
.1717 4 Force of Will
.1395 1 Frantic Search
.1084 1 Merchant Scroll
.352 1 Mystical Tutor
.312 1 Ponder
.1758 4 Show and Tell
.249 1 Time Walk
.250 1 Timetwister
.317 1 Tolarian Academy
.254 4 Tundra
.258 3 Underground Sea
.1302 4 Vindicate
.216 3 Scrubland
.1718 1 Chrome Mox
.1675 4 Progenitus
.1440 4 Careful Study
.334 2 Personal Tutor
.1344 4 Snap
.1488 4 Flooded Strand

;Blackpwr
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;Underdogs
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;05/05/2009
;1
;4th Edition
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.1722 4 Reanimate
.3 4 Animate Dead
.1370 4 Fusion Elemental
.1 1 Ancestral Recall
.1440 4 Careful Study
.249 1 Time Walk
.352 1 Mystical Tutor
.1395 1 Frantic Search
.1717 4 Force of Will
.62 1 Demonic Tutor
.610 4 Glimpse the Unthinkable
.258 4 Underground Sea
.239 3 Swamp
.126 5 Island
.1768 4 Maelstrom Archangel
.17 1 Black Lotus
.166 1 Mox Jet
.169 1 Mox Sapphire
.1718 1 Chrome Mox
.1857 4 Tombstalker
.570 4 Recoil
.1344 4 Snap
.1424 1 Lotus Petal

not at all optimised since a lot of the cards seems to crash the game for me. i would also like to have Exhume and ofc yawgmoths will (but that goes for all decks). i dont use Flooded Strand, Polluted Delta or Bloodstained Mire cuz you lose enough life with Reanimate and Force Of Will, usually not a problem. what u think?

My current favorite using the Vintage banned/restricted list and ManaLink 2.0! Enjoy

Cemetary Walker

Lands
4x Bayou
1x Overgrown Tomb
4x Tropical Island
1x Breeding Pool
4x Savannah
1x Taiga
1x Reflecting Pool

Artifacts
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Pearl
1x Black Lotus
4x Skullclamp
2x AEther Vial
1x Door to Nothingness

Creatures
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Elvish Visionary
4x Merchant of Secrets
4x Wood Elves
4x Eternal Witness

Other
1x Mystic Tutor
1x Enlightened Tutor
1x Time Walk
1x Demonic Tutor
4x Oversold Cemetary
1x Tinker
2x Fabricate

The goal is simple. Have Oversold Cemetary, Skullclamp, and 7 mana resources on the field (able to produce 3GGU), 3+ creatures in my graveyard, an Eternal Witness either in hand or the 4th+ monster in my graveyard, and cast Time Walk. At that point, I have infinite turns, so it's only a matter of getting to my win condition. Door to Nothingness is a good choice for that single slot for my "win card" since it's easy to search out and being able to tap WWGGRRBBUU isn't too much of a hastle with all those Birds of Paradise and the Wood Elves' ability to grab any Forest/otherland combination, hence the single Taiga with no red cards.

Edit: Silly Cemetary isn't highlighted. Here ya go-
Enchantment, 1B
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The goal is simple.

Not sure how simple that sounds. It's quite a combo!

Topdeck wrote:

The goal is simple.

Not sure how simple that sounds. It's quite a combo!

Once you run it a few times, you realize that it's mostly solitaire, meaning the only responding to opponent actions is making sure you have enough life to finish the combo. The play is simple, and basically involves dropping a Skullclamp ASAP and using it on any creature not named Birds of Paradise (although you can if needed). All other creatures have one toughness and replace themselves upon coming into play, so keep dropping and clamping them until you realize you fulfill the combo condition. It's only two permanents in play and counting creatures in graveyard and tappable mana, plus the Witness and Time Walk.

Anyway, made a fun G/B Terravore deck that keeps winning me games in Gauntlet. It's basic land denial fueled by Sensei's Divining Top and fetchland abuse, using Damnation and Pernicious Deed to clear the board of whatever my opponent has managed to drop. Reap and Sow is quite the double whammy, which can not only search a fetchland (great for an extra land in the graveyard and another shuffle for the top), but has two secret weapons in Stripland and The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale. Once I'm satisfied that my opponent is completely shut out of casting useful things, find and drop a Terravore (duh =P) and bash away. 2-4 unanswered attacks and it's over!

Well, in terms of an unconventional victory condition, here's an easy one-



I like to organize my Urzatrons, simply because if I go tapping the Mine and Tower to cast Reap and Sow and they're all piled to the side, sometimes I don't realize I need the Power Plant still. I've also clicked "done" by accident and didn't get anything before, so this little organization thing helps me get it out. The faster I can Wrath/Judgement then Stream/Cascade to recover damages and then Beacon of Immortality myself without error, the better!

Before ML2 I was toying with the infamous Blue Death deck, allowing unlimited turns at turn 1, but now I no longer fancy those type of deck...maybe I got tired of clicking and clicking again too many time in a row, I prefer short and intensive battles with the hopeless AI

Here's the Storm deck i'm currently playing, basicly is mana drain powered storm deck, loads of tutor, cheap draw, disruption and mana aceleration:

LANDS: (14)
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Swamp
1x Strip Mine
2x Island
2x Flooded Strand
3x Underground Sea
4x Polluted Delta


ARTIFACTS: (10)
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Jet
1x Mana Crypt
1x Mana Vault
1x Lotus Petal
1x Sol Ring

CREATURES: (1)
1x Inkwell Leviathan

SORCERIES: (13)

1x Tinker
1x Ponder
1x Time Walk
1x Imperial Seal
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Yawgmoth's Will
2x Duress
2x Tendrils of Agony
3x Grim Tutor

INSTANTS: (20)
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Gush
1x Brainstorm
4x Force of Will
4x Mana Drain
1x Vampiric Tutor
3x Cabal Ritual
4x Dark Ritual

ENCHANTMENTS: (2)

1x Necropotence
1x Yawgmoth's Bargain

currently got a crapload of decks. i pay attention to my gauntlet folder though , the AI has got to be able to play the deck.
my current gauntlet decks are attached. a few decks are from jaitill (can be found on this forum).

50 decks listed as either T1 or T2

T1 = p9 cards inside
T2 = no p9 inside (still using duals though)

the given decks are usually stronger than those crappy pre-constructed decks and should raise your gauntlet difficulty hopefully.
most are creature heavy decks , like i said - i kept the fancy combos the AI will missplay outside.
(they should be up to date with the current version.feel free to modify/re-upload)

Here's my complete set so far, 142 decks. Any body care to put the decks above into .dck form and upload? I'll add the set to my server.