The Deck/Weissman update?

clayparson · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 54

I haven't played magic in a long, long time, but i remember an old t1 deck known as "The Deck." The following is the most recent list i could find:

Lands
3 City of Brass
1 Island
2 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
1 Tundra
4 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea

Creatures
2 Gorilla Shaman
1 Morphling

Artifacts
1 Black Lotus
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

Instants
4 Brainstorm
1 Cunning Wish
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Swords to Plowshares

Sorceries
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mind Twist
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Balance
1 Time Walk
1 Regrowth

Sideboard
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Tinker
1 Fire/Ice
1 Disenchant
2 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Shattering Pulse
2 Gorilla Shaman
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Zuran Orb

How could this deck be updated for today's vintage? Is it still a plausible archetype?

NahHolmes · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 652

Wouldn't be worth it. Until about 4 or so years ago Landstill was good and was a lot like THE DECK in the way it controlled the match but now the closest to that is maybe Stax or Tog or Gifts.

kj_4247 · Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 26

the tezzeret deck in vintage right now is considered by many a direct desendant of "the deck"

Acid_Christ · Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 724

Mainboard:

1 Black Lotus
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus Petal
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Duress
2 Thoughtseize
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
4 Mana Drain
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Rack and Ruin
3 Flooded Strand
2 Island
1 Snow-Covered Island
3 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea

# 59

Sideboard:

2 Extirpate
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Duress
2 Flametongue Kavu
1 Rack and Ruin
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Magus of the Unseen

# 15

its missing a card somewhere in the maindeck, but I don't know what. I haven't tested the deck or anything (not much of a Eternal player) but Time Vault + Voltaic Key for free turns until you bash their face in with 5/5 Moxen sounds fun.

puppyj · Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

Tezzy is the closest thing you'll have to "The Deck". As for winning with the combo, I play this deckly weekly in a vintage tourny (most decks running full 9) and some weeks i dont even play tezzy, you dont need it to win. Its kind of the cute way to win. Usually just tinker up collosus and win.

kj_4247 · Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 26

do you think that inkwell is better than Collosus

puppyj · Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

Inkwell is not better, shroud adds little as most decks your playing against dont play swords for its really just echoing truth. Also if they get an edict effect off you get DS back in the library for the later game y will to tinker to scoup phase. Your not going to hard cast Inkwell out of your GY

brazil · Joined: 20 Feb 2009 Posts: 6

brazil · Joined: 20 Feb 2009 Posts: 6