Landstill

Pilon · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 285

//NAME: Landstill
3 Fire // Ice
4 Boomerang
4 Vedalken Shackles
4 Shivan Reef
16 Island
4 Stalking Stones
4 Standstill
2 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
3 Fact or Fiction
4 Counterspell
4 Hinder
4 Force Spike
4 Disrupting Shoal
SB: 4 Stifle
SB: 4 Threads of Disloyalty
SB: 3 Stabilizer
SB: 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
SB: 3 Hibernation

The concept of this deck is to control the board and make your opponent pissed off at all the card advantage standstill is giving you. And while stalling on standstill and your opponent refusing to break it, u whoop his ass with stalking stones. Meloku is not really needed but I lose to any deck that GETS wonder in the yard without meloku in play because Vedalken Shackles becomes rather useless at that point. I've been having good results with this deck even with my random sb, Pls help! lol. I can't really say what my weakness is, Vedalken Shackles owns aggro, countermagic owns control/combo, Standstill pisses off any of those 3. I guess it depends on the draws, if I don't get Vedalken Shackles vs. aggro i'll probably lose but with all the card drawing its close to impossible to not get it.

Alucart · Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 83

Nexus.. work..

run.. the Search lands... and why is hinder in the spot where you could easilly run....mana leak?

Pilon · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 285

Pilon · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 285

Alucart · Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 83

errr.. search land thins out your deck.. Standstill does NOT stay in play long.. a good player will break it as fast as possible... and you will draw lands then

run both.. as stones.. doesnt have evasion

DFGHDFG · Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 78

You cant have ext landstill because drawing 3 cards in ext isent the same as drawing 3 cards in legacy or T1. It dosent work like a landstill deck

Pilon · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 285

ChristPunchr · Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 359

mono blue works better. You also need a bit more draw.
Blinkmoths are superior to stalking stones aswell but needless to say I run two. two oblivion stones maindeck is also good.

_Metallica_ · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 92

i suggest GWU that way you have acces to Life from the Loam, Decree of Justice and the best man-land aviable: Nantuko Monastery among other things.

Vodka_7up · Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 212

Have you considered running Genju of the Falls? I hope I named the blue one. Also what do you mean by you lose to any deck that gets wonder in the yard? How is shackles useless at that point, can't you still take over them, or are you just refering to how psychatog whoops ya when it gets wonder since you won't be able to control it? As a sidenote you have a preety cool deck there, I'd like to see how it comes along.

Pilon · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 285

ant900 · Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 2515 Location: somewhere

you still try to take the tog, even if it doesnt get the tog he will have to remove cards, and if your playing either loam OR classic tog, the only time they will have enough cards to remove and to attack lethal is when they have a LOT of cards

ChristPunchr · Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 359

I must be an idiot, but wouldn't gaining control of it before that point work? If they want to stop you, the remove sh*t/discard and you do it again, stealing away their tog fuel. It isn't like tog is a lightning fast deck of doom.
It is retardedly good, definetly, but I am pretty sure this deck runs more counters...well mine does anyway, then again, mine isn't really being played much either...
okay I just gawked at kaesh's deck. Has the exact same core as my landstill deck(in regards to counterspells and draw spells chosen). Not suggesting I have the greatest version ever, in fact, I am not gonna post it unless someone pointedly asks for a list but either way I would like to know how his deck did pre sideboard in the matchup or if he needs the sideboard to beat tog. It seems to me the two decks share a similar principle in the tog matchup(UB tog, btw) and that is: your threats are nearly free and you have far more land to use for counters and draw, their's cost three or five mana, you have more counters than them. Eventually they are going to need to play a tog or meloku chances are the person playing MUC/landstill will have more land out to start with, the three mana or so only emphasizes the theoretical disadvantage. That is just my ideas on the matchup though. I have played against a UBTOG deck with my landstill deck twice(two matchups). So maybe I am way off here. If so, sorry for the tangent but my logic seems sound to me, but then again it is my logic.

Pilon · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 285

Shagrath · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 235

affinity pwns this deck completely

Want to explain how?