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ikariCat
Joined: 30 May 2006
Posts: 3
Location: California
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 Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:26 am Post subject: The Dirty Dozen, a UR counter-burn T2 Deck |
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Hi guys. This is my first official post, so please don't heckle my deck mercilessly!  Anyways, I've been playing Magic casually for a number of years, and this is my latest favorite deck, a blue red T2 counterburn deck that I whipped together called The Dirty Dozen. Please tell me where you think I could improve or work on the design any so I can take your thoughts into consideration, and also let me know if this is similar in shape to any of the big name decks out there. o.O
Artifacts-
1x Dragon's Claw
1x Kraken's Eye
Blue Creatures-
1x Archivist
Blue Spells-
2x Boomerang
3x Convolute
2x Hinder
3x Mana Leak
2x Remand
3x Repeal
3x Telling Time
Gold Creatures-
2x Gelectrode
1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
2x Wee Dragonauts
Gold Spells-
2x Cerebral Vortex
3x Electrolyze
Red Spells-
1x Lava Axe
2x Lava Spike
1x Pyroclasm
3x Shock
2x Volcanic Hammer
Land-
7x Island
4x Izzet Boilerworks
4x Mountaint
2x Nivix, Aerie of the Firemind
3x Shivan Reef
2x Steam Vents
Sideboard-
2x Izzet Signet
2x Counsel of the Soratami
2x Exhaustion
2x Oppressive Will
2x Spell Snare
1x Izzet Guildmage
2x Invoke the Firemind
2x Shattering Spree
The idea of the deck is to counter as much as I can, burn what I can't, and wait until I manage to sneak either the Wee ones or a Gelectrode onto the table. Niv is in there as a diversion, and obviously for card advantage (as is Archivist), but the meat of my strategy does not rest solely upon his shoulders.
Also of note is the lone lava axe. It's a bit of a nod to a friend of mine who I went to high school with who since lost his life to an unfortunate set of circumstances. Lava Axe was always his favorite card and he'd gleefully cackle out the flavor text on the Urza's Legacy print as he threw the card down onto the table ("Hey Bustah?" "Yeah" "Catch!") so I run one of his cards as a rememberance to him.
Any help would be appreciated in tightening this deck up guys, thanks! 
(Editors Note: I feel like Ted Kennedy returning home sans his date. I FORGOT THE FUGGIN LAND! ><)
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Streakz
Joined: 13 Oct 2005
Posts: 107
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| I will sum up what ever person after me is going to say. Throw away that list. Erase the list from your memory. Delete your post of the list. And do whatever else you can do wipe that list from everyone's memory because that deck is what we non horrid players call a pile. |
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Guizas
Joined: 26 May 2006
Posts: 1
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:28 am Post subject: |
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dude dont need to be so harsh man/
Regarding the deck if u like UR i reccommend UT tron or Wafo-tap.
If u need deck lists just shout.... |
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ikariCat
Joined: 30 May 2006
Posts: 3
Location: California
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:34 am Post subject: Amusing |
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| Streakz wrote: | | I will sum up what ever person after me is going to say. Throw away that list. Erase the list from your memory. Delete your post of the list. And do whatever else you can do wipe that list from everyone's memory because that deck is what we non horrid players call a pile. |
I knew there was a reason I couldn't sleep. 
Guizas: One of the things I pride myself on (at least I've always pride*DED*) myself upon doing is playing the cards I have. If I got the cards to make, for example, Ghost-Husk, but I wanna play Hand-In-Hand (Honolulu PTQ Deck by Ruel), I build Ghost-Husk and buy packs until I can make Hand-In-Hand.
Now that's not to say I can't adapt and change, I've been known to go out of my way to buy more cards on rare occassions to complete a deck, but for the most part I like to play what I got. And it's not like I don't have just a few cards. I just got back into magic again this January and (mind you this is on an $8.50/hr security guard job) already have accumulated over 6000 cards.
Anyways, I'd appreciate general ideas for decks more than the deck listings themselves. Like, and this is back toward Gurizas again, what's the premise behind Tron (X spells and the Urza lands, right?), or what's the premise behind Wafo-tap (....I'm stumped. x3). I like to take the premise and add my own little twist to it, because originality will always win the day. At least out here it will. 9.9 |
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COOLBOY
Joined: 03 Jul 2005
Posts: 399
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:39 am Post subject: |
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There was a deck like this when GP came out that was pretty decent. Although it ran more kill conditions and more counters to protect them.
You need cut the expensive burn, nivix land, that dragon's claw shit, 2 boilerworks, archivist, add niv mizzet x2, wee drag x2, add land so you have 23, and add more hard counters and you should have a fun deck thats pretty good. |
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tinman
Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Posts: 172
Location: Winter par
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:35 pm Post subject: replys |
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just wondering why its called the dirty dozen
and my 2 sense worth is - the eye/and claw - the vortexs and -3 convolute for +2 remand,+4 char +1 leak |
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