Green/Blue Conrtol/Aggro for the win!

Dead_Rebel · Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

4x Plaxcaster Frogling
4x Plaxmanta
4x Coiling Oracle
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Simic Sky Swallower
2x Cytoplast Manipulator

4x Voidslime
4x Repeal
4x Cytoshape Twisted Evil

(Birds into Leviathan!)
2x Utopia Sprawl
4x Mana Leak

4x Novigen, Heart of Progress
4x Breeding Pool
6x Island
6x Forest

Haha!! How good will it be at regionals!?

Stridus · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

1st post!
No sir i dont like it, it could be better though. Smile

Dead_Rebel · Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

Should i add more control, Cytoplast acts as removal if needed (copt your frog to make his creature a 0/0, it doesn't come into play therefore no +1/+1 counters), what's wrong? I need critique not, "i don't like it." Why don't you like it? Help.

Wludyka · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

THIS ISNT CRITICAL MASS. I hate when people get deck archetypes wrong. Sligh is probably the worst though.

Dead_Rebel · Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

I never once said this was Critical Mass...did I? I made a poll asking about Critical Mass, this deck would have to change to fit in with that. The reason for the poll was to allow me to decide to.

AlexTrebek · Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 140

You're playing 4 novijen.. none of them after the first will help at all. The first won't even be that good especially in your opening hand. So your mana base is shaky at best as you need more green early on to cast birds and sprawl (which is terrible)

Your counterspells aren't going to help because you want to be casting creatures on turn 2 and 3 and if you tap out to play them, you only have repeal to deal with the big 4 mana drops. (All of which have those CiP abilities so you don't want to bounce them)

That's a longer version of "No sir i don't like it"

Quetzilla · Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 58

Plaxmanta (not frogling) actually allows you to keep mana open for counters, but still effectively cast a creature on turn 2.

As for deck advice, I would suggest Ninja of the Deep Hours, as he works great with coiling oracle and plaxmanta and also birds but not nearly as well. Oracle just combos to draw you even more cards, and plaxmanta lets you make a ninija out of seemingly nowhere. And all the extra card drawing puts you really ahead in the game.

daman4udog · Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 43

I would go down to 2 novijen, at most, and definetly remove the utopia sprawl for a couple yavimaya coast, as well as -2 islands for 2 more yavimaya coast.

Youre gonna want 22 lands if you want a shot at playing sky swallower. Speaking of which, yes, SSS is a bomb, but I probably wouldnt run 4. 3 might be better.

And I would drop cytoshape. If you have one sky swallower out, odds are good youre gonne win without two, because the only way your opponents gonna drop it is wrath, which kills your birdys anyway. The rest of the time, its not that great.

Maybe add cytoplast root-kin? Its not bad at all, and helps out your frogling. Im not sure how good manipulator will be in constructed, but thats up to you. Test it out! He just seems really vulnerable, as a mistimed shock could really foil your plans.

Russell_Nash · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 645 Location: Burn Ward

Insanity · Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 164

1) You don't have enough land. When will people learn that birds do not equal land? Not to mention that 4 of those 20 don't even produce colored mana

2) Utopia sprawl? What?

3) Cytoplast manipulator is pointless to MD. Just use confiscate. On second thought, drop them completely along with sprawl and add 4 lands.