bwike@dejazzd.com wrote: Hello, I need your help with my "Affinty Artifact" deck it preforms pretty well (94 wins per 100 games on avreage) but the people have figured it and its weakness out now and are starting to exploit them. Here is a Deck list with side board.

Main Deck:
Lands:
Acient Den 3x
Great Furnace 2x
Darksteel Citadel 3x
Tree of Tales 3x
Vault of Whispers 4x
Seat of the Synod 4x
Urza's Power Plant 4x
Urza's Tower 4x
Urza's Mine 4x

Creatures:
Broodstar 4x
Ornithopter 4x
Memnarch 1x
Leonin Elder 1x
Taj-Nar Swordsmith 1x
Sundering Titan 1x
Steel Wall 4x
Myr Enforcer 4x
Arcbound Worker 4x
Frogmite 4x

Artifacts:
Tower of Eons 1x
Darksteel Forge 1x
Gate to the Aether 1x
Dead-Iron Sledge 1x
Aether Vail 2x
Welding Jar 2x
Cranial Plating 4x

Instants:
Irradiate 4x
Nourish 4x
Electrostatic Bolt 3x
Forge Armor 2x

Sorceries:
Thoughtcast 4x

Sideboard:
Lands:
None

Creatures:
None

Artifacts:
None

Instants:
None

Sorceries:
Blaze 4x
 

I play the deck fast,short broodstar + Cranial Plating + lots of artifacts.
Thanks.
  --  Foster Wike V
 

Okay, first of all, this E-mail does not make my job easy at all. Number One, you said that your win record is 94%. My job is to fix decks that have trouble winning. When I saw that stat, I was about to delete this message, until I read that everyone figured out your weaknesses. Which brings me to Problem Number Two, you didn't say what those weaknesses were or how they're being exploited.

If I know what's consistently beating a deck, I know how to fix it. But I'll try anyway.

Now, your deck has 94 cards, and all five colors plus the Urza lands. This doesn't bode well.
An Affinity deck should have no nonartifact lands, and probably three colors. Most Affinity decks are blue, black, and red, but just to be rogue we'll make yours blue, white, and green. So, drop the Urzatron, the Furnace, and all black and red cards(leave Cranial Plating in, and leave Vault of Whispers for its ability.). This should satisfactorily "re-confuse" your opponents. Then increase your counts of all remaining lands to 4, giving you 20 lands.

Next, drop Steel Wall, Tower of Eons, Dead-Iron Sledge, Gate to the Aether, and Taj-Nar Swordsmith. These cards are all either too slow or not powerful enough. We need to get the total number of cards down, and we want a faster deck. Affinity is a deck renowned on its ability to win on turn 3. Also, with the Urzatron gone, drop Sundering Titan. It isn't worth 8 mana to us anymore.

Now, add four Ritual of Restoration. No white deck with artifacts should be without it. Next, add some Assert Authority so that those who would exploit your weaknesses may fail to. Finally, add a few Sylvan Scrying to fix your mana. Sylvan Scrying is one of the few green mana-search cards that can find artifact lands.

That should be enough. The deck is still focused on Broodstar and Cranial plating, but now it's been changed around so as to throw anti-decks off the scent. Good luck!

~BMoor