4:12 PM
To: mtg_help@pojo.com
Subject: Red-Blue Day Of The Dragons Deck (Extended, I think?)

    First of all, yes I did make a red-blue deck. Laugh all you want, but I 
playtested it 
in four games, and it only lost once, and that was entirely due to getting 
mana screwed 
(meaning, not an inherent fault of this particular deck). 
        I got the idea for this deck from an article fairly recently posted 
on 
MagicTheGathering.com, where a person had proposed the idea of using Elves 
and to 
a lesser extent, Insect tokens as the basis for the transformation. Now, 
using Elves 
and their inherent mana acceleration would be a pretty good idea, but the 
idea of using 
Elves and Insects together in the same deck seemed a bit inefficient to me. 
        And then I realized, why not just take their idea and "modify" it?  =) 
For those of you who frequently read these posted deck ideas, I posted way 
back about 
a combo idea that I ahd come up with for goblin tokens. For those not 
familiar with the 
combo, here's what I had originally posted. Basically, the combo involved 3 
cards: 
Brightstone Ritual, Goblin Offensive, and Mana Echoes. Here's what the three 
cards do:

Brightstone Ritual
(One red mana):
Add (one red mana) to your mana pool for each Goblin in play.

Goblin Offensive
(One red mana, two colorless mana, and X):
Put X Goblin tokens into play. Treat these tokens as 1/1 red creatures.

Mana Echoes
(2 red mana, 2 colorless):
Whenever a creature comes into play, you may add (one colorless mana) to your 
mana pool 
for each creature in play that shares a creature type with it.

        So.....the combo should be pretty self-explanatory. Get out 3-4 
Goblins, play a 
Brightstone Ritual for a bunch more mana, then play Goblin Offensive for 
basically that many 
more Goblin tokens. And although in that original deck, I had been using Mana 
Echoes, in the 
current deck, I elected to not use them partly for the sake of keeping the 
combo simpler to 
use, and also partly for the sake of giving myself access to more blue cards. 
So, for now, 
Mana Echoes will be a possible sideboard card.
        Really, the most important card in this deck is going to be 
Opposition. Using this card 
in a deck that puts out rather large numbers of Goblin tokens means that once 
you get it out, your opponent will very quickly feel the noose tightening 
around their neck. 
For those of you who aren't familiar with Opposition, it goes like this:

Opposition
(2 blue, 2 colorless mana):

Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact, creature or land.



It's a diabolical card in any blue control deck. Even more so in a token 
deck.  =) 

        Basically, your main goal, after getting out a few Goblin tokens, is 
to get this card out 
as quickly as you can. Hence, the Sage Owls. It's a 1/1 flyer for a blue and 
a colorless that, when 
it comes into play, lets you peek at the top four cards of your library and 
put them back in any 
order . Not bad for two mana, eh?
        And speaking of Goblin tokens, you'll need a fair number of them in 
the deck to ensure 
that you can get them out quickly. I have included a full dozen Goblins in my 
deck, mostly 
because I happened to have a lot of them anyways (I play a red-burn deck with 
Goblin 
Grenades, so there you go). 
        And, of course, since this is a Day Of The Dragons deck, you'll 
obviously need 4 of those. 
I was lucky enough to get 3 of my 4 out of buying booster packs. All I can 
say is, buy individuals, 
trade, buy booster packs, whatever it takes. And in case you were wondering, 
yes, seven mana 
is a lot to pay, but since you're stalling the bejeezsus out of your opponent 
with Opposition and 
like 10-12 Goblin tokens to work with, it wont be too hard to stall until the 
seven-mana mark. 
        Or, alternately, you could use a Brightstone Ritual to help pay the 
seven. Or, even more alternately, you could just swamp your opponent with tons 
of little 1/1 pingers; there's lots of 
ways to kill your opponent with this deck. 
        Oh, and I also put in 4 Counterspells, just to help screw with the 
opponent. But isn't that 
what blue is all about?  And if you really want to (like I did), you can use 
Fervor to give all your 
creatures haste. It pays off when you finally do the DotD trick and suddenly 
you just attack right 
away with an army of 5/5 flying haste dragons. Not much they can do about 
that.     ;)

But enough talk, heres the deck list:

4 Day Of The Dragons  (Scourge rare, about 5-6 bucks each)
4 Brightstone Ritual     (Onslaught common)
4 Goblin Offensive        (Anthologies/Urza's Saga uncommon)
4 Opposition                 (reprinted several times, rare)
4 Sage Owls                 (7th Ed. common!)
4 Counterspells
3 Fervor                       (6th Ed, 7th Ed rare, maybe 2-3 bucks)
4 Mons Goblin Raiders   (reprinted pretty often, common)
4 Goblin Grapplers        (Legions common)
4 Raging Goblins           (reprinted pretty often, common)

10 Mountain
8 Island

Hope this deck works well for you, cause I know it has worked very well for 
me so far.   The only cards in this deck that I had trouble getting were the 
DotD (natch), and the Opposition. Let me know if this deck wins you any matches. 
  =)
David Lebedoff
BuckarooBanzai37@aol.com