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Peasant Deck

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Peasant Deck: Budget WW, Mirrodin Style

(26) Creatures
4x Soltari Foot Soldier
4x Soltari Trooper
4x Suntail Hawk
4x Leonin Den-Guard
4x Order of Leitbur
3x Leonin Skyhunter
3x Raise the Alarm

(11) Equipment
2x Vulshok Morningstar
3x Leonin Scimitar
4x Bonesplitter
2x Skullclamp

(4) Other
4x Disenchant

(19) Land
19 Plains

The restraints of the Peasant deck were very
interesting.  I decided to go with a WW build because
of all the great creatures over the years that I don't
get to use. Cards like Soltari Foot Soldier is a great
evasive creature, but doesn't quite make the grade for
T1 or Extended decks.

The deck plays differently against different decks.
Against a control deck (one with lots of
creature-kill) you want to play minimal threats with
equipment, making your opponent over extend to deal
with each one. The equipment hangs around and makes
every threat you play something that has to be
speedily dealth with.

Against any other deck just start playing creatures
early and use equipment in the mid to late game.  This
deck works very well for beginning players, due to
it's ease of use and fun appeal.

One trick is to always play Raise the alarm on the end
of your opponent's turn.  This way they might make a
different play and your creatures can still attack as
normal.  The next turn you can play some equipment and
swing.

Skullclamp takes the deck over the top.  You can
bolster a creature's attack, while gaining card
advantage when the creature dies. This card shouldn't
be too hard to get, since it was recently
banned in T2.  It's not abusable in Peasant magic as
it was in T2, but it's still a great card.

The disadvantage of traditional WW deck was that they
only had early-game power.  With evasion and equipment
this is no longer the case.