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02.02.04 - Casual Angel Deck
Well hello
to all you fans of the Magical cards. Its
been another week and I’m back at the
computer, safe in the Deck garage, and
taking on a Casual Angel deck. To go along
with this weeks theme of casual deck I am
going to have my usual rant be about casual
play. For those of you that aren’t used to
the deck garage the following two to three
paragraphs are where I try to enlighten my
readers about aspects of the game of magic
that usually have nothing to do with the
actual deck I am fixing. So if you are here
only to look at the deck fixing skip the
next two or three paragraphs and read what
you came for, the deck fixing. Don’t forget
to send your decklist and comments to
pojojason@hotmail.com
cas•u•al Take note of meaning 2. Without definite or serious intention. Magic at its very core is a game of less than serious intention. If your going to sit down to a game its almost always in a casual atmosphere, surrounded by friends or family, and with the intention of having fun. The casual deck is therefore by its name a deck that is used for informal play without to much of a serious intent. A deck of this nature could be made to fit any of the formats such as extended, standard, vintage, or even Limited. Its my belief that the most casual of deck is not hampered by any of those formats. When most of us started playing magic we would have been referred to as “Casual Players”. This was that wonderful time when we would have had are decks that we referred to as angel decks, dragon decks, death decks also known as a black deck or multitude of other cute names. This might be the time when you would have started a conversation with the statement “I have this _____ deck” you insert the name of deck for your own memory. Almost all of us will meet these Casual Players and many of us will take them under our wing with the idea that we can make them better players not realizing that they still have some of the magic of the game that some of us may have forgot. I myself am not the most casual of player. I play tournaments and focus on mainly the tournament side of magic and judging magic tournaments. With the creation of Magic Online and starting a new collection of cards online, I found myself building what I would consider casual decks. I found myself playing with cards that I would normally just toss aside as a bad card and really enjoying myself. It brought memories of the times when it was all just casual magic to me. I now find myself building the occasional deck just for fun and keeping at least one casual deck just for those occasions when I meet a new player and want to have a game for fun. My record with my current fun deck is something like 41 losses and maybe 12 wins. Normally with this kind of record I would have tossed the deck away and lamented on the time lost playing it, but I am happy with every game I have played because it is my fun deck. So I bring this up to recommend that if you want to have some fun build a casual deck. Remember that as a casual player is where we all started and it can be a great time to revisit that style of play. Enjoy your time with the casual players and don’t look down on them for not being the best of player if they are not as good as you. For all of you tournament players like myself, remember that its not an exaggeration to say that Casual magic players outnumber us by at least 10 to 1. So in a fight the casual players would kick our collective tournament butts, except for Brian Kibler because he is pretty big. Take my advice and enjoy a casual game. For those of you that are interested I have included my current casual deck, and you can feel free to use it and tell me what you think. I warn you though, if you like winning it may not be the deck for you. Well that’s enough ranting on with the deck fixing. What follows is the email I received from Daniel wanting me to fix his Angel deck.
Hi Jason,
Well this is what I would do to make this Angel deck more competitive. I have used cards that are a little more hard to come by if you are on a budget. I tend to go for the cards that I think are most effective. I have said time and time again that I don’t normally include side boards if you don’t tell me what you are playing against most often, but I include a few basic items that should be useful in most environments. 4 Exalted Angel 4 Blinding Angel 4 Voice of All 2 Voice of Duty 2 Voice of Grace 4 Wrath of God 4 Story Circle 4 Swords to Plowshares 4 Decree of Justice 3 Disenchant 2 Worship 19 Plains 4 Temple of the False God Sideboard 2Circle of Protection Red 2Circle of Protection Black 4 Wing Shards 2 Akromas Vengeance 3 Breath of Life 2 Akroma Angel of Wrath This set up for the deck will give you a lot more defense and ways to deal with problems you might come up against. I used more multiples so that your draws would be more consistent. A few more removal spell should allow you to deal with your opponents threats and the wraths should help you in group games. So another week has come and gone and I look forward to receiving more deck list from the pojo readers. Send you deck list to pojojason@hotmail.com As always I tell you that the more information you can include with you decklist the better I can help you. Thanks for reading and send any comments or ideas to me also.Jason’s Casual decklist WARNING DON’T USE IF YOU ONLY LIKE WINNING 2 Goblin Charbelcher 2 Proteus Staff 2 Tower of Fortunes 4 Solemn Simulacrum 4 Wood Elves 1 Kamahl Fist of Krosan 4 Fertile Ground 4 Wild Growth 4 Explosive Vegetation 4 Moment’s peace 2 Harrow 4 Far Wanderings 1 Journey of Discovery 4 Rampant Growth 1 Tooth and Nail 14 Forest 2 Island 1 Mountain |
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