I think the first part of this will change as has been pointed out by JP and Co.

Because the orchard is so important in the oath mirror - and with a sucessful build out there, the oath mirrior is a very real possiblity - the number of wates will increase to 5 to allow oath decks to win the orchard wars.

This has the splash effect of weaking maze of ith as a solution.

There is a way to disable affinity on a per .exe basis, it might work if you disable the affinity for every MWS .exe - but remember to disable it for everything.

Why not just ban the dreadnaught, so if someone can find another intresting option, more power to them?

I'm not so sure about the switch to the AK engine, it seems better for explosive semi combo decks (Ie hulk). BBS seems to follow the keeperish style of slow control, and AK didn't work to well there either (You ended up with bad hulk.)

To me, it looks like you are heading towards a B2B hulk build anyway. If you have the dual lands, that might be a very good deck (You appear to have the power)

Another idea: Do you have a libabary of Alexandira? if so, why not run it?

If it's got 4 moutians, it gold fishes like this on the play.

Turn 1: Land (6 cards)

Turn 2: land, kindle (5 cards) 18

Turn 3: Land, Kindle (4 cards) 15

Turn 4: Land, Kindle, Kindle (2 Cards) 11, 6

Turn 5: Kindle, Kindle (1 card) Dead.

Muscle Sliver goes something like.

Turn 1: Land 20

Turn 2: Land, Sliver

Turn 3: Land, Sliver, Attack 17

Turn 4: Land, Sliver, Sliver Attack. (5/5) 9

Turn 5: Attack - Dead.

You need to beat a 5 turn goldfish to be playable I think.

My suggestion

4 Islands, 56 arcane denials.

Wins by decking very time.

Edit: Argh, Opponent *may* draw a card:(

Well, I would first suggest downloading magic worksstation from www.magicworkstation.com as it is a considerably nicer looking version of apprentice, with less"features" and more actual features.

Finally, you can use card art, which is cool.

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The ideal number of proxies is whatever can bring T1's level of metagame development and competitive play up to t2 levels?

This seems to be the goal for proxies in my opinion, and they aim to achieve this by A) Reducing the entry level cost for a budget t1 deck, and B) Increasing the number of players that can play a fully powered tier one deck like long in it's heyday.

From this it would seem that the ideal number of proxies is whatever method brings down the cost of a tier one t1 deck,  (Picked by looking at tournment winning deck, or whatever analysis you want to propose.) cost down to the price of the most expensive type two decks. The ones that are mostly rares (Wake would have been a good example packing several very expensive rares.)

I have no idea how many proxies this would require, it's a big chuck of work to caculate it.

This makes the game much more accesable because it increases the number of players that can build tier one decks (Now equal to the number of players that can afford to build tier one t2 decks. Which seems to be a heck of alot.)

Also, this could have the side effect of increasing accessability by bringing the cost of decks like fish and mono black mask right down. Mono black mask runs 4 illusionary masks and a few peices of power, ad the rest of the deck doesn't seem very expensive.

(This is speculation based on the fact that a wake deck most cost 200 dollars? To build. Getting Tier one keeper prices down to that would would, at a guess 7 proxies or more.)

Of course, for everyone saying that making the game more accessable (Via proxies) is going to eliminate bad sligh has the wrong end of the stick. Reading  type two tourment reports, espically for a big event, and people comment that you still encounter "Shitty whatever type two deck is making the rounds at the moment" in the early rounds. I think tournment play is stuck with this as a fact of life.

But more potential to play tier one decks, and more accessability to the good budget decks should (Hopefully) inject some non-idiots into the game, increase the quality of the "bad/scrub/budget/whatever decks" dramatically, as well as increasing the potential playerbase that can generate top notch players (Defined as people who can afford to make a tier 1 deck.)

Just my 2 cents. [/i]