Well, it just didn't show up on your banned-list, so i thought it might actually get played. I mean, yes it is not cheap, but it's a common.

What do you think of the changes to the decks?
Do you think that fling is a good choice in the affinity build?

We changed the madness deck like this:
-3 Unsummon
+3 Echoing Truth

Sideboard
+3 Naturalize

That's 3 possibilities to get rid of a scepter maindeck plus 3 in the sideboard. I think that should be enough.

The R/B Affinity Build was changed as follows:
-4 Skulltap
-4 Duress
-4 Darksteel Citadel
+4 Tree of Tales
+4 Fling
+4 Bonesplitter

Sideboard
-1 Hunger of the Nim
-3 Terror
-4 Reckless Charge
+4 Duress
+4 Naturalize

Darksteel Citadels went out for Tree of Tales because of the 4 SB Naturalize. We put Duress to the SB and added fling, because it can get your atog past a fog and cutted the Skulltaps for Bonesplitters. In the sideboard we cut the terrors, reckless charges and a hunger of the nim for the duresses and naturalizes.

This should make these decks a bit more resistant to fog scepters.
But a card i still fear in this format is sinkhole. A black sui deck with duress, hymn to tourach, hypnotic specter, sinkhole and some other stuff could be really devastating, i think.

Hi all,
i like this format. I was just testing two decks with my brother.
We tried to build a viable madness and affinity deck. While testing these against each other, the Affinity build looked a bit stronger.
That's what they look like now:


My Peasant U/G Madness Build

// Lands
    10 Forest
    10 Island

// Creatures
    4 River Boa (not a madness creature, but since roars are uncommen i use these)
    4 Wild Mongrel (obvious choice)
    3 Aquamoeba (would like to replace these, is there something better?)
    4 Arrogant Wurm (uncommon, i chose to run this one over roar of the wurm, because it is very nice with frantic search)
    4 Basking Rootwalla (nice one-drop with pump ability)
    1 Wonder (uncommon, lets your creatures fly...)

// Spells
    4 Rancor (the best pump spell around...)
    2 Careful Study (not as good as frantic search, but a good addition, i think)
    4 Deep Analysis (nice carddraw in madness decks)
    4 Frantic Search (nice with wurms )
    3 Lotus Petal (some acceleration & mana fixing...)
    3 Unsummon (some removal for aggro matchups)

// Sideboard
SB: 2 Ray of Revelation (best enchantment destruction in madness)
SB: 2 Feldon's Cane (vs. tide..)
SB: 4 Blue Elemental Blast (vs. burn/affinity)
SB: 4 Mana Leak (vs. tide or other combo)



My brother's Peasant R/B Affinity

// Lands  
    3 Swamp  
    4 Darksteel Citadel  
    4 Great Furnace  
    4 Vault of Whispers  
 
// Creatures  
    4 Disciple of the Vault  
    4 Atog  
    1 Arcbound Crusher  (uncommon)
    4 Ornithopter  
    4 Arcbound Worker  
    4 Myr Enforcer  
    4 Frogmite  
 
// Spells  
    4 Lotus Petal  
    4 Skullclamp  (uncommon)
    4 Duress  
    4 Dark Ritual  
    4 Skulltap  
 
// Sideboard  
SB: 4 Hunger of the Nim  
SB: 3 Terror  
SB: 4 Reckless Charge  
SB: 4 Hymn to Tourach

Has anyone suggestions on changes on these two decks?