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1  Eternal Formats / Creative / [Rebuilding]MaskNought on: March 14, 2005, 01:05:44 pm
The deck list I posted was as I said my own little run off vengeur mask and ninja mask.  I droped dures and the forces because I found they ruined my game tempo more then my opponents spells.  I am not a fool and under stand that the forces are to be used in a do or die situation and indead have there place in type one.  However what is the point in casting a force when you must pitch you win condition from the game.  More often then not it is best to play agresive and smart. With a large number of must counter spells it is easy to bait out a counter or two before going for the win.  The only time I ever ran into a countrol problem was against mono blue ( he managed to get three phids and a library in the first two turns.)
2  Eternal Formats / Creative / [Rebuilding]MaskNought on: March 11, 2005, 01:01:44 pm
I figured you hadn't. Throw the deck together and you will know the joy of having 8 mask in one deck and the greates creature tutor ever. What you have been missing is that the noughts are the back up plan for when things go wrong.
3  Eternal Formats / Creative / [Rebuilding]MaskNought on: March 10, 2005, 01:49:38 pm
True believer is hard to hard cast in most situations your not going to get it out turn one.  However with the full english compliment to the deck true believer gains a shock factore that most combo decks don't see coming. It you can save yourself from one blech against two land it will usualy take them a few turns to recover with luck you can dig up an answer to the problem. I ran platnum angel in it's place, in hind-sight I think that was a bad call.

AnFgangsta: It may just be my dumb luck but when I ran this deck unhindered my clock was three to four turns. The disruption of the deck is built in. Example being Turn one birds/survival turn two pith an uktabi orangutan to get shapeshifter (lay it or pitch it to get phage and then unearth it) either way orangutan trigers and I blow a mana source. Next turn swing for win.  It sounds odd but too many of my games played out just like this with my opponent crying about needing just one more mana.

Keeping your options open is the key to playing this deck. Every little gimick you can think of must be used.
Full english combo/null rod (I have used null rod in the sideboard it works)
Mask nought vrs. aggro/control
4  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / [Discussion] Bazaar/Replenish Deck on: March 09, 2005, 12:22:25 pm
This might seem like a strange suggestion but have you ever tryed Illusions of Grandeur and donate in the deck.
You don't seem to have any shortage of mana and an end of turn intition droping an Illusions and seal in the grave could equal a next turn win not to mention you alread have the bargain.  A dream halls and a bargain with the level of draw you have could also equal "I win".

Those are just some fun suggestions. Any chance you could give me an idea of what match ups give you trouble.
5  Eternal Formats / Creative / [Rebuilding]MaskNought on: March 09, 2005, 11:54:38 am
I would have to agree with AnFgangsta and the rest of you that this build can be slower, but to tell you the truth it doesn't need to win on turn three, though more often than not it can.  When I ran spoils mask it had 4xdures, 3xunmask, and 4xforce.  Even with that level of disruption all it takes is one spell to "ruin" your day. Because of that I found that the Vengeur build, with out white, is like a cockroach especially when you add unearths/Hell's Caretaker. Damping Matrix is the only one card drop that ruins your day all others can be delt with even blood moon.
        What made the deck work so well is that I could play with my opponents board while setting up for the kill, IE Shapeshifter Phage.

In summary I can say that when I played the "balls to the wall" version it won games but not consistently and with high risk.  It was when I accepted Mask nought as truly being aggro that I quite going for an early win and went for resilience and control with the ability to "just win".

Are there any suggestions on how I might fight combo?
6  Eternal Formats / Creative / [Rebuilding]MaskNought on: March 08, 2005, 07:01:47 pm
Found this one on a search and thought I'd drag it up out of the grave.

I picked up Mask about a year ago and have worked through every knowen build untile I arived at my fun deck.

 "Judge!!!!" (I carried the card erratas for half the deck.)
30
Mana
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 black lotus
1 mana crypt

3 elvish spirit guide
3 BoP
3 Quirion ranger

3 Tropical Island
3 Bayou
3 windswept hearth
2 polluted delta
1 island
1swamp
3 forest

8
Draw
1 ancestral recall
3 brainstorm
4 survival of the fittest

9
Win conditions
3 Volrath’s shape shifter
1 phage the untouchable
1 akroma angel of wrath
4 phyrexian dreadnought

8
Utility
1 psychatog
1 cephalid inkshrouder
1 squee goblin nabob
1 bone shredder
1 gilded drake
1 plague bearer
2 uktabi orangutan

7
Spells/tricks
1 time walk
2 unearths
4 illusionary mask

Sideboard
3 ground seal
3 chains of Meph.
3 arcane labratory
2 ukatabi orangutan (some time's welders/ Mox monkey)
1 bone shreder
1 platnum angle
2 xantic swarm

Agro and control are usualy no trouble.  Stax could often be turned around with a simple spirit guide into a mask.  The only reason I stoped playing this deck is because Two land belcher and Kobold clamp became big around my area.

Does any one have a suggestion or two on how I might adjust my build in a 3sphere less world?
7  Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Dreamers Report - tie-1st report - Oath of Auriok on: February 16, 2005, 11:06:14 pm
Congrats on the win/draw
I was your lucky third round victim, playing The riddler.  I had play tested against oath with a buddy the night befor.  He used the akroma/spirit kill that first game was a real battle for board control up untile you oathed for salvager.  Second game, well wood ripper wow man I did not see that coming. (Just for the records that second hand was 2 moxen,Illusionary Mask, 3sphere, drednought)
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