Awesome. Basic islands proxied on basic plains. 60 card proxy decks. Those are fun to play against, and believe me, I have.

Thank you

Sorry if this has been posted already, but I could not find it through a search.

I am having trouble opening up the (THE) Web site at my home computer, but I can for some reason open it on the crappy Mac I use at work. Can anyone point me in the right direction for getting this fixed? Someone mentioned using notepad to change a file, but I am not sure about the specifics.

Any help is appreciated.

Careful study is fantastic in this deck. It smooths out your mana and allows you to keep otherwise questionable hands. If you are going powerless, I would consider adding this.

I played this deck for awhile with some power and without. Here is the decklist without:

4 Wild Mongrel
4 Basking Rootwalla
4 Arrogant Wurm
4 Squee, Goblin Nabob
2 Anger
2 Wonder
20

4 Careful Study
3 Deep Analysis
7

4 Fiery Temper
3 Roar of the Wurm
7

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Taiga
4 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Lotus Petal
3 Forest
2 Island
1 Riftstone Portal

This is an extremely fun deck with which to bash face, but those days of four LED's are gone and have made it a lot harder to swing for 12 on turn one.

Careful study is fantastic in this deck. It smooths out your mana and allows you to keep otherwise questionable hands. If you are going powerless, I would consider adding this.

I played this deck for awhile with some power and without. Here is the decklist without:

4 Wild Mongrel
4 Basking Rootwalla
4 Arrogant Wurm
4 Squee, Goblin Nabob
2 Anger
2 Wonder
20

4 Careful Study
3 Deep Analysis
7

4 Fiery Temper
3 Roar of the Wurm
7

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Taiga
4 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Lotus Petal
3 Forest
2 Island
1 Riftstone Portal

This is an extremely fun deck with which to bash face, but those days of four LED's have made it a lot harder to swing for 12 on turn one.

Trinisphere was released in Darksteel. So what in the world did we do prior to the card's printing? I do not recall combo dominating the metagame in any remarkable way since the restriction of LED and Burning Wish.

I think it is a stretch to say combo is going to run rampant when it still has one trinisphere along with four spheres of resistance with which to do battle.

Now THAT shit is funny.

Ground seal against CS=gg.
Lava Dart, Lightning bolt, Fire/Ice are pretty good against 1/1s.
REB's work pretty well since most of the deck is blue.

Hell, everyone should play Sligh or R/G Beatzzzzzzz. That would knock the snot out of this deck if it is as rampant as is being claimed.

I absolutely agree that mana drains have no place in the version you are moving toward. Here is a list with a couple updates I have made. I played this deck to top 8 nearly every tournament I went to with it, but found that it seemed to be seriously lacking against workshop decks.

4 Quirion Dryad
2 Psychatog

4 Serum Visions
4 Brainstorm
3 Night's Whisper
1 Gush
1 Ancestral Recall

4 Force of Will
4 Daze
2 Misdirection
2 Duress

2 Cunning Wish

1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Time Walk

4 Polluted Delta
3 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
3 Island
1 Forest (I know, there is no way to fetch it in this list, but I feel better)
1 Swamp
6 MoxLotus
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine

All in all, I found it to be a very solid deck and this post rekindled my interest in playing it. When it goes, it really goes.

I hate playing AK mirror matches, so I decided not to use that. I also wanted to test out Night's Whisper, and I found that it is amazing in this deck. Serum Visions is decent as a mana fixer and lets you dig. The sorcery speed of the draw engine is generally not a problem. You WANT to beef up your dude as much as possible before you swing, hence the 10 free counterspells to protect your investment.

Fastbond is both a bomb and a dud in this deck, therefore I cut it to tighten things up a bit. With the relatively low land count, it was not pulling its weight.

Sideboard options include:
1 Berserk
1 Coffin Purge
1 Fact or Fiction
2 Blue Elemental Blasts
3 Null Rods (Board out off color moxen)
1 diabolic edict
2 oxidize
1 natuaralize
3 metagame dependent

Now I want to give this thing a whirl again. Thanks.

My vote goes to:

Mystic Remora
U Enchantment
common
 
Cumulative Upkeep: 1
Whenever target opponent successfully casts a non-creature spell, you may draw a card. That player may pay 4 to counter this effect.

Quite honestly, I have owned FCG with Landstill. In fact, it seems to be one of the better matchups for the list I am playing.

First of all, here is the list:

4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Stifle

4 Standstill
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Cunning Wish

1 Time Walk

4 Fire/Ice
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Teferi's Response

4 Nevynirral's Disk

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Faerie Conclave
4 Mishra's Factory
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
4 Volcanic Island
6 Island

The sideboard varies, but it is something like this:
1 Lightning Bolt
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 REB
3 BEB
3 Rack and Ruin
2 Chain of Vapor

Some answers for the FCG matchup:
1. Burn Lackey. You have seven maindeck ways to do this.
2. Stifle Lackey's ability to buy you a turn if you have Fire/Ice for turn two.
3. Stifle Recruiter/Ringleader's CITP abilities.
4. Block lackeys, warchiefs and everything but piledrivers with factories and pump them to save them. Block drivers if necessary.
5. Then you can worry about countering things.

I play against a skilled FCG player and this deck absolutely gives him fits. If you expect to see the gobs, I think this is the deck to play. Plus, it can give Tog problems as well.

This tournament brought players in from at least 2 1/2 hours away, most notably Brad Ojala, who won the Sapphire with Oshawa Stompy. It was an encouraging day for people who know Brad, since he has been a bit discouraged about his prospects playing in Type One tournies without access to power. With a little bit of help from his big-daddy-godfather Travis, Brad played a deck that only had a lotus petal as a restricted card yet sported four shiny Bazaars of Baghdad. He then proceeded to take apart most of the competition with a unique style that had his supporters grinding their teeth and fighting the urge to cry out.

But perhaps the best part of the story is the fact that Brad is just about one month shy of his 14th birthday. It left all of us who are about double his age grinning on our ride home. I would imagine it left several people unfamiliar with Brad shaking their heads and wondering how the hell he did it. We are used to it.

In case anyone was wondering, I was the guy with MadDragon. Please don't expose my mistakes in the semifinals (hell, pretty much all day) too harshly, OK guys?

What a great turnout. Dreamers needs to expand into the dojo next door.