I don't know if anyone has tested leveler with shared fate, It seems like it would be a fun ass casual deck. Plus it would give you a sweet win condition, as long as were in casual.

remember when people played magic for fun?

lotus is a mana ability,read your stifle.

I thimk you have answered your own question,now to apply that knowlege......

dude you really need a full compliment of moxen for this deck to flow properly, you play so few low cost artifacts anyway and you need the low (0) cost stuff to weld properly.Remember this is not a budget deck.

i don't think you will make many friends with this deck.
if i had to play this in on the kitchen table i'd just go home.

I gotta tell you that this is one of my favorite decks to play but it really just scoops to chalice let me share my deck with you and i'll discuss anything that seems out of place.

critters

4 worldgorger dragon

1 ambassador

1 sliver queen

1 caller of the claw

1 verdent force

3 xantid swarm

animate the dragon!

4 animate dead

4 dance of the dead

2 necromancy

other goodness

4 spoils of the vault

1 entomb

1 vampiric tutor

speedy stuff

4 dark ritual

4 elvish spirit guide

lands

4 bazaar of baghdad

4 bayou

4 polluted delta

8 swamp

alright your saying what the fuck?

sliver queen,caller of the claw,verdent force.
With the spoils i couldn't tell you how many times I removed my win conditions from the game.I found it nessecary to have many choices seeing how many of your wins will be off a first turn rit-buried alive.

too many animates?

Being mono-black to fight through the the counters all else fails just keep trying to animate the dragon if you meet an early stifle or plow who cares your only out two lands and try it again.

maindeck xantids?

do you live in new england?

entomb?

nothig wrong with first turn rit-entomb-animate,first turn verdent/sliver queen deosn't suck.

vamiric tutor

Do i have to discuss topdeck tutors and bazaar?

Why no mox/lotus/sol/crypt?

I was actually on a budget trip(thought i was gonna change budget decks forever) when i made this i'm sure power could be added easily

Anyway it's almost impossible to go off turn one but it is really consistant on turn two and once you accept that you'll realize that it's a really good deck as long as there's not alot of control in your meta.

maybe rules lawyers should go play sanctioned type1

I know that this isn't a really produtive comment but i really have issues with people (strangers)touching my shit. Anyone ever been slavered or duressed and have your opponent try to grab your hand?you can see it fine accross the table,i'll lay it out for you.

Just makes me feel violated.

Has anyone tried anchient runes ?

   
anchient runes
during each players upkeep anchient runes deals one damage to that player for each artifact he or she controls


 just pulling ideas out of the air.(I'd post a link but I'm not that computer savy)

I think that it is terrible to say that any archtype is dead,if you've been playing this game for any amount of time you'd know that keeper is one of the decks that define type 1. It is constantly evolving just look at all the variants in the last year. Plus you are going to really stir up the shit by making statements like this ,keeper players are really commited to their decks and get really pissy when you trash talk about it.

Ya it was a good time. and I appriciate all the great comments on my janky deck (thanx kowl)I personally think with a little more work it could really have potential.Anyway if anyone is interested in some playtesting on friday night for the tourney on sat. me and my crew should be there by 9ish in centerville.If not hope too see all your smilin faces in ct.

"B"

the gaea's blessing is used to reset your library infinatley, wich is not what you want to do with this combo.

To do the infinite turn combo I use gurzigost and abuse the stack.

Basicly mill youself until you are out of cards ,I use multiple time warps and a time walk and keep putting them on the bottom of your library with the gurzigost on your upkeep use deep anal to pick up extra cards(it should be in the graveyard) 2 or three turs with a fat cognivore should be enough to get your kill.Sidenote,a single dragon fangs takes care of pesky blockers

I'll share my decklist if you'd like.

"B"

try www.essentialmagic.com they are already sized for you just print 'em and cut them out

"B"

nice job to all the locals that made T8

As promisied here is my report

Pre tourney bullshit:

First off for the past month i've been playing mono-black dragon and in testing i found out it dies horribly to control, so being in new england i smarten up and decide that this will be a bad choice. In response I build three color hulk with maindeck back to basics and a full compliment of strips after testing i like it but playing on cape cod i fear the dragon so I need a new gameplan. I start digging on tmd and morphling.de and discover the maddragon! I've been playing dragon for a month now and I been playing madness for fun for over a year so it looks like a good idea. It has the early must counters for control and there is alot more aggro running around and best of all it gives me something to do while waiting to combo out.Anyway enough of justifying to myself why i play bad decks here is the good stuff


round 1: Local playing a workshop/smokestack deck

         game 1:  he plays metalworker and a handful of stuff.Third turn hellkite nukes him for roound 1,000,000
         game 2:he plays early smokestack and by the time it goes away he's left with nothing but a metalworker and me with nothing but a null rod,good for me bad for him. long and short couple of turns later dragon goes in,dragon comes out,hellkite nukes him for a bazilloin.

round 2: Eric playing slaver (aka the deck that hates me)

         game 1: eric is like a bus with no brakes and rolls over me

          game 2: same as above but this time he slavers me goes infinite throws away all my critters and beats with platinum for the win.

round 3:unknown opponent playing mak(I think)

          game 1: my wastes mess up his early game and i animate dragon and hellkite nukes him for a gazillion.

         game 2: In between the match he bitches about not seeing blue so I sit on my wastelands till I see trops, dragon goes in and out before I can find a taiga but i do have survival on the board.Anyway my deck pukes out every creature in it and I pass the turn.He draws and says good game.

round 4: unknown opponent playing scuicide blue

          game 1:we swap early beats i get early an dragon/animate  and hellkite nukes him for a gazillion.

          game 2 pretty standard dragon game except i lose to myself when I go infinite and tell him what happens next he stifles and asks me if I burn to death alot of confusion takes place and I scoop and say my fault no such thing as infinite my mistake I can take a loss for being a bad player.

         game 3: ealy beats back and forth i animate w/o red and my deck pukes out every creature in my deck hand i pass the turn he draws and concedes showing me his hand of double infest when he only has 2 swamps on the board ,wastelands are tech

round 5: local guy mike

         we look at the points and find uot we can both ID into the t8 so we play for fun

         TOP 8

         WAHOOOOOOOOO I'm in!!!!
   
        greg with some kinda workshop deck(too many variants can't keep them straight)

game 1: God i love the dragon

game 2: his first turn crypt really sucks and goes mental on turn 2 or 3 jars like 500 times and can't turn enough guys sideways to get me yet next turn he jars another 500 times and finially gets enough through this is why i play type 1 i love that broke off shit

game 3 : he deosnt see crypt and i see dragon. see game 1

fight for finals

I i look at the brackets and see i gotta play eric again (fuck)

game 1 : lizards and wastelands keep him busy i play stuff he counters stuff he scoops at 4life

game 2: I play turn 1 lizard second turn null rod with a hand dragon/animate/null rod and i feel good. His third turn he bounces null rod back to hand and I don't see another turn due to slaver lockdown.once again this is why i play type 1
 
game 3: see game 2

fight for 3rd sorry don't know my opponents name playing slaver recursion

game 1&2 : slaver recursion owns me

So fourth place prize was a pizza and that makes me fat dumb and happy and for anyone who care here is the deck that I played.

mad(bad)dragon aka seven bad cards deck.

the beatdown

      4 wild mongrel
      4 basking rootwalla
      4 arrogant wurm

utility goodness

      4 squee
      1 anger
      1viridian zealot

seven bad cards

      1 shivan hellkite
      2 worldgorger dragon
      4 animate dead

2 good cards

      1 demonic totor
      1 vampiric tutor

mid game goodness that doubles as combo pieces

      4 survival of the fittest

bling!

      4 babazaar of baghdad
      1 mox ruby
      1 mox jet
      1 mox emerald
      1 black lotus
      1 lions eye diamond(not bling)

land
      3 taiga
      4 bayou
      4 windswept heath
      4 forest(basic land is tech)
      4 wasteland
      1 stripmine

sideboard
      4 pyrostatic pillar
      4 null rod
      3 artifact mutation
      2 naturalize
      2 verdant force

props and slops

props: cape cod for holding this shindig
          second place guy for trading me his guardian beast
          mad dragon for being pretty freekin fun to play
          to the guy ripping mom jokes all night

slops: to everyone who lost to my "shitty"deck, at least i got the pizza!
          me for getting owned by slaver every freekin' time!
         
If I played you and wrote something wrong please feel free to interject. I wrote this all from memory.

see y'all on the 20th in conn.