Old School T1 Player, coming back

[Anonymous]

Hey friends,  I've been playing Magic since the beginning, but now only play about 1-2 times a year.  I still follow trends though.

I found a place that does T1 tourneys once a month and want to dust off my old cards.  I highly doubt there will be any power at these tourneys, so i don't want to play some super-cheese deck that will piss everyone off and then kill the interest in the format.

I used to play a 4-color Drop of Honey/Deadly Insect (Morphling) for many, many years and won plenty of tournaments with it.

I'm thinking about playing trinity/keeper because it's very similar to my old decks, very versatile, and i like the combo-kill aspect of it.  I would play zoo or something if it wasn't for the fact that i know a good Mono-blue Trix deck will be there and I do not want to lose to him or to random-sligh-player.  Looking at Growtog, but will save that one for the 2nd tourney.

Anybody have a decent keeper/trinity decklist that can use all the power, but is not designed for a powered environment (ie i dont need as many misdirections, mox-monkeys, back-to-basics as a normal T1 would).

Thanks......

[iceman]

I have little to no experiance w/ Keeper. BUT I do know, that in a random metagame (much like the one you've described) Keeper does not fare that well. Random aggro has been known to beat it fairly easily. You would probably be better off w/ aggro or combo. Of course, I don't know the meta, so I may be wrong.

Also, if nobody plays power, wont it kinda drain some fun out of the tourny if you show up w/ fully powered Keeper?  

[Methuselahn]

Sometimes it is best to play what you are most familiar with.  Especially if you play but once or twice a month.

Don't worry about pissing people off.  That which doesn't kill them only makes them stronger/better.

Play to have fun.  Play to win.  Winning=fun.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, i guess you guys are right.  I'll probably just throw together good ole "deadly insect, abyss, drop of honey, counters.dec)."  It usually fares real well against non powered environments.

I'm not a big fan of straight-combo.

The only reason the keeper-trinity deck interested me was because of the power artifact/grim monolith kill combo.  I was one of the guys that helepd break that right after the Type 1 Nationals in ~1998 (Randy Beuhler won).  Kind of nostalgic for the combo and it ends games

Thanks for the help.

[ShadowLotus]

I totally disagree that Keeper has issues w/ random aggro decks.  If you took it into the metagame you described, you should do fine.

However, if you're not proficient w/ Keeper, or if you're still trying to learn its inner workings, then it'd be best if you took something that was less difficult to play.

GroATog would be a good choice, since it's easy to pilot, and does very well against a lot of aggro decks out there.  Hulk Smash would also perform excellent for you, but it's more challenging to play than GroATog, for sure.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

I think i am fairly competant with keeper.  Played the old version of it (from serra to mirror-kill to morphling), and the "deadly insect deck" i described is a watered down version of it (just more fun to play).  The only parts i don't have a lot of experience with would be tutoring from the sideboard, but as far as playing aggro decks, i've been playing against them since they were around.

Its just totally different when you go to a tourney for the first time, dont know the people, dont know whether to expect all sligh/elfs or people with starter decks. LOL

I'm just trying to find a deck that is fun to play, is not sick-combo (academy) where my opponet does nothing but sigh, and easy to build (not looking to try and find masks or workshops).

I'll look into growatog (its cheap to build if you already have ~2 berserks), though i think i need some serious playtesting with it before i would tourney with it.

Thanks guys.