trix in type 1?

[Anonymous]

i was wondering if trix would be viable in type 1?  i dont have power, here is the deck list.

land:
4 underground river
4 underground sea
4 city of brass
4 swamp
4 islands

spells:
4 hymn to tourach
1 mind twist
4 dark ritual
1 demonic consultation
1 necro
1 demonic tutor

3 brain storm
4 donate
4 illusions of grandeur
1 mystical tutor
1 FoW
4 power sink
2 memory lapse
2 arcane denial
1 mana vault
2 nev's disks
1 ivory tower
1 sol ring
1 lotus petal
1 mana crypt

any help would be greatly appreciated.  i'm hoping to get 3 more FoW's, 1 FoF, and 4 mana drains soon.  anything else i should consider getting?

[upinthe]

While you are waiting to get your new counters, take power sink out. There are many other options available that are better. Not to mention the fact that power sink was made completely obsolete by syncopate. Also, Arcane Denial is not a good counter either. Whenever possible, try not to let your opponent get free cards. Duress and Misdirection should also go in there.

Other options:
Polluted Delta
Cunning Wish

Also, I don't know if this is your approach or not, but trying to replace power with lotus petal and mana crypt doesn't work. If this is what you are trying to do, you are better off strengthening other portions of the deck.

Here are some old threads on Trix for you to browse:

Trix

Mono Blue Trix

[iceman]

Of course trix is viable in Type 1. It is one of the most competitive decks in the format, and it orginated as Type 1. And it's not like it can be played in extended (anymore) or type 2.

 

[Puschkin]

But Trix can´t be played like the old Trix decks since Necro and other key cards are restricted. And if you play "Trick", that is the kill combo of Illusions/Donate without Necro, you just have a mono-blue deck with a kill inferior to Morphling.

[iceman]

Trix is still a heavily played deck, but I remember before the restriction when 90% of Type 1 decks were trix. Trix also had a good placein T.1x but its kind of hard in extended now because of the loss of illusions of grandeur

[Puschkin]

I dare to say that if someone plays Trix/Trick in Type I today then he most likely does because he knows not better. He probably has not much experience with competitive Type I and basically follows some rumours and the logic that Trix has to be good because it was once. Since it's still a ~okay~ deck and since he will most likely play against opponents of the same skill level, he will not notice, though.

The main problem remains: Necro was the card that made Trix tick. You could draw into your combo pieces and Duress/Force of Will aggressively and force the combo through - and gain your life back which equals 20 new cards. Necro is restricted, there´s no replacement for Necro and relying on a restricted card that has to hit turn 1-2 is a gamble.

mono-blue Trick is still mono-blue with a kill method tat uses up 7-8 card slots and at least Donate is useless individually. Morphling is just soo much better.

In this way playing Trix/Trick is sub-par by default. It doesn´t automatically mean that it is a bad deck, just inferior to a similar deck.