Angry Wurm noob Deck

[Anonymous]

HI there ! wanna hear some suggestions to make my deck tournament playable (at least i want to win a game against a t1 deck)

4 Llanowar Elves
4 Tinder Wall
3 Titania's Priest
4 Stone Rain
4 Avalanche Riders
3 Pillage
4 Thermokarst
2 Earth Rift
4 Argothian Wurm
4 Lightning Bolt  36
1 Lotus petal
1 Mishra's Helix
2 Wildfire
4 Karplusan Forest
8 Forest
8 Mountain


i know its a noob deck.....

[Puschkin]

So, if you know it ...

Okay, some typical newbie mistakes:

Lotus Petal is in no way a replacement for Moxes! You need consistent mana, not a small one-shot boost. Lotus Petal may go into combodecks or the ultrafstest decks like Stompy and thats it.

Argothian Wurm, no. It comes too late, it will only stunt your development. By the time you can play that safely, you have either won already or he has an answer ready.

Land destruction in general is too slow. Especially without the acceleration of Moxes. You can use a mana denial theme with Strip Mine, Wastelands, Gorilla Shamane and Dwarven Miner or Blood Moon, but then you will have problems against mono-colored fast aggro decks. A Pillage-Creeping Mold-Stone Rain type of LD deck is almost unplayable for ages now. Any way, Strip Mine and Wastelands are a MUST in decks like these!

Wildfire, costing six mana, is just too expensive in Type I.

What you could do to increase performance is:
add Taigas, Strip Mine and Wastelands.
Masticore for weenie control and finisher.
Powder Keg for Weenie control and opposing Moxes.
Sol Ring for your more expensive stuff (depends on the things you take out).

But that wont be enough to beat serious decks, though. The fast aggrodecks are just too fast and can operate on even one mana. And control has Misdirections, one of them early on and you already lost the race. And combo is just the pure horror for you.

[GnomesofZurich]

Puschkin: based upon the card pool he is using, I'm betting he probably doesn't have Taiga, Strip Mine/Wasteland, Masticore, Keg etc.

disasterpiece: Sorry, but I don't think you're going to make this into a deck that wins games (at least not in a type 1 tournament; it might do fine in casual duels).  I would suggest you try to build one of the cheaper, entry-level type 1 decks, like Stompy, some variants of Sligh (not the versions packing 8 fetchlands, unless you can afford it of course) or something similar.

[Puschkin]

Sorry, but the cards I mentioned nowhere from unattainable. The most expensive there are Taigas, and getting hold of duals is something you would never regret, they are either a lifetime investment and help you in many, many decks or they are the best trade bait you can think of. He said he wants to win against Type I decks, I exspect some commitment to that goal.