To begin, I'd like to note that it's retarded to judge a person's playing skill based on their gender, height, age, or how faded their Tool shirt is. Many adults playing in tournaments I've won gave me the "thanks for the bye" look before I handed their ass to them on a sliver platter, and I honestly believe that's because I'm fifteen and I dress up for tournaments. Oh, and because I use play of the hardest to use and most retarded decks in Type 1 magic, Parfait.
You've made a few huge oversights in your parfait deck. One is your color splash. One of parfait's hugest assets in an enviornment dominated by duals is its stable, hard-to-disrupt mana base. For reference, here's my Parfait mana base:
13 Plains
4 Land Tax
4 Tithe
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
If you've been playing Parfait for awhile, you're probably thinking that 4x land tax and tithe is redundant. You'd be right a year ago, back when Parfait decks had to win with an antiquated and sub-par win condition, namely Sacred Mesa. However, as it's been noted, newer and better Parfait decks are using the excellent Goblin Charbelcher. Why is charbelcher better? Here are a few good reasons:
1) Dropping it early lets you smash at aggro creatures. Re-usable damage is golden in Parfait.
2) Late in the game, dropping it an activating it in the same turn is a sure win.
3) No questions asked, no attacking, no pegasus tokens. Just damage.
However, I'd like to point out that there are a number of cons to this plan, namely Serra's Sanctum, Library of Alexandria, Strip Mine, and friends. However, the way I see it, Charbelcher is -so much better- than sacred mesa that the cons are trivial. I've won more games with charbelcher since it came out than I ever did with parfait before its existance, and cosidering I play parfait often that's significant.
Mirrodin gave us another wonderful goodie that we can abuse to a great extent in Parfait - Isochron Scepter. How corny?? Everyone is using that card! Right, so if your metagame hates it out, forget it - but if you can get by with it, try it! Chant on a Stick is a dead lock in many games and when it's not, it's a great tool to use against Control. When the control deck has to hard-counter each spell you play twice, his counter wall will crumble. Other targets for scepter include Argivian Find (of which I run 4 in my deck), Swords, Abeyance (I have 4 in sideboard), Disenchant, Tithe, and many others.
I wish you plenty of luck with your parfait deck! If you want to see my complete build, you can look here:
http://www.essentialmagic.com/Decks/View.asp?ID=210710(Please do not discuss my build of Parfait here, but if you have comments you can leave them by clicking View Comments and submitting a comment or rating of your own.)
-LoW
