My little experiment:
To build a series mono color decks based on type 1 card pool and they must be balanced and has a good chance(40~60%) to beat each other. The goal of this format is to play the decks without sideboard and hate that everyone will enjoy any deck they pick from this series. Therefore this format will be good for several friends play together casually without slam the cards whenever Tendrils meets Rootmaze or Charbelcher meets Null Rod. The mainly reason for making this format mono color simply for budget reason since dual lands are not that easy to get. Also there are too much unbalance when a deck uses two colors. Moreover, forcing to use mono color will let people to explore more in magic's card pool. Enough talking, let's post some nice mono color decks here.
Mono White- Parfait!!
Creature control:
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Humility
1 Wrath of God
1 Balance
Enchanment and Artifact removal:
3 Aura of silence
2 Abolish
Draw engine:
4 Land Tax
3 Scroll rack
Win condition:
2 Sacre Mesa
Life gain:
2 Ivory Tower
2 Zuran Orb
Others:
4 Orim's Chant
4 Argivian Find
1 Enlighten Tutor
1 Tormod's Crypt
Mana Source:
1 Mox Diamond
1 Chrome Mox
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus petal
1 Strip mine
18 Plains
I wanted to add Isochron Scepter in this deck, but it is too broken against creature decks, and too slow against fast combo decks. It's too unbalanced therefore I decided cut that out.
Mono Blue- Fish!!
Creature:
4 Manta Riders
4 Rootwater Thief
4 Lord of Alantis
4 Cloud of Faerie
2 Waterfront Bouncer
Counters and other disruption:
4 Force of Will
2 Misdirection
2 Echoing Truth
2 Psionic Blast
Draw engine:
4x Curiousity
4x Standstill
Mana Source:
4 Mishras Factory
4 Faerie Conclave
1 Stripmine
15 Island
Waterfront Bouncer, Psionic Blast and Echoing Truth are null rods and stifles in the tournament build, maybe I tone this deck down too much, any suggestions?
Mono black- Animate Dragon!
Reanimate spell:
4 Dance of the dead
4 Animate dead
Searching engine:
4 Spoils of the vault
1 Vampric Tutor
1 Demonic tutor
1 Demonic consultation
1 Entomb
4 Buried Alive
Disruption:
4 Duress
4 Cabal Therapy
Combo piece:
3 Ambassador Laquatus
3 Worldgorger Dragon
Mana Source:
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus Petal
4 dark ritual
16 Swamp
3 Ancient Tomb
My friend once asked about Ambassador Laquatus and Worldgorger Dragon: Are they black spells? My answer is: I only use them as tools. Therefore it's possible for Survival the Fittest + Squee Nabob and others in this format too!
Mono Red- Goblin!
Creature:
4 Goblin Cadets
4 Goblin Lackey
4 Mogg Fanatic
3 Mogg Flunkies
4 Goblin Piledriver
4 Grim Lavamancer
Burns:
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Goblin Grenade
3 Fireblast
More speed:
4 Reckless Charge
Mana source:
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Wooded Foothills
10 Moutain
Simple and fast, any questions?
I almost have all types of deck in this format: White is control, Blue is aggro, Black is combo and Red is Beatdown. Ideally Green should be prison to complete my cycle. But I am just clueless about how to make a green prison deck...
Please keep in mind:
1. Only do this in your home! Playing these decks without a lot of tuning for the metagame in type 1 is suisidal. And some of these decks simply could not win in current type 1
2. Don't add hosers like Chill or Red Elemental Blast in mono color decks or they become pointless against the wrong color.
3. I am a little hesitated about allowing wishes in this format because then I will need a sideboard. Something like Cunning Wish, Burning Wish, Living Wish and even Death Wish is too good to give up. Maybe allow sideboard if using these wishes is a good idea then.
Anyway, post any mono color deck you like: white weenie, high tide, pox, ankh sligh, stompy and anything it's possible to beat the other in this format will be nice. Well, you can do your own mono color cycle too!
