Hakim's Lore

[Dream_Merchant]

Mirage Block is one my favorite blocks. What can I say.. deep stroyline, wonderful setting, tantalizing characters, cards filled with rich flavor, powerful cards breaking the game in weird ways..... valiant knights, mighty dragons, hellbound sorcerers, loves, hates and the most breathtaking of landscapes.

cards such as infernal contract, gaea's blessing, southern paladin, cadaverous bloom, sealed fate, peacekeeper, spirit of the night and many many more just cry out to be used.

some of most prized collection cards are the legends from that expansion, rashida scalebane, asmira holy avenger.... hakim loreweaver.

weird card, weird abilities.
lets use it

Hakim's Lore.dec

24 Island

4 Crown of the Ages
3 Hakim, Loreweaver
4 Academy Researchers
4 Suq'Ata Firewalker
4 Horseshoe Crab
2 Thran Golem

3 Zephid's Embrace
3 Pemmin's Aura
3 Phantom Wings
3 Control Magic
3 Opposition

Well the deck is all about creature enchantments. With the introduction of Mirrodin, Enchant Creature became synonymous with Card Disadvantage. Why play flight when you can play neurok hoversail, why play hermetic study when you can play viridian longbow, why bother with diplomatic immunity when there is lightning greaves, and for the sake of the joke compare skullclamp to casting of bones.

Why? Because to the rescue comes...Hakim, Loreweaver. With the help of Crown of the Ages things can get funny. Since the deck is all about creature enchantments its also all about 2 card "combos". Pemmin's Aura and Suq'Ata Firewalker makes your islands shoot. The Aura and Opposition turns your islands into icy manipulators, Zephyd's embrace and horseshoe crab is like a cheap morphling. I was almost tempted to include power artifact for the Thran Golem ( power up )... maybe another deck. Phantom Wings is an enchant creature version of Æther spellbomb.

Btw. Crown of the Ages doesnt target creatures, it targets enchantments. Control Magic of an opponents plated slagwurm with it is tech.

I used to have intuitions in the deck as well but I axed them for the crab+opposition tech ( maybe can find space for hermetic study). Any  Johnny or Timmie suggestions are more then welcome. No Spike remarks please.

[Ephraim]

Well, you've asked for no Spike remarks, so I hope that this is Johnny enough for you.

Are Phantom Wings serving you well? They can't really protect much, since if your opponent is playing removal, they won't target the creature with the Phantom Wings. Furthermore, it's not really the card you want to put on Hakim first and it it isn't on him, it doesn't protect him. I'd suggest Illuminated Wings, since the deck definitely looks like it could benefit from some card drawing. With Hakim in play, Illuminated Wings is at least as good as Treasure Trove, for what that's worth.

You might also try fitting in Careful Study, Catalogue, or Frantic Search. Since it looks like this deck could benefit from circumventing the hardcasting process that might be beneficial. If you were to do that, you might be able to justify using Confiscate instead of Control Magic. Then, you could nab important artifacts or lands, as well.

[Dream_Merchant]

first of all the phantom wings are there not to protect my stuff but to bounce other peoples stuff. think of it as boomerang. early game nothing much happens anyway with this deck. illuminated wings might give me some card drawing power but to be honest id rather just go over to curiosity ( 3 card combo with suq'ata firewalker and pemmin's aura ) or to increase mirage block coolness betrayal ( opposition tech :p ).
  sadly I cant use confiscate since its not an enchant creature. doesnt work with hakim or crown, so everything else i can hardcast. besides unless i migrate to green and mythic proportions and elephant guides, there isnt much worthwhile animating which i cant hardcast anyway, besides academy researchers are there for that reason. the intuitions were there because they can get me the card i need without apparent drawback but i had AKs and it was getting cluttered.
  well i dont know. instead of phantom wings how about false demise? it can save my creatures and if i put it on the opponents i end up mind controlling it permanently if it dies. or frozen solid to kill things but that doesnt help my stuff and id hate to have one sitting on hakim.