UR Fish

[Sibib]

Good day,

This is my first post as a member, but I read a lot of thread in this forum, that is really helpfull.

I'm a Vintage player for the last 4 or 5 years, mostly with friends, but in tournament in Québec City too. By the way, sorry for my english, it's not my first language.

I have always played UR Fish. I'm the kind of player that prefer long game, with a lot of control and with usefull creatures that can do things other than just attack of block. My deck is complete, except for the power card that I proxies. But, I know that UR Fish is no longer a competitive deck, but I can't think of playing something else, mostly because I don't have the money to buy more duals or powerful cards.

There's my list for now.

Lands (19)
4 Volcanic Island
3 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
2 Island
1 Mountain
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine

Creatures (20)
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
3 Waterfront Bouncer
3 Magus of the Moon
3 Gorilla Shaman
3 Razorfin Hunter

Spells (22)
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
3 Daze
3 Fire/Ice
3 Swords of Fire and Ice
2 Pyrokinesis
1 Ancestrall Recall
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Time Walk

I like to play it, but I know that it's not enough good to stop the most powerful deck. There's like no synergie in my deck... my creatures are just there, looking for my opponent to play something to react, without dealing damage to him... I'm thinking of playing Stifle, Crucible of Worlds, maybe Jitte over Swords of Fire and Ice....

Any Ideas ? Thank you very much

[hauntedechos]

Salut from Ontario,

It's always good to see players interested in the Fish archtype.  U/R is not as bad as you may think it is, the only addition you need to make is to fit in B cards.

Darck Confidant
Duress
Thoughtseize
B tutor perhalps

This can be accomplished by adding a couple basic swamps in the deck if you really cannot afford 1-2 Underground Sea.  Dark Confidant will really help draw the cards you need to feed the Bouncer as well as card draw on it's own.  Duress effects really help support the low number of effective counters that Fish decks run.

in concerns with sword of fire and ice versus Jitte:  I think that it depends on what your local match ups are going to be.  Sword of fire and ice seems to be hot right now, because of the mono R shop decks running around.  Jitte has it's uses, but the sword will protect your creatures overall if that's what you are looking for.

if you do run a U/R/B list, then I suggest looking through the threads for Eric Becker's U/R/bana Fish lists.  I'm sure you have, but I feel that unless you are really dead set against spending a little to add B, you might not get a lot of feed back on this list.

Au Revior
Mike