Share your current casual decks

[zeus-online]

I've been thinking about how powerfull peoples casual decks really are, mostly as a measure for my own decks.
For casual i usually play decks that i like, and if they turn out too powerfull they are either scrapped or nerfed....

Anyways here are my seven current casual decks

Mana: (24)
20 Island
4 Cephalid colisseum

Acceleration: (4)
4 Sapphire medallion

Disruption: (13)
4 Remand
3 Vedalken shackles
2 Memory lapse
2 Counterspell
2 Echoing truth

Draw/Search: (11)
4 Impulse
4 Think twice
3 Deep analysis

Combo: (8)
4 Illusions of grandeur
4 Donate

Well kinda a classic....I usually switch about 4-5 cards every time i play it...this weekend i played with forbids but due to a few complaints i cut 'em for two counterspells. It's not really ideal for multiplayer, but aslong as everyone dosn't go with "Bash the blue guy" it should be fine.


Mana: (24)
2 Tropical island
4 Yavimaya coast
4 Simic growth chamber
14 Island

Mana acceleration: (7)
4 Sakura-tribe elder
3 Summer bloom

Draw/Search: (9)
4 Impulse
3 Opportunity
2 Time spiral

Disruption: (12)
4 Counterspell
4 Moment's peace
2 Wall of blossoms
2 Seal of primordium

Combo thingy's: (8)
4 Last stand
4 Prismatic omen

Originally i played with 4 time spiral's but turns out that they're quite good (Surprise) so i cut a few and added some opportunity's.

Mana: (29)
18 Island
3 Blasted landscape
4 Faerie conclave
4 Grim monolith

Creatures: (8)
4 Morphling
4 Masticore

Disruption: (11)
4 Miscalculation
4 Rewind
3 Power sink

Board-Control: (8)
4 Treachery
4 Powder keg

Draw/Search: (4)
4 Stroke of genius

Yeah, another blue deck...Well what can i say? i like blue I like the urza's era block and standard decks alot and i wanted to play with my morphlings again.

Mana: (24)
8 Swamp
4 Bayou
4 Bloodstained mire
4 Cabal coffers
4 Urborg, tomb of yawgmoth

Creatures: (18)
4 Birds of paradise
4 Fyndhorn elves
4 Dark confidant
4 Korlash, heir to blackblade
2 Masticore

Other: (18)
4 Phyrexian arena
4 Pernicious dead
4 Chainer's edict
4 Consume spirit
1 Drain life
1 Mind twist

Urborg/Cabal coffers is quite powerfull, and noone really plays with land destruction so there's little risk in playing the "combo".

Mana: (22)
18 Mountain
4 Ancient tomb

Creatures: (25)
4 Blood knight
4 Slith firewalker
4 Sulfur elemental
4 Avarrax
3 Gathan raiders
3 Arc-slogger
1 Akroma, angel of fury
1 Torchling
1 Dominus of fealty

Other: (13)
4 Grafted wargear
4 Lightning bolt
4 Seal of fire
1 Radiate

I needed a deck to speed multiplayer games up with, and although i'd love to do a full-scale chaos deck, it's just too risky since there's a good chance people will just blow you away to save themselves. Radiate is untested, but i figured that radiating a stroke or something could be quite fun and speed everything up considerably.

Mana: (20)
4 Plateau
1 Mountain
15 Plains

Combo pieces: (16)
4 Land tax
4 Tithe
3 Gift of estates
4 Planar birth
1 Enlightened tutor

Removal: (15)
4 Path to exile
4 Cataclysm
3 Firestorm
2 Wrath of god
2 Abolish

Other: (9)
4 Sensei's top
3 Sacred mesa
2 Zuran orb

Relatively untested, if cataclysm turns out to be too annoying for everyone (very likely) i'll cut them for some condemns or something. I've only played two games with the deck so far and i think it could need an additional zuran orb and abolish.

Mana: (24)
4 Polluted delta
4 Godless shrine
4 Caves of koilos
1 Phyrexian tower
2 Volrath's stronghold
6 Swamp
3 Ancient tomb

Creatures: (8)
4 Academy rector
4 Draco

Enchantments: (7)
2 Infernal genesis
2 Seal of cleansing (Could be aura of silence, but i can't find mine )
1 The abyss
1 Engineered plague
1 Contamination

Random stuff: (21)
4 Night's whisper
4 Cabal therapy
4 Innocent blood
4 Sensei's top
2 Damnation
2 Hymn to tourach
1 Balance

I always liked infernal genesis, so this is my attempt at using it...flipping a draco gives 16 power, which is alot...And with volrath's stronghold i should be able to do it every turn...I think it could be quite fun in multiplayer since it's feeding everyone alot of tokens to hit each other with. I've considered ghostly prisons to prevent my opponents from hitting ME with their tokens.

I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else got in their bag of casual decks

/Zeus

[EnialisLiadon]

Cool thread!  I'm currently rocking a number of casual decks, some better than others.

I just built this one, after cracking open a box of Alara Reborn

Cascade.dec
2x Bant Hackblade
1x Blitz Hellion
4x Bloodbraid Elf
1x Enigma Sphinx
3x Enlisted Wurm
2x Grixis Hackblade
4x Jund Hackblade
2x Quasali Pridemage
2x Wooly Thoctar

2x Ardent Plea
4x Captured Sunlight
1x Cruel Ultimatum
4x Bituminous Blast
2x Stormcaller's Boon
3x Terminate
2x Vengeful Rebirth

2x Arcane Sanctum
2x Crumbling Necropolis
2x Jungle Shrine
2x Savage Lands
2x Seaside Citadel
4x Terramorphic Expanse
2x Forest
2x Island
2x Mountain
2x Plains
2x Swamp

Yeah, it's terribly janky.  But it's a ton of fun and it can often give my often-disadvantaged friends a chance.  This is more fun to play against them than...

Casual(?) Slaver
1x Mindslaver
1x Platinum Angel
1x Sundering Titan
1x Triskelavus
4x Goblin Welder

2x Duress
1x Mind Twist
1x Echoing Truth
4x Force of Will
4x Mana Drain

1x Memory Jar
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Brainstorm
1x Fact of Fiction
1x Frantic Search
1x Gifts Ungiven
1x Merchant Scroll
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Personal Tutor
1x Ponder
4x Thirst for Knowledge
1x Tinker

1x Lotus Petal
1x Mana Crypt
1x Mana Vault
1x Sol Ring
2x Flooded Strand
1x Great Furnace
3x Island
4x Polluted Delta
2x Seat of the Synod
1x Tolarian Academy
2x Undergound Sea
1x Vault of Whispers
2x Volcanic Island

That one's a little less fair.

Then there's the ever-annoying Pox!

4x Chimeric Idol
4x The Rack

4x Diabolic Edict
4x Duress
4x Hymn to Tourach
3x Infest
4x Innocent Blood
2x Nether Spirit
4x Pox
3x Raven's Crime
4x Smallpox

20x Swamp

There's also Rebels, War Elemental.dec, and some others that I'm too lazy to type up, haha.

[zeus-online]

I've been thinking about making a rebel deck, so would you mind sharing your list? I've been in love with the rebels ever since we played commonkill (That format turned out to be horrible powered though with games often ending turn3)

[VikingMetal4L]

One of my favorite casual decks I'm running right now I like to call "Intuition MBC." 

Basically, when Demigod of Revenge was spoiled for Shadowmoor, my first thought was "OMG how awesome would it be to cast Intuition for three of these??"  So yeah, I stuffed that into a monoblack control shell along with some Underground Seas and Watery Graves.  No Polluted Deltas, because they turn off my Bosium Strips, which is one of my favorite casual cards ever.  Also running a playset of Accumulated Knowledge for good measure.

The rest is filled out with kind of predictable stuff like Consume Spirit, Corrupt, Cabal Coffers+Urborg, Innocent Blood, Damnation, you get the idea.

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[Matt]

Hm, I have a couple. Listed approximately from lowest-power to highest-power:

//B-R Tokens
1 Nightscape Familiar
4 Dragon Fodder
4 Mogg War Marshall
2 Phyrexian Ghoul
1 Nantuko Husk
2 Hissing Iguanar
2 Lyzolda, the Blood Witch
3 Rockslide Elemental
2 Scavenger Drake
3 Murderous Redcap
1 Rakka Mar
2 Phyrexian Plaguelord
1 Furystoke Giant

2 Goblin Bombardment
2 Spitebellows
2 Bone Splinters
1 Attrition
1 Elemental Mastery

2 Kher Keep

7 Mountain
6 Swamp
4 Savage Lands
3 Rakdos Carnarium
1 Graven Cairns
1 Jund Panorama



//Moon Bounce
4 Shrieking Drake
1 Dream Stalker
1 Whitemane Lion
2 Stonecloaker
1 Man-o'-War
1 Wormfang Drake
1 Soul Warden
3 Temple Acolyte
3 Raven Familiar
2 Steamcore Weird
2 Fire Imp
1 Sparkmage Apprentice
1 Avalanche Riders

2 Enlightened Tutor
1 Call to Heel
1 Momentary Blink
1 Cloud Key
1 Crystal Shard
1 Orim's Prayer
1 Opposition
4 Parallax Wave
4 Genesis Chamber

4 Terramorphic Expanse
2 Crumbling Necropolis
4 Seaside Citadel
2 Rupture Spire
3 Azorius Chancery
3 Island
2 Plains
1 Mountain



//Esper Salvagers
4 Court Homunculus
2 Darklit Gargoyle
4 Etherium Sculptor
4 Tidehollow Sculler
4 Esperzoa
4 Trinket Mage
4 Arcbound Crusher
3 Auriok Salvagers

3 Executioner's Capsule
2 Dispeller's Capsule
1 Aether Spellbomb
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
1 Sigil of Distinction

4 Energy Chamber
1 Pentad Prism

4 Arcane Sanctum
4 Vault of Whispers
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Ancient Den
3 Great Furnace



//Prismatic Omen
3 Etched Oracle
2 Broodmate Dragon

2 Beseech the Queen
1 Darksteel Pendant
1 Collective Restraint

2 Sun Droplet
2 Terminate
4 Firespout
1 Planar Despair
1 Hull Breach
1 Void

3 Prismatic Omen
2 Elsewhere Flask

3 Jaws of Stone
1 Howl of the Night Pack
1 Last Stand
1 Violent Ultimatum

3 Lay of the Land
3 Search for Tomorrow
1 Coalition Relic

4 Terramorphic Expanse
7 Forest
4 Swamp
4 Mountain
1 Island
1 Plains



//5cGamekeeper

3 Gamekeeper
1 Progenitus
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Phantom Nishoba

3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Savage Twister
4 Pernicious Deed
1 Naturalize
1 Global Ruin
2 Collective Restraint
3 Arcane Denial

4 Brainstorm
3 Cunning Wish
3 Living Wish
2 Allied Strategies
1 Mirari

2 Gaea's Blessing
1 Regrowth

2 Rampant Growth
2 Farseek

1 Thawing Glaciers
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Island
4 Forest
2 Swamp
3 Plains
1 Mountain

SB: Swords to Plowshares
SB: Extirpate
SB: Fact or Fiction
SB: Krosan Grip
SB: Congregate
SB: Trickbind
SB: Artifact Mutation
SB: Reins of Power
SB: Simic Sky Swallower
SB: Yixlid Jailer
SB: Gamekeeper
SB: Flametongue Kavu
SB: Indrik Stomphowler
SB: Magus of the Moon
SB: Eternal Witness



//Cyborg Brothers, Unite!
1 Temporal Aperture
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Duplicant
2 Mindslaver
2 Triskelion
3 Sundering Titan
1 Platinum Angel
1 Memnarch
2 Voltaic Key
3 Mox Diamond
2 Basalt Monolith
1 Thran Dynamo

1 Academy Ruins
1 Wasteland
4 Cloudpost
4 Great Furnace
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Volcanic Island
3 Izzet Boilerworks

3 Argivian Restoration
4 Intuition
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Goblin Welder
4 Burning Wish

SB: 1 Argivian Restoration
SB: 1 Earthquake/Starstorm
SB: 1 Pyroclasm
SB: 1 Pillage
SB: 1 Wash Out
SB: 1 Fabricate
SB: 1 Transmute Artifact
SB: 1 Shattering Spree
SB: 1 Anarchy
SB: 1 Rolling Thunder
SB: 1 Energy Tap
SB: 1 Relearn
SB: 1 Legerdemain
SB: 1 Banefire
SB: 1 Spitting Image

[Godder]

I played Rebels in type 2 when Saga was legal, and Gaea's Cradle was insane. Basically, just start like so:

4 Ramosian Sergeant
6-10 from a mix of Amrou Scout, Ramosian Lieutenant, Defiant Falcon and Blightspeaker (probably only 1 or 2 of this one, though, unless you add Black)
2-4 Linn Sivvi (more if StP is common, fewer if RFG effects aren't so common, 3 is a good number)

4 Gaea's Cradle

Good tricks include Defiant Vanguard, Whipcorder, Skyshroud Poacher + Deranged Hermit (I used to play this in the aforementioned deck), Samite Censer-Bearer, Ramosian Revivalist, Outrider En-Kor + Task Force (infinite wall + Life combo if you add Worthy Cause etc), Aven Riftwatcher, Bound In Silence, Children of Korlis, Knight of the Holy Nimbus and Lightbringer/Lawbringer.

Other lands would depend on what you intend to do with the deck, but Living Wish could be a good way to move the more situational Rebels to the "Sideboard", in which case Savannah + fetchlands is probably in order. If you want to be able to support Black, obviously Scrublands need to be in there as well.

[LotusHead]

I recently bought a new computer, so I've entered all of 1 casual deck I play so far. (also just learned how to rip lists from Morphling.de etc to diversify my portfolio)

This is "Mono-white Orbs" and it was once my T2 deck.




// Lands
    7  Plains
    3  Academy Ruins
    3  Island
    4  Flooded Strand

// Creatures
    2  Serra Angel
    4  Court Hussar
    4  Jotun Grunt
    4  Razor Golem
    4  Serra Avenger

// Spells
    2  Sculpting Steel
    1  Loxodon Warhammer
    3  Echoing Truth
    3  Ghostly Prison
    1  Sword of Light and Shadow
    4  Mesmeric Orb
    4  Talisman of Progress
    3  Wing Shards
    4  Faith's Fetters

// Sideboard
SB: 4  Disenchant
SB: 4  Path to Exile
SB: 4  Oblivion Ring
SB: 3  Tormod's Crypt