jetoman22
03-08-2009, 10:15 AM
My friend has a deck that I just can't beat. He wipes the floor with me every time we play. Just to clarify--we don't play tournaments or do anything too terribly serious, we just play with whatever cards we have in a gigantic box given to us by his cousin. He recently made a deck that uses 100% artifacts, most of them 0 mana cost or affinity for artifacts, making them free. So it's not uncommon for him to on the first turn play 5 cards and then go top deck on the second turn. Anyway--he gets out Cranial Plating and either equips it on a Ferropede or puts it on some other creature and combines it with Whispersilk Cloak....either way he's dealing 10+ unblockable damage to me by turn 3 or 4 and I'm just dead meat the second turn after he gets out that combo because even if do manage to somehow destroy one of his many artifacts in his combo, the rest of his deck doesn't suck and he can just kill me through sheer attrition.
Here's my dilemma: I HATE the idea of creating a deck that is simply an "anti-artifact" deck. What's the point of making a deck whose sole purpose is to defeat a different deck? Then all he has to do is play me with a different deck of his and when mine has no artifacts to destroy his kills me horribly. I'm not sure how to go about making a balanced deck that is simply better than his, or at least can kill his and maybe hold its own against other decks.
Any suggestions? I'm open to buying cards over the internet, if need be.
Here's my dilemma: I HATE the idea of creating a deck that is simply an "anti-artifact" deck. What's the point of making a deck whose sole purpose is to defeat a different deck? Then all he has to do is play me with a different deck of his and when mine has no artifacts to destroy his kills me horribly. I'm not sure how to go about making a balanced deck that is simply better than his, or at least can kill his and maybe hold its own against other decks.
Any suggestions? I'm open to buying cards over the internet, if need be.