Subject: Deck: The "Magic Carpet Ride"
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 20:11:07 EDT
From: JonPKibble@aol.com
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

This deck I came up with after seeing Len Blado's work "The Fortress" in
Inquest, combined with a red/white deck used by a guy I know at the local card
shop. The deck is an engine; use the removal to get rid of stuff, and keep
drawing more to remove your opponent. The deck is pretty solid but still needs
some tuning, I am open to any suggestions. It is a combo deck in the sense
that there is a force which ties all the cards together as one big combo. All
of the cards work great in conjuction with each other. I will explain in
detail the contents of the deck:

       2 Scroll Rack --- part of the engine. combines well with Mulch; put
four lands on tap and ancestral yourself +1.
       4 Mulch  --- get more land, is great with sylvan, gaea's, and scroll
rack.
       3 Gaea's Blessing --- get back key cards, keep the engine going. use
with mulch to feldon's.
       2 Sylvan Library --- good with mulch, and get new picks with gaea's.
with wisdom you can get life, use life to draw cards, to draw more wisdoms and
gaea's, etc.
       4 Wrath of God --- need four of these for prime defense.
       4 Disenchant --- gets rid of disk, orb, scroll, null brooch if used
correctly, and basically anything which causes harm
       3 Gerrard's Wisdom --- buy yourself time and slow your opponent's roll.
pay life to draw cards with sylvan.
       2 Pursuit of Knowledge --- good alone, great with gaea's, excellent
with sylvan.
       4 Incinerate --- removal/DD.
       4 Shock --- more removal/DD.
       2 Seismic Assault --- remember those lands you got from mulch? note: it
is usually best to hold onto most of your lands in this deck; play
undiscovereds if you already have 4 in play that way it can come back to your
hand to be used with Scroll Rack, Wisdom, Seismic assault, etc.
       2 Savage Twister --- such an underlooked card. Earthquake and hurricane
combined without doing damage to yourself. it's like having 2 more wraths in
the deck. Only 2 because that is all the deck really needs, I think. Though I
could be wrong :/
       2 Memory Lapse --- wonderful surprise card and great way to force
through key spells. I play wrath, you counter, I lapse. You lose all your
creatures and don't draw another one next turn.

       4 Reflecting Pool --- great with all the 'gimplands', you don't have to
use up the gemstone or take city damage if you don't need to.
       2 City of Brass
       2 Undiscovered Paradise
       2 Gemstone Mine
       3 Forest
       4 Mountain
       5 Plains

"You don't know what we might find, why don't you come with me little girl, on
a magic carpet ride" - Steppenwolf

Have fun

Jon Prywes
http://kibble.base.org