I just wanted to make sure it was stated up front that I played with an Unhinged card.Īlright, let’s start walking through the deck. One version of my deck had Blast from the Past. With the preamble out of the way, let’s look at the deck: That way I always have fodder for the good stuff.Īfter that, I included cards that had a synergy with the deck. However, I also decided to add a lot of cards that draw cards cheaply, even if those cards are merely lands. Therefore, I decided to add a lot of outlets, both as cheap spells and as permanents. No one wants to tap six mana for a Dark Withering. If you have too many madness cards and not enough outlets, then you are sitting there with a handful of overcosted junk. If your deck has too many outlets and not enough madness cards, then you be sitting there with relatively minor permanents that have a limited impact on the board. Discarding an Obsessive Search, using its madness, to activate a Dreamscape Artist is pretty good. Therefore, I included several spellshapers. However, I’d prefer to discard a card to do more than give a particular creature +1/+1. From Wild Mongrel to Peace of Mind, you have to have enough outlets to work with. Then you have to toss in the outlets that you feel are good enough to make the cut. You toss in all of the madness cards that you feel are good enough to make the cut.
One of the challenges of building a deck around a madness theme is figuring out the proper balance. Then you can add several good spellshapers, including one recently printed legendary creature. Its two madness cards previously were great, and toss in Reckless Wurm and you have some solid madness cards. It also has some solid spellshapers and removal. This was a pretty solid color through and through.īlack gave me good madness cards, unlike Torment, where Black, the main color of the set, got screwed out of one of that set’s mechanics. Therefore, you’ll see some land search in White.īlue gave me some tricks, some spellshapers, some outlets, and some card drawing. The one thing White did have was the ability to get multiple cards very cheaply (lands). White’s two madness cards were never that hot, and her spellshapers, although solid, are not going to wow you. I also tried to minimize White, but that should be obvious from the theme. I just ran some generic spellshapers and whatnot to round out the color. Sure, you have your Rootwalla and your Arrogant Wurm, but most of the good stuff is in other colors. This is one of the very few Five Color decks I have ever built that tried to minimize the Green component. I had a lot of fun playing around with the new madness cards, so I decided to see if I could get a madness 250 deck built.īefore I head into the deck itself, allow me to talk a little about its construction.
I decided to build this deck after I had a lot of fun playing with the Unraveling Mind precon. If you want to kick it Prismatic style, then this deck would need little modification to make it all electronic and whatnot. Due to the nature of the theme, a vast majority of the deck is available to Magic: The Electronic players. Today’s deck features a deck that is in front of me on the desk, so it appears to be pretty real life.
My real life decks are typically, but not exclusively, designed for multiplayer. It uses the Vintage cardpool, but due to the uniqueness of the format we need to maintain our own banned and restricted list, which you can find over at We like to think we have generous mulligan rules, we allow ante if you really want, and we allow the dexterity cards, with Chaos Orb at the top.
I’ve done these articles on 250 decks like Snow and Spirits, and today I’m going to look at another theme deck that I recently built in the Five Color genre.įor those of you that are unaware, Five Color is a casual format where players must use at least 20 cards of each color and 250 cards in their deck. Hello all, and welcome back to another in a series of articles where I take a look at a recently built – and fun – Five Color deck.
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