The Last Homely House
The Barrow-Downs => The Multiverse => Deck Check => Topic started by: Yanko Markovic on January 14, 2009, 05:21:22 PM
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Ok, we all know exalted is awesome, but VERY expensive ($)... so, before buying a lot of rafiqs and elspeths and those expensive squires I first wanna know of a good decklist you could recommend me, to plan things up.
Any suggestion of a good exalted deck?
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I hate to bust your bubble, but Exalted is not that nice. Exalted has a problem, the way I see it, it contradicts the whole theory of creature decks, since you crowd the table leavig all those guys behind and swinging with only one. Exalted is a game-breaking mechanic in Limited, but in constructed, let me run a quick comparison with my beatdown deck of choice, Kithkin, and another with monoreg Demigod. Exalted deals more damage over the first 2 turns than both those decks. However, its 3rd and 4th turns are weak, with small development, when Kithkin and Monored are picking up (and sometimes shooting ahead). Then, if you get to drop a Battlegrace Angel and start swinging, you are back in the game. However, for the same amount of mana, Kithkin is dropping a Cloudgoat Ranger that WILL probably kill you next turn with or without lifelink, and monored is dropping Demigod FTW. If you want to play smashing and want to play some of those colors, I recommend trying UW Merfolk. I've been trying it, and I like it a lot. Really cheap deck, the most expensive stuff I use is Cryptic Command, but that can be replaced. Other than that, Sygg, River Guide is considered a "semi-junk" rare, Wanderwine Hub is going cheap since merfolk has not seen heavy play lately and Wake Thrasher is all about luck to get a set dirt cheap or overcosted
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Actually, though, the mimic thing has been doing pretty well, what was it, Shorecrasher Mimic + drop a Rafiq = win.
The deck also does work well with Stoic Angel/Cryptic Command, because you use Cryptic to tap out, untap your one smasher, and then use that enchantment thing to = a never ending swinging creature that taps all their crits. I played Stoic Angel control, and I didn't run it off of exalted, I ran it off of Vigilant beaters, but conceptually you could use exalted to enforce a perpetual lockdown. Provided you also have the control elements to stop them from getting more crits into play, etc.
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But then the decks get even more expensive, Stoic Angels and Battlegrace Angels.
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yea. Ok, nevermind. The idea came because I bought a lot of boosters and I got like 4 sigiled paladin, 2 Knight of the white orchid, and other stuff like oblivion ring, Rhox charger and stuff like that. Anyway, I think I can sell those things. It was just the deckbuilding bug that bite me xD
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But that DOES make a nice deck! Just go weenie!
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Hahahaha, thanks xD
but isn't better knight of meadowgrain instead of sigiled paladin? also I got knight-captain of eos and I had some akrasan squires before, is it still Ok?
Thanks anyway man
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Meadowgrain IS better, but the keyword to weenie strategies is redundancy. Play both.
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Eh...I'd play Knight of the White Orchid and Knight of Meadowgrain over the Sigiled Paladin. And then definitely run Ranger of Eos and a TON of 1-drops.
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I'll run both. I mean, play light from within... 4/4 first strikers with exalted/lifelink? yeeeah...
also, what do you mean with 1-drops? 1 mana drops or 1 copy drops?
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"Drop" always means something you'll drop at the table, so 1-drop means 1-cost cards. 1-OFS would mean one copy. I'd play White Orchid over it anyday, as well, but you have to rememder White Orchid is RARE.
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Hey, if you're running Light from Withing, you MUST run Hearthfire Hobgoblin. :D Just FYI. 5/5 double striker w00t.