Warlock Scroll deck

[thesideburns]

I liked the warlock card, with his anti-magic territory ability, untargetability, and critical scrolls. So I built a deck around it! There are only 2 warlocks in the deck, but the deck is still built around the essence of the warlock...

Book Name: Warlock

Creatures: 20 (40%)

Possession x2
Barbarian x2
Cait Sith x2
Gas Cloud x2
Sorcerer x2
Luk-Oie x2
Noble Shaman x2
Saint x2
Sea Bonze x2
Warlock x2 (Fire/Water)

Items: 13 (26%)

Necro Scarab x1
Nuclear Fusion x2
Petrify Stone x4
Tearing Halo x4
The Hand x2

Spells: 17 (34%)

Drain Magic x4
Intrusion x2
Paralysis x3
Prophecy x2
Replace x2
Revival x2
Trespass x2

When I built this deck, I started with all the spells I thought would be useful in a competitive online game. Then I added in the warlock and a variety of red/blue creatures: a few with scroll critical hit, one of each color that's super strong on defense (gas cloud, sea bonze), one of each color that's untargetable (cait sith, luk-oie), and a few other specialty creatures (barbarian - instant w/ 50ST, saint to take care of greys, possession to steal strong lvl 1's before they get out of control). Every creature can use every item in the deck, and warlock is the only creature with a land requirement. The result is a deck that's pretty darn safe to play, and because not a lot of people pack scroll-heavy decks, most opponents aren't prepared to defend against them.

Best offensive combo in the deck:
Paralysis (doublecast) + Intrusion + Sorcerer = unavoidable death to any 30HP creature (or 45-75HP with a scroll item).

Best defensive combo in the deck:
Gas Cloud + Petrify Stone = opponent must do 160 dmg + 2x land effect to kill - and this combo still survives a critical nuke!

This deck is weak against creatures that get large stat boosts (avatars, mudmen, undines) and beefy armor. The best way to play this deck is belligerently, attacking with every chance you get, so the enemy can't develop a stronghold on anything. Revival or Prophecy if you need more sorcerers or scrolls. Keep the enemies from getting set up with their land requirements, use Replace to swap out enemies with powerful enchantments or abilities, or Posses them if they're still level one.

Possible changes:
- Might swap in 2 Clay Idols to help protect against the direct damage metagame.

... That's all I've got for now... I don't think I've lost with this deck yet - I think it's 3 for 3, having won an allied match and 2 FFAs. Great deck for allied matches, because who doesn't want a partner with crazy scroll attack power?

Comments? Suggestions?

[TopCat]

Because you're playing americans you haven't run into a proliferation of Living Mirrors. Any smart player who relies on tolls and big lands should have them in their book. It can't be Crushed or Captured, only Shattered or Eroded. I don't think there are many of these players, though, from what I've seen.

[zedd]

I so can't wait to get my live up and running. Stoopid CoX messed up my IP address when they put in the second line. They were supposed to give it a different line but when I connect to live it says that it is sharing an IP number....

Anywho back on subject, I agree with TopCat, Living mirrors. I used to use the mirror in the first one (only that it was an item and not a creature).

I too have a pretty solid deck that I have built and guess what....It's all neutral!!!!
I really love the way this game is made, they REALLY evened all decks across the board. The only things that I am not happy about (minor but still something they should have looked at).

1. Laziness of animated attacks, ie the invisible punching. I was upset to see Angostura tentacle animation taken away, Paladin Joust animation taken away...with those punches -_-

2. Neutral Characters should get land bonuses from neutral land, though I came to reason that they are nuetral because not many shrine effects touch them and realized that as a plus. However things like cheap "Banshing Ray" and Holy Blight (like this one is really needed) make it a bit tough to play neutral. I mean its bad enough we have the Saint & Paladin on top of the other super harmful things to neutral

[thesideburns]

Played this deck against a buddy's neutral/support deck on the X map, and it was the most belligerent 1v1 match of all time. Dude's mic was broken but as soon as I won the game, he messaged me "Saint MVP" =)

The X map just BEGS for people to hop creatures from one land to another, attacking, and my buddy would occasionally wipe out an entire leg of the map with one evil Trojan Horse. He even used Poison Mind to take out one of my two saints, but other was already out, so I picked her up and redeployed her quite frequently. His Mothman was scaring me a bit, so I possessed that. We kept on going back and forth taking each other's lvl 3 land over and over again. Cait Sith killed by Trojan Horse, killed by Saint, Killed by B/Y bolt attack, etc etc. In the end, I exhausted him, but it was a great game the whole way.

For me, this match showed the true versatility of this deck. As soon as I saw the B/Y Bolt spell, I knew not to level up any Sea Bonze, and instead focus on my untargettables: Luk-Oie/Cait Sith/Warlock. Warlock's anti-magic protected me well against the enemy's Silence. Saint was in there just as a precaution against grey, and she wound up being my strongest asset.

Revival was also key, as I kept getting crusher-stormed. I almost lost my highest level land (Cait Sith) at the very end, but thank baby-raptor-jesus for a lucky draw of The Hand the turn before, and its ability to steal support creatures.

I highly recommend the X map to anyone who's feeling bloodthirsty =)

[Achilles]

WOW that sounds fun i want to try this deck soon. i have a few things i would take out but all in all what a sweet deck bro!