CardShark Content - David DC Carl (10/9/2002)

Like most of my other articles, the Flight

Flight
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Enchant Creature Rarity: C Artist: Anson Maddocks Text: Target creature is now a flying creature.

School deck is what I call a *true* Peasant Magic deck. It does not contain any 15-dollar power-commons from Alpha/Beta. It contains commons and (5) uncommons from the most recent expansion; cards that many of us have lying around. While not quite as cheap as some of the decks about which I’ve written articles, even the “expensive” Arrogant Wurm

Arrogant Wurm
	Set: Torment Cost: 5 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Wurm Rarity: U Number: 120 Artist: John Avon Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Trample. Madness 2G

s can be purchased on CardShark for under a dollar (at the time of writing). That being said, here’s the deck:

Flight

Flight
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Enchant Creature Rarity: C Artist: Anson Maddocks Text: Target creature is now a flying creature.

School

29 Creatures
4 Basking Rootwalla

Basking Rootwalla
	Set: Torment Cost: 1 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Lizard Rarity: C Number: 121 Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: 1G: Basking Rootwalla gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Play this ability only once each turn. Madness 0

4 Aquamoeba

Aquamoeba
	Set: Torment Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Beast Rarity: C Number: 24 Artist: Arnie Swekel Power: 1 Toughness: 3 Text: Discard a card from your hand: Switch Aquamoeba's power and toughness until end of turn.

4 Wild Mongrel

Wild Mongrel
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Hound Rarity: C Number: 283 Artist: Anthony S. Waters Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Discard a card from your hand: Wild Mongrel gets +1/+1 and becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

4 Werebear

Werebear
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Druid Bear Rarity: C Number: 282 Artist: Carl Critchlow Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: : Tap: Add G to your mana pool. Threshold - Werebear gets +3/+3. (You have threshold as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

4 Cephalid Looter

Cephalid Looter
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Cephalid Rarity: C Number: 72 Artist: Keith Garletts Power: 2 Toughness: 1 Text: Tap: Target player draws a card, then discards a card from his or her hand.

4 Springing Tiger

Springing Tiger
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 4 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Rarity: C Number: 272 Artist: Arnie Swekel Power: 3 Toughness: 3 Text: Threshold - Springing Tiger gets +2/+2. (You have threshold as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

3 Wonder

Wonder
	Set: Judgment Cost: 4 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Incarnation Rarity: U Number: 54 Artist: Rebecca Guay Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Flying As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an island, creatures you control have flying.

(UNCOMMON)
2 Arrogant Wurm

Arrogant Wurm
	Set: Torment Cost: 5 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Wurm Rarity: U Number: 120 Artist: John Avon Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Trample. Madness 2G

(UNCOMMON)

7 Non-creature Spells
4 Obsessive Search

Obsessive Search
	Set: Torment Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 43 Text: Draw a card. Madness U

3 Keep Watch

Keep Watch
	Set: Judgment Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 43 Artist: Fred Rahmqvist Text: Draw a card from each attacking creature.

24 Mana Sources
13 Forest

Forest
	Set: Oversize Cards Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: X Artist: Tony Roberts Text: T: Add G to your mana pool.

s
11 Island

Island
	Set: Oversize Cards Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: X Artist: Tony Roberts Text: T: Add U to your mana pool.

s

Flight

Flight
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Enchant Creature Rarity: C Artist: Anson Maddocks Text: Target creature is now a flying creature.

School really focuses on the Odyssey-block mechanics Threshold and Madness. This deck contains 8 Threshold cards and 10 Madness cards. Along with Threshold and Madness, we need cards that allow you to discard other cards – we have 12. The theme of the deck is fairly easy to recognize – get Threshold, get Wonder

Wonder
	Set: Judgment Cost: 4 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Incarnation Rarity: U Number: 54 Artist: Rebecca Guay Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Flying As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an island, creatures you control have flying.

in the graveyard, massive flying beats.

Instead of looking at each card individually, let’s look at the themes of the deck:

GET THRESHOLD – Cephalid Looter

Cephalid Looter
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Cephalid Rarity: C Number: 72 Artist: Keith Garletts Power: 2 Toughness: 1 Text: Tap: Target player draws a card, then discards a card from his or her hand.

, Wild Mongrel

Wild Mongrel
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Hound Rarity: C Number: 283 Artist: Anthony S. Waters Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Discard a card from your hand: Wild Mongrel gets +1/+1 and becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

, Aquamoeba

Aquamoeba
	Set: Torment Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Beast Rarity: C Number: 24 Artist: Arnie Swekel Power: 1 Toughness: 3 Text: Discard a card from your hand: Switch Aquamoeba's power and toughness until end of turn.

, Obsessive Search

Obsessive Search
	Set: Torment Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 43 Text: Draw a card. Madness U

, and Keep Watch

Keep Watch
	Set: Judgment Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 43 Artist: Fred Rahmqvist Text: Draw a card from each attacking creature.

are all great cards to use in order to get closer to Threshold. Obsessive Search

Obsessive Search
	Set: Torment Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 43 Text: Draw a card. Madness U

and Keep Watch

Keep Watch
	Set: Judgment Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 43 Artist: Fred Rahmqvist Text: Draw a card from each attacking creature.

add to your hand. Wild Mongrel

Wild Mongrel
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Hound Rarity: C Number: 283 Artist: Anthony S. Waters Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Discard a card from your hand: Wild Mongrel gets +1/+1 and becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

and Aquamoeba

Aquamoeba
	Set: Torment Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Beast Rarity: C Number: 24 Artist: Arnie Swekel Power: 1 Toughness: 3 Text: Discard a card from your hand: Switch Aquamoeba's power and toughness until end of turn.

move cards from your hand to the graveyard (with benefits). Cephalid Looter

Cephalid Looter
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Cephalid Rarity: C Number: 72 Artist: Keith Garletts Power: 2 Toughness: 1 Text: Tap: Target player draws a card, then discards a card from his or her hand.

adds to the graveyard and allows you to optimize your hand.

ABUSE THRESHOLD – Werebear

Werebear
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Druid Bear Rarity: C Number: 282 Artist: Carl Critchlow Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: : Tap: Add G to your mana pool. Threshold - Werebear gets +3/+3. (You have threshold as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

and Springing Tiger

Springing Tiger
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 4 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Rarity: C Number: 272 Artist: Arnie Swekel Power: 3 Toughness: 3 Text: Threshold - Springing Tiger gets +2/+2. (You have threshold as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

are great Threshold abusers. A 4/4 for 1G and a 5/5 for 3G are simply amazing. Getting there is a little bit more difficult, but that’s why we’ve got those “get threshold” cards.

A Little Madness – Basking Rootwalla

Basking Rootwalla
	Set: Torment Cost: 1 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Lizard Rarity: C Number: 121 Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: 1G: Basking Rootwalla gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Play this ability only once each turn. Madness 0

, Arrogant Wurm

Arrogant Wurm
	Set: Torment Cost: 5 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Wurm Rarity: U Number: 120 Artist: John Avon Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Trample. Madness 2G

, and Obsessive Search

Obsessive Search
	Set: Torment Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 43 Text: Draw a card. Madness U

, the Madness cards in this deck, work well with some of the “get threshold” cards, above. While the creatures don’t bring you closer to threshold, a 1/1 pumper for 0 and a 4/4 trampler for 2G are awfully impressive.

The Flight

Flight
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Enchant Creature Rarity: C Artist: Anson Maddocks Text: Target creature is now a flying creature.

Instructor – Wonder

Wonder
	Set: Judgment Cost: 4 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Incarnation Rarity: U Number: 54 Artist: Rebecca Guay Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Flying As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an island, creatures you control have flying.

is… well… wonderful (sorry, I couldn’t help myself). All your great green creatures might be stuck running into regenerators or walls on the ground, but that’s so much less likely in the sky. If you thought our creatures were efficient before, look again – a 4/4 flyer for 1G!?! Simply amazing.

So that’s my blue/green Odyssey-block Peasant Magic deck. I hope you enjoy the deck, but please, for the sake of those around you, please don’t sing “I Believe I Can Fly” each time you drop the Flight

Flight
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Enchant Creature Rarity: C Artist: Anson Maddocks Text: Target creature is now a flying creature.

Instructor. (If you don’t heed this advice, and you get injured, the author of this article is *not* responsible.)

For those who like the deck but favor slightly different tactics, here are a few ideas for modifying the deck to better suit your personal tastes.

More Control:
For those of you convinced that “blue” is a synonym for “counterspell,” I’d suggest the following.

Remove

Remove
	Set: Portal Second Age Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Sorcery Rarity: U Artist: DiTerlizzi Text: Play Remove only after you're attacked, before you declare blockers.Return any one attacking creature to its owner's hand.

:
2 Arrogant Wurm

Arrogant Wurm
	Set: Torment Cost: 5 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Wurm Rarity: U Number: 120 Artist: John Avon Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Trample. Madness 2G

4 Springing Tiger

Springing Tiger
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 4 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Rarity: C Number: 272 Artist: Arnie Swekel Power: 3 Toughness: 3 Text: Threshold - Springing Tiger gets +2/+2. (You have threshold as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

Add:
2 Circular Logic

Circular Logic
	Set: Torment Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: U Number: 33 Artist: Anthony S. Waters Text: Counter target spell unless its controller pays 1 for each card in your graveyard. Madness U

2 Syncopate

Syncopate
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 103 Artist: Pete Venters Text: Counter target spell unless its controller pays X. If that spell is countered this way, remove it from the game instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

2 Grip of Amnesia

Grip of Amnesia
	Set: Judgment Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 41 Artist: Bradley Williams Text: Counter Target spell unless its controller removes his or her graveyard from the game. Draw a card

Straight Beats:
For those of you who just want to beat down with Threshold creatures, I’d suggest the following.

Remove

Remove
	Set: Portal Second Age Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Sorcery Rarity: U Artist: DiTerlizzi Text: Play Remove only after you're attacked, before you declare blockers.Return any one attacking creature to its owner's hand.

:
4 Obsessive Search

Obsessive Search
	Set: Torment Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 43 Text: Draw a card. Madness U

4 Cephalid Looter

Cephalid Looter
	Set: Odyssey Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Cephalid Rarity: C Number: 72 Artist: Keith Garletts Power: 2 Toughness: 1 Text: Tap: Target player draws a card, then discards a card from his or her hand.

1 Island

Island
	Set: Oversize Cards Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: X Artist: Tony Roberts Text: T: Add U to your mana pool.

Add:
4 Mental Note

Mental Note
	Set: Judgment Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 46 Artist: Bradley Williams Text: Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard. Draw a card.

2 Anurid Barkripper

Anurid Barkripper
	Set: Judgment Cost: 3 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Beast Rarity: C Number: 104 Artist: Randy Gallegos Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Threshold - Anurid Barkripper gets +2/+2.

2 Nantuko Calmer

Nantuko Calmer
	Set: Torment Cost: 4 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Insect Druid Rarity: C Number: 132 Power: 2 Toughness: 3 Text: G, T, Sacrifice Nantuko Calmer: Destroy target enchantment. Threshold - Nantuko Calmer gets +1/+1.

1 Forest

Forest
	Set: Oversize Cards Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: X Artist: Tony Roberts Text: T: Add G to your mana pool.

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