CardShark Content - Mike Simpson (5/8/2004)

Tooth and Nail

Tooth and Nail
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 134 Artist: Greg Hildebrandt Text: Choose one - Search your library for up to two creature cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library; or put up to two creature cards from your hand into play. Entwine 2 (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

, that’s right. Uggghhh, so Timmy, yet so good. I must admit it’s a very nice deck and that’s the reason I play it in T2 online. It’s very fun to play and is quite competitive. Here’s a decklist that was from an open tourney that was posted on magicthegathering.com:

Lands (26)-
6 Forest

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

1 Plains

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

1 Mountain

Mountain
	Set: Arabian Nights Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Artist: Douglas Shuler Text: Tap to add R to your mana pool.

2 Shivan Oasis

Shivan Oasis
	Set: Invasion Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: U Number: 327 Artist: Rob Alexander Text: Shivan Oasis comes into play tapped.T: Add R or G to your mana pool.

1 Elfhame Palace

Elfhame Palace
	Set: Invasion Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: U Number: 322 Artist: Jerry Tiritilli Text: Elfhame Palace comes into play tapped.T: Add G or W to your mana pool.

4 Urza

Urza
	Set: Vanguard Type: Creature Sub Type: Character Rarity: X Number: 7 Artist: Mark Tedin Power: -1 Toughness: +10 Text: 3: Urza deals one damage to target creature or player.

’s Tower
4 Urza

Urza
	Set: Vanguard Type: Creature Sub Type: Character Rarity: X Number: 7 Artist: Mark Tedin Power: -1 Toughness: +10 Text: 3: Urza deals one damage to target creature or player.

’s Mine
4 Urza

Urza
	Set: Vanguard Type: Creature Sub Type: Character Rarity: X Number: 7 Artist: Mark Tedin Power: -1 Toughness: +10 Text: 3: Urza deals one damage to target creature or player.

’s Power Plant
3 Mirrodin’s Core

Creatures (16)-
4 Ravenous Baloth

Ravenous Baloth
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 4 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Beast Rarity: R Number: 278 Artist: Arnie Swekel Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Sacrifice a Beast: You gain 4 life.

4 Vine Trellis

Vine Trellis
	Set: Mercadian Masques Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Wall Rarity: C Number: 285 Artist: DiTerlizzi Power: 0 Toughness: 4 Text: (Walls can't attack.) T: Add one green mana to your mana pool.

2 Solemn Simulacrum

Solemn Simulacrum
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 4 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Rarity: R Number: 245 Artist: Greg Staples Text: When Solemn Simulacrum comes into play, you may search your library for a basic land card and put that card into play tapped. If you do, shuffle your library. When Solemn Simulacrum is put into a graveyard from play, you may draw a card.

2 Krosan Tusker

Krosan Tusker
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 7 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Beast Rarity: C Number: 272 Artist: Kev Walker Power: 6 Toughness: 5 Text: Cycling 2G (2G, Discard this card from your hand: Draw a card.). When you cycle Krosan Tusker, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath

Akroma, Angel of Wrath
	Set: Legions Cost: 8 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Angel Legend Rarity: R Number: 1 Artist: Ron Spears Power: 6 Toughness: 6 Text: Flying, first strike, trample, haste, protection from black, protection from red Attacking doesn’t cause Akroma, Angel of Wrath to tap.

1 Rorix Bladewing

Rorix Bladewing
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 6 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Dragon Legend Rarity: R Number: 224 Artist: Darrell Riche Power: 6 Toughness: 5 Text: Flying, haste

1 Leonin Abunas

Leonin Abunas
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 4 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Cleric Rarity: R Number: 8 Artist: Darrell Riche Power: 2 Toughness: 5 Text: Artifacts you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.

1 Darksteel Colossus

Darksteel Colossus
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 11 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Rarity: R Number: 109 Artist: Carl Critchlow Power: 11 Toughness: 11 Text: Trample. Darksteel Colossus is indestructible (Destroy effects and lethal damage don't destroy it.) If Darksteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere reveal Darksteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Other Spells (18)-
4 Fireball

Fireball
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Artist: Mark Tedin Text: Fireball does X damage total, divided evenly (round down) among any number of targets. Pay 1 extra mana for each target beyond the first.

4 Reap and Sow

Reap and Sow
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 4 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 81 Artist: Rob Alexander Text: Choose one: Destroy target land; or search your library for a land card, put that land card into play, and then shuffle your library. Entwine: 1G

3 Sylvan Scrying

Sylvan Scrying
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: U Number: 130 Artist: Scott M. Fischer Text: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

3 Oblivion Stone

Oblivion Stone
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 3 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: R Number: 222 Artist: Sam Wood Text: 4, T: Put a fate counter on target permanent. 5, T, Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

2 Mindslaver

Mindslaver
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 6 Color: Colorless Type: Legendary Artifact Rarity: R Number: 206 Artist: Glen Angus Text: 4, T, Sacrifice Mindslaver: You control target player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player. He or she doesn't lose life because of mana burn.)

2 Tooth and Nail

Tooth and Nail
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 134 Artist: Greg Hildebrandt Text: Choose one - Search your library for up to two creature cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library; or put up to two creature cards from your hand into play. Entwine 2 (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sideboard (15)-
3 Oxidize

Oxidize
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 1 Color: Green Type: Instant Rarity: U Number: 79 Artist: Kev Walker Text: Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated.

2 Duplicant

Duplicant

Set: Mirrodin Cost: 6 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Shapeshifter Rarity: R Number: 165 Artist: Thomas M. Baxa Power: 2 Toughness: 4 Text: Imprint - When Duplicant comes into play, you may remove target nontoken creature from the game. (The removed card is imprinted on this artifact.) As long as a creature card is imprinted on Duplicant, Duplicant has that card's power, toughness, and creature types. It's still a Shapeshifter.

2 Slice and Dice

Slice and Dice
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 6 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: U Number: 232 Artist: Mark Brill Text: Slice and Dice deals 4 damage to each creature. Cycling 2R (2R, Discard this card from your hand: Draw a card.) When you cycle Slice and Dice you may have it deal 1 damage to each creature.

2 Sacred Ground

Sacred Ground
	Set: Stronghold Cost: 2 Color: White Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 112 Artist: Terese Nielsen Text: Whenever an effect controlled by any opponent puts a land into your graveyard from play, put that land into play.

2 Circle of Protection: Red
2 Plow Under

Plow Under
	Set: Urza's Destiny Cost: 5 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 117 Artist: Edward P. Beard, Jr. Text: Put two target lands on top of their owner's library.

2 Trinishpere

This isn’t as much Tooth and Nail

Tooth and Nail
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 134 Artist: Greg Hildebrandt Text: Choose one - Search your library for up to two creature cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library; or put up to two creature cards from your hand into play. Entwine 2 (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

as it is R/G Control. Although it is a very good deck I would like to look at a nice build of Tooth_And_Nail.dec:

Lands (26)-
7 Forest

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

3 Mountain

Mountain
	Set: Arabian Nights Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Artist: Douglas Shuler Text: Tap to add R to your mana pool.

4 Urza

Urza
	Set: Vanguard Type: Creature Sub Type: Character Rarity: X Number: 7 Artist: Mark Tedin Power: -1 Toughness: +10 Text: 3: Urza deals one damage to target creature or player.

’s Tower
4 Urza

Urza
	Set: Vanguard Type: Creature Sub Type: Character Rarity: X Number: 7 Artist: Mark Tedin Power: -1 Toughness: +10 Text: 3: Urza deals one damage to target creature or player.

’s Mine
4 Urza

Urza
	Set: Vanguard Type: Creature Sub Type: Character Rarity: X Number: 7 Artist: Mark Tedin Power: -1 Toughness: +10 Text: 3: Urza deals one damage to target creature or player.

’s Power Plant
4 Shivan Oasis

Shivan Oasis
	Set: Invasion Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: U Number: 327 Artist: Rob Alexander Text: Shivan Oasis comes into play tapped.T: Add R or G to your mana pool.

Creatures (15)-
1 Darksteel Colossus

Darksteel Colossus
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 11 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Rarity: R Number: 109 Artist: Carl Critchlow Power: 11 Toughness: 11 Text: Trample. Darksteel Colossus is indestructible (Destroy effects and lethal damage don't destroy it.) If Darksteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere reveal Darksteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

1 Leonin Abunas

Leonin Abunas
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 4 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Cleric Rarity: R Number: 8 Artist: Darrell Riche Power: 2 Toughness: 5 Text: Artifacts you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.

1 Platinum Angel

Platinum Angel
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Angel Rarity: R Number: 228 Artist: Brom Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

1 Duplicant

Duplicant

Set: Mirrodin Cost: 6 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Shapeshifter Rarity: R Number: 165 Artist: Thomas M. Baxa Power: 2 Toughness: 4 Text: Imprint - When Duplicant comes into play, you may remove target nontoken creature from the game. (The removed card is imprinted on this artifact.) As long as a creature card is imprinted on Duplicant, Duplicant has that card's power, toughness, and creature types. It's still a Shapeshifter.

4 Vine Trellis

Vine Trellis
	Set: Mercadian Masques Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Wall Rarity: C Number: 285 Artist: DiTerlizzi Power: 0 Toughness: 4 Text: (Walls can't attack.) T: Add one green mana to your mana pool.

1 Clockwork Dragon

Clockwork Dragon
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Dragon Rarity: R Number: 155 Artist: Arnie Swekel Power: 0 Toughness: 0 Text: Flying Clockwork Dragon comes into play with six +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever Clockwork Dragon attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat. 3: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Dragon.

4 Solemn Simulacrum

Solemn Simulacrum
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 4 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Rarity: R Number: 245 Artist: Greg Staples Text: When Solemn Simulacrum comes into play, you may search your library for a basic land card and put that card into play tapped. If you do, shuffle your library. When Solemn Simulacrum is put into a graveyard from play, you may draw a card.

2 Viridian Shaman

Viridian Shaman
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 3 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Elf Shaman Rarity: U Number: 139 Artist: Scott M. Fischer Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: When Viridian Shaman comes into play, destroy target artifact.

Other Spells (19)-
4 Fireball

Fireball
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Artist: Mark Tedin Text: Fireball does X damage total, divided evenly (round down) among any number of targets. Pay 1 extra mana for each target beyond the first.

4 Tooth and Nail

Tooth and Nail
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 134 Artist: Greg Hildebrandt Text: Choose one - Search your library for up to two creature cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library; or put up to two creature cards from your hand into play. Entwine 2 (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

4 Sylvan Scrying

Sylvan Scrying
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: U Number: 130 Artist: Scott M. Fischer Text: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

4 Reap and Sow

Reap and Sow
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 4 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 81 Artist: Rob Alexander Text: Choose one: Destroy target land; or search your library for a land card, put that land card into play, and then shuffle your library. Entwine: 1G

3 Mindslaver

Mindslaver
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 6 Color: Colorless Type: Legendary Artifact Rarity: R Number: 206 Artist: Glen Angus Text: 4, T, Sacrifice Mindslaver: You control target player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player. He or she doesn't lose life because of mana burn.)

Sideboard (15)-
4 Oblivion Stone

Oblivion Stone
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 3 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: R Number: 222 Artist: Sam Wood Text: 4, T: Put a fate counter on target permanent. 5, T, Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

1 Molder Slug

Molder Slug
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 5 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Beast Rarity: R Number: 125 Artist: Heather Hudson Power: 4 Toughness: 6 Text: At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact.

4 Oxidize

Oxidize
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 1 Color: Green Type: Instant Rarity: U Number: 79 Artist: Kev Walker Text: Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated.

3 Naturalize

Naturalize
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 275 Artist: Ron Spears Text: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

3 Pyroclasm

Pyroclasm
	Set: Ice Age Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: U Artist: Pat Morrissey Text: Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

I’ll go through the creature choices since those are the only ones that really need explanation.

Darksteel Colossus

Darksteel Colossus
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 11 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Rarity: R Number: 109 Artist: Carl Critchlow Power: 11 Toughness: 11 Text: Trample. Darksteel Colossus is indestructible (Destroy effects and lethal damage don't destroy it.) If Darksteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere reveal Darksteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

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FATTY!!!! Un-killable 11/11 Tramplers are good at ending games in a very quick manner. You’ll be searching this guy out many times.

Leonin Abunas

Leonin Abunas
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 4 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Cleric Rarity: R Number: 8 Artist: Darrell Riche Power: 2 Toughness: 5 Text: Artifacts you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.

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It’s just for the Platinum Angel

Platinum Angel
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Angel Rarity: R Number: 228 Artist: Brom Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

protection. Other than that, he’s not that great since there are not that many artifacts to protect.

Platinum Angel

Platinum Angel
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Angel Rarity: R Number: 228 Artist: Brom Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

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You will fetch this guy in a pinch, but other than that you won’t be getting him that much.

Duplicant

Duplicant

Set: Mirrodin Cost: 6 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Shapeshifter Rarity: R Number: 165 Artist: Thomas M. Baxa Power: 2 Toughness: 4 Text: Imprint - When Duplicant comes into play, you may remove target nontoken creature from the game. (The removed card is imprinted on this artifact.) As long as a creature card is imprinted on Duplicant, Duplicant has that card's power, toughness, and creature types. It's still a Shapeshifter.

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Creature removal is far and few in this deck so it’s very nice to have some.

Clockwork Dragon

Clockwork Dragon
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Dragon Rarity: R Number: 155 Artist: Arnie Swekel Power: 0 Toughness: 0 Text: Flying Clockwork Dragon comes into play with six +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever Clockwork Dragon attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat. 3: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Dragon.

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In a game I played this was a 15/15. It can be a very nice beater, but most of the times it will just draw out removal which is good so if you ever get a Platinum Angel

Platinum Angel
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Angel Rarity: R Number: 228 Artist: Brom Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

it will be much safer.

Solemn Simulacrum

Solemn Simulacrum
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 4 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Rarity: R Number: 245 Artist: Greg Staples Text: When Solemn Simulacrum comes into play, you may search your library for a basic land card and put that card into play tapped. If you do, shuffle your library. When Solemn Simulacrum is put into a graveyard from play, you may draw a card.

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Gets you that mountain or a forest and draws you a card when you chump block with him, very solid.

Viridian Shaman

Viridian Shaman
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 3 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Elf Shaman Rarity: U Number: 139 Artist: Scott M. Fischer Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: When Viridian Shaman comes into play, destroy target artifact.

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Gets rid of Arcbound Ravager

Arcbound Ravager
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 2 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Rarity: R Number: 100 Artist: Carl Critchlow Power: 0 Toughness: 0 Text: Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager. Modular 1 (This comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it's put into a graveyard, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

s and Skullclamp

Skullclamp
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 1 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Sub Type: Equipment Rarity: U Number: 140 Artist: Luca Zontini Text: Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature is put in a graveyard from play, draw two cards. Equip 1 (1: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card comes into play unattached and stays in play if the creature leaves play.)

s. It makes the affinity match-up easier.

Fireball

Fireball
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Artist: Mark Tedin Text: Fireball does X damage total, divided evenly (round down) among any number of targets. Pay 1 extra mana for each target beyond the first.

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With all that mana you really have do something with it. It’s always fun to Fireball

Fireball
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Artist: Mark Tedin Text: Fireball does X damage total, divided evenly (round down) among any number of targets. Pay 1 extra mana for each target beyond the first.

to the dome for 10 or so.

Slyvan Scrying & Reap and Sow

Reap and Sow
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 4 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 81 Artist: Rob Alexander Text: Choose one: Destroy target land; or search your library for a land card, put that land card into play, and then shuffle your library. Entwine: 1G

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Get that Urza

Urza
	Set: Vanguard Type: Creature Sub Type: Character Rarity: X Number: 7 Artist: Mark Tedin Power: -1 Toughness: +10 Text: 3: Urza deals one damage to target creature or player.

tron!!!

Mindslaver

Mindslaver
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 6 Color: Colorless Type: Legendary Artifact Rarity: R Number: 206 Artist: Glen Angus Text: 4, T, Sacrifice Mindslaver: You control target player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player. He or she doesn't lose life because of mana burn.)

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A true bomb vs. control and very nice to use and draw a Goblin Sledder

Goblin Sledder
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Number: 209 Artist: Ron Spencer Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Sacrifice a Goblin: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

or Goblin Prospector and even an Arcbound Ravager

Arcbound Ravager
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 2 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Rarity: R Number: 100 Artist: Carl Critchlow Power: 0 Toughness: 0 Text: Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager. Modular 1 (This comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it's put into a graveyard, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

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The Sideboard is rather self-explanatory so we’ll move on to the match-ups.

Raffinity (Brilo whatever) 50% Sideboard 70%
Your maindeck artifact destruction and speed bumps such as Vine Trellis

Vine Trellis
	Set: Mercadian Masques Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Wall Rarity: C Number: 285 Artist: DiTerlizzi Power: 0 Toughness: 4 Text: (Walls can't attack.) T: Add one green mana to your mana pool.

and Solemn Simulacrum

Solemn Simulacrum
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 4 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Rarity: R Number: 245 Artist: Greg Staples Text: When Solemn Simulacrum comes into play, you may search your library for a basic land card and put that card into play tapped. If you do, shuffle your library. When Solemn Simulacrum is put into a graveyard from play, you may draw a card.

. Its speed can be to much to handle sometimes when they nice draws. You need to sort of mulligan aggressively to get a nice hand. After sideboarding, you bring in yet more hate against them, and it swings it in your favor quite a bit, but sometimes you just can’t stop 2 Shrapnel Blast

Shrapnel Blast
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: U Number: 106 Artist: Dave Dorman Text: As an additional cost to play Shrapnel Blast, sacrifice an artifact. Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

s.

-Leonin Abunas

Leonin Abunas
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 4 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Cleric Rarity: R Number: 8 Artist: Darrell Riche Power: 2 Toughness: 5 Text: Artifacts you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.

, - Platinum Angel

Platinum Angel
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Angel Rarity: R Number: 228 Artist: Brom Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

, -4 Fireball

Fireball
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Artist: Mark Tedin Text: Fireball does X damage total, divided evenly (round down) among any number of targets. Pay 1 extra mana for each target beyond the first.

+ Molder Slug

Molder Slug
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 5 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Beast Rarity: R Number: 125 Artist: Heather Hudson Power: 4 Toughness: 6 Text: At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact.

, 4 Oxidize

Oxidize
	Set: Darksteel Cost: 1 Color: Green Type: Instant Rarity: U Number: 79 Artist: Kev Walker Text: Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated.

Goblins 35% Sideboard 50%
Ughhh, it’s your worst match-up. Don’t really want to play this deck, its speed is just way to much for you. You have no chance of winning if they cast a Patriarch’s Bidding. So just pray and get ready to sideboard. After sideboarding, it gets a little better, but still tough to win.

-Leonin Abunas

Leonin Abunas
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 4 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Cleric Rarity: R Number: 8 Artist: Darrell Riche Power: 2 Toughness: 5 Text: Artifacts you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.

, Platinum Angel

Platinum Angel
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Angel Rarity: R Number: 228 Artist: Brom Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

(notice that trend with burn spells?), Viridian Shaman

Viridian Shaman
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 3 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Elf Shaman Rarity: U Number: 139 Artist: Scott M. Fischer Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: When Viridian Shaman comes into play, destroy target artifact.

+3 Pyroclasm

Pyroclasm
	Set: Ice Age Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: U Artist: Pat Morrissey Text: Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

Slide W/R 50% Sideboard 65%
Not your greatest match-up. This is a match-up where it all counts if they play with Exalted Angel

Exalted Angel
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 6 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Angel Rarity: R Number: 28 Artist: Michael Sutfin Power: 4 Toughness: 5 Text: Flying. Whenever Exalted Angel deals damage, you gain that much life. Morph 2WW (You may play this face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

and get it 4th turn. If they don’t they don’t have counters and hardly ever out burn you. After sideboarding, it’s alright since you bring in a few cards and it gets rid of their Slide Removal making Platinum Angel

Platinum Angel
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Angel Rarity: R Number: 228 Artist: Brom Power: 4 Toughness: 4 Text: Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

very safe.

-2 Viridian Shaman

Viridian Shaman
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 3 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Elf Shaman Rarity: U Number: 139 Artist: Scott M. Fischer Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: When Viridian Shaman comes into play, destroy target artifact.

, -2 Vine Trellis

Vine Trellis
	Set: Mercadian Masques Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Wall Rarity: C Number: 285 Artist: DiTerlizzi Power: 0 Toughness: 4 Text: (Walls can't attack.) T: Add one green mana to your mana pool.

, -Clockwork Dragon

Clockwork Dragon
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 7 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Sub Type: Dragon Rarity: R Number: 155 Artist: Arnie Swekel Power: 0 Toughness: 0 Text: Flying Clockwork Dragon comes into play with six +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever Clockwork Dragon attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat. 3: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Dragon.

+3 Naturalize

Naturalize
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 275 Artist: Ron Spears Text: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

, +2 Oblivion Stone

Oblivion Stone
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 3 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: R Number: 222 Artist: Sam Wood Text: 4, T: Put a fate counter on target permanent. 5, T, Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

Sideboarding is very tough with this deck and I don’t think that it’s even perfected yet. The deck is a little janky and sideboarding removes your strategy for hate.

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