Thanks, Acefreemok. An interesting idea!
I'm not actually using the Green from Mob Rule, though. I replaced that all with Black stuff. My Mob deck is a bit different. I agree that the Green in Mob Rule was kinda weak. 
1 2013-01-13 04:53:05
Re: Mob Tactics - help a n00b (5 replies, posted in Decks and Deckbuilding)
2 2013-01-12 15:18:47
Re: Mob Tactics - help a n00b (5 replies, posted in Decks and Deckbuilding)
HikingStick wrote:
I didn't catch whether you are committed to playing any particular format (e.g., Standard, Modern).
Probably Modern; we're just playing with what's available in stores, and we've made a solemn vow to stay out of tournaments. (We shall see if that vow lasts...)
Thanks for the suggestions, both of you!!!
3 2013-01-12 07:46:39
Topic: Mob Tactics - help a n00b (5 replies, posted in Decks and Deckbuilding)
I'm brand new to MTG. My BF played tournaments many years ago and then quit. We decided last weekend to play casually as a fun together activity. He promptly picked up a Blue / White deck that, almost out of the package, is a killer deck (and his experience helped him immediately tweak it to be even better). I, meanwhile, am struggling. I could get him to build me something, but that's not how I am. I'd rather lose and lose and lose based on my own bad choices, than win because he did it for me.
But really, I want to kick his behind on my own choices. With your help, of course!
I'm working on this deck, based on the Mob Rule, but with black instead of green, and more balanced between them. I just put this together tonight, and haven't used it yet, but I've used most of the parts in other decks. (In the last week. This is addictive, isn't it?) http://deckbox.org/sets/291763
A few notes on what's in there and why:
His 60-card Blue/White deck has 4 Serra Angels, 4 Ajani's Sunstriker, 2 or 3 Attended Knights, and 3 Arctic Avens, plus some Healers of the Pride. He generally just smacks me HARD with the Avens and Angels until I'm dead, which is usually in 6 rounds, while he racks up the Lifelink points. (I've been telling him to build something new; that deck is getting boring to play against. Whatever he builds next will make this whole exercise pointless. But I want to learn!)
He HATES the Shimian Specter, since he has so many of the same cards. The Chronomatons and any Goblins and tokens (thanks to Krenko and his Command) tend to overwhelm him , while the Knights of Infamy protect me from all that White in his deck. The rest, I'm not married to. I need some flyers (Bloodhunter Bats and Daggerdrome Imps and the Furnace Whelp) to give me some kind of sacrifice for his Angels and Avens. All of my Instants are just stuff I've found so far, and open to replacement.
Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks in advance!