DarrenM wrote:

Firstly, I would swap out the black in the angelic accord deck for green. That way, you have access to brindle boar, at least. It will also offer up some diversity, as you have I believe 3 decks with black in them.

Okay, totally doable.  You like the brindle boar sacking method better than the festering newt/bubbling cauldron/bogbrew witch combo?

darrenM wrote:

If you're going to include Garruk in the beasts deck, i'd suggest putting one of the walkers into every deck to even it out, or take garruk out. I feel that having a $20 PWalker is kind of cheating when the objective is to play casually.

If the end goal is to make the beast deck a balanced opponent of the other 7, would removing the Garruk immediately balance the decks, or make the beast deck too weak?  If too weak, what could I do to beef it up to the others.

Or, is there a way to weaken the beast deck while keeping Garruk in there (taking out the windstorms, plummets, fireshrieker etc.) to better balance the decks? 

darrenM wrote:

Other than that, I think you did a pretty good job here.

Thank you for the kind words, and thank you for your feedback.

I have a group of friends that like to play magic casually.  We might booster draft twice a month or so.  We hang out at my place a good bit, so I thought a good idea if people wanted to play casually was to make 8 decks using a set we were all familiar with (M14).  I created them all with a sideboard as well, but I wanted to try and make them as balanced as possible no matter what archetype it was.

Obviously some of the decks are just going to have a natural advantage over the others simply because one archetype might match up well against another.  But overall, I would love feedback if you could take a look at the decks (or even just a few) and offer your two cents.  I don't expect it to be perfect, but I want them to be reasonable.  I've got a pretty extensive common inventory of commons in M14, and don't mind spending a couple bucks to finish this project, but I don't want to build these into expensive rare machines that are gonna sit in my house generally unused unless I have a get-together.

Thanks in advance!

http://deckbox.org/sets/520872 - Angelic Accord
http://deckbox.org/sets/520867 - Beast
http://deckbox.org/sets/520866 - Dragon
http://deckbox.org/sets/520875 - Mill
http://deckbox.org/sets/520874 - Monoblack
http://deckbox.org/sets/520868 - Monoblue
http://deckbox.org/sets/520871 - Sacrifice
http://deckbox.org/sets/520873 - Sliver