I have a 2nd deck in the works:
Creatures 14
4 x Gilder Bairn
4 x Coretapper
4 x Steel Wall
4 x Vedalken Engineer
Spells 22
2 x Shrapnel Blast
2 x Chimeric Egg
2 x Curse of Chains
4 x Energy Chamber
4 x Dismantle
4 x Darksteel Reactor
4 x Paradox Haze
Lands 22
4 x Seat of the Synod
4 x Great Furnace
4 x Mirrodin's Core
8 x Island
2 x Mountain
I basically copied a card list I ran across in the Magic forums about building a deck around darksteel reactor, and it sounded quiet fun so I thought I'd start out with that card list and do some small tweaks. I'll probably spend just a tad more money on it, but not much. Can't justify having an expensive 2nd deck since I don't play often enough.
Watching and playing against those national level guys was quiet fun though, and I learned a lot about strategies against the new cards. Heck, one of the guys took my deck to play with and I learned some new tricks.
Also, any suggestions for restructuring the cleric deck? I seemed to be quiet vulnerable against burn decks, and the mana curve was a bit off. From all the games I played, it seems the deck struggles mid-game. Start game is awesome if I get the right draw since Mother of Runes and Soul Warden annoy my opponents, but then I don't really have many 2-cost cards to dump in. I'm not keen on blowing too much money on this deck anymore to be honest, so I think I'll just make the best of what I have.
Here is the cleric deck in first reconfig mode:
LAND
10 x Plains
8 x Swamps
4 x Terramorphic Expanse
CREATURES
1 x Liliana Vess
4 x Edgewalker
2 x Dark supplicant
2 x Scion of Darkness
2 x Rotlung reanimator
2 x Soul Warden
3 x Doubtless one
3 x Orzhov Pontiff
4 x Mother of Runes
ARTIFACT
3 x Slate of Ancestry
SPELLS
2 x Zealous Persecution
4 x Unmake
3 x Profane prayers
2 x Phyrexian Arena
2 x Glorious Anthem
61 cards total.
How does this configuration look? Edgewalker at the moment is pretty much the main pillar, and I'm hoping to play slate of ancestry with edgewalker so I can dump anything from my current hand into play, then redraw and dump even more clerics onto the battlefield. Mother of Runes pretty much provides me with all the defence I need whilst soul warden hangs around annoying my opponents. I inserted Liliana hoping she could help me draw out the right cards at the right time.
I also picked up an extra Scion of Darkness to piff in. I found that having only one Scion wasn't exactly safe since it really sucked casting it with dark supplicant in turn 3 only to have someone enchant it with something like Crystalize.
I have these cards on the side as well. If I need to, how should I reconfigure the deck to include them?
2 x Soltari Visionary
3 x Duress
1 x Dark Supplicant
2 x Cabal Archon
2 x Soul Warden
2 x Battlefield Medic
1 x Predator, Flagship
4 x Starlit Sanctum
4 x True Believer
2 x Battletide Alchemist
