Goofy artist themed decklists

Here are some goofy decklists I've come up with recently. I've been thinking about Magic in more casual terms and recently trying to think of methods of interacting with the game that maximize my enjoyment.

Personally, I get a lot of joy out of the variety of the game and getting to be clever by using cards in unusual ways (which in the case of really terrible cards means using them in any way other than as proxies). I like formats like Pauper, Highlander, EDH, tribal, and other themes.

I also like plain "casual" which I define as a kind of unclearly defined hybrid of the aforementioned types. For example, "Casual" decks do not need to be Highlander, but they will usually have a large number of one-ofs to increase their replayability and to allow for a larger number of possible synergies. They don't have to be Pauper, but they will likely be composed of mostly commons, uncommons, and inexpensive rares.

Okay, with that background out of the way, here are some casual decks I came up with recently. These decks attack the enjoyment factor from a different angle. I have found that I get heightened enjoyment from playing cards that have what I consider fantastic art and great overall flavor. To further this enjoyment, I decided to come up with entire decks composed of cards with art I like, and, to go a bit further, I restricted myself to just art from one of my favorite artists per deck. In some cases, this restriction proved to stringent so I relaxed it and created some decks made up of cards illustrated by multiple artists with very similar styles.

Enough words. Decks!

Rebecca Guay decks

U/G/w Enchanted Evening combo

Lands
6 Island
4 Forest
2 Plains
4 Seaside Citadel
4 Simic Growth Chamber
2 Sejiri Refuge
2 Graypelt Refuge

Combo Engine
4 Enchanted Evening
4 Aura Fracture
2 Calming Verse
1 Elvish Lyrist

Card drawing/digging
4 Ancestral Memories
2 Elven Cache
1 Mulch
1 Auramancer
1 Oona’s Grace

Survival/Ramping
(1 Wall of Wood? – seems bad but nice art)
4 Memory Lapse
1 Wall of Tears
1 Angelic Wall
1 Boomerang
1 Moment’s Peace
1 Predict (just to combo with Memory Lapse)
4 Wood Elves
1 Silkwing Scout
1 Heartmender
1 Quirion Trailblazer

Money option: +3 Path to Exile (promo version), -2 Ancestral Memories, 1 Wood Elves

Other options: Crackdown, Commander Eesha (rough on the mana…), Vigilant Martyr, Starlit Angel, Words of Worship, Twiddle, Briar Patch, Enchantress’ Presence, Greenseeker, Holistic Wisdom, Respite, Fog Patch.

U/B/g Guay Faeries

Lands
10 Island
2 Forest
2 Swamp
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Golgari Rot Farm

Faeries
3 Scryb Ranger
3 Sea Sprite
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Silkwing Scout
3 Thornwind Faeries

Other Creatures
1 Wall of Tears
1 Phantom Monster

Disruption
2 Peppersmoke
1 Root Maze
1 Twiddle
1 Mana Maze
1 Boomerang
4 Memory Lapse
2 Mana Breach
4 Dark Banishing

Card draw
2 Predict
1 Oona’s Grace

Other options: Bitterblossom, Oboro Breezecaller, Moaning Spirit, Shimmering Mirage, Stream of Unconsciousness, Wilderness Hypnotist, Vodalian Hypnotist, Psychic Trance (needs more wizards like the last two), Ancestral Memories, Dark Ritual, Blessing of Leeches


Guay Monogreen

24 Forests

2 Greenseeker
1 Elvish Lyrist
2 Lynx
1 Heartwood Dryad
4 Priest of Titania
1 Scryb Ranger
1 Norwood Warrior
4 Yavimaya Dryad
1 Wood Elves
2 Cloudcrown Oak
1 Norwood Riders
1 Quirion Trailblazer
1 Elvish Piper
4 Kaysa
1 Barbtooth Wurm
1 Orchard Warden

1 Resuscitate
1 Regenerate
1 Respite
2 Lace with Moonglove
1 Hush
1 Elven Cache
1 Abundance

Other option: Deathcoil Wurm (expensive…).

Guay U/W fliers
(this one’s kind of boring so I didn’t work out the numbers)

Pride of the Clouds
Angelic Page
Sea Sprite
Spellstutter Sprite
Sky Spirit
Thornwind Faeries
Silkwing Scout
Aven Mindcensor
Freewind Equenaut
Phantom Monster
Commander Eesha
Atalya, Samite Master
Starlit Angel

Twiddle
Boomerang
Predict
Memory Lapse
Serra’s Blessing
Oona’s Grace
Crackdown
Reverent Mantra

Daarken/Hagler/Kovacs/Jones/Belledin/Taguchi/Hamm (plus bonus Tucker) Monoblack

25 Swamp

1 Bloodghast
1 Drudge Skeletons
3 Corrosive Mentor
1 Dread Warlock
1 Necroskitter (Jaime Jones)
1 Bog Wraith
1 Cutthroat il-Dal (Kovacs)
1 Lingering Tormentor (Hagler)
1 Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
1 Loch Korrigan
1 Bog Tatters
1 Cinderhaze Wretch (Belledin)
3 Kulrath Knight
2 Midnight Banshee
1 Umbra Stalker

1 Blazing Torch (Kovacs)
1 Wretched Banquet
1 Call to the Netherworld (Kovacs)
1 Grave Peril
1 Blowfly Infestation (Tucker)
1 Stronghold Discipline
3 Ambition’s Cost (Jungo Taguchi)
3 Tendrils of Corruption (Kovacs)
1 Rise from the Grave (Kovacs)
1 Death Rattle (Kovacs)
1 Needlebite Trap


Waters Elemental Crunch

Lands
3 Forest
5 Mountain
4 Swamp
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Jund Panorama
4 Savage Lands
1 Treetop Village

Elementals
3 Smokebraider
1 Wilderness Elemental
1 Earth Elemental
3 Morsel Hoarder
3 Tar Fiend
1 Root Elemental
1 Rockshard Elemental

Non-elemental creatures
1 Cinder Wall
1 Wall of Mulch
1 Blister Beetle
1 Pit Keeper
1 Infected Vermin
2 Stalking Vengeance

Spells
1 Life/Death
1 Soul Exchange
1 Siege of Towers
1 Primitive Justice
1 Ooze Garden
1 Squirrel Nest
2 Ferocious Charge
1 Chameleon Blur
1 Elephant Ambush
2 Seed the Land
2 Charmed Pendant


Vance Kovacs/Justin Sweet Junk Jund

Land
7 Forest
1 Island
6 Mountain
1 Plains
1 Swamp
4 Savage Lands
4 Jund Panorama
2 Mountain Valley

1 Tukatongue Thallid
3 Elves of Deep Shadow
1 Slith Firewalker
2 Rip-Clan Crasher
1 Hellspark Elemental
3 Dragonsoul Knight
2 Jund Battlemage
1 Greenweaver Druid
1 Nessian Courser
1 Centaur Courser
1 Centaur Omenreader
1 Centaur Chieftain
1 Oracle of Mul Daya
1 Primordial Sage
1 Broodmate Dragon
1 Capricious Efreet

1 Blazing Torch
1 Flowstone Embrace
2 Sudden Shock
2 Colossal Might
1 Magma Jet
1 Branching Bolt
2 Shard Convergence
1 Word of Seizing
3 Vengeful Rebirth


Drew Tucker U/B/w Control

Lands
5 Island
2 Plains
4 Swamp
2 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Esper Panorama
4 Arcane Sanctum
4 Sejiri Refuge

4 Charcoal Diamond

Creatures
1 Repentant Blacksmith
1 Dandan
1 Necrite
2 Musician
3 Dream Fighter
1 Grazing Kelpie
1 Murk Dwellers
1 Harmattan Efreet
1 Viscid Lemures
1 Clockwork Beast

Non-Tucker Finishers
1 Ghastlord of Fugue
1 Cloud Djinn
1 Stronghold Overseer

1 Holy Light
3 Curse of Chains
4 Dark Banishing
1 Ashes to Ashes
1 Mind Whip
1 Merseine
2 Winds of Rath
3 Eternity Snare

Notes: Tucker has an almost coherent deck other than the finisher. The closest option is Infernal Denizen which seems atrocious in a non-monoblack deck. I decided to use some Tucker like substitutes. Other substitute finishers which cost to much monetarily: Adarkar Valkyrie, Alabaster Dragon, Archangel, Mold Demon, Spirit of the Night. Other substitutes that cost too much mana: Crowd Favorites and The Unspeakable (hard to cast these since Tucker has no card draw). I’d love to squeeze in the other on color Tucker cards but they’re just so terrible (Sigil of Leshrac, Gravebind, Power Leak etc).


RKF U/x Control

Lands
6 Island
2 Mountain
2 Swamp
4 Arcane Sanctum
4 Vivid Crag
4 Vivid Creek
3 Terramorphic Expanse

1 Thalakos Mistfolk
1 Watchdog
2 Wall of Air
1 Dream Prowler
1 Walking Dream

1 Nebuchadnezzar
1 Sol’Kanar the Swamp King
1 Dakkon Blackblade
1 Kasimir the Lone Wolf
1 Riven Turnbull

4 Earthquake
1 Recall
1 Essence Flare
4 Kaervek’s Purge
4 Arcane Denial
1 Boomerang
1 Consign to Dream
3 Theft of Dreams
2 Dissipate
1 Flux
2 Desertion


RKF Jund LD

Lands
1 Forest
6 Mountain
6 Swamp
4 Jund Panorama
4 Savage Lands
4 Terramorphic Expanse

Creatures
4 Muscle Sliver
4 Sedge Sliver
1 Mindstab Thrull
1 Searing Spear Askari
4 Flame Elemental
2 Orcish Squatters
2 Lady of the Mountain

Spells
1 Drain Life
1 Tropical Storm
3 Earthquake
3 Kaervek’s Purge
3 Pillage
1 Icequake
1 Goblin War Drums
3 Wild Swing
1 Earthlink

Notes: this deck would especially benefit from rare dual lands that come into play untapped.

Unfortunately I could not work these cards into decks: Jasmine Boreal, Pyrrhic Revival, Hymn of Rebirth – just not enough in G/W for them.