Maelstrom Magic - My First Nexus

Unformat*

Ocheyo

Artifacts (15)

• 1x Chimeric Mass
• 1x Dragon Blood
• 1x Geistcatcher's Rig
• 1x General's Regalia
• 1x Gorgon Flail
• 1x Guardian Automaton
• 1x Hot Soup
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mantis Engine
• 1x No-Dachi
• 1x Pit Trap
• 1x Power Matrix
• 1x Razormane Masticore
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Throwing Knife

Auras (10)

• 1x Banewasp Affliction
• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Boar Umbra
• 1x Claustrophobia
• 1x Dark Favor
• 1x Hermetic Study
• 1x Lure
• 1x Madcap Skills
• 1x Nimbus Wings
• 1x Uncaged Fury

Battlemages (10)

• 1x Bant Battlemage
• 1x Esper Battlemage
• 1x Grixis Battlemage
• 1x Jund Battlemage
• 1x Naya Battlemage
• 1x Nightscape Battlemage
• 1x Stormscape Battlemage
• 1x Sunscape Battlemage
• 1x Thornscape Battlemage
• 1x Thunderscape Battlemage

Core (30)

• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Arc Runner
• 1x Aura Blast
• 1x Azorius Justiciar
• 1x Azure Mage
• 1x Banisher Priest
• 1x Blastoderm
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Breaker of Armies
• 1x Chromanticore
• 1x Colossus of Akros
• 1x Composite Golem
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cromat
• 1x Eldrazi Skyspawner
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Flametongue Kavu
• 1x Garruk's Packleader
• 1x Ingot Chewer
• 1x Mortis Dogs
• 1x Nantuko Husk
• 1x Pale Rider of Trostad
• 1x Prickleboar
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Serra Angel
• 1x Skysnare Spider
• 1x Soulblade Djinn
• 1x Terror
• 1x Topan Freeblade
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Crust (20)

• 1x Absorb
• 1x Ancient Spider
• 1x Blazing Hellhound
• 1x Bounding Krasis
• 1x Branching Bolt
• 1x Dimir Cutpurse
• 1x Drana's Emissary
• 1x Ebony Treefolk
• 1x Electrolyze
• 1x Gerrard's Command
• 1x Goblin Flectomancer
• 1x Iroas's Champion
• 1x Lightning Helix
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Recoil
• 1x Relentless Hunter
• 1x Snakeform
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Thunderclap Wyvern

Guildmages (20)

• 1x Azorius Guildmage
• 1x Boros Guildmage
• 1x Dimir Guildmage
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Golgari Guildmage
• 1x Gruul Guildmage
• 1x Izzet Guildmage
• 1x Korozda Guildmage
• 1x New Prahv Guildmage
• 1x Nivix Guildmage
• 1x Orzhov Guildmage
• 1x Rakdos Guildmage
• 1x Rix Maadi Guildmage
• 1x Selesnya Guildmage
• 1x Simic Guildmage
• 1x Skarrg Guildmage
• 1x Sunhome Guildmage
• 1x Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Zameck Guildmage

Mantle (20)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Angelic Skirmisher
• 1x Assassinate
• 1x Empty the Warrens
• 1x End Hostilities
• 1x Enlightened Ascetic
• 1x Epic Confrontation
• 1x Ghirapur Gearcrafter
• 1x Gideon's Reproach
• 1x Icefall Regent
• 1x Joraga Invocation
• 1x Languish
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Phantom Tiger
• 1x Pride of Lions
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sever Soul
• 1x Traitorous Instinct

Starting (15)

• 1x Awe Strike
• 1x Copperhorn Scout
• 1x Dead Weight
• 1x Faerie Squadron
• 1x Goblin Arsonist
• 1x Maggot Carrier
• 1x Raging Goblin
• 1x Shock
• 1x Sprout
• 1x Suntail Hawk
• 1x Thraben Inspector
• 1x Typhoid Rats
• 1x Vapor Snag
• 1x Wingcrafter
• 1x Young Wolf

Volvers (5)

• 1x Anavolver
• 1x Cetavolver
• 1x Degavolver
• 1x Necravolver
• 1x Rakavolver

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Sideboard

Starting(4player) (10)

• 1x Akroan Crusader
• 1x Anointer of Champions
• 1x Charging Badger
• 1x Duskwalker
• 1x Gigadrowse
• 1x Goldmeadow Harrier
• 1x Gudul Lurker
• 1x Irresistible Prey
• 1x Kolaghan Stormsinger
• 1x Pulse Tracker

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Original article on gatheringmagic.com by Andrew Wilson

Building a nexus for the first time. I am sure it will need plenty of tweaks for balance and playability. For a little added variance right off the bat I upped the starting stack to 15 cards and will add the remaining 5 to the core after hands are dealt.

Thoughts and suggestions are encouraged.

Quick Rules Reference--

The Graveyard

Each graveyard is kept in a single face-down pile. A player can examine the cards in his or her graveyard at any time but cannot do so with an opponents graveyard.

Draw Step

The active player drafts, putting the drafted cards into his or her graveyard. Then, the player discards the cards in his or her hand and draws a number of cards equal to the number discarded plus two. These turn-based actions dont use the stack.Both players skip their draw steps during their respective first turns.A player who attempts to draw a card from a library with no cards in it shuffles his or her library into his or her graveyard and continues drawing.

Drafting

To draft, the active player looks at the pile of cards that is closest to him or her. The player may draft them, putting them face down into his or her graveyard. Otherwise, the player may return the pile and place an additional card from the Nexus, without looking at it, onto the pile, proceeding by looking at the next pile and repeating the process. Once the player drafts a pile, he or she places a card from the Nexus, without looking at it, into that piles position to reform the pile. If the player doesnt draft any of the three piles, he or she drafts the top card of the Nexus. (The player may look at the drafted card.)

Play a Land

Playing a land is a special action. To play a land, a player exiles a card from his or her hand and puts any basic land onto the battlefield from outside the game. By default, a player can take this action only once during each of his or her turns. A player can take this action any time he or she has priority and the stack is empty during a main phase of his or her turn.If a player controls two or more different types of basic lands and wants to play a basic land with a subtype he or she does not control using this special action, the player must exile two cards from his or her hand instead of one.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Unformat legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 71 - 3 Uncommons 49 - 7 Commons
Cards	145
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Centaur 3/3 G, Clue, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Goblin 1/1 R, Goblin 2/1 R, Morph 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Soldier 1/1 R, Soldier 1/1 RW, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	Interesting Ideas