Wall decks - viable?
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Posted on Jan. 26, 2011, 7:38 a.m. by Trakanon
Anyone have links to other wall decks so I can get some ideas? I made this wall deck recently and am enjoying it. Work the Walls
shaistyone says... #3
I just built an EDH deck with about 90% walls for creatures. I've played it a few times, and it's a lot of fun.
January 26, 2011 11:48 a.m.
shaistyone says... #4
And a friend of mine used to play a pretty effective Vent Sentinel / burn deck.
January 26, 2011 11:49 a.m.
I use Vent sentinel as a main wincon in my current standard deck along with other W/R defenders. not very consistent, but extremely fun to play
January 26, 2011 3:04 p.m.
i made a jund infect deck the other day that uses alot of defenders
totally forgot about vent sentinel! gotta try to work that in maybe as an alt for the rage nimbus
January 26, 2011 3:41 p.m.
BlueWolf15 says... #7
i ran a wall deck for a little while at fnm and did okay. i never topped but that was before i added gwave, strap, and some ramp, but ill link what i used. it works really well in theory, but i had too many problems when i actually used it.
deck:the-great-wall-of-magic-1
January 26, 2011 6:09 p.m.
travelsonic says... #8
I threw together a wall deck and played it last niht - pissed everyone off to no end, EVEN THOUGH it was thrown together poorly, and it was easy to get rid of me. To make a wall deck successfully, in my opinion requires things like:
- Burn spells, OR creatures - small or large - to attack [kinda obvious]
- Walls that are blockers AS WELL as ones that have special abilities - like reducing damage to 0, being able to block shadow, etc
- Ways to make these walls even better - give them things like hexproof, lifelink [heheh], FLYING [how high would you have to be to see a flying wall?]
- And good drawpower overall - biggest problem with mine is that it was designed in such a way where I couldn't draw the protections, and spells I needed - and ended up with 4 walls, and 16 lands.
MagnorCriol says... #2
There's two easy ways to look up other wall decks.
First, at the bottom right corner of the page when you're looking at your deck, beneath the "Details" bar, there's a section marked simply "Similar" that lists several other decks like yours.
Second, you could go to key cards in the deck and click on them, which takes you to TappedOut's page on the card, and at the bottom of that page it starts listing decks that use the card.
As for viable wall decks, it's really difficult. The chief problem is lack of ways to, well, win. Wall decks can do a good job keeping you safe, but if your enemy finds ways to get rid of your very few damage sources then you're done.
They're still fun to play, however. I have a soft spot for defender decks personally, and they're absolutely fun in casual.
January 26, 2011 10:51 a.m.