What are the nick names for these kind of decks?
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Posted on Feb. 14, 2015, 1:33 p.m. by DannyLuoXD
I'm a noob on MTG, I have seen many Kinds of deck but I don't know what are the names of their types. Can somebody tell me?1, A type of deck that puts many cards from a opponent's deck into his or her graveyard. 2, A type of deck that have to let you put cards into your graveyards to make some effects. 3, A type of deck that summons many creature tokens.4, A type of deck that is using red color spells and very fast. 5, A type of deck that can put tons of mana in to your mana pool. Really need answers! Thank you!
JohnnyBaggins says... #3
Short additions:
2. Renimator, Dredge, or simply Graveyard Interaction. In my store, I keep hearing the words "Delve" more and more thanks to Sultai Brood.
3. Often the "tokens" is accompanied by a second keyboard to specify further. So, stuff like "mardu tokens", "jeskai tokens" or "elspeth tokens" is something you'll hear. Each of those mainly signalizes the token's source, so Jeskai Tokens will be a RUW token deck, Mardu Tokens will be in RWB, and Elspeth Tokens uses Elspeth, Sun's Champion to hammer out tokens.
4. Mono-Red Aggro possibly, too. If it uses stuff like Akroan Crusader and Hammerhand.
5. Possibly also called Devotion. Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx can be used to produce absurd amounts of mana, and it's most commonly in Green, therefore you'll hear the term "Green Devotion" pretty often. If you see Nykthos you can assume you'll have some kind of devotion, Red Devotion exists, too, the rest is a lot rarer. If you see Karametra's Acolyte, you're having a Green Devotion deck in front of you.
February 14, 2015 3:13 p.m.
5 could be Storm. Storm is a combo deck that uses rituals like Dark Ritual and Pyretic Ritual to generate tons of mana and cast tons of spells and finishes its opponent off with Tendrils of Agony or Grapeshot.
February 14, 2015 4:31 p.m.
5 could be Storm. Storm is a combo deck that uses rituals like Dark Ritual or Pyretic Ritual to generate tons of mana and cast tons of spells and finishes its opponent off with Tendrils of Agony or Grapeshot.
February 14, 2015 4:31 p.m.
2 could also be called Self mill. Cause, you are milling yourself :)
filledelanuit says... #2
The Q&A is for rules question only. Epochalyptik will be along soon to move this to to the forums.
To answer your questions:
This is mill. The name comes for the card Millstone.
This could be reaminator if it uses cards like Animate Dead to put big creatures into play. if it uses cards like Stinkweed Imp then it is dredge.
This is usually called tokens.
This is either Burn if is uses a lot of spells like Lightning Bolt or Red Deck Wins, RDW, if it has a lot of creatures.
This is called ramp.
February 14, 2015 1:58 p.m.