Preface: A guantlet had been thrown down. The challenge? To build a deck using at least 50% Earth cards that could get a rare spin in at least three different Arena Leagues. I start at it with some ideas that had been kicking around in my head. I'd win here and there, even a couple times in a row from time to time, but never really having a shot at the spins. Every time I did, I came up against a PSNbow, or Immorush, or that friggin'
Nightmare of the Effing Past deck. I just couldn't deal with it, especially not being destroyed when given free creatures by Nightmare. So I set about to make a deck that could reasonably handle all three. My response? The
Ghostly Graboids!Hover over cards for details, click for permalink
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Pros- Cheap creatures that hit very hard. The damage potential is outstanding.
- Strong against a variety of decks.
- Nightmare of the Past feeds right into this deck. Free creatures!
Cons- Fails hard against Phase Shield. This is one of the few places where the lack of PC really hurts.
- PSNbows can start off too fast for this deck to catch up, it is a very draw dependent matchup. However, if the PSNbow gets off to even a reasonably slow start, it is very winnable.
The nice thing about this deck is that although it is obviously very upgraded, it doesn't require any rares, so even people with a dearth (yeah, I said dearth) of rares can make this beast of a deck.
