4 color Rock- Plz help me out

Xanthophobia · Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 28

Heres my deck, its based on doran rock in ext but impelents blue in the early game with force and brainstorm, spell snare. Also, shadowmage infiltrator is so good with doran. The one alteration im unsure of is aether vial or chrome mox? i dont like chrome mox, so i took it out in favor of the vial. Maybe its better though, although vial gets around force and it on 2 or 3 is all my creatures.

Creatures (16):

4x Doran, the siege tower
4x Dark Confidant
4x Shadowmage infiltrator
4x Tarmogoyf

Counterspells (7):

4x Force of will
3x Spell Snare

Deck Manipulation (9):

4x Brainstorm
3x Sensei's Divining Top
2x Serum Visions

Disruption 8 :

4x Duress
4x Vindicate

Accel (3):

3x Aether Vial

Land (17):

2x Flooded Strand
2x Polluted Delta
2x Windswept Heath
2x Underground Sea
2x Tundra
2x Tropical Island
1x Bayou
1x Savannah
1x Scrubland
2x Island

SB//

4x Engeneered Plague
4x Leyline of the Void
4x Counterbalance
3x Umezawa's Jitte

Weeknesses- early game against aggro like gobs or sligh, weekness to burn and red in general.

Strengths- Card advantage like hell, wide variety of answers, gets around a countertop very well (12x spells it cant counter including vindicate the balance).

I can make up for a lot of the weeknesses with stifle, but I think that serum visions is better, alough that has gone through my head (-2 visions, +2 stifle)

My sb is also F'ed up because it is random and not well thought out.

Any suggestions?

center · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 386

This isnt a rock deck.

DaveK · Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 46

Yeah, it's a GAT-ish kind of deck.

Xanthophobia · Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 28

Its homebrew really, but lets hear some CONSTRUCTIVE commnets

Dr_Moo · Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 969

Aether Vial should absolutely always be a 4 or a 0. In this deck, I think it should be a 0.

I don't think Shadowmage Infilitrator is good enough for Legacy.

You might be better off dropping white, replacing Vindicate with Smother and Doran with Phyrexian Negator or Psychatog. This could allow you to play Counterbalance. I just think 4 colors is greedy, especially considering the Doran and Vindicate aren't amazing cards (for Legacy).

The question you must answer is: why and in what ways is this better than Threshold?

Spyx · Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 885

Are you kidding? Vindicate is stunning in legacy.