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Best color combination with good stuff Blue cards?
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#1 Jan 28, 2013
I currently have lots of good stuff blue cards lying around, (mana drain, gilded drake, treachery ect) and.. i'm not using them. I'd like to make a good stuff deck as I don't have one any longer. Blue bogs down our games and most in our playgroup hate blue. anyway...
What's the best 2nd color to add to good stuff blue? I'm leaning on Prime Speaker zegana U/G deck.
Suggestions on a "fun" competitive deck combination to go with counterspells, steal, copy? U/G adds speed, fatties and elimates draw spells as zegana plays well there.
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EDH/Commander: Karn silver golem (foiled), Narset combo, Maelstrom Wanderer random goodies, Nekusar grixis draw stuff, freyalise, Gissa Zombies!, marchesa obliterate,
Prosh just wins!,
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#2 Jan 28, 2013
UGW or UGB are probably the most powerful combinations if you are building a powerful but "fair" deck. Blue gives you the best cards in magic. Green gives you the ramp to get to those card faster, and black or white give some powerful utility.
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#3 Jan 28, 2013
I am a huge fan of the deck in my Sig for a good stuff deck Red may not have been the best tertiary color to pick, but it does facilitate a few nice combos. G might also be a good choose.
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#4 Jan 28, 2013
thank you for suggestions. I should clarify i'm looking for a two color deck.
i've made mono blue, venser and teferi good stuff. too grindy
mineoplasm , too much tutor and little busted unfun for my taste.
i'm mainly looking for suggestions of good stuff 2 color, but any further 3 color suggestions are welcome too.
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EDH/Commander: Karn silver golem (foiled), Narset combo, Maelstrom Wanderer random goodies, Nekusar grixis draw stuff, freyalise, Gissa Zombies!, marchesa obliterate,
Prosh just wins!,
--- Will WOTC just visit Cybertron already! ----
#5 Jan 28, 2013
I've been working on a Zegana deck, in my sig. I'm not capitalizing on large creatures for maxing out Zegana herself, but I feel like even drawing just three or four cards off of her is great, especially with a few blink/bounce effects to get more mileage out of her.
My list does have some infinite combos in it. If those aren't your thing, they're easily removable for more utility.
Psychosis Crawler in particular is amusing if Zegana is cast a few times. "2 G G U U: Draw X cards and each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand plus 1."
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#6 Jan 28, 2013
G U Edric is a good deck that would be lots of fun run a few time spells a few elves and a couldstone Curio and you have yourself a deck. Hell, you could even through in Intuder Alarm and make a good, goodstuff deck.
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#7 Jan 28, 2013
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G U Experiment Kraj- all your abilities belong to us
W B Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts- battlecruiser
G U B The Mimeoplasm- when graveyards are not safe
R G W Mayael the Anima- i luv the fatties
#8 Jan 28, 2013
I'd say B is probably the best color to add, but if you found that Mimeo was too linear/boring/tutor-heavy, I'd agree with everyone saying G. U W is a great color combo, but maybe not so much for "goodstuff," and it's usually just as slow-play-and-combo as mono-U, which also didn't seem like it was what you were looking for.
Since Blue goodstuff doesn't tend to be creature-heavy, I might stay away from Zegana (if you find that statement to be untrue, though, run her!). That being said, none of the U G generals lend themselves to creature-light goodstuff. If you really don't mind three-color suggestions, I might offer Damia, Sage of Stone as an alternative. She's the essential goodstuff general if there ever was one, and though people often build her as combo-heavy as Mimeo, she doesn't force you into that shell as heavily as Mimeo does.
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#9 Jan 28, 2013
Green is easily the best color combo to go with blue. Here are a few reasons.
Deadeye navigator
Eternal witness
Avenger of zendikar
Woodfall primus
Permanent mana ramp not mana rocks which die so quickly
Tooth and nail
Regal force
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#10 Jan 28, 2013
Esper (UWB) or BUG are probably the best options for goodstuff decks. If I were to pick one it would be Esper simply because there are a lot more/more interesting generals to choose from. Also white offers better support cards and removal than green does.
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#11 Jan 28, 2013
Every time I build a blue good stuff, it's either grixis or esper. Usually esper. Go with esper.
Merieke is really good.
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#12 Jan 28, 2013
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EDH/Commander: Karn silver golem (foiled), Narset combo, Maelstrom Wanderer random goodies, Nekusar grixis draw stuff, freyalise, Gissa Zombies!, marchesa obliterate,
Prosh just wins!,
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#13 Jan 30, 2013
Animar (rug) or mimeoplasm (bug) are the most common good stuff decks rocking blue.
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