Love those decks that have been around for a long time. They always seem to work, and get totally messed up if you try and rebuild them...

I have a suggestion for this deck. I heard that sleeves are a good idea.

One step ahead of you, my man. I sleeved it up at the same time I did the Scion EDH deck.

Excellent! You finally took Chewie's advice.

Fist of Suns ? I realize this is casual, but that is one fun card right there :D

I think if I had more expensive and unwieldy stuff I would use the Fist, but right now it only makes 6 spells in the deck easier to cast. I'll keep it in mind as I see the results of any future changes.

There was a golem that would be sac'd for all 5 colors of mana at once. I forgot it's name, it's been so long.

Composite Golem is what you're thinking of. It's already pretty easy to get all 5 colors, though.

That's the one! But yeah, these days it's a lot easier.

God, I miss the days when I could purposely design a deck with multiple instances of not having a playset of a card. I wanna be casual again but Standard and Modern are taking over my brain! D=

Also, is there any particular reason you're runing Utopia Tree over Birds of Paradise ? Just curious.

Looking back at my oldest decks (this is one of them), I realize they all have something in common: the top-end threats are really diverse, usually a bunch of 1-ofs. It doesn't feel awkward or anything while playing, though. When I think about it some more, instead of being just a bunch of singletons, it's actually 6-10 copies of "Awesome Guy, Creature - Kickass Dude". I get consistency while having the opportunity for every game to be wildly different, and it makes for a lot of fun. I wonder if the element of surprise would give any advantage if I started building that way for Standard...

Regarding your question: Reason #1 is because when I first built this deck (Invasion block was just finishing up), Birds of Paradise were really hard for me to come by, but no one felt bad about trading away a Utopia Tree . Reason #2 is a happy coincidence that I didn't notice until a few days after I added Avenger of Zendikar - Utopia Tree is a Plant!

I also just noticed that Utopia Tree is missing Defender. Which means it's a badass once it gets going.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome. That's something I discovered back when I first added Forgotten Ancient to the deck. The base 2 toughness helps a lot!

Yeah, small spark spells can't wreck it, like Electrickery , Grapeshot and others

What would be a decent replacement for Maelstrom Pulse

I don't understand the question. What exactly are you asking?

What would be a card that could fill the spot of maelstrom pulse for the reason of i can not afford a 4x Maelstrom Pulse?

Okay, got it. If it were me, I would probably fill the space with some combination of Putrefy , Mortify , Dreadbore , Bramblecrush , and/or Beast Within , depending on what I had available.

thank very much :D

Are you going to put maelstrom archangels in here?

Maybe. There's not a whole lot for them to do that I wouldn't already be able to cast myself, but I'll think about it, and I'll see if any of my friends have Angels for trade.

Fusion Elemental ?

He's big and everything, but a creature with no abilities is a huge turn-off for me. In my opinion all the other cards in here are already better than him.

Good to see you around, it's been a while.

Yes he doesn't have any abilities, so he doesn't rate high on the fun scale, but in the Duels of the Planeswalker game, he's in the 5 color deck and whenever you draw him, it's always a great time. He seems to come out before turn 5 and with such a big body, it really takes you closer to winning. But this deck is more fun than that deck, by far.

Thanks! It's hard with a kid to find time for Magic, but some people at my office here play, so it's been on my mind again, which is nice :) We get some games in once in a while. Ravnica was my favorite block so it's a nice time to be back. How are you?

Nice, I would add Dragon Arch though.