MTG Smash-Up Mash Up: Archenemies

Casual*

mageronix

SchemeCards (30)

• 1x All Shall Smolder In My Wake *oversized*
• 1x Choose Your Champion *oversized*
• 2x Embrace My Diabolical Vision
• 1x Every Hope Shall Vanish *oversized*
• 1x Every Last Vestige Shall Rot *oversized*
• 1x Evil Comes to Fruition *oversized*
• 1x Feed the Machine *oversized*
• 1x I Bask in Your Silent Awe *oversized*
• 1x I Call on the Ancient Magics *oversized*
• 1x Ignite the Cloneforge! *oversized*
• 1x Introductions Are in Order *oversized*
• 1x Look Skyward and Despair *oversized*
• 1x May Civilization Collapse *oversized*
• 1x My Genius Knows No Bounds *oversized*
• 1x My Undead Horde Awakens *oversized*
• 1x Nature Shields Its Own *oversized*
• 1x Nothing Can Stop Me Now *oversized*
• 1x Plots that Span Centuries *oversized*
• 1x Realms Befitting My Majesty *oversized*
• 1x Roots of All Evil *oversized*
• 1x Rotted Ones, Lay Siege *oversized*
• 1x The Fate of the Flammable *oversized*
• 1x The Iron Guardian Stirs *oversized*
• 1x The Pieces Are Coming Together *oversized*
• 1x The Very Soil Shall Shake *oversized*
• 1x Tooth, Claw, and Tail *oversized*
• 1x Your Fate Is Thrice Sealed *oversized*
• 1x Your Inescapable Doom *oversized*
• 1x Your Will Is Not Your Own *oversized*

Minotaurs (24)

• 1x Anaba Shaman
• 2x Collateral Damage
• 3x Cursed Minotaur
• 2x Deathbellow Raider
• 2x Engineered Plague
• 2x Fanatic of Mogis
• 2x Felhide Brawler
• 1x Fireball
• 2x Grisly Survivor
• 1x Kragma Warcaller
• 2x Merciless Javelineer
• 1x Ragemonger
• 2x Savage Alliance
• 1x Skull Rend

Birds (25)

• 2x Arctic Aven
• 1x Ascending Aven
• 2x Aven Cloudchaser
• 3x Aven Farseer
• 1x Aven Liberator
• 1x Cancel
• 2x Divination
• 1x Favorable Winds
• 2x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Lumithread Field
• 1x Migratory Route
• 1x Negate
• 2x Pacifism
• 1x Remove Soul
• 3x Watcher of the Roost
• 1x Zoetic Cavern

Slivers (24)

• 2x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Groundshaker Sliver
• 1x Harmonic Sliver
• 2x Hive Stirrings
• 2x Might Sliver
• 3x Muscle Sliver
• 2x Plated Sliver
• 1x Quilled Sliver
• 1x Reflex Sliver
• 1x Sentinel Sliver
• 2x Sidewinder Sliver
• 2x Sinew Sliver
• 2x Spinneret Sliver
• 1x Talon Sliver
• 1x Venser's Sliver

Ninjas (24)

• 1x Assassinate
• 1x Bite of the Black Rose
• 1x Brainbite
• 2x Consult the Necrosages
• 2x Far / Away
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 3x Mistblade Shinobi
• 2x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 2x Recoil
• 1x Sai of the Shinobi
• 1x Seer's Vision
• 1x Shuriken
• 2x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 2x Walker of Secret Ways

Giants (24)

• 3x Blind-Spot Giant
• 2x Crush Underfoot
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Giant's Ire
• 1x Gruul War Chant
• 2x Naturalize
• 2x Ondu Giant
• 2x Pharagax Giant
• 2x Rampant Growth
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 2x Skyraker Giant
• 2x Skyshroud Troll
• 2x Sunrise Sovereign
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

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An Introduction

I was considering building a MTG cube to play with my friends but decided that I wanted to put my own unique spin on it. It just so happened that I played Smash-Up recently and fell in love with the game, namely the "slap two decks together and voila" portion of the game. I thought about how I could combine that with MTG and quickly did a "MTG SMASH UP" Google search. I found srgpoofy's already made Smash-Up list and decided to build upon it (at the time of writing, the deck list is identical to srgpoofy's. The decks are meant to be extremely flexible, so feel free to swap cards or even whole tribes. In fact, you don't even have to go with the tribe theme. I decided to stick with tribes to make the game more accessible to newer players (ie: my inexperienced family members). I created this with teaching MTG in mind so I kept the cards relatively simple and linear. Certainly, you could make more advanced decks, or multicoloured decks. I also refrained from including too many draw or mill cards because of the size of the decks (40).

Archenemies

With the Core decks, game play was extremely fun and volatile. But I felt like it was lacking a goal. In Smash-Up, instead of directly attacking players, players attack "bases" and try to rack up as many points as possible. I would call these bases the main point of contact. This was lacking in the original MTG Smash-Up Mash Up: Core set. I tried to come up with a format that would give the game that same "main point of contact". Luckily, I came across Archenemy - a format in which players co-operate to take down one other player (the archenemy). To streamline things, I created 5 ally coloured tribal decks and called them the "Archenemy Decks". The goal was for the Smash-Up decks to coordinate and take out the Archenemy, just like in the Archenemy format. I included 30 scheme cards that I thought were appropriate and not too overpowered.

How To Play

Follows the same rules as Archenemy. The AE also has access to 30 scheme cards.

Allies will choose at random 2, decks (of 20 cards) from the Smash-Up tribal decks and co-operate to take down the AE.

The AE will also choose his tribal deck (of 40 cards) at random.

Starting life totals:

Allies: 20 Life

Archenemy: (# of Allies * 20) - 20 Life with a minimum of 40

Decks

Each Smash-Up deck runs 8 lands total. 1 Cycle Land, 1 Terramorphic Expanse, 6 Basic Lands

Each Archenemy deck runs 16 lands total. 1 Cycle Land, 3 Guildgates, 12 Basic Lands

With the exception of Birds, which runs 1 less basic land.

Archenemy Decks:

Birds (Extreme Pillowfort + Fliers)

Ninjas (Evasive Looting + Removal)

Minotaurs (Mass Destruction + Beat Down)

Giants (Big Mons)

Slivers (Super Tribal Swarm)

Notes: Don't forget to get tokens.

Smash-Up Mash Up Sets

MTG Smash-Up Mash Up: Core

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MTG Smash-Up Mash Up: Expanded

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Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Rares 37 - 0 Uncommons 106 - 0 Commons
Cards	151
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Bird 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Dragon 5/5 R, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Sliver 1/1 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	6 - MTG Smash-Up Mash Up