If you want to make these competetive, I recommend to choose a format other than Extended. Extended is essentially a dead format and is no longer supported in competetive events. Extended was for most purposes replaced by the Modern format. These decks are all Modern legal, so that would be an easy fit. Modern is a very fast and competetive format though, so be prepared to receive expensive suggestions.
Take a look at some other Modern decks that are similar to what you're doing, and get some ideas from those. For your lifegain deck, look up a deck called Martyr Proc for comparison. For your Stalking Swords deck, look up Blue Green Infect for comparison. For your Invisible swords deck, look up either Affinity decks or Blue Black Control. You can find examples of these decks easily on a page like this: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck_search_result.asp?Format=Modern.
Otherwise, you could make these decks Standard decks, but they would require a lot of changes. Standard is a bit less brutal than Modern, but it's mostly a preference issue. Standard is the most popular format by far, but the downfall is that the cards that are good in Standard often lose their value once they rotate out of the format. Modern is a semi-eternal format so your expensive cards like the mythic swords tend to retain their value better.
My favourite format is extended, standard coming in second purely for the amount of events. But when I said competitive I meant fnm competitive. Not tournament standard. In my area we generally use extended decks as well.
April 10, 2013
9:15 a.m.
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graft says... #2
If you want to make these competetive, I recommend to choose a format other than Extended. Extended is essentially a dead format and is no longer supported in competetive events. Extended was for most purposes replaced by the Modern format. These decks are all Modern legal, so that would be an easy fit. Modern is a very fast and competetive format though, so be prepared to receive expensive suggestions.
Take a look at some other Modern decks that are similar to what you're doing, and get some ideas from those. For your lifegain deck, look up a deck called Martyr Proc for comparison. For your Stalking Swords deck, look up Blue Green Infect for comparison. For your Invisible swords deck, look up either Affinity decks or Blue Black Control. You can find examples of these decks easily on a page like this: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck_search_result.asp?Format=Modern.
Otherwise, you could make these decks Standard decks, but they would require a lot of changes. Standard is a bit less brutal than Modern, but it's mostly a preference issue. Standard is the most popular format by far, but the downfall is that the cards that are good in Standard often lose their value once they rotate out of the format. Modern is a semi-eternal format so your expensive cards like the mythic swords tend to retain their value better.
Good luck!
April 10, 2013 9:03 a.m.