So one way or another, I've decided I'm going to make a blue deck...

You can use Delver of Secrets and that counterspell with Awaken. You can alao use Flip Jace with Circular Logic.

most recent print is in Magic 2014, so idk if you'll find boosters

Will keep an eye out then, that wouldn't be unoptimle to have a few more of on hand anyway

I'm digging these two, i'll keep an eye out

Fuck, this thread hurts my autism so hard

my friend ran a slight variant of
execept it ran archaeomancers and pic related as well

It sounds like you're playing in a pretty casual metagame, which means it's unlikely that you should be playing any 1-drop creatures at all. In general, the ease of casting 1 and 2 drops is near enough and the difference in tempo small enough that they can be compared directly, and as a result most 1s simply aren't "worth the card" when they could be swapped out for a more powerful 2.

There are three classes of 1-drops that justify the cost of a card: hyperefficient cards with histories of serious constructed play which will warp a casual meta (Delver, Wild Nactl, Goblin Guide), strategy specific utility cards (Disciple of the Vault, Deathrite Shaman, Grim Lavamancer), and mana dorks (Birds of Paradise, Noble Hierarch, 12 different Elves). Your deck shouldn't be looking for these.

Has no one noticed that is a blue card but the cmc has a forest in it?

Blue hurricane is a misprint that was shipped in an England-only release (in 94 I believe?) and sells for stupid amounts to old-school collectors.

Buy delver of secrets

It's a misprint. Back in the day WotC simply did not give a fuck.

Once while playing a Blue deck during a four man multiplayer game I caused a player to almost table flip, and pull a knife before he eventually packed up his things and left. Probably one of the biggest reactions I've seen during my magic career.

The blue casual deck I've made recently only consists of 7 creatures where 6 of them are 7-drops. Rest are counters / bouncers to buy me time and some ramp (Traumatic Visions and Myriad Landscape) to reach 7 mana quickly and play a fatty. Any extra land will be discarded with Trade Routes or fed to Trench Gorger to thin out my library und help me only draw stuff I need.

>blue decks
>guarantor of rage quits since 1993

Last time I played against my brother he just Æthersnatched my finisher. I felt so abused...

another cool finisher is pic related

>monoblue
>creatures
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That's a vicious jelly fish, what boosters am I probable to find him?

image saved, but do I need that many tapped-when-placed lands? I've gota fair number in my green/red and I'm considering taking some out

The Exotic Orchards are there for activating abilities of enemy copied creatures, I guess? I really like that!

none of those lands enter the battlefield tapped. even the mana rocks enter untapped.

Not to be a parrot, but even a budget Delver deck if played well would completely stomp even seasoned players. But that's only if you wanted to play more instant and sorceries than creatures, for a blue deck pretending to be green or white, you could play merfolk. There are illusions too, but they're just shitty merfolk. You could also go an artifact route or build a deck with a lot of unblockable/ fliers and get some equipment or something.

The point of blue creatures are usually not to be brute force, but provide utility, otherwise the colors wouldn't be different. If you want a "true" blue deck, you want a control deck or Delver deck, which either get few small creatures and protect/ delay, or delay until you drop something huge (most fun mono blue beater imo is Lorthos or planeswalkers).

That's my two cents at least.

Realistically speaking, you can't win an MTG game if you just sit doing nothing for the first couple turns, so yeah, you need lower-costing creatures or spells. Ideally, most of your deck should be spells cost 0-3 so you are sure not to get mana-screwed and can do something every turn.

Truth be told "I want to make a blue deck" is a rather poor description. Post your list as it is, tell us what format you want it for and what do you want your deck to focus on and we'll get back to you.

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Well, before you start worrying about your creatures in particular:

You're either playing far to many cards, or far too few 999 decks in 1000 should contain 60 cards. You can always improve the average card quality of your deck by removing the worst card, so why not do so as much as possible?

~2/5 of your deck should be land. The actual number varies wildly depending on context, but until you really know what you're doing or have an iterative process to rely on, it's not going to hurt to start with 24-26 lands in your 60 card deck.

Aura enchantments are, as a reasonable rule of thumb, not good. Your positions in a game of magic can generally be measured by asking who has the mist resources and who has deployed them most effectively. Auras are difficult to deploy and are a nest drain on your resources when your opponent kills the enchanted creature, removing two of your cards using one of their own.

Want a cheap mono U deck? Pauper delver is good. The extra set of delvers is my foil set in clear sleeves.

Slippery boggle and delver of secrets for 1 drops. Invisible Stalker for your 2 drop. Use trepanation blade.

throw in bounce cards and counters, go nuts, gg.

>thumb on lens
FUCK

Mono u brains is what you are looking for.

Play a Time Walk deck.