


I also had the White Protection from Black horse, but the protection didn't really matter - most of my opponents used red for removal.Ĭurving the 1/3 lifelinker into Oakenform is just boss. I had 2 of the Tap-Horses and 2 of the can-only-be-single blocked green creature. I used the +2/+0 equipment, and 3 auras: the "fixed" Rancor, Oakenform and the 6 mana rare enchantment that gives a creature +7/+7 and trample. My pool only gave me 1 flier in those colours: the rare 2/1 spirit. My curve topped out at 4, except for 1 card. I built an awesome low to the ground WG deck with 2 rares. Storming for 20+ without anything like Past in Flames felt great: At the time, it made me feel great because when you played against the guy with $200 worth of Wraths AND Damnations in his deck, it felt like you were punishing for justice with your pile of uncommons. I'm not going to pretend it's an awesome card, but it's harder to play around than you think, especially given all the spells we have today. My technique, however, was to slow the game down as much as possible and then use Mark of Eviction on one threat after another to strand something large enough in their hand. Locket of Yesterdays, otoh, was way harder to use than today's Barals and Electromancers. Fortunately, stuff like Rite of Flame and Rune Snag were legal. While I couldn't bring myself to play Red Deck Wins (and couldn't afford the linch pin cards), I was a storm jerk: back then it was legitimately difficult to kill someone with Grapeshot.
