Commentary on My Poison Legacy Deck - Response to a Complaint

“12 creatures is not enough” – That is why I have 4 Commune with Nature in this deck.

Not all games end without a fight.  The reason for the higher mana costing cards is to have a strong response toward the end of the game.  True it may already be over, but not necessarily.  In the event of a hard fought game, even with poison, it can be very useful to have a few cards that cost more mana to cast.  If you notice, I don't have many high mana cost cards, and there is good reason for that.

Inkmoth Nexus creates a land problem.  I have to be able to tap for various colors to play my other cards, such that this card becomes a nonstarter.  I don't know of any single card that taps for blue, green, and black at the same time to date, such that I might even think of including Inkmoth Nexus.  My 12 colored creatures, either blue, black, or green, and my boosters make it so that I need either a fetch land or a land that taps one way or another in order to get a creature out on turn 2, or to slam my opponent with a booster or two or three on turn 3.  That is, I have too many colored spells in my deck in order to include an Inkmoth Nexus.

With respect to land, it is hoped that I get a 1 land that comes in tapped on turn 1.  Thus, turn one is only creates a foundation for play.  It is on this turn that I am more likely to fetch, or play a land that comes into play tapped, and then pass a turn only doing that.  The odds are good that I will be able to do this.  2/3 of my land is this way.

The way this works is that the land that comes into play tapped or the land that makes you go fetch is contains a necessary color that you can use a basic land on your second turn, or 3^rd turn.  On the second turn, you play a land that does not come into play tapped, such that you can play a creature.  Then, on turn 3 or 4 its balls to the walls with the instant booster cards.

I have Seaside Citadel in there because I live in a house that is practically on the waterfront, like a Seaside Citadel.  It’s a card relative to my legacy that works in my deck.  That it can tap for white is virtually inconsequential to play.  Sure, there are other cards I could use, but this is the card I wanted to use.  The same is true with, “Salt Marsh.”

That attitude seems like you are seriously worried that my deck is a threat because if it wasn’t actually a threat, then you probably wouldn’t have even bothered to comment.  For example, this deck that I recently posted is stronger and more competitive than my others, and that is why I am not surprised that it is getting more attention from folks like yourself.