**** Magic: the Gathering - Llanowar Elves - Magic 2012

A Really Good Card, Especially in Commander., January 19, 2013 There are so many times having an Elf that taps for one mana and costs one mana is useful. This card is a force to be reckoned with because it really isn't worth countering, and yet it works well in so many combination plays. Llanowar Elves was one of the first cards I had in my possession and it is still one of my favorites. If you are playing Commander, other cards to consider that are like this one are Boreal Druid, and Fyndhorn Elves.

** Huge and Okay: Magic: the Gathering - Engulfing Slagwurm - Scars of Mirrodin

Huge and Okay., January 19, 2013 In my opinion, most huge cards aren't idyllic. There are better cards to consider than this one if you are considering a combo play with Elvish Piper. If you are looking for a card that can destroy, then I think playing one that costs few or 1 mana and has deathtouch is an ideal replacement for this one.

***** Invigorate: Essential for Your Poison Deck

Essential for Your Poison Deck, December 15, 2012 By  Craig Nelson Hamilton "Craig Nelson Hamilton" = Durability:  = Fun:  = Educational:  This review is from: Magic: the Gathering - Invigorate - Mercadian Masques This is a card to deck your opponents with. Jesus Christ! You only need to own a single forest, and you don't even have to tap it. Forget that you give your opponents life. That is meaningless, when they have to take 4 poison counters. If there is any doubt that giving your opponent life in return for dealing poison counters, let me assure you that this life you deal is but mere smite as you flush your opponents down the drain.

1st Legacy Deck Version 3.1 A Infect/Poison Deck

The following is my newest Legacy Infect deck:
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-fairly-casual-poison-legacy-deck-30.html
1/2/2013 last update

The Original Title Was:  A Fairly Casual Poison Legacy Deck That Doubles as a Poison Pauper Deck

The Legacy Deck Is as Follows:

Land: In Legacy 22, In Pauper 22

4 Inkmoth Nexus

4 Breeding Pool

2 Verdant Catacombs

2 Watery Grave

1 Guilt-leaf Palace

1 Darkslick Shores

4 Forests

2 Islands

2 Swamps

Green Cards: 22 In Legacy

4 Mutagenic Growth (2 In Pauper)
3 Giant Growth

4 Groundswell

3 Rancor

4 Invigorate

4 Glistener Elf

Blue Cards: 10 In Legacy

3 Distortion Strike

4 Blighted Agent

3 Spell Pierce

Black Cards: 6 In Legacy

4 Plague Stinger
2 Virulent Swipe
Having 4 Melira, Sylvok Outcast is a good idea for a sideboard, especially since via the law of Legendary Creatures, one destroys another, such that if your opponent is playing poison, then you will have some really good defense.

 

1st Legacy Deck Version 2.1 Win In 2 Turns Poison/Infect – Thanks for Those Who Helped

This is the newest Legacy Infect Deck of Mine
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-fairly-casual-poison-legacy-deck-30.html
Updated 11/2/2012

Land: 23

4 Inkmoth Nexus

4 Breeding Pool (Forest Island)

4 Overgrown Tomb (Swamp Forest)

4 Watery Grave (Island Swamp)

2 Island

3 Forest

2 Swamp

Sorcery, Instant, Enchantment: 25

3 Spell Pierce

4 Invigorate

4 Mutagenic Growth

4 Groundswell

3 Rancor

3 Giant Growth

4 Distortion Strike

Creatures: 12

4 Plague Stingers

4 Blighted Agent

4 Glistener Elf
 

This is an update from the following blog linked to below:
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2012/10/poison-legacy-deck-green-black-and-blue.html

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.

1st Legacy Deck Version 1.1 – Win In 3 to 5 Turns

This blog is out of date.  Here are the updates from newest to oldest:
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2013/05/1st-legacy-deck-infectpoison-version-50.html
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-fairly-casual-poison-legacy-deck-30.html
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2012/10/improved-poison-legacy-deck-black-blue.html
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-fairly-casual-poison-legacy-deck-that.html


Land: 24

4 Forest

2 Island

2 Swamp

4 Evolving Wilds (Sacrifice and search for a basic land)

4 Terramorphic Expanse (Sacrifice and search for a basic land)

2 Gilt-Leaf Palace (Black and Green)

Seaside Citadel (Green, Blue and White)

Salt Marsh (Blue and black)

2 Jwar Isle Refuge (Blue and black)

1 Arcane Sanctum (Blue and black {white})

1 Dark Slick Shores (Blue and black)

Instants and Sorcery: 22*

4 Mutagenic Growth

3 Groundswell

2 Titanic Growth

1 Monstrous Growth

3 Giant Growth

1 Might of Oaks

4 Distortion Strike

4 Commune With Nature

*The essential goal is to boost creatures

Artifacts: 1

Strider Harness

Enchantments

2 Tricks of the Trade

Creatures: 12**

4 Plague Stingers

4 Blighted Agent

1 Hand of Praetors

1 Corpse Cur

1 Putrefax

1 Blight Mamba

**Because of “Commune With Nature,” it is as if this deck has 16 or more creatures though it actually only has 12.

This blog is out of date.