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Date:    Mon, 30 Dec 1996 20:26:45 -0500
From:    "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@SPECTRE.MITRE.ORG>
Subject: Re: My Stairwell Deck

   Chris Koch (koch@NORTHNET.ORG) said:

  > And here's the new version of the deck:

  > Night (and Day, and Afternoon, and Twilight, and....) of the
  > Living Dead V 1.1

  Looking much better...

  > On Junun Efreets:  I've been told to drop them because of the upkeep.  The
  > thing is, the upkeep is one of the reasons I have it.  I goes like this: I
  > draw the Stairwell, and have a few Jununs on the table.  I don't pay the
  > upkeep on the Efreets, and they go to the graveyard.  This feeds the
  > Stairwell, which I then cast.  But I'll drop 'em, just to see :)

  Okay, I'll explain it.  Two things: In a Stairwell deck, you want to
spend most of your mana on putting creatures into play--your opponent
will take care of putting them in the graveyard.  Stairwell Decks are
generally fast decks, but two things limit your speed.  You don't want
to play the Stairwell without enough creatures out, and you you may
have to wait for a Stairwell or the mana to play it.  (That's why the
Rituals.  You can survive on one or two mana, if you keep back one
Ritual for throwing out the Stairwell.  Often one upkeep is enough.)

  Also, in tournament play, creatures don't hang around all that long,
unless you have a weenie hoarde--which you do.  But the Vampires and
Efreets will attract all the creature destruction.  The worst is that
you can spend 5 mana casting and paying the upkeep on a Junun, just to
have it bolted.  Better is to use a mix of all small creatures.


                                        Robert I. Eachus

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