Licid Deck

[House Turtle]

Here's the deck I had hoped to keep secret till I used it. With minor modifications I could have cut the white completely but I thought this would be more fun.

Artifacts

Feldon's Cane x1
Icy Manipulator x3

Blue

Control Magic x4
Dominating Licid x4
Gliding Licid x4
Psychic Venom x4
Stinging Licid x4
Vesuvan Doppelganger x2

White

Calming Licid x4
Cessation x4
Ghostly Prison x4
Quickening Licid x4

Land

Coastal Tower x4
Island x8
Plains x8

[House Turtle]

I have bought and paid for all these cards and in total this ran me about 50 bucks.

[Baron Sengir]

Ah ghostly prison and icy manipulator how I love you hehe. Looks like a fun deck to play.

[House Turtle]

I wish I ha researched things better this may have been better than the Ghostly Prisons.

Teferi's Moat

[Baron Sengir]

Eh, the 2 for each creature Ghostly Prison costs is pretty effective honestly. In just about most games you'd play the deck in I'd say the Ghostly Prison's will do nicely. Maybe get a couple Moats down the line to sub them in just to see how they work out.

[House Turtle]

Yeah it is effective. I've come to hate it since my angel and rebel decks use them but seldom see play. My merfolk deck has propaganda nad Diane love suing that deck. I've wanted to burn the card and pee on the ashes so many times because of it.

[Baron Sengir]

Hehe yeah I can see that getting annoying after going up against it a lot.

[Maraxus of Keld]

Of all the "you have to pay to attack me" cards, Collective Restraint is the one that's caused me the most trouble.

Back in the day, I used to like Island Sanctuary though, and Peacekeeper is good stuff, although whenever I play him he gets killed faster than a Voracious Cobra.

[Baron Sengir]

Poor cobra.

[House Turtle]

Cards came intoday the Licid deck is ready to go.

[Baron Sengir]

Oct 26, 2011 18:30:28 GMT -6 House Turtle said:

Cards came intoday the Licid deck is ready to go.

Nice. Hopefully mine come in tomorrow.

[House Turtle]

All but 6 cards came in. For some unexplained reason those are being shipped seperatly.

[Maraxus of Keld]

Licids always reminded me of the neural parasites from the old Star Trek episode Operation: Annihilate. Except those parasites sort of look like flying pancakes.

Fun fact, the band Powerman 5000 samples some dialogue from that episode for their song Public Menace, Freak, Human Fly.

What does this post have to do with Magic, or this deck in particular? Not much. Just the licid thing.

[House Turtle]

I think Dalton was going to or started on a Licid deck before. With the new slivers i was curious as to see if any new licids came out so I was looking at the list. Most are worth using in a deck but the problem is unlike lsivers to combine them into a theme deck would have been hard. Turns out the blue and white ones could be used to do something decent.

Cool random trivia too.

[Maraxus of Keld]

It does look like it should function pretty well as a control deck, and you can keep the creature theme without being too strongly tied down with it.

Now, whenever you play your first Licid, you should say "They came... things! Horrible things!"