Oh, the card game. Not real magic. Never mind. *sigh

Check out Lilliana Vess for some interesting tricks. She's basically got a big effect that will let you Living Death, but deny your opponents from getting any benefit from it. Kavu Titan feels a bit out of place in here and would suggest something like Wall of Roots in its place which will stop beaters and help you accelerate into bigger things. And since your goal is to chill out until you get giant stuff, you may want to think about Wrath of God and Damnation. I'm not suggesting both, merely suggesting that you may want some Wrath effects in your deck to get rid of the creatures your opponents will inevitably play.

Oh yeah, Tatsumasa probably won't do much for you either. You don't have many creatures to stick it onto and the ones you do have, well, Teneb is already a dragon if you get what I'm saying.

I pretty much steer clear of constructed. I will likely be going to the Morningtide release event this weekend, however

I think it's a lot of cards for a relatively small effect. If you're going to mill, go blue; the green here is out of place. You've got some fixing with the Rav doublelands and the Expanses; I'd suggest some Lorwyn vivid lands, possibly as a replacement to the Rav lands, possibly as an addition Add some decent blue mill, lose the Xstones.

Honestly, I think you may be trying to do too much in the deck. There doesn't appear to be a plan B if you don't find a dragon (or if he gets killed), and there's not much room to stick a plan B in. The white isn't giving you anything that straight black won't, and the green isn't giving you anything at all.

I'd be tempted to go straight B/U mill with a couple of fixers (probably Expanses and Vivid lands) to drop Teneb with if you get the opportunity. Heavier black also gives you plenty of removal and some tutoring.

EDIT: Alternatively, you could drop Teneb and add in some Debtor's Knells, and some creatures with good sac effects. That would certainly be easier on the colour requirements.

That's what I was implying but I didn't want to quash the dream of using the Teneb.
As I stated in my first reply, I found the stones to be "cute" but their slots are better filled by some blue control. The other thing to consider in the master plan here is that your whole stategy is in big trouble if your opponent is playing any kind of graveyard matters deck like Golgari or Bridge from Below or if they have Oversold Cemetary. You are dead without control. Fetters and Pillory will DELAY it, Mortify will feed it.

You can tell I haven't played MTG in a long time because the lands are the only cards I've ever heard of before.

/thread derail

Hey look a Magic thread, and there is Mumford, TheWalt and Chumpy.

My raging LOTRO addiction has kept me away from MTGO except when release leagues roll around.

I might have to log back on now that V3 is finally coming down the pipe.

/you may now return to your previously scheduled constructed thread.

I've never tried playing the online version.
Though I'd imagine its' probably a lot more exciting then playing against the same people all the time.

I might give it a try.
Lord knows I've been coming up dry with any MMOs that are worth playing for long.
Nothing seems to keep my interest for long online it seems.

Everyone tries milling eventually.
Its' a sure fire way to screw up almost anyone's strategy.
Just about as dicky as playing controll decks.

Okay, constructed online should definitely be cheaper than paper, granted. In fact, you can save a lot of money if you just use MTGO as a medium to play casual games. I'm coming at it from a sealed event perspective, which is what my above statements were all geared towards.

On the 3.0 front, it's open Beta now, and basically you can buy whatever you want from the store to participate in drafts & sealed events. If we can get 8 people together, I'm sure we can hold our own GWJ draft contest (as was done once or twice back in the Ravnica days), but this time for $0!!

Who's with me on this? I think we have about 1.5 to 2 weeks left to do this.

Stupid question: I played Magic all through college, but I mostly played casual multiplayer (although I had quite the collection). Is there a multiplayer option out there, or is MTGO all dueling?

Ain't stupid if you just didn't know the answer. Yes, there is multiplayer online, mostly I'm aware of two-headed ogre (or dragon, depending on where you heard of it). One thing to keep in mind, however, is that custom rules are impossible in MTGO, so if they don't support a specific kind of multiplayer you just can't do it. This helps a lot when dealing with random people but does lessen the appeal of playing with friends (the number of cards that we've banned in our household... yeah).

For casual matches, not really. But if you only have older cards (I'm in the same boat as you there) my guess is that quite a few Extended decks will simply pwn yours, especially if you just bought some prebuilts. There's a n00b zone for beginners but my experience was that the Extended in the n00b zone was worse than the Extended anywhere else, as that's where assholes with powerful decks went to inflate their own egos. Standard is probably the best for cheap decks doing okay and just enjoying yourself, but I'm betting anything you had isn't in Standard anymore.

My way of doing it without spending too much money was to set myself a limit; one prebuilt deck from the store for my base, then ten to fifteen tickets (one dollar each, the currency of MTGO) for loose cards to tighten up the deck. That tended to get me a pretty good deck overall, but you are spending a good twenty dollars there. On the plus side so long as you remember the username/password they'll still be there years later when you've forgotten about MTGO for a while, though by then they'll be in extended too.

The other option is to sell your current cards for Tickets, but prices on that were, in my experience, generally poor. Still, it's worth looking at, especially if your cards were only from two or three sets back. And it isn't like logging on costs you anything if you have an account. You can take a look and peek on some games, see what the current standard is and judge from that.

Honestly? I have no idea. MTGO's main site would probably be better for this than I am, I just remember that two-headed ogre was the big one a year or two back.

But no, no Ariabian Nights cards. Shame too, I liked the recursive two-white card, the one that made you play another game of magic with your library. MMmmm, recursion.

When it comes to Magic, that part doesn't really need to be said aloud.