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As you are walking along the endless shelves of the library, a book catches your eye. On the cover there are five symbols. You don't have the slighest idea what they mean but they intrigue you.

"Something catch your eye?" Edgar asks you.

Before you can answer Sabin blurts out something.

"Shadow! What are you doing here?"

Shadow is sitting at a table in a dark area of the Library, looking at a book that is identicial to yours. "This game interests me, I would like to learn how to play. So I came here looking for info on how to play."

"Sorry, but if you want to learn how to play, you should probably buy a deck or go to Wizards (the makers of magic) Website, Here I'll show you the way "

*Disappears mysteriously*

"That's Shadow for ya."

Weenie Creatures
Weenie Creatures refer to small creatures, usally 1/1 or 2/2, and don't cost more than 2 mana. Therefore, they get out very Quickly, and waste your oppenent before he can put any thing down.

Here is a list of some weenie creatures in the Fifth Edition:

White: Aysen Bureacrats, Benlash Hero, Death Speakers, Hipparion, Icatian Scout, Mesa Falcon, Mesa Pegasus, Order of the White Shield, Pikemen, Repentant Blacksmith, Samite Healer, Tundra Wolves, White Knight.

Black: Black Knight, Bog Imp, Bog Rats, Drudge Skeletons, Erg Raiders, Initiates of the Ebon Hand, Kjeldoran Dead, Kinght of Stromgald, Nether Shadow, Vampire Bats.

Blue: Dandan, Lord of Atlantis, Magus of the Unseen, Merfolk of the Pearl Trident, Sea Sprite, Voldalian Soldiers, Zephyr Falcon.

Green: Elvish Archers, Ghazban Ogre, Grizzly Bears, Llanowar Elves, Scavanger Folk, Scryb Sprites, Shanodin Druids, Tarpan, Whirling Dervish, Wyluli Wolf.

Red: Atog, Dwarven Soldier, Goblin Digging Team, Ironclaw Orcs, Mon's Goblin Raiders, Mountain Goat, Orcish Captain, Orcish Conscrips, Primordial Ooze.

Cards That help weenie decks, but cost low mana
In this section are cards that help weenie decks, that cost low mana, so they are out fast too.

There are three cards, (White, Red, and Black) That help weenie decks immensely, they are bad moon, (black) effect: All Black Creatures get +1/+1, this will make all of your black cards strongers, and kill your oppenent faster. Crusade (white) does the same thing, all white creature get +1/+1, just for white though. Orcish Oriflamme, (Red) reads: all attacking creatures you control get +1/+0, this is good since it only gives the bonus to your creatures, but it won't take up your creatures life.

Another great Card for weenie decks is Giant Growth, this will temporally pump it up to a 4/4 or a 5/5!!!

Sample Weenie Decks
Here are some sample Weenie Decks, you don't have to use these but if you want to go ahead.

Chivalry meets Bureaucracy

4 Armageddon

4 Aysen Bureacrats

4 Benlash Hero

4 Crusade

2 Dingus Egg

2 Mesa Falcon

4 Mesa Pegasus

4 Order of the White Shield

4 Spirit Link

4 Tundra Wolves

4 White Knight

20 Plains

There's one, and here's another:

Goblins and Orcs Unite!

4 Goblin Digging Team

4 Goblin Hero

4 Goblin King

4 Orcish Oriflamme

4 Goblin Warrens

4 Incinerate

4 Ironclaw Orcs

4 Mon's Goblin Raiders

4 Orcish Conscrips

4 Orcish Captain

20 Mountains

There they are Feel Free to make them, and have fun toasting your enemies! Now, on to bigger and better things.

Here's a little Secret about Weenie Decks, mass damage, or mass destruction are the Bane of Weenie Decks, for example, EarthQuake- Toast all of their weak little creatures, Wrath of God- Bury all creatures, Pestilence- Mass damage to everything.

Big Creature Deck
Big Creature Decks, Surprisingly do not comprise entirely of Big Creatures, if you tried to do that you would quickly see it does not work. So we need to add other things to the deck.

Here's a list of the big creatures in the Fifth Edition:

Green- Craw Giant 6/4, Craw Wurm 6/4, Durkwood Boars 4/4, Force of Nature 8/8, Hungry Mist 6/2, Ironroot Treefolk 3/5, Johtull Wurm 6/6, Scaled Wurm 7/6.

Red- Orgg 6/6, Shivan Dragon 5/5.

Blue- Air Elemental 4/4, Leviathan 10/10, Sea Serpent 5/5, Siblant Spirit 5/6.

Black- Derelor 4/4, Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore 3/6, Lord of the Pit 7/7, Nightmare */*.

White- Akron Legionare 8/4, Personal Incarnation 6/6, Seraph 4/4.

Artifact- Clockwork Beast */4, Colossus of Sardia 9/9, Diabolic Machine 4/4, Urza's Avenger 4/4.

There are the creatures.

Cards that help Big Creature Decks to get Mana.
Here are some cards that help Get mana fast!

Every Color has a storage card, where you can Store mana each turn then use it, here are some examples- Black- Bottomless Vault, Red- Dwarven Hold, Green- Hollow Trees.

some other cards are: Birds of Paradise, get the mana from these creatures. Dark Ritual, gets those big black creatures out fast! Drain Power, Best if used later in the game when the enemy has lots of land. Fellwar Stone- Same as the birds, but is an Artifact.

Sample Big Creature Deck
Here is a sample deck, again don't feel resticted to these certain cards, use different cards if you can't find these certain ones.

The Wurm Turns

4 Armageddon

4 Birds of Paradise

3 Craw Wurm

2 Disenchant

2 Fellwar Stone

3 Johtull Wurm

4 Llanowar Elves

2 Mana Vault

3 Scaled Wurm

3 Spirit Link

2 Stampede

2 Winter Blast

4 Brushland

2 Hollow Trees

6 Plains

14 Forest

There it is, now on to Burn Decks.

Burn Deck
Burn Decks have few creatures but many spells to roast your enemy.

Favorite Burn Spells include: Incinerate, Disintegrate, Fireball.

This isn't very fun reading this is it? Well let's skip right to the Sample Decks.

Sample Decks
Conflagration

3 Ball of Lightning

2 Detonate

4 Disintegrate

4 Earthquake

4 Fireball

4 Flare

4 Incerate

2 Inferno

3 Mana Flare

4 Nevinyrrl Disk

2 Pyrotechnics

20 Mountain

4 Dwarven Hold

There it is and here's a big counterspell deck, these kind of decks are called permission decks, because the enemy has to ask permission for every thing he tries to do.

Just Say No

4 Air Elemental

4 Binding Grasp

2 Caribou Range

4 Counterspell

3 Disenchant

1 Diving Offering

2 Nevinyrral's Disk

4 Power Sink

4 Spell Blast

4 Spirit Link

4 Wrath of God

4 Svyelunite Temple

4 Adrkar Wastes

8 Plains

8 Islands

There is it, there is also another kind of deck, called Land Destruction/Discard Deck, you can probably guess what it does, well here's a sample Deck.

No Hand No Land

4 Abyssal Specter

4 Blight

2 Conquer

2 Disrupting Specter

3 Fireball

3 Incinerate

4 Knight of Stromgald

3 Mind Warp

3 MindStab Thrull

2 Mole Worms

2 Orcish Squatters

4 Stone Rain

4 Sulfurous Springs

8 Mountain

12 Swamp

Okay, that's enough for now. My Friend is pretty good at making combos, I'll put a link to his page, as soon as he starts one, if he ever does.

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