Decks and Archtypes

This posts will have playable decks slapped into it, hopefully these would serve as inspiration.

All of these decks have been tested and are playable, if you happen to have a deck for the format please just let us now and it will be included here if it fits into an archtype not shown previously :)

Unscheduled updating of this post will happen, you've been warned!

CHANNELBOTS

A fast UR deck that drops robots fast with the help of mana dorks, can also channel them in in exchange for life of course ;). Sometimes the crossroads would help easing big boys into your opponents defenses or sometimes you will channel fireball them (albeit a bit slower, no lotus here!)

Main:

2 Argothian Pixies

4 Birds of Paradise

1 Channel

4 City of Brass

2 Concordant Crossroads

1 Demonic Tutor

4 Fellwar Stone

3 Fireball

6 Forest

2 Giant Growth

4 Juggernaut

2 Living Artifact

4 Llanowar Elves

4 Mishra's Factory

4 Mountain

1 Regrowth

1 Sol Ring

4 Taiga

3 Tetravus

4 Triskelion

Sideboard: none yet

DISCARD

With the 4 hyms, the mind twist and the Specter this deck surely is nasty. Some blue helps control the table. Yeah, this deck and variants are what makes people think Hymn to Tourach should be restricted (check the post about restrictions here and the general B&R here)

Main:

2 Aeolipile

2 Boomerang

2 City of Brass

2 Clone

4 Dark Ritual

1 Demonic Tutor

2 Disrupting Scepter

1 Drain Life

4 Hymn to Tourach

4 Island

1 Mind Twist

1 Nevinyrral's Disk

4 Paralyze

3 Power Sink

2 Royal Assassin

1 Sol Ring

12 Swamp

4 Underground Sea

4 Unstable Mutation

Sideboard:

 

2 Deathgrip

2 Drain Life

3 Gloom

2 Pestilence

3 Terror

3 Unsummon

ERHNAMGEDDON

Main:

3 Armageddon

1 Balance

2 Birds of Paradise

4 Disenchant

4 Erhnam Djinn

2 Fellwar Stone

8 Forest

1 Havenwood Battleground

2 Jayemdae Tome

2 Land Tax

3 Llanowar Elves

2 Order of Leitbur

8 Plains

1 Regrowth

1 Ruins of Trokair

4 Savannah

1 Serra Angel

1 Sol Ring

4 Swords to Plowshares

2 Sylvan Library

2 Untamed Wilds

2 Wrath of God

Sideboard: none yet

GOBLINS (by Chiki)

Come on, goblin grenade is legal, why wouldn't you?

Main:

2 Ankh of Mishra

3 Ball Lightning

4 Black Vise|

3 Blood Lust

2 Fork

3 Goblin Artisans

4 Goblin Balloon Brigade

4 Goblin Grenade

3 Goblin King

1 Goblin Warrens

4 Goblins of the Flarg

1 Howling Mine

4 Lightning Bolt

1 Meekstone

1 Mishra's Factory

18 Mountain

1 Shatter

1 Wheel of Fortune

Sideboard:

1 Ankh of Mishra

2 Blood Moon

1 Fork

4 Goblin Flotilla

1 Nevinyrral's Disk

2 Red Elemental Blast

1 Shatter

1 Shatterstorm

2 Winter Orb

MONO BLUE DENIAL (By Lauren)

When your lands decide to play against you and help your opponent deliver the killing blow.

Main:

4 Dandân

4 Prodigal Sorcerer

3 Time Elemental

1 Wall of Wonder

4 Ankh of Mishra

2 Fellwar Stone

2 Jalum Tome

1 Sol Ring

4 Boomerang

4 Magical Hack

2 Mana Short

1 Drain Power

2 Erosion

4 Phantasmal Terrain

4 Psychic Venom

17 Island

1 Strip Mine

Sideboard:

4 Blue Elemental Blast

4 Control Magic

3 Hurkyl's Recall

2 Wall of Air

RED SKIES

Make a ton of mana and burn your opponent down with either spells or dragon fire!

Main:

2 Blood Moon

3 Dragon Whelp

3 Earthquake

4 Fellwar Stone

4 Fireball

2 Fork

4 Goblin Balloon Brigade

4 Goblin Grenade

3 Goblins of the Flarg

4 Lightning Bolt

2 Mana Flare

2 Mana Vault

20 Mountain

2 Shivan Dragon

1 Sol Ring

Sideboard:

3 Manabarbs

2 Flashfires

4 Beasts of Bogardan

3 Disintegrate

2 Shatterstorm

ROBOTS (by Kalle)

Do you like artifacts? Do you like big hefty guys? Pinging from distance or smashin with force as the situation requires? Then Robots might be the deck for you.

Main:

4 Atog

4 Badlands

1 Braingeyser

4 City of Brass

4 Copy Artifact

1 Demonic Tutor

4 Fellwar Stone

1 Fireball

1 Hurkyl's Recall

1 Hymn to Tourach

1 Hymn to Tourach

1 Hymn to Tourach

1 Hymn to Tourach

4 Juggernaut

4 Mana Vault

1 Mind Twist

4 Mishra's Factory

1 Sol Ring

1 Strip Mine

4 Tetravus

4 Triskelion

4 Underground Sea

4 Volcanic Island

1 Wheel of Fortune

Sideboard: none yet

TAXEDGE  (by Kalle)

A remake from a classic OS deck with the extra enabler for the strategy that is Rainbow Vale fomr Fallen Empires. Your opponent has the same land count you have? Give him another one, he might like to keep it and set things in motion!

Main:

1 Balance

4 City of Brass

1 Demonic Tutor

4 Disenchant

1 Feldon's Cane

1 Forest

4 Ivory Tower

4 Land Tax

2 Land's Edge

2 Library of Leng

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Mountain

7 Plains

4 Rainbow Vale

1 Regrowth

1 Sol Ring

1 Strip Mine

4 Swords to Plowshares

4 Sylvan Library

4 Winds of Change

2 Wrath of God

Sideboard: None yet

THE DECK

A true classic from OS formats, significantly underpowered here but still packing a punch. Survive long enough and the result is the same for your opponents!

Main:

2 Aeolipile

1 Braingeyser

3 City of Brass

4 Counterspell

1 Demonic Tutor

4 Disenchant

1 Feldon's Cane

3 Fellwar Stone

1 Fireball

1 Greed

1 Island

3 Jayemdae Tome

2 Lightning Bolt|

1 Mind Twist

4 Mishra's Factory

1 Mountain

1 Nevinyrral's Disk

1 Plains

2 Power Sink

1 Recall

1 Regrowth

2 Serra Angel

1 Sol Ring

2 Stone Rain

1 Strip Mine

1 Swamp

4 Swords to Plowshares

4 Tundra

3 Underground Sea

3 Volcanic Island

Sideboard:

2 Blue Elemental Blast

1 Circle of Protection: Black

2 Circle of Protection: Red

2 Icatian Javelineers

3 Ivory Tower

1 Lightning Bolt

2 Red Elemental Blast|

2 Wrath of God

WHITE WEENIE

Can go wide with creatures, has a couple nasty surprises and some of the best removal in the game, I mean what's not to like here?

Main:

2 Armageddon

1 Balance

4 Crusade

4 Disenchant

1 Eye for an Eye

4 Icatian Javelineers

4 Mishra's Factory

3 Order of Leitbur

13 Plains

2 Resurrection

1 Reverse Damage

2 Ruins of Trokair

4 Savannah Lions

2 Serra Angel

1 Sol Ring

2 Spirit Link

1 Strip Mine

4 Swords to Plowshares

3 White Knight

2 Wrath of God

Sideboard:

1 Circle of Protection: Black

2 Circle of Protection: Red

2 Karma

1 Kismet

2 Meekstone

2 Nevinyrral's Disk

1 Northern Paladin

1 Righteousness

1 Spirit Link

2 Witch Hunter

VISE PRISON

Nasty UW version of another classic deck, walls and removal might help set the thing up and then it's all pain and suffering for your opponent.

Main:

2 Armageddon

4 Black Vise

4 Boomerang

1 Braingeyser

2 City of Brass

2 Clone

2 Control Magic

4 Howling Mine

8 Island

1 Mahamoti Djinn

8 Plains

4 Power Sink

1 Recall

2 Serra Angel

1 Sol Ring

1 Strip Mine

4 Tundra

2 Wall of Air

2 Wall of Swords

3 Winter Orb

2 Wrath of God

Sideboard: None yet

I spy with my little eye

 This is a short list of cards that might have to be restricted in the future but we didn't for now, the power level of the decks is still to be appraised so we just came with a "yeah let's not be too hasty"

On first place, we have a usual suspect: Hymn to tourach. Had several opinions on why black discard decks will be a plague unto the format. Still to be seen tho but we'll surely keep an eye on this one.

Next is an old favorite: Black vise, quite the opposite of the Hymn cause we want our opponents to keep cards in hand don't we?

On a completely different category: Recall, I mean, sure it's restricted in some places but... without the power part of the blue is it that of a threat?

And last but not least an enchantment: Land Tax. Potentially a very strong deck thinner and combo enabler, potentially. 1 mana drop that gets you UP to 3 basic lands for each copy. And yet it remains to be seen how the rest of decks deal with that :)

And for the time being, that is all. If you try the format and see how these particular cards interact in it just drop us a comment :)

I'd like to welcome you all to (yet) another OS format. I don't know if someone came up with this same idea but I feel this will scratch that nostalgia itch with far lower powered decks than 93/94 and with a bit more variety than Alice.

Overprinted was the name I came with the friends I was discussing the thing with but you can also call it RF4C which stands for:

Revised

Fallen Empires

4th edition

Chronicles.

All original prints and  reprints (old border+original art) are legal and welcome. Bring in your 5th edition Shivan Dragons!

Adding Ice Age or homelands was discussed but ultimately ditched in favor of that 1993-94 feeling albeit unpowered of course.

Usual suspects stay restricted with the addition of the strip mine which will be down to 1 (no libraries or mazes to take care of). Ante cards are all banned.

Restricted list:

Balance

Braingeyser

Channel

Demonic tutor

Mind twist
Regrowth

Sol ring

Strip mine

Wheel of fortune