Magic Cards - building a deck?

Question

I'm thinking of building a burn deck or a discard deck, i need help to figure out which one i should build and what cards i should put into it.

Answer 1

if you want a GOOD deck then include plenty of majic and traps. the majic should be a balance of offense and defense. the traps should mainly consist of backup plans for your magic cards. you also want slightly more monsters than spells and traps combined. having only spells is not a good thing.

Answer 2

you should make a discard deck and integrate it with rouges. Cards like noggin whack are great for discard decks and rogue decks.

Here's a mono black rogue decklist I came up with if your interested:

Lands:

22x Swamp

1x Mutavault

Creatures:

2x March Flitter

2x Auntie's Snitch

2x Stinkdrinker Bandit

3x Nightshade Stinger

4x Prickly Boggart

4x Ghostly Changeling

4x Frogtosser Banneret

4x Oona's Blackguard

Other:

1x Bitterblossom

2x Assassinate

2x Unholy Strength

2x Noggin Whack

2x Grave Peril

4x Morsel Theft

4x Violet Pall

4x Pack’s Disdain

Answer 3

Best Burn cards ever:  Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Incinerate, Firebolt, Fire Blast, Ball Lightning, Hammer of Bogardan, Barbarian Ring just name a few.  These are a must in a casual burn deck.

Best Discard cards ever:  Hymn to Tourach, Hypnotic Specter, Mind Twist, Stupor, Duress just to name a few.  If you are talking about standard (T2) then the list will be different.

Answer 4

a nice way to do a discard deck is to have a mix of discard, land destruction and creature control.  Another person answered the question with some good discard cards, but if you add land destruction you make a deck that can win in many ways - keep them from getting too much land on the table, and they cannot do much. Empty their hand and they cannot do much.  Add Megrim so they take pain when they discard.  Add creatures with a good casting cost/power ratio, such as black knight. Withering wretch is good as he lets you nuke their graveyards to get rid of reanimation decks.

Enjoy - but be prepared to make your friends mad.  Mine has banned that very deck from his house...