Magic the Gathering: Green/Black against a Blue Flying deck

Question

I have a Green and Black deck and my friend is destroying me ever time we play with his blue(with some white card) flying deck. All of his creature are flying even the ones that are not flying he can make flying with one of the cards he has. I wan to be able to beat him but I have only one card that can do anything to him. Oh and he also has some thing where he shoots his Life points up by like 20 so that is a pain also. Any help is appreciated.

Anyone who just came here to say I'm a nerd or a loser for playing magic can go to h**l. I'll have my interests and you can have yours. Don't even bother posting an answer if it isn't one.

For those of you who are going to be helpful please ignore the last paragraph.

Answer 1

bro you need to change your deck then. I'm not exactly current I last played about 4th ed but I played green/black. You should try to focus on black and life stealing spells.  

Answer 2

My favorite ways include

Hurricane, Squall Line (if he has counter magic), Cloudthresher, Raking Canopy, Tombstalker, bitterblossom gives you blockers, you can stop life gain fairly easily, i like Everlasting Torment (it works well on big creatures and his little fliers)  

Answer 3

make a green-black elf deck with some shriekmaws to deal with his creatures. Put some Tornado Elementals in your deck to deal with the flying issue.

-- Hope this helped.

Answer 4

There are plenty of ways that green and black can deal with flying blue and white creatures, plenty!

To look for references to what I'll be mentioning, look here:

http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/index.as...

For green alone, you have creatures that have the ability to block creatures with flying (keyword for it is "reach"). Essentially anything with a "spider" in the card name will be able to block flying creatures. Also, green is notorious for flier hate. Cards like Hurricane, Gloomwidow's Feast, and Elvish Skysweeper can knock out those problem creatures in a snap.

Black offers an even LARGER set of choices to kill off enemy creatures whether they fly or not. Cards like Terror, Dark Banishing, Rend Flesh, etc. gets rid of problems, no questions asked. If you're still unsure, look for cards that say "Destroy target creature" as that'll give you plenty of results.

Now I'm not trying to tell you to focus your deck on destroying JUST creatures. That'll make your deck pitifully weak against any other type (combo and control), so you might want to add some variety there as well. For green, you could play Desert Twister as that destroys practically anything on the table. For black, you might want to play discard spells like Duress, Hymn to Tourach, Mind Rot, Distress, and other similar cards.

Note that I kept the card suggestions mostly at the common rarity (with the exception of Hurricane, which is a rare). This should make finding and collecting these cards that much easier.

Answer 5

First of all, if you think that anyone will call you a nerd, you are sadly mistaken. Do you see anyone complaining about having Magic as a hobby?

Right. Onto the question.

If you want to hate lifegain specifically, you can always turn to Everlasting torment. It is very simple: "Players can't gain life. Damage can't be prevented." Life gain just bit the dust.

OR you can feature creatures that don't really care about lifegain, such as Kavu Predator. If you have Kavu, you encourage your opponent to gain life. Every life they gain is one that they will lose every following turn.

Or you can simply play faster, more aggressively than he, because he will nearly always be slower than you. Beat him down before he can gain his 20 life from Heroes Remembered or similar.

Hope that helped.