Alodar's Tower

Welcome to the Tower of Alodar the Archmage, Master of the Five Magics. The aspiring Magic: The Gathering duelist may find here much lore of interest to those who walk the arcane paths.

Alodar's Grimoire of the Planes lies open before you. You may peruse a general guide to the art of deck construction, or contemplate sample decks with explanations.

• Alodar's Axioms for the Art of Deck Construction
• Alodar's Calculator, a program for computing card-draw odds.

The following dueling decks have been constructed in accordance with Alodar's Axioms. They consist of 60-card base decks constructed mostly with commons and a few uncommons, with optional extras from the rarities and artifacts.

• The deck called Green Plague (Green/Black)
• The deck called Stendahl's Mighty Hand (Red/Black)
• The deck called Kraken Flood (Blue/White)
• The deck called Giant's Dance (Red/White)
• The deck called Green Grass and High Tides Forever (Green/Blue)
• The deck called The Apes Of Wrath (Red/Green)
• The deck called Them Bones (Black/White)
• The deck called Death By Roquefort (Green/Blue)
• The deck called Hel's Kitchen (Blue/Black)
• The deck called Bruises From Above (Blue/Black)

Here are some designs not obeying Alodar's Axioms; single-color decks. These are very powerful, fast decks that (because they're single-color) can be stopped dead by a single card (Conversion, for example, will pretty completely neutralize an all-red deck, or Tsunami an all-blue one).

• The deck called Black Dreams (Black)
• The deck called Goblin Market (Red)
• The deck called Dual Druids (Green)
• The deck called Blue Skies. No Candy (Blue)
• The deck called White Swarm (White)
• The deck called Toasted Cheese (Red)

Other peoples' designs:

• The deck called Feedback
• The deck called Use It Or Lose It

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[The use of the name Alodar at this website is by explicit permission of Lyndon Hardy, author of Master of the Five Magics, and is revokable at any time.]