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Jack of All Trades

Creator: Mr. Crovax (www.MTGnews.com)

A Deck for the Effects Magic Variant

Notes from the creator: 

Anyway, the deck is designed to be VERY fun. It can deal infinite damage with the Aluren/assault combo, you can dump a bunch of stuff, then play replenish, or if you play it right, you can get a broken RecurSur engine going.

Card - by - Card Analysis

Mana Base
Duals - Ya can't play stuff without mana 

Fetchlands - They thin the deck and allow me to run a greater variety of duels.

Library of Alexandria - Hhhmmm.........what can i say, drawing cards is good 

Bazaar of Baghdad - It lets me draw cards and helps set up multiple "techs" built into the deck, like dumping enchantments into the graveyard for replenish or creatures for a living death or recurring nightmare.

Creatures
Mindless Automation - It's awesome in this deck and can actually swing a game in my favor all by itself. It's lets me discard AND draw at instant speed. Hhhmmmmm.........tasty 

Volrath's Shapshifter - It let's me discard stuff to help set up combos, and if for whatever reason I can't get some reanimation going, it can become whatever creature I want.

Cavern Harpy and Horned Kavu - These are in strictly for the Aluren combo.

The other creatures are basically a mixture of some FILTHY "comes into play" abilities: bounce, LD, enchantment destruction, discard, etc, a very nice variety.

Search/Draw
Exploration - Ok, so this isn't really search or draw.......sue me! It's a cool card and an extra land per turn is always good, especially in a deck like mine, which can be rather slow.

Necropotence - Let's me use my life total to dig through the deck.

Demonic Tutor - The optimal play, I've found through a little testing would be this on turn 2 for a survival of the fittest. Other than that, it just gets me what i need, when i need it.

Enlightened Tutor - Gets me whatever artifact or enchantment I'm looking for.

Diabolic Tutor - Same as demonic, minus the optimal play.

Worldly Tutor - Fetches whatever creature i need at any given moment.

Combos

Living Death - With all the discard effect I have, I can just dump a bunch of stuff and then bring it all back. Simple, huh? 

Buried Alive - Condensed version: it puts whatever creatures I want in the graveyard.

Scroll Rack - Let's me dig as deep as my hand will allow, sounds good to me.

Aluren + Furious Assault - This is for when I feel like killing everyone at once 

Recurring Nightmare + Survival of the Fittest - It's a broken recursion engine.........me like broken 

Replenish - This is for when I'm feeling especially evil. I can throw infinite damage at a couple people's heads AND kill others with re-animated beat-sticks.

Well, that's my deck, hope you like it