Inspired from the rants thing about Cantors, if you had to build a deck to represent an organization in Lusternia, what would it be?

I don't really have any thought up, but I will assert that Serenwilde is Green/Black and Glomdoring is Green/White.

White/blue for Celest, but I dunno enough m:tg to elaborate =\\

Mag is definitely red/black.

I don't know. I'd lean more pure black. You can't tell me a coherent military force like the Ur'guard is black/red. Have you seen Rakdos? Black/red is more about smashing things for the fun of it, killing because you want to, and just doing whatever to get ahead. Magnagora is too disciplined for a full black/red. All the orgs have all the colors, of course, but I don't think that's their primary.

Woah, waiting for you to explain that decision. All IC ambiguity, we know that Glomdoring is the more evil-like organisation. Evil-like because all colors have potential for good and evil, only some are more obvious than others.

That being said, I'd put both Serenwilde and Glomdoring as Green. Only different flavours of green. They don't really mix well with other colors, maybe Red for Serenwilde.

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That sounds just like Tully. You sure you ain't him?

Umm, did you reverse those on purpose?


I'd make Serenwilde an Elven deck, and glomdoring a spore deck, Celest an Abbot deck/with some blue in there, Mag a Vampire deck, Hallifax a Blue deck, Gauduchi a Fireball deck, and Ackelberry a Green/Blue deck.

I'd like to think a serenwilde would have a nice base of elves, with a backup of tokens, and a lot of stuff like fog/choking vines to control damage. Mainly green, possibly a bit of white

Mag, I can see being monoblack, mix of clerics and zombies.

Glom, I'd say green and black, more for feel than actual attitude.

Celest, blue/white all the way.

From the Ravnica block with the guilds and all, Hallifax is white/blue more than Celest, I'd say, 'cuz Hallifax seems more like that, like the flavortext for Prahv (something along the lines of "Prahv, the Spires of Order, where much work is done to make sure that nothing is accomplished"). Glom does feel green-black, yes. Besides the water mage thing, Celest *could* be like the Boros since Celest's policy seems to be to mow down anything against their ways (with angels!).

That's a fair point, boros does fit Celest better than blue/white.

Celest leans a lot more heavily towards Red/White than Blue/White. The Aquamancers can be thought of as a flavour of Blue/White. Magnagora is very Black; the Ur'Guard is monoblack, the Nihilists are Red/Black, the Geomancers are probably Blue/Black or Blue/Black/Red. Verithrax just screams Blue/Red in all his incarnations, but he's been constantly oscillating between Blue/Red/White and Blue/Red/Black. Serenwilde is either White/Green or Red/Green depending on incarnation, and Glomdoring is definitely Green with some Red, Black or White thrown in depending on guild. Gaudiguch is set up to be monored but I feel it'll end up being played as Red/Black, while Hallifax is definitely set up as a Blue/White. Deepnight strikes me as very White/Black, a closely-knit community of selfish people.

Morgfyre is a Red/Black character, Terentia is Red/White, Lacostian is very, very monoblue, and Elcyrion is monowhite, maybe with some blue thrown in. Charune is monogreen, I'd say, but I don't know him very well. Viravain is extremely White, or extremely Black, depending on how you look at it.

I'd say Magnagora is a Red/Black deck involving mages, zombies, clerics and demons/devils. Serenwilde is Green/White elf and druid deck. Glomdoring is a green/white/black spider and druid deck. Celest is a white/red deck filled with Boros archetypes and monowhite soldiers, clerics, and wimpier angels. Hallifax is a blue/white control deck with lots of fliers, and Gaudiguch is a monored deck with lots of direct damage and land destruction.

Akroma is SOOO Celest. It has to be a must.

Akroma is too fat to be in a Celest deck. Celest's deck would be a white weenie deck filled with 1 drops.

Psh. Glomdoring is so Black/Blue. Swamps and twisted reality

I put Serenwilde as Green/Black because we're far more about individual freedom than Glomdoring is. Glomdoring is Green/White because it's all about the community, Glomdoring is everything, etc, etc. Ignoring for the moment people's thoughts on how the war ended, Serenwilde went to war over people being allowed to do what they want. That's not really white in the least. Green/White is represented in Ravnica as basically being a cult. A good-natured cult, but a cult nonetheless. That fits Glomdoring much better than Serenwilde.

I would concede that Serenwilde could simply be mono-green, but Glomdoring is definitely green/white.

I was thinking about Celest more historically for blue/white, trying to reach higher planes and such.

Heh, someone with time actually build a deck for an org!

Akroma can be the, ahem, Lusternian Financial Supporter in Celest. And though Glomdoring seems good-natured, remember the name of the forest: It's the freaking Forest of No Mercy.

I wouldn't call Glomdoring G/W. Look at Thelon and the Thallids. I see what you're getting at with the fanatical devotion though. Celest I like as R/W too as per Verithrax. We don't really have any blue organisations. I wouldn't call the mage guilds blue either. And Magnagora is pretty uniformly mono-black. Even the Nihilists. I'm just not seeing the red there. The Nihilists (and Fain) are into plans and plots, no? That's more Dimir than Rakdos.

But Fain is the Red Masque, doesn't that count as something? Oh yeah, and the Taint is said to generally turn the skin red or black, according to some Hallifax report in the histories.