Bike's Type 4 Stack
617 Card Multiplayer Battle Box Silver-bordered Vintage Cube
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This is my Type 4 stack. We use it for casual multiplayer games. We don't draft it; I just grab a chunk of cards from the box, shuffle it a bit, plop it down on the table and we start playing.
The rules of Type 4:
Players have infinite mana of all types at all times.
Players can only cast one spell per turn.
The deck is shared.
The starting and maximum hand size is four.
A few notes on card selection:
There are no duplicates, no functional reprints and no card is strictly better than any other.
There are no tutors.
There are no cards that instantly kill a player.
There are no lands.
There are no cards that lock down the board indefinitely (e.g. Legacy Weapon, Azorius Guildmage).
There is no special errata.
I tend to choose cards that lead to novel gameplay rather than just choosing the best cards.
Silver-bordered cards, acorn cards and test cards are allowed as long as they don't break the game TOO hard.
I tend not to choose cards that hose a single player (e.g. Cruel Ultimatum, Overwhelming Splendor).
I tend not to choose cards that stop people from playing the game (e.g. Nullstone Gargoyle, Sire of Insanity).
I tend not to choose cards that interact with multiple players' libraries at once (milling, parley, etc., it gets messy).
Unlike many other Type 4 stacks, I don't use the "alternate cost rule." Mechanics like cascade don't function when you can only cast one spell each turn and I don't want to burden the players with rules about exceptions to the rules, so I don't use them.
Ostensibly the BLB update, but it actually includes a bunch of cards from other sets, too.
BizarroBike posted to Bike's Type 4 Stack -
Mainboard Changelist+50, -46
- Moria Scavenger
- Salvation Swan
- Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
- The Rani
- The Beamtown Bullies
- Inversion Behemoth
- Cavalier of Gales
- Moonstone Eulogist
- Vona, Butcher of Magan
- Alania, Divergent Storm
- Círdan the Shipwright
- Mr. Foxglove
- Volrath, the Shapestealer
- Angelic Sell-Sword
- Orochi Soul-Reaver
- Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
- Yargle and Multani
- Meglonoth
- Metamorphic Blast
- Dawn Charm
- Pawpatch Formation
- Boros Charm
- Your Temple Is Under Attack
- Consumed by Greed
- Windswift Slice
- Quandrix Command
- Naya Charm
- Jeskai Charm
- Become Anonymous
- Desynchronization
- Discombobulate
- Spellgyre
- Sudden Substitution
- Wild Ricochet
- Blunt the Assault
- Galadhrim Ambush
- Early Winter
- Turn // Burn
- Response // Resurgence
- Expel the Interlopers
- What Must Be Done
- Ghouls' Night Out
- Call for Aid
- Celestial Judgment
- Collision of Realms
- Foreboding Steamboat
- Stormchaser's Talent
- Trial of a Time Lord
- Fealty to the Realm
- In the Darkness Bind Them
- Smirking Spelljacker
- Elspeth Conquers Death
- Headliner Scarlett
- Endless Detour
- Consecrate // Consume
- Time Wipe
- Pulse of the Grid
- Seht's Tiger
- Sakashima's Student
- Hold for Questioning
- Damn
- Commence the Endgame
- Author of Shadows
- Valiant Endeavor
- Behold the Multiverse
- Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats
- Bone Rattler
- Bag of Holding
- Elder Deep-Fiend
- Mayael the Anima
- Frilled Mystic
- Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
- Vela the Night-Clad
- Dragonlord Silumgar
- Wydwen, the Biting Gale
- Drogskol Reaver
- Fractured Identity
- Foster
- Evolutionary Leap
- Moment's Peace
- Acidic Slime
- Hateflayer
- Diabolic Servitude
- Phthisis
- Time Stop
- Spelljack
- Gather Specimens
- Aethersnatch
- Commit // Memory
- Keiga, the Tide Star
- Arcanis the Omnipotent
- Hallowed Burial
- Gideon's Phalanx
- Fated Retribution
- Seed Spark
- Resolute Archangel
Type Four is supposed to be about playing with incredibly powerful cards, but I hate the feeling of drawing a card that is worse than a card somebody else drew. So, I'm cutting some of the long-time powerhouses. Time Stop is both the best counterspell and the best fog. Aethersnatch, Spelljack and Smirking Spelljacker are right behind it. Gather Specimens is the best control magic. Gideon's Phalanx is the best wrath-dodger.
Hateflayer has to leave because they finally printed a vehicle worthy of inclusion. Three card combos are fine, but two card combos are not.
Sakashima's Student is leaving because I only own one copy and I want to put it in my cube.
Beyond that, most of the cuts are just weak or boring cards leaving to make room for different stuff.
The four extra cards come from desleeving the four Reassembling Skeletons that I kept in the box in case somebody drew Bone Rattler.