The Deck of Diminished Returns - Version 2, Black and Red
Tuned by Merle D. Zimmermann.
- Stone Giant
- Dwarven Warriors
- Mountain
- Swamp
- Erg Raiders
- Zersplittern (Shatter)
- Mountain
- Hill Giant
- Frozen Shade
- Fear
- Atog
- Howl from Beyond
- Unholy Strength
- Firebreathing
- Mountain
- Fireball
- Swamp
- Mountain
- Dark Ritual
- Fireball
- Swamp
- Red Elemental Blast
- Dwarven Berserker (little book)
- Fear
- Howl from Beyond
- Drudge Skeletons
- Scathe Zombies
- Swamp
- Mountain
- Hill Giant
- Drudge Skeletons
- Fireslinger (little cloud with lightning bolt)
- Raise Dead
- Mountain
- Dark Ritual
- Dark Ritual
- Swamp
- Swamp
- Goblin Swine-Rider (little pendant; Visions=I think)
- Swamp
- Swamp
- Goblin Digging Team (was originally Orcish Conscripts (little
snowflake=Ice Age?))
- Erg Raiders
- Gray Ogre
- Mountain
- Earthbind
- Mountain
- Mountain
- Unholy Strength
- Raise Dead
- Erg Raiders
- Dark Ritual
- Swamp
- Mountain
- Gray Ogre
- Terror
- Firebreathing
- Fireball
- Swamp
- Hill Giant
This deck's win/loss record, as of Game Fourteen or so, is 12 wins,
1 loss (due to only drawing land cards for the first ten rounds. Argh!),
another loss (No land for the first 25!?! rounds), 2 more losses
(4 total), and one draw due to time limitations; When I pitched it against
my Infinite Suffering, it hashed it in less than 7 rounds, going
second.
To get Version 1.7, replace card #42, Goblin Digging Team (The
Dark, but has been rereleased) with #42, Orcish Conscripts.
Total Win/loss record of Diminished Returns to date (March
8th, 1997):
27 wins, 8 losses total-(1;hand being all lands for the first twenty
rounds-2;as I drew no lands), 1 draw on time.
There is a new version of this deck out, but it did not seem to be performing
as well (at least when I wrote this); 3diminishedreturns.html
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