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'''Fish''' is a collective name for a series of decks, usually [[blue]] with the occasional [[splash]] in another color and utilizes cheap creatures, usually of the type [[Merfolk]], and [[counter|countermagic]] to keep the opponent at bay.
{{otheruses|Vintage Fish deck}}


What Fish decks have in common is they are meta-decks, designed to beat what they will play against. Fish's biggest advantage is its adaptability, and Fish can be tuned to win against almost any deck. A player playing with Fish must therefore have a lot of cards, since his build will vary over time, and have a good eye for which decks that will be played during the next tournament. The name Fish comes from an old Extended deck which was built around merfolk, counterspells and <c>Standstill</c>. The deck won by making it hard for the opponent to make anything productive until all the small creatures had killed him. When Fish was adopted into [[Vintage]], the merfolk one after one dropped from the lists, but the name remained. Fish decks can be in any color or combination of colors, but usually include blue to be able to play <c>Force of Will</c>. Fish also often includes some power-hate, such as <c>Chalice of the Void</c> or <c>Null Rod</c>. From there it's totally up to the deckbuilder to include cards that will do well in the current meta. Good Fish decks are proactive decks, that plays creatures that will make it hard for your opponent to play, like <c>Meddling Mage</c>, while they slowly beat him to death.
'''Fish''' is a [[blue]] [[creature]] [[subtype|type]] used for any gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animal that lacks limbs with digits. Included in this definition are Lampreys, and cartilaginous fishes like sharks, rays and mantas A related race is [[Merfolk]].


Nufish is a updated fish deck that has a few [[tutor]] effects, and utilizes <c>Jace the Mind Sculptor</c>, along with a relatively large number of creatures including <c>Dark Confidant</c> and <c>Trygon Predator</c> as both win conditions and board control. This particular deck list won the 2010 Gencon vintage event.
The first creature to bear the type Fish was <c>Manta Ray</c> in ''[[Weatherlight]]'' (though the <c>Devouring Deep</c> from ''[[Legends]]'' was later issued errata to become Fish as well).


NuFish deck:  
==Creature Update==
<d title="NuFish">
Creature types changed into Fish include:
* '''Dandân''' (<c>Dandân</c>)
* '''Devouring-Deep''' (<c>Devouring Deep</c>)
* '''Eel''' (<c>Electric Eel</c>)
* '''Island-Fish''' (<c>Island Fish Jasconius</c>)
* '''Shark''' (<c>Giant Shark</c>)


Lands
==Examples of regular fish==
1  Flooded Strand
* <c>Coral Eel</c>
1  Forest
* <c>School of Piranha</c>
1  Island
* <c>Hammerhead Shark</c>
4  Misty Rainforest
1  Polluted Delta
1  Scalding Tarn
1  Tolarian Academy
2  Tropical Island
3  Underground Sea
1  Volcanic Island


Creatures
==Trivia==
4  Dark Confidant
*<c>Quagmire Lamprey</c>, the only [[black]] Fish.
1  Inkwell Leviathan
*<c>Windrider Eel</c>, <c>Sky-Eel School</c>, <c>Wormfang Manta</c> all have [[Flying]].
3  Trygon Predator
*<c>Skyreach Manta</c> is the only Artifact Fish.
*<c>Phantasmal Mount</c> is the only [[Illusion]] Horse.
*<c>Sacred Prey</c> received the subtype solely based on its artwork.


Artifacts
==See also==
1 Black Lotus
* [[Horseman]]
1 Mox Emerald
* [[Horsemanship]], granted by <c>Riding the Dilu Horse</c>
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Time Vault
1 Voltiac Key
1 Sensei's Diving Top
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring


Instants
{{Template:Races}}[[Category:Creature types]]
1  Ancestral Recall
1  Brainstorm
4  Force of Will
2  Mana Drain
1  Nature's Claim
4  Spell Pierce
3  Thoughtseize
1  Vampiric Tutor
 
Sorceries
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will
 
Planeswalkers
3 Jace the Mind Sculptor
 
Sideboard
4  Leyline of the Void
3  Nature's Claim
1  Pithing Needle
1  Pyroblast
2  Red Elemental Blast
2  Sower of Temptation
2  Yixlid Jailer
</d>
 
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Revision as of 07:40, 13 August 2011

For other uses, see Vintage Fish deck.

Fish is a blue creature type used for any gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animal that lacks limbs with digits. Included in this definition are Lampreys, and cartilaginous fishes like sharks, rays and mantas A related race is Merfolk.

The first creature to bear the type Fish was Manta Ray in Weatherlight (though the Devouring Deep from Legends was later issued errata to become Fish as well).

Creature Update

Creature types changed into Fish include:

Examples of regular fish

Trivia

See also

Template:Races

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