Majiya Portal Deck: Opinions please

[stevevai1983]

Portal Majiya is my all time favor deck now
Bella > Wulven Tracker here
my suggestion:

-3 Wulven Tracke +3 Bella
-3 PB(PB is bad with portal !) replace with 2DM or BM then add 1 more SK
-3 Dagger of Unmaking +1 Portal +1 DMT

Brut is also super good,, see if you can find a place for him

[Aleczander35]

Hmmmm can't answer that . I love this kinda deck cos I mostly play it so it's a personal thing. Somewhere around 15 ? I have a similar Eladwen deck which is maybe a tad weaker because of the allies. There are some impressive looking wulven decks but you've really got to know what your doing and be patient. I love decks that aren't obvious and raise a few eye brows, how about you

Yea same here, one thing I love about my greatest deck so far the Shadowstalker deck, is that if I get a really crappy draw to start and immediately get in a hole, I have healing cards like scarlet vest and things like Lance ability with Raven to make an Ogloth useless. I've come back with 5 health b4 and beat a guy with 20.

[Aleczander35]

Portal Majiya is my all time favor deck now
Bella > Wulven Tracker here
my suggestion:

-3 Wulven Tracke +3 Bella
-3 PB(PB is bad with portal !) replace with 2DM or BM then add 1 more SK
-3 Dagger of Unmaking +1 Portal +1 DMT

Brut is also super good,, see if you can find a place for him

Sorry but I'm new to forums, I could use some explanations on all those abbreviations if don't mind.

[Nerdom]

Keep the daggers. Everyone will say lose the daggers but I'm not sure tray play this deck. It's up to you in the end and it all depends n your style of play. The reason people are negative about daggers is because it's a fairly recent addition to Mage before that it was always retreat. Try different things and see what works best for you.

[Aleczander35]

Ok I am very happy with what it is currently, I'm going to start building this deck and Swap out cards and experiment with new stuff and whatever I find I will edit the original post with what I have changed and keep it updated.
Thanks to Nerdom and Stevenai and everyone else who posted
Hopefully this will help a lot of people.

[Icebear]

Sorry but I'm new to forums, I could use some explanations on all those abbreviations if don't mind.

check this thread:
http://www.shadowera.com/showthread.php?p=147974

[danae]

Keep the daggers. Everyone will say lose the daggers but I'm not sure tray play this deck. It's up to you in the end and it all depends n your style of play. The reason people are negative about daggers is because it's a fairly recent addition to Mage before that it was always retreat. Try different things and see what works best for you.

I don't think the responses you've got about DoU are related to mages making use of them. It's more about mages making use of them in a Majiya portal deck. Most Maj-Portal decks I've seen in the high ratings (280+) I did not see using DoU. Doesn't mean that they didn't have it in their deck though, but once they have put down portal, their main focus is sending allies out of the portal, not bouncing back your opponent's allies. I have a pretty good Majiya deck (not portal) and I have 3 DoU in it. I probably only use one DoU in most of my games but I find it a great addition to a mage deck.

[Nerdom]

At the risk of repeating myself. Bounce ally back. Portal your allies inflict damage, come on it's not rocket science. I'm bored trying to convince people do what you want your lose. Have you critics even tried it or are you just being obtuse.

[Nerdom]

Don't make me draw a picture

[Aleczander35]

Ok so I'm definitely not getting rid of the dagger, it's got such board control power.
I considered Belladonna but she is killed to easily, she can never actually get in a hit.
I would like to find a way to put in Brutal Minotaur, but I can't justify losing any other allies for it.
I also might add 4 Brutalis just so that you can make sure that by the second draw you should have either Research or Brutalis to play. But this would mean 46 cards.
Suggestions?