Illness Orchard Legacy!

by kmk888 on 31 July 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (1)


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Deck Description

This is a fun, almost-competitive legacy deck. It's just the abuse of Illness in the Ranks and Forbidden Orchard/Varchild's War-Riders. This ends up being way more fun than it sounds. Other good things to add in are Hunted Troll, Hunted Phantasm, Swan Song, and Mercy Killing for Tarmogoyf- smashing fun!

The Lightning Bolts, Thoughtseizes, Hymns to Tourach, Aether Vials, and Abrupt Decays are concessions to the competitiveness of the format. They aren't necessary to the deck, but are very very helpful in certain matchups.

It's also quite budget friendly if you don't use the ideal manabase that I have shown here and don't get the sideboarded cards. The most expensive card that is important to the function of the deck is Forbidden Orchard, and it isn't cheap. If aren't going to play competitively though you can always proxy it.

The real core of the deck is just:

4 Illness in the Ranks
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Varchild's War-Riders
4 Blood Artist
3 Blood Seeker
3 Goblin Sharpshooter
3 Rakdos Charm
2 Blasphemous Act (or different cheap mass removal)

This part of the deck (using the Mid estimate on the Deck Stats section) is $42.96. Without the Forbidden Orchards (assuming you proxied them or something) it's $21.00, which is nothing compared to most legacy decks. So I'm pretty pleased with that.

Most fun card not currently in the deck:
M?e?r?c?y? ?K?i?l?l?i?n?g?
Mogg Infestation

Possible Good Inclusions:
Bloodchief Ascension
Tempt with Vengeance
Maelstrom Pulse
Echoing Decay

Deck Tags

  • Legacy
  • Fun
  • Budget

Deck at a Glance

Social Stats

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

0033140

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Illness Orchard Legacy!

I love it. I think you should probably run Golgari Charm over Rakdos Charm though, because it provides similar utility, but it kills true-name nemesis and friends.

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Posted 31 July 2014 at 22:39

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Good idea! It's also good for killing tokens, although the Rakdos Charm is better at outright winning with the damage mode.

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Posted 31 July 2014 at 22:43

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Also, this is giving me ideas for Modern...

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Posted 31 July 2014 at 22:51

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Like what? Happy to hear!

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Posted 31 July 2014 at 22:56

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http://www.mtgvault.com/imfromnasa/decks/modern-illness-orchard/

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Posted 31 July 2014 at 23:25

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Basilisk Collar on Goblin Sharpshooter doesn't make friends, but it's sure fun machine gun the other players creatures.

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Posted 01 August 2014 at 02:04

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good idea!

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Posted 01 August 2014 at 02:29

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