Neo-Orzhov: Life & Death

by Phlight on 14 July 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

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Deck Description

Sanguine Bond, Lifelink, Extort, Path to Bravery. I got Sanguine Bond, Seraph of the Sword, Mark of the Vampire, Gnawing Zombie and Tenacious Dead in sealed and made a deck out of it. It worked pretty well, but I thought it would work even better with extort so I combined it with my Orzhov deck to hopefully make a better deck overall. I took out the Seraph of the Swords, and added Archangel of Thune for more power when you gain life. Suggestions are welcome!

How to Play

LIfelink and extort your way to victory. Get Sanguine bond out as quickly as possible and drain life away. Extort after your cheap spells and sacrifice creatures and tokens you don't need using Gnawing Zombie for more life draining. Path of Bravery is great for powering up your creatures and you can gain life for every attacking creature.

With Sanguine Bond out, just extort and and attack away with lifelink. Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood is the basic infinite combo to gain life and damage your opponent. Archangel of Thune will give all your creatures +1/+1 for extorting and gaining life, and if you get the infinite life combo going, you'll get infinite +1/+1 counters as well, but it's really just overkill at that point.

Deck Tags

  • Standard
  • Extort
  • Lifelink
  • Orzhov
  • Combo

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Neo-Orzhov: Life & Death

One card you could add that isn't very expensive to make an ugly combo is Exquisite Blood. Came out of Avacyn Restored, so it is still legal in standard. That combined with the "extort" is just as nasty as Sanquine Bond. And both Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood together make a loop.

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Posted 14 July 2013 at 12:43

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Thanks a lot, that's a great idea! I've added one to the deck, replacing the Staff of the Sun Magus. Now I'll have to hunt some of those down.

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Posted 14 July 2013 at 17:54

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I've always been a fan of the card Stab Wound. It easily can become a win condition on it's own. :-) It also matches the general Idea of Extort.

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Posted 20 July 2013 at 01:10

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Hm, that's an interesting suggestion, they would speed up the life draining a little bit... Okay then, I've sideboarded the Purge the Profanes for Stab Wounds to test them out. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Posted 21 July 2013 at 09:05

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OK, believe me you won't regret it. However, let me warn you now. Don't wait too long to play it. As soon as they put out a creature with 3 toughness, stab that sucker! And you're welcome :-)

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Posted 21 July 2013 at 10:56

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