The Kinky Nighthawk

by the_logician on 10 January 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (2 cards)

Sorceries (1)

Enchantments (1)

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Deck Description

The Nighthawk gets kinky with Livewire Lash! Reliable combo because all the combo pieces love being milled into the graveyard. Look and see! Fun to play because you look at so much of the deck and make so many decisions.

Speaking of combo, I once had three Lashes on a Nighthawk. 1 blue mana (artful dodge) = kill three target creatures and gain 6 life; flashback dodge (1mana!), drain life opponent for 6. Swing in for 8 unblockable lifelink damage!

How to Play

First step is fix the mana with birds and evolving wilds. You'll want to see a blue mana early on for things like Ponder, Forbidden Alchemy and flashing Tracker's Instinct. There are only like 11 creatures in the deck so you'll want to see a Tracker's Instinct.

Next step is get the pieces assembled. Drop a creature or two, drop a Lash, or get it back from the graveyard with Buried Ruin. Anticipate your small creatures getting removed: play around with the graveyard, flashback Tracker's Instinct maybe.

Once you have a creature equipped with Livewire Lash, get kinky. I like to start with flashing back a Deadly Allure that got dumped into the graveyard. Now your Lashing creature has deathtouch until end of turn. Why not target birds with Hunger of the Howlpack, assign 2 points of deathtouch damage to another target creature, and then morbid lets you put three +1/+1 counters on the birds for 1 mana. Not bad. You get the idea.

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for The Kinky Nighthawk

Kinky stuff.

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Posted 10 January 2013 at 21:45

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Hi,
this deck seems rather complicated which potentially makes it slow and easy to disturb. Why do you want to get everything in your graveyard, just to get it back on top of your library or in your hand? There is so much graveyard hate out there that this seems pretty risky and furthermore there are tutors that simply get the cards you need directly from your library into your hand.
Besides, running 1 offs without a way to tutor them seems pretty random as well. The chance to draw them when you need them is simply too small. Especially cards like Ponder and Preordain, which are intended to give a deck a certain stability, only work if you can rely on drawing them once in a while. Otherwise you have an inconsistent way of improving the consistency which in itself seems ...
I'm not sure i understand why you added blue and green anyway. It seems you added blue primarily for Artful Dodge and green for colour fixing. That alone doesnt seem worth it compared to a mono black version. It makes sense to use blue to get your combo pieces but you'd use 4 Ponder and 4 Brainstorm instead of 1 Ponder, 1 Preordain and this weird Tracker Instincts / Forbidden Alchemy / Buried Ruin etc combo. That way the deck should run more stable and get you your combo pieces more reliably. Again, alternatively you'd use tutors.

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Posted 12 January 2013 at 19:25

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