At Death's Pearly Gates 3.0

by Arkas on 12 May 2011

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Deck Description

Reworked my former "demon" deck, sideboarded DDoG and Reiver for multis when I need heavy firepower and I'll be sitting on mana. They're just a bit slower than I tend to like in a one on one. I'd rather trim it down to roughly 70 cards and let Sheoldred clear the board for me. I draw into her often enough, losing 1 isn't world ending. Nighthawk or Blind Zealot turn 1 is though, for my opponent.

Deck Tags

  • Aggro

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for At Death's Pearly Gates 3.0

If you're looking to shave this down a bit, consider dropping either Doom Blade or Go For the Throat and sideboarding the one you drop. In many scenarios, you can usually get away with one or the other, and if you know what your opponent is playing ahead of time, just rock the one that works best to start.

Otherwise, I'm not sure you really 'need' Sheoldred here. I think you'd be best dropping her entirely, for the most part. She's incredibly expensive and running 4 Cabal Coffers really doesn't make her all that much 'cheaper'/easier to play. Cabal Coffers is an amazing card, don't get me wrong, but in an opening hand, it's a dead land. Ideally, you'd want a swamp in almost any situation (unless you're running Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and/or Drain Life/Consume Spirit/Exsanguinate). What I'm getting at is this, you could probably do without the Coffers, too.

With those three removals (Blade/Throat, Sheoldred, Coffers), you're down to 58 cards. Looking elsewhere, Dread is great, but as a 'onsie' becomes questionable. Drop him to go to 57, and consider upping your Obliterator count to 2 (or 3 to make an even 60). Grave Titan works here, as well, but if you take to the other suggestions, he becomes the only larger than 4 CC card in the deck and might become out of place on it's own. Your call.

Not sure if any of these suggestions are where you 'want' to go with the deck, but they might make for some beneficial changes as it would be thinner (down to 60) and lighter (curve of 4 or less).

Hope these suggestions help.

If you get a chance, I welcome any comments or criticism you can offer on any of the decks I have posted here. Thanks!

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Posted 13 May 2011 at 00:16

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I appreciate the input, I really do, but I have little desire to worship 60 cards as the only possible solution to a Magic: The Gathering deck. I play very little one on one, but I'm proud of how this runs. Dropping DDoG for Sheoldred wasn't easy for me. I LOVE DDoG. Fucking fantastic card. Just expensive as all hell. The decks I post up here, I own. I only proxy for testing purposes and/or until the cards I put in the deck are physically in my possession. I will take those notes into consideration, but I enjoy having an ungodly amount of removal in my deck. My opponents don't have creatures. There's nothing there. I'm busy letting them think they can swing and tap a lil mana and oh look, creature never even made it to the block step.

I know Coffers is sometimes a dead card, but not always. Most games I play last long enough that unless I'm retardedly mana screwed, I'm getting a min of 4 or 5 mana for tapping a Coffer bare minimum. I run Sheoldred now because I no longer need Disentomb or Cadaver Imp (1/1 flying Gravedigger from Eldrazi set :D), and she's board control like a bitch. Again, fantastic.

And believe me, if/when I get more Obliterators in my possession, this is where they go. I'll dump them straight in. Bullshit card, and I can turn 2 it, no problem. If I decide I really want to keep this at 70, I could drop Bad Moon, possibly Dread too. I treat Dread like a 3rd Grave Titan. 6/6 for 6, a couple awesome abilities, big fucking problem for my opponents. FYI, giving a player deathtouch is awesome. :D

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Posted 13 May 2011 at 02:09

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I really like this deck. Good consistency of everything needed.

If ya can I have a few decks. If ya can give advice on the vampire deck I have I'd appreciate it.

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Posted 13 May 2011 at 06:33

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