Grazing Gates

by Grimmbone on 03 April 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (4 cards)

Instants (4)

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Deck Description

A deck abusing toughness bonuses in standard using hold the gates in combination with Disciple of Griselbrand and Vizkopa guildmage. It' a bit slow, but if you stabilize you can have life coming out your ears.

Tips on sideboarding would be nice.

How to Play

Ideally, you want hold the gates in your opening hand with a few gates, and just about any creature. Once you've got your gates, sac creatures to either korozda guildmage or disciple of gristelbrand for profit!

so, on the board you could have a mana dork at 1/4, a korozda guildmage, and a disciple. Sac the mana dork, netting you 4 1/4 saprolings, then eat the tokens with the disciple for 16 life. Better if you have korozda or a faithmender out, but it still good.

Vault of the archangel does some work here too, once you're creatures are beefy enough.

Deck Tags

  • Standard
  • Life Gain
  • Token

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Grazing Gates

Nice deck. Though I don't see a real use for the Korozda Guildmage. I'd advice to replace a few or all of them with the Exquisite Blood enchantment, which works really well with the Vizkopa Guildmage.

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Posted 03 April 2013 at 12:45

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Thanks. The Korozda guildmage is there mostly to net more blockers later in the game. Trading in a useless mana elf or a doomed traveler for a bunch of blockers is a pretty nice option, but I'll probably take another one out for exquisite blood.

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Posted 03 April 2013 at 13:05

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