I cannot wait for Waste Not. That'll be an instant include. If you hymn and they discard a land, you have 2 more black mana open to discard more cards and either create tokens or draw cards. Imagine a hymn hitting a land to cast another hymn. Orgasmic. Though, other than hero's downfall, I do not know what to cut for it. Also, I've tried out victim of night, and it is much better than doom blade in legacy. It kills bob, deathrite shaman, and arcbound ravenger... though, if mutavault is a thing in your meta...
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I guess I have been checking my notifications and commenting here just so I could talk to people who love this format... just so I could get more notifications and do something with this account so that I don't have to go to a forum. Comments are more fun than forums, imo. Anyhow, just so I'm not booted for being garrulous, I shall relate this to the topic at hand. I personally would try to find room for another sculler, but your mana base seems a bit iffy for three of them. So two seems about right. How's your mana working for you? Did you proxy this deck and test with it?
Oh! Now I see what you did there, Bl@ckf¡r£_Ph¤en¿x ;-PEven though I only really play legacy and modern on summer, winter, and spring vacations (my summer classes are online, so it's OK if I stay up 'till 3), doing drafts every friday and EDH every Saturday has greatly increased how well I play legacy and Modern, but not nearly as much as actually playing legacy and modern.
Thanks, trollking. I still want to playtest some of these un-playables :-P
Thanks for the help. I was aware of the meekstone lock, but my meta does a good job of playing around meekstone. Since I play dredge and someone plays reanimator, more people have been main-decking scavenging oozes instead of tarmogoyfs. Death and Taxes is also played. Hmm. Now that I think of it, the opportunity cost of running 3 vs 2 is not nearly high enough to drop any, nor is there any real incentive to play 4.
I hate black vise being banned. Good to know. I haven't ever actually tested The Rack before (as implied in my description). Maybe I'll cut it for either cabal therapies or bile bites as with your deck.
Yes pls. I love legacy pox decks. But I'd prefer building that like an entirely different archetype.
Upon seeing you deck, I decided to upload a black discard deck I run in legacy. http://www.mtgvault.com/logazor/decks/semibudget-mbc-legacy/Take anything you like from it. Since I'm on a budget, I don't have enough for a damnation and 2 liliana of the veil, nor for 2-3 ensnaring bridges that would suggest for myself, for I'm not running nearly as much creature control as you. Bile blight seems interesting. I might try throwing some in the sideboard to test with.
Why 3 Blind obedience? I assume it's anti-meta (personally, I play a lot of MUD, fish, and BUG), but you already have tutors (though only 4 that can search for it, so...). My point--or should I say question--is that I do not understand :-(I'd love to hear what you have to say about that card choice. I would agree with JensDragon, but I would probably be running 4 shamans, dropping a ghast and only run 3 hymns... but hymn to tourach is so good. But so are scullers... I don't think I can help you with much. I've only played budget MBC and dredge.
I love how your sideboard is coming along! It seems pretty interractive and has a lot of synergies with your deck to begin with.
Yeah. I hate standard because I can't constantly buy new cards for a meta that drastically changes every month or so. I play, in order of frequency, limited, EDH, casual multiplayer with my friends nearby the school theatre (though I'm not in theatre, I play tuba and trombone for different bands), legacy, and modern. Standard once. When both overwhelming stampede and overrun were in standard (maybe I should play more if that's it).
Nice! I guess that's why I like playing my golgari beats or golgari discard EDH decks. I love aggro or control EDH decks. They're fun to play, and seem to rely more on minute plays that impact the game much later on. Though, in other formats, I love playing interactive decks with combos, such as birthing pod (but I don't have the money for it), elves, and dredge. Especially dredge. It is incredibly interactive games two and three. You inspired me to make an aggro/control momir deck. I think I'll use your's as a blueprint, but build it for multiplayer.
Mana might be a problem. So might speed. You pack a lot of powerful creatures, but they might be difficult to bring out (and keep out) without control. Also, try really cutting your curve down and consider buying some shock lands. I know they're a bit expensive, but at least they're not fetches or duals. I'd also try to include city of brass and darksteel ignot. Maybe cut Kalonian hydra, Telemin performance, collective blessings, diabolic revelations, diabolic tutor, and all the auras for (most importantly) more lands. Also, check out buried alive. I'd try to go a reanimator theme with heavier black and green (splash white) with maybe a few lands in other colors (thanks to, hopefully, shocks) that you can more easily fetch. Also, try cutting your curve down to cheaper tutors/combo pieces/reanimator cards. Good luck with your chromat!
Hey, you actually have two more cards that you can add, since you have 3x Simic Charm. I'm not sure if you knew that already, but just thought about pointing it out. What about a few extra turn cards for infinite turns (or just as many as it takes to win, since there can't really be infinite turns) combos with archaeomancer?
Yeah, I second that, even though I have more legacy experience than modern (and not a whole lot at that). I play mono green elves (because I don't have a big wallet) and run quite a bit of hate. Inkmoth can often kill me before I can cast my hate.
I tend to beat LED dredge decks after sideboard...but other than that, I tend to loose game one in the semi-mirror. (I ask the magic gods for a good game 2 and game 3). I wish I had the money for LEDs. I wish I had the money for LandStill, Snapcaster, or shardless BUG. (I just love the color combinations of BG, UG, and BUG). Yeah, your deck looks really fun. I might try proxying it to play with anybody who attends the legacy tournaments. I'm happy that, within 5 miles of me, there are 4 gaming stores that collectively cover all formats (EDH tournaments, too) except vintage. Good luck on your sideboard! It looks pretty good to me; then again, I have no experience playing this deck.
I don't nearly have a wallet for most legacy decks (why I run dredge) but I really love Snapcaster Control decks. Especially to play against. They make for games that require a lot of thinking on both sides; moreso than against other archetypes. I love your inclusion of the singleton academy ruins. It doesn't seem to hurt your mana base, plus it brings back explosives. Delicious. Why did you include ghastly demise over, say, a singleton crop rotation(or another kill spell or counterspell)? Hm. Though, now that I think about it, it seems like a pretty good card for your deck.
I think I'll start checking out the second page just to spite you (^_~) *sticks out tongue in as immaturely as possible*
Lol, sorry about that (don't you hate it when people say "lol" to such a delicate topic? So do I). As much as I loved saprolings in Modern Masters Limited, I dislike using any form of tribal for EDH (except elves. Big mana is big awesome). In the creation of the name, I tried to imply that my EDH general is a draw engine with top deck manipulation. Eh. Maybe I should change the name so I don't disappoint saproling lovers.
Yeah. Zenith is probably better. But make sure you then include a dryad arbor to increase the utility of Zenith :)
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