Kokusho! Recursion!

by Majician on 11 January 2012

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (2 cards)

Sorceries (2)

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Deck Description

LEGENDARY SMASH

I originally started making a Kokusho-Polymorph deck, but ended up going with straight mono black instead (that's kind of where I am with deck building right now.) I'll probably make a Polymorph one next, but Kokusho-Living Death just seemed too awesome to not use!

So, Kokusho. What do all 4 Kokushos in your graveyard plus Living Death equal? ALL opponents lose 20 life, and you gain 20 x number of opponents (but that part usually doesn't matter.)

There are so many ways to put Kokusho in your graveyard and reanimate him, it's ridiculous. At worst, he's a 5/5 flying beater. AT WORST!

Obviously this deck, like Dredge decks, suffers terribly against graveyard hate. It also only has one win-con. I am well aware of all of this - it is simply a fun combo deck.

That being said, any suggestions as to how I could defend the combo from potential hate are more than welcome! I just put this together in a couple of minutes, so I would love some help as to what the sideboard should be.

Deck Tags

  • Combo

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Kokusho! Recursion!

Yeah, Kokusho is cool. He, along with Bogardan Hellkite, are fantastic win cons for a dragonstorm deck. I would recommend Liliana, but you already have Living Death.

Another good idea for a Kokusho deck would be Flash (the 2 mana blue card, not the mechanic).

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Posted 11 January 2012 at 01:56

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Thanks for the comment! Yeah, I'd rather have Living Death than Liliana's because I don't really care about her other abilities in this deck. Flash would definitely work really well with Kokusho too...so many different ways to go about using him!

I was also considering using Iname, Death Aspect to dump all 4 Kokushos into the graveyard, then finish with Living Death. The issue with that is that the mana curve is backwards on the play, 6 then 5, as opposed to a Buried Alive (3) and an Entomb (1), then Living Death which would be 4 then 5, right on the curve. The problems with both of these scenarios is if I have a Kokusho (or multiple) in my hand. I need to figure out a way to discard into my graveyard, because Necropotence exiles discarded cards...but I digress.

Again, thanks for the comment!

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Posted 11 January 2012 at 02:23

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Victimize is another potential 15-20 life swap, due 2 if u get an attack in with one 1st. As 4 discarding ur Kokushos, Bog Witch discards em 4 mana, or Hidden Horror which discards 1 to give u a 4/4 for 1BB

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Posted 20 April 2012 at 06:04

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