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The original plan was to force discard with bottomless pit while drawing using shadowmages. I had no idea how well this would work when combined with bounce and the rack. If you can gain the advantage at the beginning, your opponent will have a hard time recovering (hence the dark rituals). Once you have stripped down their hand, bottomless pit keeps it that way. There are obvious weaknesses: 1) no top draw defense 2) Relative scarcity of discard spells 3) Dependency on two colours 4) Paucity of Creatures 5) Not many of the cards are strong stand alones. I would love to hear your suggestions
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I can't decide what part of the deck to replace with mana-leak (or some other counterspell thing). Advice would be appreciated.
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So at first this deck seemed pretty good, it earned me some crushing victories. I played it against a loam deck and was anihilated. I added 4 extirpates and removed the Djinn's and pretty much broke even with loam. Actually I lost the last game of 3 because I played extirpate poorly. After a satisfying victory against another discard deck I was feeling pretty confident until I was absolutely massacred by merfolk, then goblins and then by zombies. So I changed the boomerang's to echoing truth but haven't found out if this will work yet. I have been having a hard time though dealing with Umezawa's Jite, so I tried wall of shadows: It wasn't all that effective. At this point it's back to the drawing board. Here are some things I think I've learned along the way: 1) Extirpate is a really helpful card. It is fairly effective at undermining your opponents strategy and it is cheaper than memoricide... of course it requires you can get cards into the controller's graveyard. 2)Echoing truth is not only good for cutting down on your opponents forces, but also good at saving yours from things like pernicious deed. I like it more than boomerang. 3)Being mana starved really sucks and it has cost me many games, even with the dark rituals. In my next version I will try to add more mana acceleration e.g., solemn similacrum. I'll let you know what I come up with.
Final thoughts on this deck are; bottomless pit is just too symmetrical to be much good for anything besides multiplayer, shadowmage infiltrator is an ok compromise to bottomless pit but it's no good at all against black. I've abandonned this deck altogether, and will post newer projects soon.