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Perpetuating my obsession with Bloodghast and Crucible of Worlds, Smokestack makes for an incredibly powerful addition. I can sacrifice four Bloodghasts and a land during my upkeep (possibly making my opponent sacrifice 4 or 8 creatures themselves via Grave Pact), and get them all back during my main phase. If that's not enough to put them down for good, I can follow up with Haunting Echoes or Bitter Ordeal for the death blow.
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Hmmm, this is pretty neat. I tried to black stax and it just wouldn't work for me... Also, strip mine is just cruel in a deck like this.
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Strip Mine finds its way into any deck I build with Crucible, which finds its way into any deck I build with Bloodghast, which finds its way into every black deck I build... sooo.. It's pretty much mandated :) Just replaced Nighthawk with Demigod. I'd like to have a beater just for the sake of it, and he's more fodder for the extra Buried Alives. Also, question for you. I was just gifted 4x Vindicate from my brother. Do you think I should trade them for Entomb to build reanimator, or keep them? Vindicate is super sweet, but I'm pretty much ready to build reanimator too, all except for the Entombs.. quite a quandary >.>
The first sample hand I drew after swapping in Demigod: 2x Swamp, Lake of the Dead, Crucible of Worlds, Bloodghast, Skullclamp, Demigod of Revenge. Turn 1: Swamp, Skullclamp Turn 2: Swamp, Bloodghast (drew a 3rd Swamp) Turn 3: Tap a Swamp, Lake of the Dead, sacrifice tapped Swamp, Buried Alive (bury 3x Demigod's) Turn 4: Play & tap Swamp, sacrifice Swamp for 4 more B, case Demigod of Revenge and return the 3x others. Boom.
I personally use Entomb in more of my builds than Vindicate, and enjoy Reanimator more than things like the Rock, but what's really important is what you think you'd enjoy more/win more with depending on if you're spike or not. And as for the Demigod hand... Holy crap man!
That's been the quandary, I'm a very fickle player and jump themes often. :) After that sample hand, I'm considering experimenting with another Lake of the Dead, which has officially joined the list of cards to always run with Crucible. At this pace, if I keep experimenting with it, I'll have refined it to the point that it is no longer a core set of cards to build a deck around, but a deck in and of itself!
I've long loved using it in my crucible decks, it's enough mana for me to do pretty much anything in most of my decks! Pop out a turn two Nether Void, with Daze mana, or a Thoughtseize. XD And Reanimator isn't something I can whole heartedly jumping around with. The price of mine is over ONE-THOUSAAAAAAND! And yes, the joke was worth it.
Oh now I dislike you... Another excessively expensive card that I have to get my hands on a pair of /-: Trinisphere, Nether Void, Winter Orb... hmm, Daze too... I'll have to figure something out for that at some point. Isn't it nine-thousand? Haha. The problem I've been having with reanimator is the sample hands generated by the Vault have left me wanting. I won't know how much I like it until I play it, but it does seem that there's a very fine balance between reanimation components, card advantage, and control, and one card too many in either direction is enough to cause the entire build to crumble. Also, interesting fact, when I first made this deck it was originally built Reanimator + Smokestacks and other "each player sacrifices..." creatures, backed up by It That Betrays. It was very uninspired, though, so I changed it to this, which I've been contemplating for the past few days.
Yeah, Reanimator needs a lot of tweaking. Finding the needed balance is half of the work I had to do in designing my Reanimator... Reanimator/Stax doesn't really work as well as most would like, unless you use say Sheoldred, but she's slow even for Control Reanimator. And yeah, I know what you mean about having so many expensive cards you need... The price of eternal formats is maddening T_T
Yeah, I've noticed. I'd literally kill to get a hold of a set of Tabernacles. And since I'd be betting against a life sentence I might as well go after those Nether Voids as well :P Really though.. to build my other decks, I'll need Mox Diamonds, Rishadan Ports, and Smokestacks, plus maybe another Crucible or two, and a few other cards. Which is why I was considering starting reanimator now, because I'm pretty sure I can get a hold of the Entombs, then it's just a matter of tweaking.
The worst part is that the eternal formats are circular, in that you pretty much have to win a major tournament to get the money to buy the cards for a deck to win a major tournament.... Magic League seems like the easiest way to cheat that, so I'm hoping to start up in that soon. Also, near constant tourney play if you care for it, and from what I hear the casual environment can be pretty good as well.
Whoa. I missed your last comment on here >.> Yeah, I just saw you guys talking about Magic League on one of Joes decks. I don't think that's a bad idea! I keep forgetting ML exists, and would be probably the only way to break into Legacy, and help break away some of my naiveté about the format :)
I frigging love this. I bought 2 Crucibles a long time ago when I started playing Magic for no reason other than I was playing Sundering Titans (lol) and never really gave them a second thought, but this is what they are for... I'm definitely going to build something similar to this when I get some extra loot.
Awesome! Glad you like it ^-^ The best thing I've used Crucible for is OBSCENE ramp in black with Lake of the Dead! Just about any black deck I play can thrive on having just two swamps, LotD, and a Crucible in play. Bloodghast is just the icing on the cake :)
Also, to anybody who might view this deck, what is your opinion? I just acquired 4x Phyrexian Obliterators (in the most expensive trade I've ever made), so I made the following changes: -4x Demigod of Revenge -1x Glacial Chasm -1x Swamp +4x Phyrexian Obliterator +1x Phyrexian Tower +1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth The main change was replacing Demigod for Obliterators. There's enough sacrificing going on that I think the Obliterators are overkill, and overkill is good. Following that, I changed my land base for more consistent ramp. I kind of miss Glacial Chasm, though.. that card has saved my ass so many times..