yeah, me and a friend are going to try and bring this to PTQ, but now with Vexing Devil previewed, he'll be taking the place of stromkirk Noble.
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Yeah, I've doen some testing, this deck destroys urzatron.
Other than that, this deck scares me... :'( Came across a land destruction deck on MWS when testing modern.... Couldn't really play much of anything.
Maybe drop helldozer. with the land destruction going on even to yourself, it'll be hard to get him out.
I see what you did there, hah.
Not exactly sure if you mean standard legal in the description, but if you do, it's not.
Wait, nevermind... Just looked it up and had alook at the wording of slagstorm and such more: Yes crusader is protected from slagstorm. :P
Phyrexian Crusader does not have protection from slagstorm. He only is immune to things that target him. If something were to indirectly do damage to him (Ex: slagstorm, whipflare, day of judgement, and the like) he would die. Those spells do not directly target him, thus he still gets damage for they affect the whole entire board, not targeted ones. That's partly a reason why you see some decks like red, white, and black run things like slagstorm, blakc sun's, and day of judgment for the cards that have protection from the colors they run.
I am so confused right now..... PS: You have too many evolving wilds and terramorphic expanses.
PS: I'm actually possibly thinking of doing this now though: drop 2 bloodline keepers, add 1 geist-honored monk and 1 mentor of the meek?
Honestly, I would use those cards if I had them or the budget/trades to be able to get them, but this is literally what I have to make do for a B/W token deck build. :/ I didn't start FNM until December 2011, so I haven't had as great a chance to get into competitive card collecting, like gathering trade items and such. But, every week I do draft and always get either 3rd or 4th, so my collection is building up and I'll hopefully get myself set for the next block when it comes to trades and deck building.
PS: don't expect a big win with this deck. It looks great, B/R vampires from innistrad look fun, good, and all that, but for some reason they just don't cut it at the end. It just kind of sucks because control was given a devastating aggro in this block with delver. But yeah, good build. just remember when you play olivia: drop her when you have 6 mana, you have to get that 1 ping in when she comes out.
Get some Bloodline keepers in the main. Bloodline alone= damnit... have to race here. Bloodline in a vampire deck=........ scoop. He's just that good. And for a rare like that to still stay at a price he is shows it.
Your spells are way too high costing and you have no ramping (except primeval, which will still be hard to cast without any earlier turn ramping in here) to compensate. Very quickly I can see this deck getting beaten before you even get a chance to rally make an impact. Plus, the 'Mortal Combat' is a dead weight here in your deck. Having a total of 20 creatures in here and an extremely slim way of getting them all into your graveyard, the win condition of Mortal Combat will never trigger in any game you play.
PS: another card you might like to have in this decklist would be a playset of stromkirk noble. No matter what deck you play against, the noble strikes some fear into your opponent because they know they have to start racing you. That's why for a 1 drop he is so expensive. Plus, he combos extremely well with cursed of stalked prey: turn one; stromkirk, turn 2; curse of stalked prey, swing in for the 1 and then put 2 +1/+1 counters on him instead of 1.
nothing over 4*
Simple answer to your wanting removal problem: first off, you have too much land and cutting the deck down to 60 would be better off. I'd suggest cutting the bladehold down to 3, hellrider down to 3, and land down to 22. Since you have absolutely nothing over 5 cmc, you can get away with having less than 24 land, plus having 25 land in such a mana curve like this with no deck thinning just doesn't work out in your favor. With the land cut down to 22, you are still reasonably able to cast your creatures just fine, but you have a better chance of drawing the cards you need.
You just took the building on a budget decklist. :P
Also, what's a good idea for looking for combo-ideas is looking at the discussion comments on cards in the gatherer: http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=262852 A lot of the times for cards, people will post up comments on them on the gatherer talking about combos. That's where I've learned a good amount of combos I know. And another card I forget to tell you to watch out for: surgical extraction. You might need to sideboard in a few extractions yourself to counter it: they target a creature in your graveyard, but if you play an extraction on your own creature, you don't have to exile all of your copies of it, just the one you target because the card says "you may search the owner's graveyard, hand, and library" it doesn't say that you have to exile all copies. That way, they won't take away all your combo creatures. combo creatures.
You're welcome. Just make sure you have answers to the cage and other graveyard breakers. By now (especially with zombies becoming popular) people are probably going to be sideboarding grafdigger's cage.
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