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"I wear a broken crown, it better fits me."Again, something weird happens to the Pox based variants of Extraction, Iso-Pox and PAL, when Monastery Mentor is used as an engine. The biggest change is that I can use Plunge into Darkness over Living End, which offers a huge boost in both speed and utility (Plunge also happens to be one of my favorite cards of all time).So far this deck runs like a dream.
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Honestly, Living End had been a setup that has needed reevaluation for a while, and I think the answer is that it's not befitting of the deck anymore. The idea of being able to play with a third copy of Bitter Ordeal is fantastic, but two Thoughtseizes is more questionable than Living End.Plunge works phenomenally, I've been testing this since you brought it up to me, given the whole layout of the deck I would go so far as to say it's perfect.
Exactly. I strongly believe this is the next step for PAL. Plunge is just so useful and its speed over living end is great. Also, when people figure out what you're doing, living end can be stalled out...they can turtle up on the turn it activates. With plunge, there's little to no warning. As for a third Odeal or a third Thoughtseize...I think both are incredible. At the moment I'm using the third Ordeal and love it, but I think both are excellent choices depending on your meta and how you like to play.
I'm toying with that list, and I keep removing Tabernacle to go to three Therapies (running it over Thoughtseize), and I have to say that it's running incredibly. I've got Entomb in the SB instead of Pox, and Tormod's Crypt, and Tabernacle in place of TNN. It's running rather splendidly for me.
I am unfamiliar of these acronyms. What is the iso-pox, DHA, PAL, and so on? I have only been playing locally and online, for a few days now. I have never heard these terms. I know iso-pox has something to do with smallpox/pox. But other than that, I have no idea.
There is a deck type called Extraction. The idea is to remove or "extract" key cards in the opponent's deck and win as a result of their deck being crippled. That's the most watered-down explanation. Now the original extraction deck that rose to power was called Iso-Seek, as it used the combination of Isochron Scepter and Seek (from Hide/Seek). Iso-Seek is still used to this day and is quite powerful. Two other deck types came as off-shoots of Iso-Seek. One is called Iso-Pox, which is a Pox heavy variant of Iso-Seek. These two are quite similar. The third is called PAL, which stands for Poxtraction/Pox Extraction Aggro Lock. That's what this deck is. It's a much more aggro focused design of extraction, and makes less use of surgical precision cards like Seek and instead opts for big sweeping effects. The most popular of these is Bitter Ordeal. This is a super advanced deck, so don't feel bad if you are new and don't recognize it. As for the other acronyms used...DHA = Deck Help Alliance. This is a "secret" group of vault goers that take it upon themselves to better the vault. SB = Sidebaord. A group of 15 cards that you are allowed to swap into your main deck list to alter it to better face a specific deck. TNN = True Name Nemesis. Just a very good and versatile attacker creature. LE = Living End. The card that I ultimately decided was no longer useful to the deck.
Thank you so much surewhynot! This is very helpful.
What's happening now with Iso-Seek not being a thing anymore. I want to jam a version of this archetype this weekend
I'm currently working on an updated version of PAL that can run without the stick. Iso-Pox might also be able to have something built to work for it, but it's safe to say that Iso-Seek is totally dead =[