Mindslaver + Sharuum the Hegemon + Conjurer's Closet although it's a 3-piece combo featuring 3 large artifacts, me and my friend's original combo included Contagion Engine, Voltaic Key, Everflowing Chalice, and No Mercy, which had to be controlled by the opponent.
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Thanks for the comment. This deck will be exceptionally dangerous, I can smell it! The problem is the basic lands. You probably just made a 50/50 split for the remaining slots, but I'd run no swamps, 2 islands and 8 plains. The only Black spell is Lingering Souls, and you can play it normally. The idea is... how should I say it... "SUBLIME?!" HA! Puns aside, this deck will more likely make people cream their pants. Sublime is exactly your win-con, but if you had it out, your one attacker would become a 7/7 or something.
Oh right! I forgot to mention that! You may as well throw in Arcanis and Magus of the Jar if you can. Personally, I'm going to try to make it slightly wizard-like and have Azami in it as well :D
I'd love to mate, but it is worth $20+, and for it's effect, it isn't as effective as I'd like. Thanks, though!
I highly agree with Athomas508. This deck has great cards, but it will not work well together. After looking at the cards that you're including, I've kept some and taken some away, making for a more solid deck. I understand that the bigger spells are important to you, so I've kept most of them and only took out the cheaper spells: Artifacts: 4x Leaden Myr 1x Elbrus, the Binding Blade Creatures 4x Hand of Cruelty 4x Skulking Knight 2x Visara the Dreadful 4x Royal Assassin 2x Sengir Vampire 4x Typhoid Rats 4x Highborn Ghoul 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed 1x Griselbrand Land 22x Swamp Spells 4x Duress 1x Life's Finale 1x Army of the Damned 3x Essence Harvest Although the cards don't have much chemistry between each other, the better ones are kept and the not-as-good ones are taken away.
A fun EDH deck I'm planning on making is a R/U Niv-Mizzet Draw-Pain deck. Lots of card-draw which should be done when Niv-Mizzet is out (for obvious reasons). High-powered drawing spells like Mind Unbound and Wheel of Fortune with some anti self-mill cards like Ulamog, Elixir of Immortality and Thran Foundry so you don't kill yourself. Obviously include Psychosis Crawler for a second Niv and Gratuitous Violence to double damage to each player :D However, at some point in time, I had a B/U high-draw deck featuring Sygg, River Cutthroat as my general. It had very weird chemistry, since I'd draw tons of cards and discard many of them, resurrecting them a turn or so later. It was extremely volatile to graveyard-destroyers like Bojuka Bog and Relic of Progenitus, however. Some good Black drawing cards would be Phyrexian Arena, Decree of Pain, Necrologia, Promise of Power, and Bloodgift Demon. I made the deck without Griselbrand and would suggest him, but now that he is banned, forget about him. There's some of my ideas. Hope you like them!
I might include 1-2x Sorin's Vengeance's for life-gain (I'm not suggesting it for you, however). Blood Artist may be a better life-gain choice, but it's situational, and can be destroyed.... then again,... Jeez, I hate these types of decisions.... I mean, if you have the choice of playing Angel's Mercy and Exquisite Blood, which would you play? Sure, Exquisite Blood can gain oyu much more life, but you need to keep it on the field for a while, while Angel's Mercy is instant 7 life. It's the same situation here, at least for me.
why do you have Woodland Cemetery? I know Birthing Pod is a green spell, and paying the two life may not be available late on, but it's like paying 1 Red for Gutshot: no one does it. You should take them away and throw in more zombies. You could totally use Phyrexian Obliterator, since your deck is Mono-Black, and Geralf's Messenger is the perfect Pod-target for it. Take out Pierce Strider for it. Also, Obliterator has been dropping in price like flies (I got a playset for $40 in comparison to costing $30/ea a few months ago). Also, I constructed a very similar deck that has Butcher Ghoul instead of Skinrender. Butcher Ghoul is a great 2-CMC Pod-target, and he helps benefit Blood Artist. I thought about adding Blood Artist, but it made my deck 1 turn slower every time. It may be a good addition, but... it may not. Keep it unless you're going to play Endless Ranks of the Dead. Here's my deck. Again, it's similar, but more Zombie-based than yours: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=348587
He DID input the Alpha dual-lands...
You're welcome :D
I meant Manamorphose. Sorry!
I thought Solemn Simulacrum was one of the common creatures people used for this deck? You know: if you had 2 Heartless Summoning's, you'd get a tapped land and draw 1 for free. Also, I think Primeval Titan would be better than Grave Titan, because if 1 Heartless Summoning is out, you'd get 2 1/1's instead of 2 2/2's. Primeval will always get you lands. Even though you wouldn't play red, Inferno Titan would also be a good choice. I also think the standard card everyone plays with this deck is Elesh Norn, so if you did play 2 Heartless Summoning's, the effect would be negated.
Thanks for the advice on my deck! It was very helpful! I'm just wondering why you aren't playing more than 1 of each Tutor. That's all
Why no, thank you! Never have I had the pleasure of someone with so much helpful advice! There is so much helpful advice, I think I'll take much of it to heart. Necropotence is one of them. I do have a few Necropotence's, but never have played them because I always seem to make mono-black resurrection decks, and Necropotence is poison to it. So my mindset has always never catalogued Necropotence as a great spell so some reason. The Edict's (and Verdict) are another thing that I will definitely use. Again, I've been playing in Modern for a while, and again, my mindset has completely forgotten the Edict's. I also have a lot of Doom Blade's floating around my house. Another thing I need to do is to put Obliterator in this deck. Again, have 1, never found a use for it. The one problem is that my tutor's (Demonic and Vampiric) are in my EDH deck :(. I'll just put them in here for the sake of it, but I don't actually have them in this deck. Again, thanks a lot!
Interesting deck. I can't think of anything to suggest. It seems like you're staying in Modern. If you're not trying, then you might want to include Darkness. It's Fog for black. Also, Congregate may be a little too temperamental. You're planning on destroying a bunch of creatures, so you may not have much on the field. Something like Heroes Remembered would be good, since it can be cast for 1 (and 10 suspend counters :S). Lastly, maybe include some more tapping cards. There's Avacyn's Priest, which taps for colourless (good for your dual-colour deck), and then there's that one mage from 2011 and 2010. All I know is that it is Gideon's Lawbringer for 2. Super-Duper lastly, if you can get some Unmake's, it may be a better removal spell rather than Assassinate, and since you're playing the colour's, it's almost a win-win.
Thanks for the comment. It's rare to find a comment that is well punctuated and helpful. I checked your deck out, and I think I'll take much of it to heed. Thanks!
Thanks for commenting on my deck. Now my turn :P. There isn't really anything that I see wrong with this deck, other than Mental Agony. It's very costly, and you could do better with Mind Rot (since they'll hopefully lose 4+ life anyway). Maybe take those out, and get Inquisition of Kozilek, or Despise. These two are arguably better than Duress, but there's really not reason to not play all three. I'd keep No Mercy, because it is the shit, but you should also look for something like Bloodgift Demon or Phyrexian Arena. Why I'm suggesting Bloodgift is because a friend of mine had this despicable deck which was perhaps the most controlling deck that I've ever played against. It was a B/U deck where he'd usually have both Liliana Vess and Jace Beleran out. He'd discard most of my hand, and then keep top-decking my cards with Jace's +2 and Liliana's +1. He'd also have Painful Quandary out, so every spell that I played cost me 5 life. He didn't include Liliana's Caress, which was odd. So, therefore, if you made your opponent draw the card and then discard it somehow, it would be hell of earth for them. I also should flat-out say that you should include Painful Quandary. It's... well, it's very painful.
Oh! Also change the amount of Swamps to Forests: you have 8 black mana symbols versus 20 green (change your swamps to 4 or 6, and forests to 10-12)
Wow! This looks painful! I have a similar deck here (Sorry to be an attention whore): http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=346437 It wasn't very based around infect, but every time I'd play it, I'd usually win with Glistener Elf than anything else. On that note, you may want to consider Sheltering Word. Not only will it be an additional +3/+3, but you'll gain life as well (although, you'd need to have played something on it beforehand to gain as much life as possible). Regardless, I'm going to consider this! Maybe I'll make one with Blue, for Invisible Stalker and Blighted Agent
People aren't using Tibalt because his +1 ability is too risky, and his -4 ability may do little damage (by turn 4 (earliest to use his -4), having more than 4 cards isn't very common, unless they're playing Kamigawa). It's much more riskier to play than, say, Liliana of the Veil, or Jace Beleran: the other cheap planeswalker's. However, if you can find a way to use his +1 without too much pain, then you can succeed very well... and that's what this deck is trying. It looks decently solid.
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