Pure Slaughter

by TheGreatMunchkin on 26 September 2015

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (2)


Instants (4)


Enchantments (3)

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Deck Description

Likes and comments/suggestions are appreciated!

Flavor text: "Greatness, at any cost."

This deck is about maintaining card and board advantage and then killing off your opponent with your creatures. It has quite a few discard features in it to put cards in your opponents graveyard and, sometimes, your own graveyard to help Tarmogoyf and Scavenging Ooze get extra stompy. It also has quite a few destroy effects as an additional means to get cards in the graveyard as well as maintain board presence.
Screw over your opponent and swing with your creatures for the win. >=]

How to Play

Basically you want to maintain card and board advantage by using your instant and sorcery cards to strategically make your opponent discard cards as well as destroy cards on the field to maintain board advantage.

Ideally, you want to have at least one land, one artifact, one enchantment, one sorcery, one instant, and at least one creature in total from all graveyards at all times. The reason for this is, obviously, that for each type of card in all graveyards Tarmogoyf becomes more powerful. You want to try to maintain a decent amount of creatures in all graveyards as well to give Scavenging Ooze exile fodder to make it stronger.

Dark Confidant helps you maintain card advantage. Usually, you're not going to pay the whole cost for Tasigur; he helps you maintain cards in the graveyard for Goyf and Ooze. Siege Rhino is a big threat that can become a problem quickly for your opponent and will also help gain some life back as there are several cards in this deck that will drain your life.

Liliana serves as another card to help you get cards in the graveyard for Goyf and Ooze.

As always, I hope you enjoy this (awfully expensive) deck!

Deck Tags

  • abzan
  • Midrange
  • Modern

Deck at a Glance

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Pure Slaughter

The deck seems ok. But you seem to be doing what Jund is doing. Only Jund has lighting bolt.

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Posted 30 September 2015 at 08:36

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The deck seems ok. But you seem to be doing what Jund is doing. Only Jund has lighting bolt. It's not bad, it's just a little too slow to be awesome.

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Posted 30 September 2015 at 08:37

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Suggestions to make it better? This deck is very similar to several top 8 Abzan/Junk Goyf decks, and from what I've play tested it usually wins around turn 5-6 and doesn't have problems against most decks.

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Posted 30 September 2015 at 21:39

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Not really. The card quality is really high, I guess I thought that gadok making your big plays less castable and the lack of blot would hurt you more than it seems to. I admit this is a deck I've never seen in my local meta.

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Posted 01 October 2015 at 21:48

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I'm actually changing out Gaddock for Blood Scrivener. Did some further play testing and you can get to 0 cards in hand quite frequently so I think it's a better card than him for this deck. Also, yeah, I try to build decks for competitive tournament play (I unfortunately don't own them physically, just play online at this point) as to hopefully be able to win back the money you invest over time.

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Posted 01 October 2015 at 22:50

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Pretty nice. I noticed the mana curve is slightly high. Any room for birds of paradise or noble hierarch? I'd also suggest tidehollow sculler since you have access to orzhov. Regarding the sideboard, I'd take out illness in the ranks since token decks are rare and they are usually buffed up with intangible virtue/honor of the pure, etc. I'd replace them with more spot removal, like dismember, which is essential in splinter twin matchups (and hits siege rhinos, tasigurs, exarchs etc.). You have access to white, which has answers for everything in the sideboard, so I'd suggest rest in piece for graveyard play, disenchant for artifact/enchantment hate, and of course stony silence for artifact affinity decks. Nice work on this deck man!

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Posted 02 October 2015 at 04:31

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Thanks for the feedback. I never thought about Sculler, will have to make room for him. I'll change out Illness in the Ranks for Dismember as well. I usually run graveyard hate but I think it's counterproductive in this deck since I need cards in the graveyard for Goyf and Ooze; could possibly make room for SS though in the sideboard. In terms of mana dorks, I don't see anywhere to make room for them and I haven't had much difficulty casting what I need. Glad you like the deck!

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Posted 02 October 2015 at 19:09

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Oops! That's true. I forgot. Ooze is itself graveyard hate hahaha. But just in case you ever wanted to run graveyard hate, consider nihil spellbomb since it hits only their graveyard, not yours, and also draws you a card ;-)

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Posted 04 October 2015 at 01:37

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