valiant411

I just updated this deck; I removed Ashen Rider and added Blood Baron of Vizkopa. I added Baleful Eidolon to get more two-drop cards in there early on.

You have a point, plus, I do plan on trying to keep my creatures around more often. The Agent of the Fates card does a similar effect turn 3 or 4, but on creatures. But with Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and Liliana for backup, I should be able to get there sooner than turn 8... maybe.

My FNM will determine which I add... I will swap out a few cards for Blood Baron of Vizkopa and see what happens.
Thanks for your help man, and for the good talks.

Plus, Gift of Immortality allows him to die and be brought back to the battlefield, and his ability triggers both ways!

I thought of that, and Blood Baron of Vizkopa requires that you get the enemy to 10 life before Flying and +6/6 happens, I thought Ashen Rider had better use under this strategy as a more devastating and more effective card if the enemy had better options.

Hey, great Red/White... I need help on a Black/White deck. Can anybody please help me on my midrange game here?

http://www.mtgvault.com/valiant411/decks/festering-angel/

the assist is greatly appreciated! thanks!

Please help this deck and see if there is anything I can do to make this better... Ashen Rider on first pull... AWESOME! LOL

How about replacing Gyre Sage for Sylvan Caryatid? By the time you're gonna evolve Gyre Sage, your mana count will already be big enough to not need overkill on mana... and Sylvan Caryatid is hexproof, all colors of mana, and doesn't need to enter battle to help your game.

What are you using Elite Arcanist for?

- Hover Barrier ... + Fog Bank... nasty defender that makes combat irrelevant.

I believe Fathom Mage can be replaced with Prime Speaker Zegana, especially if you are running a counter-build strategy with Give//Take... but to do that you will need to not expose a Gyre Sage. Instead, have Farseek add mana and run an aggro deck...

Plus, if you use Rapid Hybridization on Young Wolf, the damage you swing with is actually 3 on a Cloudfin Raptor:
- 0/1 Cloudfin Raptor
- +1 (Young Wolf is Cast)
- +1 (Rapid Hybridization kills the Young Wolf, which reenters the battlefield as a 2/2 with the Undying feature)
- +1 (The 3/3 Frog Lizard Token appears per Rapid Hybridization)
- =3/4 Cloudfin Raptor plus 2/2 Young Wolf and 3/3 Frog Lizard Token

I made a mistake in counting that combo before. Hope this helps.

I have the artifact card Clock of Omens that allows you to untap that Door to Nothingness on the same turn by tapping two other artifacts (Voltaic Key may be better at this since it is one mana cost plus tap), and the Xathrid Gorgon is awesome for this card... then you can unload the Door to Nothingness on the same turn... lol

I think the Stormbound Geist is bad only because it doesn't have the backup of blocking the large land creatures, but I would do a drake over Cloudfin Raptor anyday, or Fog Bank just to piss off my opponent.