wickeddarkman

You've got the illusion of control nailed down.
But in reality you got no control in here.
And so it all sort of "capsizes"
Perhaps another run to pick up the lose ends ? ;)

I remember that time too.
It was before it ended up in enduring renewal designs.

The key to use it is to have lots of cheap "enter the battlefield" effects where at least 1 is involving lifegain.
It's designs were also connected to familiar builds and in later days, like the shards of alara cycle, it saw some action again because of the focus on multicolor. Parasitic strix was the focus then.

These days I'd try out the Familiar version by digging deep in old decks for the esper familiars list and I'd throw in some powerfull stuff that can piggyback on that, like gray merchant.

You can always bounce the harpy which makes it very hard to stop, so the black and blue creatures you bounce must be resilient on their
Own.

The deck might be best as heavy multicolored just to gain a wide array of creatures with abilities.
I've been thinking of this card for about a month as I brewed one build last new year and was considering to revisit it by posting it again at the end of 2022 starting up a yearly "harpy new year" tradition with focus on harpies.

I might brew something with this soon.

A short look at black and blue at that time reveals a bunch:

Gravedigger, highway robber, Phyrexian rager, Rishadan cutpurse, scrivener.

Of all these, scrivener was the most powerfull. By using familiars you could cast it for cheap and replay instants like disenchant. Graveyard digger was a backup, and highway robber is a way to balance the life total, though access to scrivener and instants might have had other lifegain tools. Scrivener also brought counterspells back to the hand.

All of this was premodern. I'm pretty sure you'd be able to modernize it from here.

I once wrote an article about how a majority of winning decks contained 13 creatures.
It was based on at least 1000 decklists from top 8.

These days I suspect there are another type of reason behind most of top 8 containing around 13 creatures.

They ARE more fragile that way.

Wotc actually advises players to have 18 creatures, and they base it on their own collection of data.

Heh...
I'll give you a hand here ;)
Mothdust Changeling will power up silkbind faerie into a virtual tap-engine, demanding just 2 mana for each tap.

In general, wotc has become very supportive of most meme themes

Desire is one thing, but varolz ability can make any creature in the graveyard into a pump spell.
Most of the selfmill is centered on black and green creatures which can serve as both pump and things to pump.

I'm particularly fond of the two nasty voles bit that was brought to us by the three sets.

Mill based voles are down with trolls ;)
It doesn't get more monstrous than that.

[[Ravenous gigamole]] [[excavation mole]]
[[Graf mole]]

You can also [[dig deep]] with [[colossal badger]]
But thats a bit outlandish and probably illegal

;)

Selfmill is quite a thing in the most 3 recent sets.

If you want more focus on hand of emrakul, there's another red spawn spell, and white has a bunch of repopulate spells...

[[Surge of might]]
The deck was deleted.

I guess congratulations are in order ;)
3 months to refine it is a bit on the slow end though.
My older methods could do it from scratch within a month.
Still, it's a big step...

It's a 76 players event, but the data sheet only lists 75 archetypes. Could be a kiddy deck or something very rogue ish missing.

The first place got lucky against reanimator by being exceptionally prepared for reanimator strategies, despite only 3 graveyard based decks attending.

With all the deathtouch, I assume that the removal in this deck is meant to kill combo creatures which usually don't interact in combo
(And this guess is supported by the low cost)

Most combo creatures tend to have a low life though, so perhaps there is a way to improve on the whole removal theme.

I've sort of plastered how gift of fangs is great with changelings, but might it not be usable in a deck with "real" vampires ?

And viridian longbow is usually a troll card, but it supports deathtouch pretty well, and does support the concept of killing of combo creatures by being a longterm solution.

So, your busy gatekeeping the internet so people won't know what's good in the brother's war :)
Clever enough ploy.

And you overlap it by posting massive fake tournaments during the time.
Also clever.

But this is the internet.
Nothing remains unhidden forever.

I've read you swear you'd made one at least three times.
1500 + decks does that.

It's part of why I decided to cut down most of my own stuff.

You've made a bunch.
Last time you were actually sure that you HAD made one but somehow couldn't find it.

Sure, keep on necroing this page ;)

But be aware that you might make people curious about me, which will make them look at my decks, and let's be frank, the will see a lot of effort put into fighting spammers, which will get them to think about who the real bad guy is :)

I mean look at the decks mtgblackman is listing, and then the ones that I list.
Whom do you think will be more interesting to follow :)

So go ahead, redirect them to me by all means...

Part of the older nic fit package was recursion.
Eternal witness was usually part of that shell, and allowed you to perform the broken moves basically each turn by replaying cards in the graveyard.

In more recent times eternal witness & collected company were the recursion shell that dominated the 2018's

Price on undying evil might have gone up due to "R B scam".

Well, if you are him, at least you get the idea.
They made several fake accounts trying to take over your name and essence.

Me they've only made one mock account of, meaning you were a better target for some reason.
(The mock account is wickedbarkman)

You will discover that they spam over every talented deckpage you write, but there is a time where the team as a whole "goes to sleep" and posting after that point does make your stuff visible.

Anyways most users you will encounter in here are spammers, but the tags you use make your decks searchable to the world, so you do get a minimum of your stuff to be seen, but not necessarily by magic players.

One of them has a habit of using sexbased tags so horny people get searches with mtg instead, and some lash out their sexual frustrations by trolling in here for a while.

My own motives for staying is that there are no magic forums not controlled by spammers like this, so I'm causing awareness of them with counter spam.

Almost all of my posts contains a copypasted warning about it.

Heh, I could ask you many questions only sorin would know :)
Except there are numerous sorinmarkov's on mtgvault.
Which one of them would you be ?

Currently the small-mill card that I'm favouring is zulaport duelist because it defends from damage twice, once when it's cast, and second when it blocks. It will also devastate the smaller creatures in aggro, and likely at a point they don't understand.

I remember you as a cheerful guy, who posted rogue stuff with a serious side to it, but some people was trying to hold you down and drag you into the mud. I can state that they are the majority now.

Almost all new accounts are by spammers, trying to manipulate the meta with bad decks, mostly by posting good decks with bad card choices inserted in them.

I'm here, and I'm preparing for a more active presence both in here and on mtggoldfish which is also frequented by the same spammers.

There's a chance that you are someone pretending to be sorinmarkov, but for now I'll give you the benefits of doubt

:)

4 zulaport duelist
2 rebuff the winds (or whatever it's called)

Since you got removal, excavated walls or stream of thought might be worth a look.