The Main Drain

by xaviern007 on 21 July 2008

Main Deck (58 cards)

Artifacts (4)


Enchantments (7)


Land (22)

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Deck Description

This deck is built to get a few swats in with small creatures early, protected by direct creature-removal, then finishing with a huge Drain Life.

Natural Balance and Squandered Resources together can produce a 10-12 point Drain. Doubling Cube or another NB will usually give enough drainage for the win.

I\'ve made room for four Woodlurker Mimics when they come out.

Deck Tags

  • Casual

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for The Main Drain

This deck isn't terrible, but you have 7 creatures, and 4 life drain spells.

The odds of you actually drawing one of the life drain spells isn't that good so it might take awhile. A deck like my sliver deck would kill you long before you could get this thing to work.

The good news is, you don't actually have enough cards to make a magic deck. You need 60.

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Posted 21 July 2008 at 17:21

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Put in a few cards that drain life, like Tendril of Corruption or something. I understand that the strategy is to get a whole boatload of mana and then whack them for like 16 points of life drain, but it might take longer than you'd like to generate that much mana, so put in some small life drains to tide you over and stall them in the meantime.

Maybe put in a few artifact equipments that add lifelink to your creatures?

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Posted 21 July 2008 at 17:22

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If you add urborg, tomb of Yawgmoth, then all your lands can be swamps, making a bigger drain life. Or you can use Joiner, or prismatic omen, it's your call. Also Mortuary + Fecundity + Aluren + Llanowar Dead + some way to sac it, like say carrion feeder or phyrexian altar can net you inf black mana, so that way you can have a HUGE Drain Life, not that it really matters in the end but whatever. Also try adding consume spirit it's a little better than drain life.

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Posted 22 July 2008 at 00:07

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To tell you the truth, it looks really fun, I might just build a deck off of it.

Please post your name on the deck: "Whos on the Site"

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Posted 22 July 2008 at 02:24

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Don't forget to read the overviews. I made room for 4 Woodlurker mimics, which is a good midsized beater. Also, with two tutors and four drains, the drains come up fine. Fourth or fifth turn is about all it takes to get off a big one. Small swarm decks like slivers, kithkin, and faeries get wiped pretty easy with Pernicious Deed. This deck flounders a bit against control.

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Posted 22 July 2008 at 15:09

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Crap, forgot to add the Natural Balances to the decklist. Fixed.

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Posted 25 July 2008 at 15:31

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