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Armfelt
06-19-2010, 10:56 PM
Found a skeleton deck in a godforsaken old thread on a forum, and thought it to seem fun and intresting.

The functions of this deck is quite simple It is to regenerate, remove opponent creatures/cards, some deathtouch (that can be ranged) and at last overwhelm.

What do you think? How would you re-arrange this casual skeleton-deck to make it better?

Deck: Skeletons (http://deckstats.net/deck-178550-1d94596bf2e9dee593210dc998318ea8-en.html)

Lands:
4x Spawning Pool (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Spawning+Pool)
18x Snow-Covered Swamp (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Snow-Covered+Swamp)

Creatures
2x Drudge Skeletons (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Drudge+Skeletons)
4x Rimebound Dead (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Rimebound+Dead)
4x Restless Dead (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Restless+Dead)
4x Death Baron (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Death+Baron)
2x Kjeldoran Dead (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Kjeldoran+Dead)
2x Skeletal Vampire (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Skeletal+Vampire)
3x Necroplasm (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Necroplasm)

Misc
4x Bad Moon (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Bad+Moon)
3x Terror (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Terror)
3x Unmake (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Unmake)
2x Viridian Longbow (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Viridian+Longbow)
2x Drudge Spell (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Drudge+Spell)
3x Distress (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Distress)

Total Cards: 60

http://i.hbtronix.de/chart_pie.png Display Deck Statistics (http://deckstats.net/deck-178550-1d94596bf2e9dee593210dc998318ea8-en.html)

-Could it work to put in a few Aether Vial (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=en&card=Aether+Vial)'s?
-Are there better black remove spells?
-How much better would it be with adding zombies? And if that is the case, which zombies would due for this decks purposes?

I would be happy for your response. A deck like this seems to be fun to play, and the cards are quite cheap.

DukeDemonKn1ght
06-20-2010, 07:11 PM
This seems sort of low in overall power level, and like it's kind of a slave to its theme. I mean, regeneration is a... moderately useful combat ability? You kind of lack a significant win condition, although Skeletal Vampire and "Death Baron's Panty Raid" may get there sometimes. Necroplasm is kind of a neat trick with a bunch of regenerators, but it's going to eat up a lot of mana to keep regenerating your dudes and recurring the 'Plasm for a fairly moderate sweeper effect. And I think you're gonna find yourself playing a lot of defense, because in general your dudes are small and lack significant evasion. But they can regenerate, so I guess you can gum up the board for a while until you get a bomb card. You probably just need stronger blowout effects in there on your "bomb cards," and if you're lacking for space you can probably start by cutting back on a few skeletons here and there.

I dunno. Don't want to be a hater, but I just honestly think it's a little underpowered, as things go.

Armfelt
06-23-2010, 04:35 PM
The meaning of this deck is that there ain't many skeleton tribal decks out there, so it is mainly just for fun. :]

But you are right, they are weak in power and it costs mana to keep them alive, so they need their deathtouch. And the deck need bombcards and must be faster.

So I added "card-draw" cards for speed + lifedrain to keep up the health.
+ Raise dead to save important critters.

Dark ritual to also keep the speed up.

I was too tempted to add Skeletal Wurm, just to have a big creature, even though it is really expensive.

Well enough of my talk, here is the new version of the deck.

//Lands
2x Spawning Pool (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Spawning+Pool)
20x Snow-Covered Swamp (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Snow-Covered+Swamp)

//Creatures
4x Rimebound Dead (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Rimebound+Dead)
2x Restless Dead (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Restless+Dead)
2x Drudge Skeletons (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Drudge+Skeletons)
4x Death Baron (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Death+Baron)
2x Kjeldoran Dead (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Kjeldoran+Dead)
2x Skeletal Vampire (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Skeletal+Vampire)

//Spells
3x Bad Moon (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Bad+Moon)
3x Raise Dead (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Raise+Dead)
4x Dark Ritual (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Dark+Ritual)
3x Sign in Blood (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Sign+in+Blood)
2x Phyrexian Arena (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Phyrexian+Arena)
3x Tendrils of Corruption (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Tendrils+of+Corruption)
2x Viridian Longbow (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Viridian+Longbow)
2x Consume Spirit (http://www.mtg-forum.de/db/magiccard.php?lng=de&card=Consume+Spirit)

http://i.hbtronix.de/chart_pie.png Deckstatistik anzeigen (http://deckstats.net/deck-183206-165f869ff927477b6be45f23c6a46ce3-de.html)

This far it is quite fun to play with other black undead decks, but when adding speed it loses abit of removal. Does anyone have any tip? :]

LordEvilTeaCup
06-24-2010, 06:17 PM
You are getting a cool skeleton in M11 with Reassembling Skeleton. I would think of putting in Bloodghast as the only non-skeleton to abuse Kjeldoran Dead more. Also Jittes!!! Umezawa's Jitte would be awesome here.