I really like Tireless Tribe for speeding up the explosive Hollow One starts.
With the 8 1cc discard outlets instead of the Buried Alive plan (less consistent), I agree mana dorks aren't needed. That was a remnant from my old build that was closer to a fair deck (without the explosiveness of Hollow One). Maybe
Elvish Spirit Guide or
Chancellor of the Tangle, otherwise nothing.
I'm starting testing with this:
//Creatures: 33
4
Putrid Imp4
Tireless Tribe4
Basking Rootwalla2
Gravecrawler3
Lotleth Troll4
Bloodghast4
Prized Amalgam4
Vengevine4
Hollow One//Spells: 9
3
Thoughtseize3
Cabal Therapy3
Abrupt Decay//Lands: 18
4
Verdant Catacombs3
Marsh Flats3
Windswept Heath3
Bayou1
Savannah1
Scrubland1
Forest1
Swamp1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth//Sideboard: 15
4
Faerie Macabre3
Silent Gravestone3
Big Game Hunter3
Carrion Feeder1
Thoughtseize1
Maelstrom Pulse
-11 discard outlets, 8 active on turn 1 (+Therapies on yourself)
-18 creatures that want to be discarded
-11 fat threats
-20 free critters
Sideboard is a work in progress.
Faerie Macabre - grave hate that also enables Hollow One, pitches to Troll, and can be hardcast
Big Game Hunter - madness creature that kills Emrakul / Griselbrand / etc off Show and Tell or instant-speed discard outlet
Carrion Feeder - vs white decks. Protects your team from Terminus and StP, hoses Jitte counters and Batterskull lifegain, alternate threat that profits when other things die and combos with the weaker recursive dorks to grow
Silent Gravestone - Protect you from Surgical. This build is now too invested in the grave plan to SB into a fair deck, so protection is a thing.
I put Gravecrawlers to have more fodder and more 1ccs to trigger Vengevine, but the zombie count is low and another 2/1 that can't block is pretty bad. It maybe just be better to have something else in that slot like:
- 1cc utility:
Carrion Feeder /
Slitherhead /
Mother of Runes /
Sylvan Safekeeper /
Fume Spitter /
Veteran Explorer
- Card advantage:
Asylum Visitor /
Stinkweed Imp /
Squee, Goblin Nabob /
Sylvan Library /
Land Tax (lol discard fodder but slow)
- Mana accel:
Chancellor of the Tangle (adds mana, then can be discarded for value)
- Protection:
Chancellor of the Annex (protects you, then can be discarded for value)
- Spells:
Swords to Plowshares,
Lotus Petal
I really want to play this deck just to troll people with Big Game Hunter.