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I am not usually hurting for Creatures with the 12. With 16 it was better, but really the creatures are mostly secondary enablers of the primary strategy. you're right, with all the cantrips land...

Oddly enough I find myself with too much land most of the time.

As I see it, something needs to be alive on my side of the field to do damage enough to eventually kill off whoever I'm against. Of course true-name circumvents the need to eliminate spot destruction...

I find that creatures aren't usually a problem and if I really need to get them back after they die I can noxious revival them after using them for therapy. I have found that delver is mostly a very...

I don't dislike it at all. Playtesting it now.

Still looking into cheap kill spells that might fit the bill. Came across Hedron Crab.

Might fit the bill in giving the deck another body and a continuous source of mill that can also block.

Ghastly demise... That art is fantastic.

Maybe Damnation? High cost, but damn if it doesn't kill every thing on the board. I ran it before out of the deck in devastation tides place and it...

I have pined over chains of mephistopheles for years. Now they're in the 300 a pop territory and firmly beyond my individual card preferred purchase price. Can't ever find anyone willing to trade...

I had them in one of the earliest builds of this deck. I could never get around the fact that they are unsummonable with the lackluster mana base. You're absolutely correct though. When they were in...

Big fan of Dimir charm, but yeah... Spell pierce bait indeed. Not exactly a bad thing. I want those in the grave anyways, but in my experience people have a tendancy to go after snapcaster with sp...

That's exactly what I've found in my plays against elves! Most of my recent excitement has been over the fact that this deck does so consistently well against the current meta elf loadouts. Only...

In other news, looking at the possiblility of a need for spot removal of threatening creatures beyond tide and in keeping with the return to hand/abuse cabal setup I'm currently operating, what are...

I was already working on getting a matchup list and play by play together against the upper echelon decks I've faced. I'll try to get it all finished tonight.

Were you suggesting that I use doomsday in this deck? It seems to me that you were offering an example of what quicken used to be envisioned as being useful in conjunction with. I don't dispute your...

I can appreciate that. I would say that the mana cost is quite a bit lighter in this setup than it would be in conjunction with a card like doomsday. Paying a maximum of 3 for the tide to go off and...

I was actually thinking I might need to add more sorceries just to take full advantage of quicken.

Holy crap Quicken.

Am I missing something here? Why isn't this card being ran in anything that can support it? With cabal therapy and the miracles and any sort of top deck control it's completely...

Oh man... If this article is right about those two cards being big in legacy I'm gonna be awful happy with my surgical extraction/extripate/snapcaster deck in the brave new meta these things create...

Probably a 3rd crucible for now.

Seems to me that this deck could probably benefit from having Ancient Tomb.

I really appreciate the input with bloodghast and death's shadow. I couldn't for the life of me find a place for death's shadow that made sense in this deck other than as a late game counter draw or...

Tried clique and Bob... Both taxed my life too low in a deck that already has the tendency to burn itself to death. I haven't noticed True-Name missing all that much in playing the current list with...

Turns out the Bloodghast setup is an excellent secondary option to flip around the deck on game two... It also opened the door to the latest add that I've made.

Quicken. (anyone know how to link...

Huh, never thought of using bloodghast in conjunction with pox in this list. I actually run that setup out of a "fun" black deck I kitchen table from time to time... Oddly enough I have a very...

I tried out smallpox in the spot currently occupied by cabal therapy once upon a december and found it to be extremely powerful, but it utterly crippled me probably half of the time. The deck runs so...